State officials were notified Friday morning of a newborn humpback whale calf that was found dead on a beach in Kihei.
A young humpback whale washed up on Long Island on Monday, the latest in a series of troubling similar incidents in recent ...
Federal and state officials are recovering the carcass of a humpback whale calf from the shores of Kihei, Maui.
Two humpback whales were freed of life-threatening entanglements on Wednesday, Jan. 8 and Thursday, Jan. 9 off the coast of Maui in Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. Trained ...
Staff from several state and federal agencies responded following the discovery of a dead humpback whale calf on the shore ...
Between 10,000 and 15,000 humpback whales come to the Pacific waters near the Hawaiian islands as part of their annual migration from northern waters. After traveling some 3,000 miles from the ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Spotting a whale entangled in ocean debris is like finding a needle in a haystack, according to marine biologists. Since early December, there have been six confirmed cases in ...
including the 1966 International Whaling Commission ban on commercial hunting of humpbacks and the establishment of the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary in 1992.
“Responders are working with staff from the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary to tow the whale remains offshore for disposition, as requested by Native Hawaiian cultural ...