Swimming with blue whales has put Timor-Leste on the global travel map — but success is bringing risk. Sold-out whale tours, influencer pressure, and weak regulation are raising alarms among ...

DILI, Timor-Leste — Whale tourism in Timor-Leste is booming. Tour operators report a healthy number of sightings and full bookings in the peak season of September to December, when hundreds of pygmy ...

Against the backdrop of Atauro Island, OceanXplorer leads a landmark mission in Timor-Leste, mapping blue whale migrations and rich reef habitats to build a new scientific baseline for ocean ...

In the wide world of whale sex, the largest of all species also ranks among the most private. At least now, we know where to look. Marine biologists in Timor-Leste, a modest island situated along a ...

Timor-Leste research partner Jose Filipe Dias Quintas, who is National Director for Tourism and Environment Research from the Ministry of Tourism and Environment (Timor-Leste), said a major feature of ...

Timor-Leste, formerly East Timor, is one of the world’s great ocean destinations Looking out from Wata Bo’o beach, I saw a calm blue sea, the water unruffled, disrupted only intermittently by the ...

Researchers say it appears to be "a bumper year" for blue whale calves off WA's south west coast, with 13 cow-calf pairs recorded by the beginning of December. They would typically record nine to 10 ...

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2025 has been a big whale tourism season in Timor-Leste; operators were fully booked during the peak season of September to December. But increasingly aggressive practices fueled by competition ...

(MENAFN- Media OutReach Newswire) OceanX has completed its first research mission in Timor-Leste, carrying out fourteen days of integrated science and exploration across the northern coast and Atauro ...