A dead male blue whale — the largest animal in the world — washed ashore Wednesday at Thornton State Beach in Daly City.

Advocating for greater international support at the UN Conference for the Oceans for moving shipping lanes, and joined with IFAW to support

The 65-foot sub-adult carcass washed ashore earlier this week. Partial results from a necropsy are in.

The death of a rare killer whale in the Pacific Northwest has been linked to a tagging effort, causing an outcry and re-evaluation…

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

“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,

Shipping noise in the North Atlantic could impact population levels of the whales, new research shows.

Reuters reports on this important court ruling to protect whales from low-frequency level sonar used by the Navy.

Great News – Iceland Calls Off Its Commercial Whale Hunt For This Year

GWC is collaborating with other whale researchers and conservation groups on strategies for altering shipping routes.

The new shipping lanes are positioned to minimize overlap between shipping routes and humpback whale migration routes.

The international court of justice (ICJ) at the Hague has determined that Japan’s “scientific” whaling activities were a sham.

Press Release: Congresswomen Capps and Brownley Assist GWC Effort to Move California Shipping Lanes to Protect Endangered Blue Whales.

The GWC is advocating for moving all of the shipping lanes out of critical feeding habitat for the months of August, September.

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.