Marine Mammal Rescue

Explore: marine mammal rescue

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24 March 2025

Facts and FAQ about seals

12 March 2025

What is a marine mammal? A complete guide

7 March 2025

This International Women’s Day, let’s honour women conservation heroes

20 November 2024

Top 10 animal victories of 2024

20 November 2024

Saving dolphins on Cape Cod and sharing rescue expertise worldwide

14 August 2024

Are fin whales finished? Japan resumes commercial hunt

24 July 2024

What is bycatch?

23 July 2024

Wildlife rehabilitation terms & definitions

15 July 2024

IFAW responds to the largest dolphin mass stranding in US history

10 June 2024

Kenya’s coastal communities learn to rescue stranded dolphins and whales

12 April 2024

The hope and heartache of right whale calving season

3 April 2024

Types of whales: meet the largest animals in the ocean

4 March 2024

Seals vs. sea lions: what’s the difference?

15 November 2023

Top 10 animal victories of 2023

24 August 2023

New rescue center is a lifeline for dolphins on Cape Cod

26 April 2023

rare encounters with marine giants

19 April 2023

Why are so many North Atlantic right whales turning up dead and injured?

13 February 2023

meet the crew tracking North Atlantic right whales aboard Song of the Whale

27 January 2023

responders disentangle a North Atlantic right whale off the coast of Georgia

27 January 2023

the return of captive dolphins to the waters of Bahrain

14 September 2022

faq: what to do if you see a stranded dolphin

10 June 2022

facts about satellite tagging dolphins and whales

18 May 2021

what we can learn from a whale necropsy

22 February 2021

Oman specialists trained by ifaw and the International Whaling Commission rescue a stranded humpback whale