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Action for Dolphins We act so dolphins can live free from suffering.

Thanks to dolphin defenders worldwide we act to:

Stop cruel dolphin hunting
End dolphin captivity
Remove shark nets from Australia’s coastline
End harmful hand-feeding of wild dolphins
Improve dolphins’ ocean home

Imagine knowing how far away your dinner is just by listening.Dolphins send out clicks and read the echoes that bounce b...
16/10/2026

Imagine knowing how far away your dinner is just by listening.

Dolphins send out clicks and read the echoes that bounce back. They’re so precise they can pick up differences of a millionth of a second. A new study found they get even sharper by combining several echoes, but only up to a point.

Their whole world runs on sound. That’s why noise from shipping, seismic blasting and construction matters, and why strongly protected marine parks, where dolphins get space away from some of that noise, are so important.

Study: Pardini et al. (2026), Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

While Sea World opens after dark for Spooky Nights, three polar bears live in 1,658 m². Wild polar bears roam across mor...
14/10/2026

While Sea World opens after dark for Spooky Nights, three polar bears live in 1,658 m². Wild polar bears roam across more than 100,000 km².

Nearby, dolphins live beside rollercoasters, with a laser show on the lake and crowds until 8:30pm. They still perform daily.

Halloween ends. Captivity doesn’t. A polar bear cub born today could still be on display in 2050. A dolphin calf, in 2070.

Sea World is the last venue in Australia still breeding polar bears and dolphins. NSW ended dolphin breeding in 2021. Queensland can too.

Sign the petition to end captive breeding at Sea World: https://ap1.hubs.ly/H01rhFK0

Last week in Taiji, a pod of melon-headed whales was driven into the cove, calves among them. Around 18 were killed. One...
12/10/2026

Last week in Taiji, a pod of melon-headed whales was driven into the cove, calves among them. Around 18 were killed. One or two calves were dumped offshore afterwards, left alone in open water with their families gone.

Monday the boats stayed in port because of strong winds and big swells. Tuesday and Wednesday they went out and came back empty. Friday the boats came back empty again, and the hunt is now paused for three days for the Taiji flag festival.

Quiet days don’t mean the hunt is over. The season runs until March, and it only ends for good when the pressure is louder than the profit.

Add your name to the petition calling for an end to the Taiji hunts. https://ap1.hubs.ly/H01qXBf0 đź’™

10/10/2026

Right now, dolphins in Taiji are being hunted for meat or to be sold to captivity. Families are being torn apart.

You can help stop this. Add your name to our petition. Link in bio.

No tank can give a dolphin the distance, the family life or the world of sound they're built for.In Queensland, Sea Worl...
09/10/2026

No tank can give a dolphin the distance, the family life or the world of sound they're built for.

In Queensland, Sea World can still breed dolphins, and polar bears, for a life on display. It's the last place in Australia where this happens. NSW ended captive dolphin breeding in 2021.

Sign the petition calling on the Queensland Government to end captive breeding at Sea World: https://ap1.hubs.ly/H01qzSG0

The Northern Territory Government has expanded Limmen Bight Marine Park by more than 20%. It adds 185 km² and stretches ...
01/10/2026

The Northern Territory Government has expanded Limmen Bight Marine Park by more than 20%. It adds 185 km² and stretches the park south to Rosie Creek.

Limmen Bight is one of the best places in the Territory to find Australian snubfin dolphins. These shy, snub-nosed dolphins live only in northern Australia and southern New Guinea, and some of the highest numbers recorded along the NT coast are right here.

The expanded park also takes in a 24,000-hectare seagrass meadow. It's home to one of the region's largest dugong populations, plus green turtles and the mangroves and reefs that keep these waters healthy.

Thank you to the Traditional Owners, scientists and locals who helped make this happen.

Photos by Dane McDermott

Every year, humpback whales embark on a 5,000km journey along the Australian coastline. But in the Coral Sea Marine Park...
26/09/2026

Every year, humpback whales embark on a 5,000km journey along the Australian coastline.

But in the Coral Sea Marine Park, only around 1.5% of their migration and calving habitat is in a marine sanctuary. Across the rest of their habitat, whales can be entangled in commercial fishing gear, struck by fast-moving ships, and in Australia's north-west, exposed to oil and gas drilling and underwater blasting.

We have a rare opportunity to change that. The Australian Government is reviewing 44 marine protected areas covering 2.4 million km² of ocean, including the ones humpback mothers and calves swim through.

This review only happens once every ten years, but we only have a few days left to have our say. What is decided by 30 September will hold for the next decade.

Sign the submission: https://ap1.hubs.ly/H01nV260

Meet the Australian humpback dolphin. Named for the small hump beneath its dorsal fin, and found only along the coasts o...
15/09/2026

Meet the Australian humpback dolphin. Named for the small hump beneath its dorsal fin, and found only along the coasts of northern Australia.

They live in small communities, sometimes just a few hundred dolphins in a single stretch of coast. They don't migrate. Generation after generation, they stay in the same waters - with less than 10,000 individuals left, it is essential that we protect the areas they depend on.

Had you heard of the Australian humpback dolphin before?

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