Dead blue whale washes ashore at Daly City beach
A dead male blue whale — the largest animal in the world — washed ashore Wednesday at Thornton State Beach in Daly City.
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Advocating for greater international support at the UN Conference
Advocating for greater international support at the UN Conference for the Oceans for moving shipping lanes, and joined with IFAW to support
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Dead Blue Whale on Peninsula Likely Hit By Ship, Marine Mammal Center Says
The 65-foot sub-adult carcass washed ashore earlier this week. Partial results from a necropsy are in.
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Orca Killed by Satellite Tag Leads to Criticism of Science Practices
The death of a rare killer whale in the Pacific Northwest has been linked to a tagging effort, causing an outcry and re-evaluation…
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Vacuuming an Enormous Fake Blue Whale
Once a year, the American Museum of Natural History in New York performs a banal yet oddly fascinating ritual: It cleans its life-size model
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Endangered blue whale harpooned and killed by Icelandic whalers, Sea Shepherd says
“The killing of a blue whale crosses a line for us at the GWC. We pledge for the time being a boycott of anything and everything Icelandic,
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Shipping noise impairs ability of humpback whales to forage
Shipping noise in the North Atlantic could impact population levels of the whales, new research shows.
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US Navy ordered to protect whales by lowering sonar levels
Reuters reports on this important court ruling to protect whales from low-frequency level sonar used by the Navy.
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Iceland announces no Fin whale hunt in 2016!
Great News – Iceland Calls Off Its Commercial Whale Hunt For This Year
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15-Year Study Demonstrates Risks to Blue Whales from Ship Strikes near California Coast
GWC is collaborating with other whale researchers and conservation groups on strategies for altering shipping routes.
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Commerical shipping lanes moved in Panama to save humpback whales
The new shipping lanes are positioned to minimize overlap between shipping routes and humpback whale migration routes.
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ICJ Ruling in Australia v Japan
The international court of justice (ICJ) at the Hague has determined that Japan’s “scientific” whaling activities were a sham.
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Congresswomen Capps and Brownley Assist GWC Effort to Protect Endangered Blue Whales
Press Release:
Congresswomen Capps and Brownley Assist GWC Effort to Move California Shipping Lanes to Protect Endangered Blue Whales.
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First Steps Proposed to Protect Blue Whales near San Francisco
The GWC is advocating for moving all of the shipping lanes out of critical feeding habitat for the months of August, September.
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Who is killing Sri Lanka’s Blue whales?
Free divers encountering blue and sperm whales in the waters off Sri Lanka. They also show how these whales are at risk to ship strikes.
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