Is it? The Earth Island Institute isn’t prepared to guarantee that no dolphins died for products bearing this label. Creating the illusion that we’re doing it right Poor seafood labeling laws can do a great deal of damage in that they create the illusion among the public that all is well. A destructive and entirely...
These shy, solitary creatures will suffer tremendously if people are allowed to farm them. Photo Credit: National Geographic Our world has an nearly endless supply of stuff we know we’d be better off without. We brand many of them as ‘necessary evils’, because they’ve long served some other purpose. Such as feeding people. If in...
On any given day, your social media feed is likely to produce at least one feel-good story about divers, boaters or fishers successfully freeing a whale or dolphin from entanglement. It’s always with a palpable sense of relief that we see the victim of our ocean trash able to safely swim away. Often, he’ll swims...
The 2020 Oscar-winning documentary My Octopus Teacher forever changed how many of us view these remarkable creatures.
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Competing for ever-diminishing resources as we race to the bottom
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Deepwater Horizons exploded and spilled nearly 5M barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010
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Bluefin Tuna, along with Mackerel Sharks, are the only species of fish that can auto-regulate their body temperature.
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Hector’s Dolphin is the only cetacean endemic to New Zealand.
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The Grindadráp is a feature of the Faroe Islands that we support when we visit or buy their products.
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