Nanami Kurasawa, who heads a conservationist group Dolphin & Whale Action Network, opposes the resuming of fin whale hunts after they nearly went extinct from overhunting. Whale meat was once an ...

For the first time animal activists have shown evidence that an open and a black market in whale meat exists on the Faroe Islands. The animal protection activists Andreas Morlok (Project Whale ...

Other major threats are coastal development and noise from human activity. The market for Atlantic humpback dolphin meat also appears to be growing as part of the African aquatic wild meat trade.

The market in West Africa for Atlantic humpback dolphin meat also appears to be growing. Although their habitat lies outside US jurisdiction, an ESA listing can still play a vital role in staving off ...

Demand for Atlantic humpback dolphin meat is also apparently on the rise amid a burgeoning African aquatic wild meat trade. Atlantic humpback dolphin illustration by Uko Gorter Image is available for ...

Japan has started its controversial annual dolphin hunt in the coastal town of Taiji. The hunt sees the animals driven into a cove where most are slaughtered for their meat with knives in shallow ...

But critics of the practice say there is insufficient demand for dolphin meat — which in any case contains dangerous levels of mercury. You can’t buy a revolution, but you can help the only daily ...

In 2015, the Environmental Investigation Agency said it found unsafe levels of mercury from ocean pollutants in all the whale and dolphin meat samples it tested.

Similar to the dolphin drive hunt meat consumed in Japan, pilot whales have been found to be highly contaminated in recent years with pollutants. Danish and Faroese scientists have warned that ...