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14 Dec 2014

Potential new breeding area revealed for critically endangered Baltic Sea harbour porpoises

The critically endangered vaquita (see news item below) is not the only cetacean seriously threatened by gillnet entanglement. The small subpopulation of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the Baltic Sea has been drastically reduced, initially by large historical commercial catches in the Danish Straits and...

07 Dec 2014

New evidence that Mexican authorities are not adequately enforcing fishing regulations to protect vaquitas

Mexico’s endemic Gulf of California porpoise, the vaquita (Phocoena sinus), is the most endangered marine mammal species in the world. [caption id="attachment_1879" align="alignright" width="300"] A vaquita that died in a gillnet - note the markings left by the net on the animals face.[/caption] In that context, the...

03 Dec 2014

Bangladesh Declares a New Marine Protected Area For Dolphins, Whales, Sharks, and Sea Turtles

On 27 October, 2014, the Government of Bangladesh signed into law the country’s first Marine Protected Area, the ‘Swatch of No Ground’ (SoNG), designed to safeguard whales, dolphins, sea turtles, sharks, and other oceanic species. The SoNG MPA spans 1,738 km2 including waters at the...

02 Dec 2014

Satellite tagging southern right whales off Patagonia to help understand the reasons for recent die-offs

For the first time, scientists working in the waters of Patagonia are using satellite tags to track southern right whales from their breeding and calving grounds in the sheltered bays of Península Valdés, Argentina, to unknown feeding grounds in the western South Atlantic. It is...

01 Oct 2014

Cetaceans and western Indian Ocean tuna fisheries

Tropical tuna fisheries have expanded enormously in recent decades. Increased interactions with cetaceans are inevitable, and those in the western and central Indian Ocean are no exception. A new report from the region finds that there has been a widespread failure to monitor and manage...

12 Sep 2014

Irrawaddy dolphins (Pesut) in Indonesia’s Mahakam River

At the chairman’s request, CSG member Danielle Kreb provided the following summary. [caption id="attachment_1747" align="alignright" width="300"] A Critically Endangered pesut surfaces in the Mahakam River, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo Credit: Danielle Kreb[/caption] One of the three Critically Endangered freshwater populations of Irrawaddy dolphins, Orcaella brevirostris, inhabits the...

08 Aug 2014

Vaquita conservation update

As promised in the news item posted 2 August regarding availability of the vaquita recovery team’s (CIRVA) report, this is an update following the most recent (5th) meeting of the Advisory Commission to the Presidency of Mexico for Recovery of the Vaquita (‘presidential commission’) in...

02 Aug 2014

The Vaquita: New report from CIRVA released…

The recently completed report of the international vaquita recovery team (CIRVA) is now available here in English, and in Spanish. The Mexican presidential commission on vaquita conservation is meeting on 31 July and 1 August to consider CIRVA's findings, and an update news item will be...

27 Jul 2014

Amazon dolphins as fish bait: Brazil introduces a moratorium on piracatinga fishing

After a decade of battles and warnings, the Brazil government has finally recognized the dire threat to Amazon river dolphin (boto) Inia geoffrensis populations posed by the ongoing illegal hunt to obtain fish bait. Both botos and caimans are hunted for bait to catch catfish...

03 Jul 2014

Enforcement paying off for the Atlantic humpback dolphin of Western Africa

Like many threatened species, the Vulnerable Atlantic humpback dolphin (Sousa teuszii) is under pressure from anthropogenic activities. Industrial and commercial scale fishing forces locally-based artisanal fishers to within 200 metres of the beach – using their nets in critical habitat for this poorly understood marine...

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Potential new breeding area revealed for critically endangered Baltic Sea harbour porpoises

New evidence that Mexican authorities are not adequately enforcing fishing regulations to protect vaquitas

Bangladesh Declares a New Marine Protected Area For Dolphins, Whales, Sharks, and Sea Turtles

Satellite tagging southern right whales off Patagonia to help understand the reasons for recent die-offs

Cetaceans and western Indian Ocean tuna fisheries

Irrawaddy dolphins (Pesut) in Indonesia’s Mahakam River

Vaquita conservation update

The Vaquita: New report from CIRVA released…

Amazon dolphins as fish bait: Brazil introduces a moratorium on piracatinga fishing

Enforcement paying off for the Atlantic humpback dolphin of Western Africa

Red List Status and Extinction Risk of the World’s Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises – New Infographic

Vaquitas continue to surprise the world with their tenacity

Vaquitas get action from CITES as totoaba poaching resumes

Good News from the Zero Tolerance Area in late 2022: Less illegal gillnetting and more evidence of vaquita survival

Yet Another Threat to Taiwanese White Dolphins Is Imminent

Update on Cetacean Red List Assessments Published in 2022

Vaquita Update II: Illegal fishing continues with impunity in the area where the last vaquitas survive

Vaquita Update I: A New Totoaba Season Begins with no Assurance that Mexico Will Enforce the Gillnet Fishing Ban to Protect the Vaquita

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