Baleen whales play an important role here, according to new findings. Each summer, thousands of baleen whales, such as minke ...

Experts monitoring a stranded fin whale calf have said they are "carefully considering euthanasia options to stop further suffering". British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) said it was called to ...

In 2023, Iceland’s government lifted a ban on commercial whaling. The temporary ban had been implemented in June due to animal welfare concerns and was not renewed. But now, commercial whaling in ...

Anti-whaling activists are targeting UK holidaymakers to Iceland, who they say are responsible for an industry that kills hundreds of the animals each year. British guests in Icelandic hotels and ...

An aerial survey of marine wildlife in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument turned up an unexpected but very welcome sight. As CBS reports, the researchers from the New England ...

New England Aquarium researchers recently documented what they say was a rare sighting of an endangered fin whale and its calf. Scientists on a July 24 aerial survey flew over the Northeast Canyons ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) -- A whaling company in Iceland said Tuesday it is preparing its fleet to bring commercial hunting of fin whales back to the Nordic island nation after a two-year freeze.

Major Icelandic whaling company Hvalur has just announced that it will not hunt fin whales this summer, Mongabay reported. This announcement comes after a controversial decision by the government of ...

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring—when she noticed something very odd about what ...

A dead fin whale was found Thursday on a sandbar near Great Island in Yarmouth, according to the International Fund for Animal Welfare. Biologists identified the whale as a 65-foot female, weighing ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Iceland’s largest commercial whaling company, Hvalur hf., has said it will not hunt any fin whales in the summer of 2025. Hvalur hf. exports almost ...