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Whales

July 2024

  • Pilot whales stranded on Sanday, Orkney, 11 July, 2024

    Large pod of pilot whales almost wiped out after stranding on Orkney beach

    Rescuers including vets rush to save 12 survivors from 77-strong group lying on Sanday shore

June 2024

  • The humpback whale tangled in fishing ropes and buoys before its rescue off the Gippsland coast of Victoria

    Humpback whale tangled in 800kg of fishing equipment rescued off Gippsland coast

  • Ellen Dwyer, an incident controller in the rescue team, says they are 'pleased' they have been able to remove a significant amount of weight and rope from the whale

    Rescue team cuts 800kg of tangled ropes and buoy from humpback whale off Gippsland coast – video

  • FILE - Two Makah Indian whalers stand atop the carcass of a dead gray whale moments after helping tow it close to shore in the harbor at Neah Bay, Wash., May 17, 1999. Earlier in the day, Makah Indians hunted and killed the whale in their first successful hunt since voluntarily quitting whaling over 70 years earlier. The United States on Thursday, June 13, 2024 granted the Makah Indian Tribe in Washington state a long-sought waiver that helps clear the way for its first sanctioned whale hunts since 1999. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

    Native American tribe wins right to hunt gray whales off Washington coast

  • A pair of sperm whales visits the waters off New England on 25 May 2024.

    Unexpected number of whales currently swimming off the coast of New England

  • Humpback whale tangled in rope rescued off New South Wales coast - video

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Iceland grants country’s last whaling company licence to hunt 128 fin whales

  • Low-flying drones could disrupt whale migration off Australia’s east coast, experts warn

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Save our seas: five ways to rewild and conserve the ocean

May 2024

  • A 50-year-old Auckland man has been fined $600 after he was filmed in what appeared to be an attempt to body slam an orca, which is a protected species in New Zealand

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    ’Shocking' and 'stupid': New Zealand man fined after attempting to 'body slam' an orca – video

  • Two small Korean girls and a woman stand in front of an aquarium as a white whale looks at them through the glass

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Free Bella’: campaigners fight to save lonely beluga whale from Seoul mall

  • BlueWhalespxiie

    First Dog on the Moon
    What if we could understand what blue whales are really saying

  • a large white cruise ship in a body of water

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Cruise ship arrives at New York City harbor with dead whale caught on bow

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Ice dives, walrus snaps and whale encounters: the man telling extreme stories of an Arctic at risk

  • ‘I’m a blue whale, I’m here’: researchers listen with delight to songs that hint at Antarctic resurgence

  • The vast new whaling ‘mother ship’ that Japan hopes will revive a shrinking industry

April 2024

  • The orphaned two-year-old female orca calf swims in a lagoon near Zeballos, British Columbia, on 11 April.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Orca calf successfully returned to open water after bold rescue in Canada

  • Pilot whales beached

    Twenty-nine pilot whales dead after mass stranding on WA beach

  • Whales have become stranded at Toby Inlet near Dunsborough, more than 250km south of Perth

    160 pilot whales stranded and 26 confirmed dead in Western Australia – video

  • Whale trainers

    The killer whale trainers who still defend captivity: ‘I’m an endangered species myself’

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