Since 2018, WWF Perú has conducted trials in 5 fishing communities using pingers to reduce dolphin bycatch in artisanal gillnets. Result: #bycatch was reduced by approximately 50% 👏 #NationalDolphinDay
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More about our first #krill4whales field season:

Our #whale team in #Antarctica had an incredibly rare sighting of Arnoux's beaked #whale s! 🐳
It's a great reminder of how expeditions like this help us better understand whale ecology and how we can better protect their migratory pathways. #BlueCorridors @WWF_whales 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗻

Very cool Sarah!

Scientists have discovered a gray #whale off of New England, extirpated from the Atlantic two centuries ago. This individual’s return to the Atlantic serves as a stark reminder of the intensity of environmental shifts. phys.org/news/2024-03-w…

Mother-calf pairs (red +) are much more commonly seen close to the coast in the SW portion of the Gulf of California than elsewhere in Mexican waters.
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Whale feeding patterns revealed by satellite tagging
nature.com/articles/d4414…

👏 #COP14 of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) of Migratory Species ended with the adoption of stronger measures.

The conservation threats to migratory species like #whales must be addressed with greater effectiveness because nature knows no borders #BlueCorridors ⤵️ wwfwhales.org/news-stories/c…

New from WWF Whales & Dolphins - reflections on how a #WhaleSafe ocean is good for people and nature. #CMSCOP14 #NatureKnowsNoBorders #HighSeasTreaty 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗻 Margaret Kinnaird link.medium.com/ux6fTjtmeHb

For years, Maine lobstermen have insisted there's no evidence their ropes were entangling critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. Today, NOAA released evidence linking their ropes to the death of a young female found recently off the Vineyard. shorturl.at/uxNOZ

UNEP-WCMC and Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) unveil the first global overview of migratory species at CMS #COP14 . The report exposes the critical status of many species and offers key recommendations: ➡️tinyurl.com/3uh32af9
Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) UNEP-WCMC

Like other #whales , beluga use chirps, clicks, whistles & squeals to talk to each other. #UnderwaterNoise is making it harder to communicate 🔊🐋

Learn more about the #Arctic whale nicknamed the canary of the sea – the beluga 👇
arcticwwf.org/wildlife/belug…
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It's #WomenInScience Day, so we're treating you to some fab films, articles and written by researchers at British Antarctic Survey.

Here's Dr Hannah Cubaynes (aka Hannah Cubaynes) who studies whales and walrus with satellites and citizen scientists 🐋 🛰️

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Threats from human activities such as ship strikes and pollution impact many marine species, including humpback and pygmy blue #whales in Australia. Satellite tracking shows 14% of the species’ distributions overlap with high-exposure areas.
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Amazing work by WWF-India, Suresh Babu SV and Gitanjali Kanwar working for many years to try and save the last #Indus River #dolphins in #India . Still the dolphins hang on in small numbers. Our new paper summarises the surveys & work up to now to protect them and their habitat.

A lovely article about the involvement of communities in monitoring the Indus River #dolphin . WWF-Pakistan WWF River Dolphins 💧🐬 Uzma Khan IUCN-CetaceanSG
npr.org/sections/goats…

A reminder that applications for our INSPIRE PhD 'Beyond species on the move' -- with Jen Freer, myself and Sophie Fielding -- close on 3 January 2024. British Antarctic Survey 🐧 OceanEarthUniSoton
Info at: findaphd.com/phds/project/b…
Apply at: inspire-dtp.ac.uk/how-apply

New research provides insight into how scientists could forecast #marinemammal entanglement risk location and severity utilizing what we know from ocean climate data, potentially up to 12 months ahead of time.
nature.com/articles/s4146…

The very best news after decades of hard work by the The Dominica Sperm Whale Project team, guided by the compassionate leadership of Shane Gero @[email protected]. It's a good day to be a Caribbean sperm whale!
theguardian.com/environment/20…

Thank you Natural Environment Research Council!

So pleased to see the work from the Wildlife from Space team at British Antarctic Survey 🐧 recognised. 🎉

Immensely grateful for the support from WWF UK and all the keen citizen scientists who helped find and count walruses from space!😊

Peter T Fretwell #citizenscience