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Paul Watson wins The Perfect World Foundation Award

September 23, 20246 min

The Perfect World Foundation, a wildlife and nature organization based in Gothenburg, Sweden, has named Captain Paul Watson, renowned marine conservationist and founder of several organizations, including The Captain Paul Watson Foundation, as the recipient of The Perfect World Foundation award 2025 for ‘Conservationist of the Year’. Captain Watson joins a distinguished group of previous awardees, including Sir David Attenborough, Dr Jane Goodall, Prince Albert II of Monaco, and Dr Sylvia Earle. The award honours...

by A Correspondent

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U.S. allows tiny Makah tribe to hunt limited number of gray whales off Washington

June 20, 20246 min

The Makah tribe in Washington state in northwestern USA has received federal approval to hunt a limited number of Eastern North Pacific gray whales off the state’s coast, according to reports on science news website phys.org and news portal dnyuz.com. The tribe, with only about 3,000 members, will be allowed to harvest up to 25 whales over the next decade, the reports said. The decision by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to allow a...

by Staff Reporter

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Animal welfare group slams Marineland’s plan to continue whale display

May 5, 20245 min

Animal welfare group World Animal Protection Canada has slammed Ontario’s themed zoo and amusement park Marineland’s announcement that it would continue its display of beluga whales during the 2024 season while shutting down its other animal attractions. “Marineland is doubling down on its so-called ‘Friendship Cove’, which is nothing but a substandard venue for innocent beluga whales to be exploited for entertainment,” said Melissa Matlow, campaign director for World Animal Protection Canada. “Animal welfare groups...

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‘Legally Pirate’ Paul Watson and his strategy of aggressive non-violence

April 27, 202441 min

Captain Paul Watson has been a hero for marine life for many decades now. He was back in the news this month when he announced a mission to thwart Japan’s plan to resume whaling near the continent of Antarctica, and Operation Ice Storm, his plan to prevent the hunting of fin whales by an Icelandic multi-millionaire. One of the founding members and directors of Greenpeace, Watson left the organization in 1977 after a disagreement and...

by Staff Reporter

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Paul Watson’s team to stop hunting of fin whales in Iceland

April 17, 20247 min

The Captain Paul Watson Foundation is launching Operation Ice Storm from Albert Dock in Yorkshire to oppose Iceland’s last whaling company, Hvalur hf, the organization said in a press release. Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace and founder of Sea Shepherd, has a history of intervening in Icelandic whaling operations. In 1986, members of his group successfully reduced the whaling fleet of Hvalur hf by half. “Time is up for the world’s most notorious hunter of...

by Staff Reporter

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Environmentalists vow to scuttle Japan’s whaling resumption plan

April 9, 20245 min

In a bold move to protect the sanctity of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, environmentalist Capt Paul Watson and the dedicated crew of Neptune’s Pirates are set to embark on a mission to thwart Japan’s resumption of whaling activities at the end of this year, a release from the Captain Paul Watson Foundation said. Japan’s recent announcement of the completion of the Kangei Maru, a 9,300-ton factory ship spanning 112m, signals a worrying escalation in...

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Animal welfare group calls Ontario’s Marineland a death trap

April 8, 20243 min

Marineland, a themed zoo and amusement park at Niagara Falls in the Canadian province of Ontario, has become the site of more than a dozen deaths of precious marine animals, World Animal Protection said in a press release. The multinational non-governmental organization, which works to end animal suffering, has now initiated a drive to shut the place down. Melissa Matlow, campaign director, said, “Sixteen beluga whales and one orca [killer whale] have died at Marineland...

by Sandy Pawpaw

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Life in the Ocean

April 3, 20243 min

Today is World Aquatic Animal Day, created in 2020 by the folks at Animal Law Clinic at the Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, USA, to draw attention to the importance of aquatic animals to our societies and ecosystems. Presenting some images of aquatic animal species. World Aquatic Animal Day is meant to raise global awareness so that humans come together to create policies, laws, education, and outreach that will help to protect these...

by Sandy Pawpaw

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Let’s celebrate World Aquatic Animal Day

April 3, 202412 min

Yes, now you know it. Today is World Aquatic Animal Day, created in 2020 by the folks at Animal Law Clinic at the Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, USA, to draw attention to the importance of aquatic animals to our societies and ecosystems. Any animal, vertebrate or invertebrate, that lives in water for all or most of its life is called an aquatic animal. In addition to ‘fish’, the category includes a...

by A Correspondent

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Male humpback whales photographed in homosexual act

March 2, 20242 min

Move over humans; marine mammals, too, it seems, are not averse to an unabashed roll in the foam with their same-sex lovers. In what may be the very first time, humpback whales were photographed making love near the Hawaii Islands in the Pacific Ocean. And both happened to be male. For several years, research has been conducted on this species of whale, but the male’s sexual organ has not been sighted often. In fact, male...