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19 Dec 2019

6 Updated Cetacean Red List Assessments Published in December 2019

Assessments or reassessments of 6 cetacean species, subspecies or populations were published on the IUCN Red List in December 2019. This is in addition to the 2 published in July 2019, 5 published in March 2019, 35 published in November 2018, 10 in July 2018,...

02 Dec 2019

IUCN World Conservation Congress motions relevant to cetacean conservation

The IUCN World Conservation Congress will be held in Marseille in June 2020. Motions to be tabled at the congress will be available for online consultation by IUCN members (for what this means, see https://www.iucn.org/about/union/members) from December 11th 2019 and March 11th 2020.  After that, they...

29 Nov 2019

CMS Scientific Council Meeting and Outcomes Relevant to Cetacean Conservation

By Gianna Minton (24 Nov 2019)   Background and summary   The Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) Scientific Council met from 12-14 November 2019 in Bonn, Germany. Its task was to evaluate ongoing activities and draft resolutions, decisions and proposals and make recommendations to member governments that will meet...

21 Nov 2019

New Cetacean Specialist Group Logo

We decided that it was time for an upgrade of the Cetacean Specialist Group Logo. The importance of a professional and attractive logo has increased in recent years; a strong logo has the ability to convey to the world what the Cetacean Specialist Group is,...

27 Sep 2019

2 Updated Cetacean Red List Assessments Published in July 2019

Assessments or reassessments of 2 cetacean species, subspecies or populations were published on the IUCN Red List in July 2019. This is in addition to the 5 published in March 2019, 35 published in November 2018, 10 in July 2018, and 19  in November 2017....

22 Aug 2019

Cetaceans in the Western Indian Ocean

  In early 2019 cetaceans in the Western Indian Ocean and Arabian Seas were the focus of two important scientific meetings. The first was to identify Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) within the region, and the second, conducted under the auspices of the International Whaling Commission...

10 Aug 2019

Alert on the Mediterranean sperm whale subpopulation

Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara has attracted our attention to recent events concerning the Mediterranean subpopulation of sperm whales, which has been red-listed as Endangered since 2006 based on an inferred continuing decline of an already reduced population (assumed to be in the low to mid...