The IWC Scientific Cttee meeting is underway in Bled, Slovenia. Over two weeks, many of the world's leading experts in #cetaceanscience will discuss issues from population status to whale watching & ocean noise. The meeting report will be published at iwc.int/en/

Most scientific reports say Indian Ocean Humpback #dolphins occur in water less than 25m deep. So we looked, kept looking, & in the end found them in water 5m deep, half way up #rivers and next to #mangroves ! We are learning a lot about this endangered species! #Tanzania SMRU

CITES #SC77 : IUCN-CetaceanSG member & world expert Dr Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho has studied #vaquitas for 30 yrs and has presented damning evidence to CITES Standing Committee that #Mexico has much more to do to prevent their extinction.

iucn-csg.org/actions-taken-…

We're celebrating 10 yrs as the IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force mmpatf but pointing out threatened Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) & resident #endangered #porpoises & #dolphins in #Ukraine & Gulf of California. IUCN Ocean Team IUCNssc IUCNCetaceanSG IUCN_WCPA…

Staggering number of blue whale sightings around Svalbard: 505 sightings of 820 individuals during 2005-2019, many inside spectacular fjords.
polarresearch.net/index.php/pola…

Out searching again for these endangered little #dolphins that lurk in the shallow, muddy-bottom green waters of the western indian ocean. today we found a tiny group only 10m from the rocky shore, just slowly moving along the coast of Tanga #Tanzania with a tiny newborn calf

Main newspaper in Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, reporting on the 33 new Important Marine Mammal Areas in SW Atlantic, some of which are here in this state’s waters — Litoral do RS ganha título internacional de área importante para mamíferos marinhos  gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br/ambiente/notic…

SMRU Scientist Dr Doug Gillespie is presenting on our work monitoring marine mammals around tidal energy developments at this webinar on Thursday. Sign up here --> tethys.pnnl.gov/events/coordin…
Ocean Energy Systems Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Members of IUCN-CetaceanSG worked closely with CCAHD to conduct field research and interviews in Liberia to address major threats driving the decline of Critically Endangered Atlantic humpback dolphins. Findings can be found here sousateuszii.org 2/

To read the full IUCN-CetaceanSG report visit iucn.org/sites/default/… IUCN SSC Marine Conservation Committee (MCC) IUCN Species Survival Commission 6/6

New estimate of population size suggests one of the smallest franciscana dolphin populations should be listed as endangered under IUCN Red List criteria.
int-res.com/abstracts/esr/…

IUCNRedList IUCNCetaceanSG IUCNssc International Whaling Commission
#franciscana #bycatch

IUCN's Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) provide essential data for conservation. Thanks to experts & the Marine Mammal Protected Areas Taskforce for their recent efforts to safeguard marine life & advance global MPA goals to achieve #30x30 !
🙌🌊
wwfwhales.org/news-stories/i…

❗️NEW PAPER: Extinction Risk of the World's Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises led by Dr Gill Braulik, Uni of St Andrews, and our very own Dr P, one of the contributing authors. This paper highlights the URGENCY of conserving cetaceans all around the world.
doi.org/10.1111/cobi.1…

Announcing 33 new Important Marine Mammal Areas #IMMAs in SW Atlantic Ocean now approved & up on the IMMA e-Atlas for download & use in conservation planning. Marine Mammalogy European Cetacean Society Guardian Environment Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC)_de World Federation of Science Journalists
#whales #dolphins #ocean …

'In the ocean we all live downstream of somebody else and all of us under the same sky' #CaribeSur 🐳

Shocking - 1 in 4 species of whale, dolphin & porpoise have been assessed by the IUCN cetacean specialist group as threatened with extinction. 🥺
🐳🐋🐬

⭐️ The proportion of threatened cetaceans has INCREASED: 15% in 1991,19% in 2008, and 26% in 2021.
⭐️ The assessed conservation status of 20% of species has WORSENED from 2008 to 2021, and only 3 moved into categories of lesser threat.

I do love infographics—and this one supplies a valuable window into an important conservation assessment for the #cetacea #whales #dolphins #porpoises IUCN Red List IUCN Species Survival Commission IUCN Ocean Team Marine Mammal Commission Marine Mammalogy Amer Cetacean Soc Defenders of Wildlife European Cetacean Society

After an enormous amount of work involving many people 33 new Important Marine Mammal Areas from South America to add to the growing list worldwide.. If you want to have the IMMA shapefiles, please request them at the following link: marinemammalhabitat.org/immas/imma-spa…