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22 Apr 2011

Workshop Report Released: Determining and quantifying threats to coastal cetaceans

  Determining and quantifying threats to coastal cetaceans: A regional collaborative workshop: 21-24 February 2011, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, Edited by G. Minton and B.D. Smith. In February 2011, 27 cetacean researchers from the South Asian region came together at the Permai Rainforest Resort in Kuching, Sarawak to discuss...

23 Feb 2011

Vaquita in decline

  No species, except perhaps the baiji, has been of greater concern to the CSG over the last several decades than Mexico’s endemic Gulf of California porpoise, the vaquita (Phocoena sinus). Already by the time of its scientific discovery and formal description in 1958, the vaquita...

19 Feb 2011

Western gray whale makes unexpected journey

  In October 2010, a team of scientists from Russia and the United States satellite tagged a western gray whale off Sakhalin Island, Russia. This is the first individual from the critically endangered western gray whale population to be tagged and tracked using telemetry. This whale,...

03 Feb 2011

New oil platform off Sakhalin – whale scientists will have a say

  The oil and gas company Sakhalin Energy Investment Company (Sakhalin Energy) announced on December 4th its intention to begin planning for construction of a third offshore oil and gas platform in the Piltun-Astokh field along the coast of Sakhalin Island, eastern Russia. As this platform...

14 Dec 2010

New book on cetacean conservation in the Mediterranean and Black Seas

  A new book on the conservation of cetaceans in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, authored by Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara and Alexei Birkun and with a foreword by H.S.H. Albert II, Prince of Monaco, has been recently published by ACCOBAMS on the occasion of the...

10 Nov 2010

Release of Gangetic Dolphin Conservation Action Plan, India

  The Prime Minister of India declared the Gangetic Dolphin as the National Aquatic Animal of India on the 5th October, 2009 and it was formally notified on 10th May, 2010. A Conservation Action Plan for the Gangetic Dolphin was then prepared by a Working Group...

25 Oct 2010

Dams and River dolphins in the Brahmaputra River

  A Letter of Concern was sent from the Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission to the Minister of Environment and Forests in India regarding the potential impacts of five large dams on the Endangered Gangetic dolphins in the Brahmaputra River Basin, India   The Gangetic...