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Olive Andrews is a marine program manager for Conservation International, where she works with Pacific Island nations to protect the ocean...Click on the link below to read the full article. 

These stunning images were captured by a British underwater photographer as he swam with a pod of humpback whales with a young calf.Click on the link below to read the full article.

Southern hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) rely on summer prey abundance of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) to fuel one of the longest-known mammalian migration on the planet.

Fishing nets are just one of many problems the humpback whale population faces along the Pacific Coast, and a conservation group says the Trump administration is not doing enough to protect the whale"s habitat.Click on the link below to read the full article.

This year"s controversial whaling season has come to an end, with Japan capturing and killing a total of 177 whales amid global outcry.Click on the link below to read the full story. 

A recent law promoting whaling allows Japan to take a key step towards resuming commercial hunting of the giant mammals that are "a great source of food"...Click on the link below to read the full story.

Few will have heard of PCBs - polychlorinated biphenyls. The chemicals were banned in the late 70s amid fears about their toxicity. Recent estimates suggest that Europe produced anything between 299,000 and 585,000 tonnes of PCBs.

Research to further help unlock the secrets of the Oceania Humpback Whale in Niue will take place with support from the government of New Zealand.  This will help further assist in the protection and conservation of humpback whales in the Pacific.

What do whale excrement and climate change have in common? More than you may think, according to a special report on Climate Change and Whales that was presented before the Whales in a Changing Ocean Conference in Tonga.

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