Schlagwort-Archive: WHALES

🐋Your September Whale and Dolphin news

29. September 2022Uncategorizeddolphins, WDC, WHALEShaluise

Have you joined our new campaign yet?

Welcome to your September enews. Before you read on, please take a moment to sign our letter to TUI if you haven’t already (if you have – thank you!). It’ll only take you a few moments.

We need more people to sign to show the world’s largest travel company, TUI, that the public will support them if they choose to help end whale and dolphin captivity. Thank you!

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I hope you are enjoying your latest issue of Whale & Dolphin magazine. If you’re not subscribed yet, head over to our website and sign up by adopting a whale or dolphin.

On behalf of everyone here at WDC, thank you for your continued support. It means so much to us in these challenging times. Together, we will keep fighting for a world where every whale and dolphin is safe and free.

Julia Pix.

This is Kiska.

See the world through her eyes and help us uncover the dark side of captivity.

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Uncovering the dark side

Rob Lott leads our work to end captivity – you may have read some emails from him recently. Follow the link below to learn more from Rob about why captivity is so bad for whales‘ and dolphins‘ mental health.

DIVE DEEPER

RIP Kohana

Kohana was the third orca to die in 18 months at Loro Parque in Tenerife. She was just 20 years old. She’d been held at the park since she was taken from her mother, aged four, and moved there from SeaWorld with three other young orcas.

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The Whale Watchers

The brilliant Dougie Poynter from McFly is passionate about the natural world, so our partners at BRITA commissioned him to write children’s book, The Whale Watchers. A minimum of 25% of the profits come to WDC.

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One for the kids

Have you introduced the children in your life to our new(ish) website just for kids? It’s packed with fun facts and mind-blowing whale and dolphin knowledge. Take a look.

ENTER KIDZONE

Ocean protection needed

Most of the ocean falls beyond human country borders. The high seas are home to some of Earth’s last wildernesses and countless whales and dolphins, but as they are not the responsibility of any country, who protects them?

Remembering lives lost

A year on from the massacre of 1,423 dolphins in the Faroe Islands, we reflect on what’s changed. Despite protests from within the Faroes and international condemnation, including our 1.3-million-strong petition, things have got worse.

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There’s still time to help to end captivity for good — WDC

27. September 2022Uncategorizeddolphins, WDC, WHALEShaluise

Sign now whales and dolphins need your help

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Illustration of a depressed dolphin in captivity

We need your help today

The world is a dark place for captive whales and dolphins. Today we launch a major new campaign to shine a light on the dark side of captivity. Please support by signing a letter to TUI.

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Depressed. Drugged. Desperate. See the world through a captive whale or dolphin’s eyes and help uncover the #DarkSideofCaptivty.

Whales and dolphins like Kiska (pictured below) are intelligent, emotional, social, far-travelling beings. Like us, their mental health suffers when they are confined to the same space, day after day and their choice about how to spend their days is removed.

Yet they are torn from the wild, kept in tanks and exhibited for our entertainment. Many are still forced to perform in shows or interact with tourists in so-called ‘bucket list’ activities like swim-with-the-dolphins experiences.

Holiday companies fuel this whale and dolphin mental health crisis by promoting these ‘attractions’ to their customers.

This is Kiska. See the world through her eyes and help us uncover the #DarkSideOfCaptivty

Thanks to your support, we have already persuaded Virgin Holidays, British Airways, Thomas Cook, TripAdvisor and Booking.com to stop selling tickets to captive whale and dolphin attractions and Expedia followed last year. Now we need your help again to convince TUI to shake off the cruel past and pioneer a kinder, more sustainable future for tourism.

Since we presented TUI with a petition in April, signed by more than 20,000 of you, we have been talking with them about how we can help them to promote an ethical phase-out of captivity. Please sign the letter to show them you care.

Thank you for your support. It means the world to know that captive whales and dolphins can count on you. Together, we can make sure this captive generation is the last.

Rob Lott, End Captivity campaign lead

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🐋 Your July whale and dolphin news 🐬

29. Juli 2022Uncategorizeddolphins, WHALEShaluise

How awesome are whales? Find out in our video. Plus your latest whale and dolphin news.

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Welcome to your July enews

Will we ever be able to communicate with whales and dolphins? Do they have emotions? Do they dream? Can we save them? These are some of the great questions our experts – WDC’s Philippa Brakes and conservation biologist Joe Roman – attempt to answer in this video. It’s part of our Reinventing the whale series which takes you on a deep dive into the fascinating world of the whale.

We never stop being amazed by whales and dolphins. Humans have just recorded a sighting of a live Sato’s beaked whale for the very first time, and fin whales are returning to their old Antarctic feeding grounds as they start to recover from 20th century whaling.

Some days working in whale and dolphin conservation are tougher than others. Dealing with the ever-present horrors of hunting and captivity can grind us down, but we are inspired by three things and they are what motivate us:

Whales and dolphins are awesome and deserve protection
We CAN save them
We have the best supporters in the world by our side to help us

On behalf of all of us at WDC, thanks for being with us.

Julia Pix

Massive thanks to the brilliant team at 39 Pictures for their support with the films.

Thank you

We asked for your help to buy a camera for our friends at OrcaLab, Canada. This camera will allow the team to continue monitoring orcas as they play at a culturally important rubbing beach. You helped to raise more than £4,500 in just three days! The camera will soon be installed and we’ll send an update to everyone who donated.

Norway whale experiments

The cruel hearing tests are over for another year. Thank you to all of you who protested. No whales were tested but one little whale was caught and trapped. He became so stressed they had to release him. This has to stop.

WHAT HAPPENED?

Devastating for dolphins

The outcome of the Faroese government’s review of dolphin hunting is sickening. Instead of banning the hunts, they have potentially sentenced even more dolphins to death by allowing the slaughter of 500 dolphins every year.

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The Whale Watchers

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Climate giants

We’ve been at the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon making sure decision-makers understand the vital role whales play in fighting climate breakdown. We need to protect whales as if our lives depend on it … because they do.

HOW WE GOT ON

Whales in agony

Graphic images coming out of Iceland show fin whales being dragged ashore with the unexploded grenade harpoons still embedded in their flesh. We’re calling on Iceland’s fisheries ministers to stop whale hunting immediately.

FULL STORY

‚The best day ever!‘

That’s how our amazing fundraisers described taking part in Swim Serpentine last year. Do you want to take on one of the UK’s most iconic swim events? We only have a handful of places left. Enquire by email today to register your interest in this wild swim challenge.

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Inspiring young people

In partnership with Itza, we are delighted to announce the launch of a brand-new digital education experience which dives into the wonderful world of whales. We hope to inspire and empower thousands of young people around to world to protect them.

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🐋 Your June whale and dolphin news 🐬

1. Juli 2022Uncategorizeddolphins, WHALEShaluise

We urge Norway’s prime minister to stop cruel whale experiments

Hi there and welcome to your June whale and dolphin news.

Thank you to everyone who signed our petition on change.org calling on Norway’s Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre to stop cruel experiments on young minke whales.

We tried to get a Norwegian minister to accept the petition but we were met with refusal after refusal. So, our petition starter Vicky Moens made this heartfelt video and we sent a Norwegian version directly to the PM’s office, representing almost 100,000 of you.

We need to keep up the pressure and you can help by sending an email or tweet. It’s all set up for you on our action page and will take just a couple of minutes.

In other news, our team is at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon this week talking to policymakers about the vital roles whales play in our fight against the climate crisis. I’ll let you know how we got on in next month’s enews.

Until then, on behalf of all of us at WDC, thank you for your support – we wouldn’t be here to do any of this without you and we are truly grateful you are with us.

Julia Pix

EMAIL OR TWEET NORWAY’S PM

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Win £1,000 this summer!

Just a couple of weeks left to play our raffle. Enter by 22 July 2022 for your chance to win £1,000 or one of 27 other cash prizes. Help protect UK whales and dolphins. Play for just £1 for your chance to win. Over 18s only. T&C apply.

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Talking whales with MPs

The ocean is our life support system and largest carbon sink, yet looking after it is a blind spot for governments, policymakers and funders. We need action and leadership to change that, so we took our message to parliament.

HOW DID WE GET ON?

The power of poo

We need to save the whale to save the world. So we’re gathering the scientific evidence to prove it … and it’s very smelly! Whale poo helps fight climate breakdown so we need to convince policymakers to protect whales.

MEET THE SCIENTISTS

How whales can save us

We’ve been talking a lot about whales as climate giants – our allies in the fight against the climate crisis. But how exactly do they help us? We explain the science in simple terms – it’s mind-blowing!

TELL ME MORE

Run for whales & dolphins

We have limited places remaining in the Virtual London Marathon – including some international places. This event helps us raise funds to protect whales and dolphins across the globe. Are you up for the challenge?

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Dolphins in Ukraine

Rare, threatened dolphins and porpoises live in the Black Sea along Ukraine’s coast. Large numbers of them are dying as a result of military activity. They are victims of the war, along with the researchers who study them.

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Fin whales killed

Fin whales have been killed by Icelandic whalers in the first hunt in four years. It is astounding, as well as utterly despicable, that an aging millionaire continues to hunt fin whales as a hobby. We still hope the cruel practice will end in 2023.

FULL STORY

BBC Wildlife partnership

We are proud to be BBC Wildlife magazine’s whale and dolphin experts. We’ll be amazing their readers with info about the 28 species of whales, dolphins and porpoises who live in or travel through UK seas.

OUR BBC SPECIES GUIDE

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🐋 Your April whale and dolphin news 🐬

28. April 2022Uncategorizeddolphins, WDC, WHALEShaluise

Thank you so much!

At Whale and Dolphin Conservation, we are lucky to have the best supporters in the world. On behalf of all of us at WDC, and the whales and dolphins we speak up for, I wanted to thank you for getting behind our campaigns.

Today, our End Captivity campaigner Rob Lott is representing more than 20,000 of you as he takes our Lockdown Never Ends petition to TUI’s corporate office in Berlin and asks the world’s largest tour operator to stop supporting cruel whale and dolphin captivity.

I also want to thank you for supporting our Not In Our Nets campaign by tweeting and emailing in your thousands to urge ministers to stop dolphins, porpoises and whales dying in fishing gear in UK seas.

Your support is vital for campaigns like these. Politicians have to take notice of what the voting public wants, and big corporations like TUI respond to customer pressure. There is strength in numbers and we are more powerful when we show that we represent you, our brilliant supporters.

I’ll update you on both of these major campaigns next month. In the meantime, thank you from all of us for standing up for whales and dolphins.

Julia Pix, WDC

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#NotInOurNets

This humpback whale died off the coast of Scotland. You can see the fishing rope and pot tangled around his flipper. Sarah Dolman leads our work to prevent deaths in nets and she explains why the time for UK government action is now.

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Little steps for whales

At the first sanctuary for whales who have been held captive for entertainment, the expert care team are excited. A new development will help ensure a safe and successful transition for the whales from the sea care pools to the main sea bay.

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Orca beach secrets

Rubbing on pebbles is a generations-old cultural tradition for a particular group of orcas off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Cameras allow our partners at OrcaLab to take you right into the orcas‘ fascinating, hidden world.

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First blood

Norway’s whalers slaughtered the first minke whale of their hunt season on 11th April. Last year they killed 575 whales, making it the deadliest whaling season since 2016. Sixteen vessels have registered to hunt this year.

FULL STORY

Games offer

We’ve teamed up with Humble Bundle, a games and entertainment software company providing awesome affordable content whilst donating proceeds to charity. For a limited time, you can get an incredible Dungeon Defenders legendary games collection. Pay what you want and every purchase supports our work!

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🐋 Your March whale and dolphin news 🐬 — WDC

31. März 2022Uncategorizeddolphins, WDC, WHALEShaluise

UK dolphins, porpoises and whales need your help

More than 1,000 dolphins, porpoises and whales die in fishing gear in UK seas every year. That’s a shocking number, but what’s even more shocking is that our governments know what they need to do to save them.

Tell ministers this isn’t good enough and that you expect urgent action.

ACT NOW

It’s easy to have your say – just follow the link to our action page where you can send our ready-made email and/or a prepared tweet.

Getting tangled in fishing gear is a horrible way to die. We know how to prevent this suffering, yet around 1,000 porpoises, hundreds of dolphins and at least 32 minke whales and six humpback whales die this way in UK waters every year. Government action could stop these awful deaths.

A public consultation on this issue is open until 12th April, so NOW is our chance to tell government ministers they MUST do better.

It’ll take less than five minutes of your time but could save the lives of whales and dolphins around the UK.

Thank you for your support – it means a lot.

Julia Pix, WDC

ACT NOW

She deserved better

This young dolphin died in a fishing net off the coast of Cornwall last year. Our governments have known for 30 years that dolphins are dying in nets in huge numbers in UK seas. But they have failed to act to save them.

WHAT’S BEEN DONE?

Welsh turbine trouble

A proposal for underwater tidal turbines in an area where porpoises and Risso’s dolphins come to feed and raise their newborns is threatening the West Wales Marine Special Area of Conservation and the wildlife it protects.

FULL STORY

Get drastic on plastic

You’ve seen pictures of plastic litter on beaches or marine wildlife swimming through floating rubbish and you’ve probably wondered if and how we could ever clean up this mess.

WHAT CAN BE DONE?

Show’s over for Lolita

The orca known as Lolita or Tokitae will no longer perform at Miami Seaquarium. Held captive for over 50 years, and alone for 42 of them, her life has been far from the one she should have enjoyed in the ocean.

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Fin whales in danger

The man behind Iceland’s fin whaling company has hit back at announcements that Icelandic whale hunting could be ending for good. He’s told media that he hopes to slaughter fin whales this summer.

FULL STORY

Wine, whales and planet

Waipapa Bay are the latest to join our Climate Giant Project. Find out more about our partnership and how to get your hands on their delicious wine.

MORE INFO

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🐋 Look what you achieved for whales and dolphins ! 🐬

28. Januar 2022Uncategorizeddolphins, WDC, WHALEShaluise

Look what you’ve achieved for whales and dolphins …

We made amazing things happen in 2021. We’re so proud of everything we’ve achieved for whales and dolphins in the last year by standing shoulder to shoulder with all our brilliant supporters. Thank you so much for being with us – it means the world.

Together we:

🐋 Put whales and the ocean on the climate agenda at COP26

🐬 Lobbied the UK and devolved governments to act to stop dolphins, porpoises and whales dying in fishing gear

🐋 Convinced Asda to work with their suppliers to make fishing safer for whales and dolphins

🐬 Kept the pressure on TUI to help end lockdown for captive whales and dolphins

🐋 Petitioned the Norwegian government to abandon cruel plans for hearing tests on wild minke whales

We made this video for you and I hope the whales and dolphins in it brighten your day.

Every penny you give, every petition you sign and every campaign you share makes a difference. Together, we will create a world where every whale and dolphin is safe and free.

On behalf of the whales and dolphins and everyone at WDC, thank you for being with us.

Julia Pix, WDC

Faroes – horror to hope

Change needs to come from within the Faroe Islands and so after the massacre of 1,423 Atlantic white-sided dolphins, we hired Faroese campaigner Marna Frida Olsen to help us find a way to end the cruel hunts in her home country. FIND OUT MORE

Valentine’s Day gifts

If you’re looking for a gift, we’ve got you covered in our online shop. You’ll find ideas for friends, partners, pets or anyone needing some affection. And we’ll show whales and dolphins some love with every penny you spend.GET INSPIRED

Saving whale lives

Around five humpbacks and 30 minke whales die after getting caught in fishing rope in Scotland every year. No fisher wants this to happen and it can be heart breaking when it does. So we’re helping them to avoid whale entanglements.FIND OUT HOW

https://uk.whales.org/2022/01/18/uk-governments-poor-performance-on-the-marine-environment/

UK government falls short

The UK environment minister promised to make 2021 a ’super year‘ for marine protection. A year on and they’ve failed to keep this promise, making progress in just two of the 17 areas we scrutinised.FULL STORY

Whale-sized donation

Our efforts to stop Faroese dolphin hunts and prevent whale and dolphin deaths in fishing gear have received a whaley big boost from gaming content creators and long-term supporters The Yogscast who raised a whopping £264,000 for us.HOW THIS DONATION WILL HELP

Did orcas rescue whale?

Orcas were filmed appearing to free a humpback from a rope that had got wrapped around the whale’s tail. It’s left experts puzzled and reminds us that we really know so little about these intelligent, complex beings.WATCH DRONE FOOTAGE

Please make a donation because you can help us achieve even more in 2022

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Neues aus der Welt der Wale und Delfine — WDC

10. Dezember 2021Uncategorizeddolphins, WDC, WHALEShaluise

Stimmen Sie für den Orca-Schutz ab! | Orcas in den Gewässern von Vancouver Island

🐋 Your November whale and dolphin news 🐬 — WDC

25. November 2021UncategorizedDOLPHIN MEDITATION, WDC, WHALEShaluise

Hi there and welcome to your November enews from Whale and Dolphin Conservation.

We’re feeling hopeful and optimistic. Humans still do awful things to whales and dolphins and, with your support, we continue to fight these atrocities with all our might. But the tide is turning and change is coming.

Reasons to be cheerful:

France is preparing to make it illegal to keep whales and dolphins in tanks for human entertainment and travel giant Expedia has ended its support for these cruel attractions. Now we need TUI to step up and do the same.
We’ve made progress in our campaign to save endangered Hector’s dolphins in New Zealand and proposals are on the table to try to stop them dying in fishing nets.
Our team returned from the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow excited that plans were put in motion to increase ocean restoration and protection.

On behalf of all of us at WDC, thank you so much for playing your part. The support you give us is what enables us to keep pushing for change. Knowing we have you by our side helps keep us hopeful.

Julia Pix

P.S. Next Tuesday is Giving Tuesday, a day where everyone can do something to support the causes that matter to them. Look out for an email from our CEO, Chris Butler-Stroud to see how you can get involved.

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Climate hope

WDC’s Ed Goodall was at COP26 representing whales and dolphins. He was fighting for change both inside the conference and outside on the climate march. I asked him to share what it was like, what we did and what we achieved. WHAT WE DID AT COP26

📣 Campaign update

The New Zealand government has proposed new measures to keep Hector’s dolphins safe from fishing nets. But while the action they suggest is good, it won’t do enough to stop the suffering and save lives.WHAT’S GOING ON?

An amazing whale teacher

Salt is probably the most famous humpback whale in the world … and her poo helps keep you and me alive! Our short new video explains how, plus we meet Salt and answer some of your questions.WATCH VIDEO

Make a difference

This Christmas, why not adopt a whale or dolphin for someone you love? They’ll receive an adoption pack, monthly email updates plus our quarterly magazine. A perfect gift for adults or kids.ADOPT TODAY

Drastic plastic action

We all know plastic is choking the ocean and killing whales and dolphins. All our individual and national actions add up and make a difference but transformative change will only happen when it’s driven at an international level.WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN?

Shop with WDC

Have you visited our online shop? There are lots of gift ideas from children’s t-shirts and toys, stunning hand-crafted jewellery and vegan spa products. There is something for everyone.SHOP WITH US

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Save the whale 🐳 save the world 🌏 – what you can do — WDC

5. November 2021Uncategorizeddolphins, WDC, WHALEShaluise

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To save our planet we need to wake up and listen to the ocean

Hi, we all know that we need to restore our forests but we can’t solve the climate crisis without protecting the ocean too. It covers three-quarters of the surface of the planet and absorbs up to 35% of our carbon emissions.

A healthy ocean needs whales and so members of our team are at COP26 – the UN’s 26th Climate Change Conference – in Glasgow right now. We’re calling on world leaders to restore the ocean as if our lives depend on it … because they do!

Read on to find out what we’re doing and how you can help us, and enjoy our new video from WDC supporter and Game of Thrones star Jerome Flynn.

On behalf of everyone at Whale and Dolphin Conservation, thank you so much for all your support,

Julia Pix

P.S. If you happen to be attending the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice march in Glasgow tomorrow, listen out for us and come and say ‚hello‘!