Save the Whales Again!

Hi All, I’m Jeff Pantukhoff, president & founder of The Whaleman Foundation, and I’m raising funds to support our critical humpback whale research and whale disentanglement work on Maui.

This will be my 32nd year doing humpback whale research on Maui and we need your support now more than ever to help us reach our fundrinsing goal.

What most people don't know is that the members of our Maui humpback whale research team are also members of Maui's large whale disentanglement response team and our main job is to disentangle whales from fishing gear.

When we are out on research, if we get a call about an entangled whale, we immediately shift from research mode to response mode to locate and hopefully free the whale that was entangled. 

Last season we were able to free two entangled humpback whales in the same week from the fishing gear they were dragging around which was a huge success for our team!

So the great news is when you donate to us to help us with our humpback whale research, you get a 2 for 1 donation as your donation also helps us to disentangle whales as well so I hope you will help us with a donation for our up coming season.

Japan Update

The Japanese Government has issued their whalers a permit to kill 62 endangered fin whales in addition to 154 Brydes whales, 56 minke whales and 25 endangered Sei Whales that were already permmitted. Earlier this year, Japan launched its new whale killing and processing vessel to kill these magnificent creatures.

So far, Japan has killed 25 endangered fin whales this summer!

Japan is a rougue commercial whaling nation and dolphin killing country and we need your help to stop them.

Iceland Update

Here is some good news! Iceland's only fin whaling company, Hvalur hf., has canceled its fin whale hunt for this summer's 2025 season. This decision, made in late April, is due to declining demand for whale meat in Japan, Iceland's primary export market. While the government had issued permits for hunting 209 fin whales, the company deemed it unprofitable to proceed.

We need your financial help to help end these cruel and needless hunts for good.  

Norway Update

Norwegian whalers has set the 2025 quota to kill over 1,000 minke whales thiis summer.

Norway continues to defy the commercial moratorium on whaling even though there is no real demand for whale meat in their country.

All of us here are committed to doing everything we can to help Save the Whales Again! 

We thank you all for your continuing support and ask you to please donate what you can to help us!

Sincerely,