Author name: AstridTonka

Sunday, the 3rd of May I finally saw the pod of Orcas myself, when I went with Eric Fokke to study them all day from land. First we found them along the road between Djypfjorden and Reine and we were hoping that they would start feeding under the bridge of Reine..but they did not find […]

This morning a young humpback whale (which was first claimed to be a big minke whale) was swimming inside the harbour of Henningsvaer, the whales have arrived.Humpback whales normally arrive in Lofoten around this time and for the last 3 years have been seen close to the Henningsvaer harbour. We don’t know if the young

NEWS -we could already identify this pod, those are Orcas we know since 2003, the came often to Lofoten mostly during the summer time, but now also in the summer. It is always nice to see old friends and know they are well and growing! we hope they stay here all summer….- Just like every

Due to changes and renewals we decided to focus only on our field research and conservation this summer and do fund raising. This means we will not be able to keep an Info Center in Henningsvaer / Lofoten open and we will not take people out on our boat! Sorry…. But we will use this

A few days ago, Tom saw Pilot whales just 10 min. from Bodø when he came with the Hurtigruten over to Lofoten to help me for the next 4 months. Unfortunately he couldn’t take pictures, the whales dived when the ship came close, so we can’t say if it is the same pod that we

Ocean Sounds is now officially a non-profit organization registered in Germany and we have our own bank account for donations and membership fees.You can become a supporting member for 20 Euro/Year and donate as you wish.For a member ship application please send an email to inf@ocean-sounds.com At the moment new projects come up, such as

CarbonFix Foundation [www.carbonfix.it] are pleased to announce 2015 56,000NOK funding for whale research biologist Heike Vester and Ocean-Sounds [www.ocean-sounds.org] Conservation working in the Lofoten Islands Norway. Our primary interest is to work with and support Heike in better understanding the impacts of Oil and Gas exploration seismic testing on cetaceans species behaviour. It is hoped

We have gotten a notice that our long term support from the WWF Sweden has been cancelled this year, apparently other projects became more important than ours…the WWF has given us a research stipend every year since 2007 for our research on Orcas in Norway and we are very grateful for it and hope that