The humpback whales currently migrating past Raoul are travelling south from their breeding grounds in the tropical Pacific. This means that there are a lot of mother-calf pairs travelling together. Yesterday our expedition team was treated to the sight of

While the whale team have been going great guns chasing those marine leviathans at sea, we shifted our land-based focus from medium-sized seabirds to the small ones. When invasive aliens (rats, cats, etc.) make their way to an oceanic island

Kia ora from Raoul! Our whale work is going slowly but steadily, and we have now successfully deployed 16 satellite tags, collected 52 tissue samples, have photographed around 70 flukes and made eight recordings of whale song. The Department of

Hi outside world, it’s Richie Robinson here, guest blogger for today. I’m a photojournalist with NZ Geographic and I have the extreme privilege of being tasked to photograph one of the biggest animals in the ocean during The Great Humpback