WHALE TRACKERS is a series of documentary programs that journey across the world’s oceans to explore the lives of whales, dolphins and porpoises.
We join international scientists on expedition investigating and shedding new light on the mysteries of these animals and their struggles for survival in a rapidly changing world.
WHALE TRACKERS examines how we can [...]

Marine Protected Areas, also known as MPAs or sometimes marine reserves or Sanctuaries, are the equivalent of national parks and protected areas on land. Learn more about MPAs and the challenges they face.

The Cetacean Alliance web site is an attempt to raise awareness, promote marine conservation, and prevent the decline of dolphins living in Mediterranean coastal waters. It contains information about science, conservation, education and what you can do to help the coastal dolphins of the Mediterranean region.

Driftnets are large floating nets, which may be employed in the open ocean or along the coast, often stretching for many miles. They are designed to trap and entangle large fish such as tuna and swordfish. The largest driftnets used were more than 50 kilometers (30 miles) in length, extending to a depth of 30 meters (one hundred feet) from the surface.

Sperm whales are cosmopolitan animals. They inhabit the blue waters of all of the world’s oceans and are often found in deeper offshore areas around canyons and trenches. They can also be found close to shore around volcanic islands such as the Azores, the Galapagos and the Canary Islands, where steep drop-offs run along the coast.

Longer than wider, 3,800 kilometers separate the western most point from the distant eastern shore, while its greatest breadth does not exceed 700km. Its average depth is 1,429 meters, and its surface covers an area of 2.5 million square kilometers, about 1% of the total of the surface of the world’s oceans.

River dolphins are a disparate group of four species of cetacean. You will notice from the Latin names in italics that each of these dolphins belong to different genera, in fact they each belong to separate families, – there is a lot of mammalian evolution represented among this group.

Once abundant and globally distributed, right whales were the first and most heavily exploited whales. Although some populations are showing healthy signs of recovery, right whales are classified as endangered under the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list, and the Convention for the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).