A World Trade Organization court today ruled that U.S. “dolphin safe” tuna labeling discriminates against Mexico—raising the possibility of sanctions on U.S. goods if the rules are not altered, reports Reuters.
The ruling is the latest in a 20-year battle to save dolphins from large nets used by Mexican fishermen to catch tuna in mass quantities.
For the first time since 1978, dolphins won’t be circling the tank at the Minnesota Zoo.
Last Friday Governor Mark Dayton signed a bill authorizing the remodeling of Discovery Bay. The improvements require the cetaceans’ tank to be drained, so the zoo will have to relocate dolphins Semo and Allie.
One of the most ambitious re-release into the wild programs in recent memory is complete. After years in captivity, Tom and Misha, a pair of male bottlenose dolphins, were released back into the open ocean, according to Born Free UK.
Taiji, the tiny Japanese fishing village where thousands of dolphins have been savagely killed over the past 50 years, has announced plans to build a marine mammal park where visitors can swim with Minke whales and bottlenose dolphins, reports Jiji Press news agency.
Since the start of Peru's summer season in late December 2011, more than 3,000 dolphins have washed up dead on the country's northern coast, reports Peru 21.
While no definitive cause of death has been established, one marine conservationist has been out on front street pointing at the alleged suspect—big oil.
Remember “Sad” and “Lonely,” the two bottlenose dolphins living—if you can call it that—like sardines in the smallest cetacean tank on the planet?
After months of pressure from cetacean activists like Ric O’Barry, they’ve been moved. But don’t uncork the bubbly just yet. Their new home isn’t the open ocean—where they absolutely belong—but rather a slightly larger open-air tank.
Recent photographs of you fin-shaking with a dolphin held captive against its will in a Cancun sea pen beg one question: have you seen the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove?
In a major victory for dolphins and dolphin advocates, Switzerland’s House of Representatives has voted to outlaw the keeping of dolphins in aquariums or for entertainment purposes.
The Swiss Senate also banned the importation of dolphins going forward, meaning that the three dolphins currently “living” in Connyland, the country’s only dolphinarium, will not be replaced when they die, reports SwissInfo.
A clip of a dolphin stranded on a beach isn’t all that rare. See here, here, or here.
But a video of an entire pod of dolphins approaching the shore from the distant continental slope, swimming through the shallows, and deciding en masse to strand themselves on the beach—only to be rescued by a rag-tag group of Brazilian beachgoers in a little less than four minutes?
