Water covers over 70% of the world’s surface, yet only a tiny percentage is ‘protected.’ And the threats of commercial fishing, plastics and pollution are combining to make the whole ocean unsafe.

Most countries are signed on to an agreement calling for at least 10% of the ocean’s surface to be protected by 2020. But if we’re going to save the whale, we need to work toward the IUCN target of 30%.

It’s an ambitious target, but it would benefit lots of species, not just whales and dolphins, iand that includes human-kind.

In recent years we have successfully lobbied the Scottish government to double the number of marine protected areas (MPAs) for whales and dolphins and successfully lobbied the US government to increase protective measures for right whales, including expanding protected habitat by 40,000 sq. miles.

Our focus now is on:

Working with local communities to locate and maintain protected areas

From the endemic dolphin populations of South America to the resident orca families in the US, Canadian and Russian North Pacific, we are constantly working at a local level for effective habitat protection