Iceland will not be hunting fin whales this summer, following a decision by Hvalur hf., the only company in the country ...

Orcas have been spotted giving each other rubdowns with kelp tools, rubbing pieces of the seaweed between their bodies.

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Amid a criminal probe for a string of dolphin deaths, this month Gulf World Marine Park transferred its seven bottlenose dolphins and four rough-toothed dolphins to three separate facilities in ...

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and an international coalition of animal protection and environmental groups are calling ...

Yahoo! Japan’s shopping site listed 963 food products derived from whales, dolphins and porpoises (cetaceans), including 58 ...

A Faroe Islands cove was awash with the blood of dolphins and pilot whales on Friday after the first animals of the summer ...

The 'grindadrap', or 'grind' for short, is a 1,000-year-old Faroese tradition which sees hunters encircle pilot whales and ...

Elyssia Phillips, a British woman from Lewes, and her close friend Anahita Babaei, who is Iranian, had been campaigning against the controversial practice of killing endangered fin whales.

Japan and Norway resumed slaughtering whales this month, while Iceland’s only fin whaling company has decided that it will not hunt this summer, citing a declining demand for whale meat products in ...

In Iceland, the whaling season typically runs from mid-June to September. However, in recent years, Icelandic whalers have struggled to meet their quotas. Iceland’s second whaling company ceased ...

Hvalur, Iceland’s only remaining whaling company, will not hunt whales this summer due to global economic instability, local media reports. Iceland, Norway, and Japan are the only countries that still ...