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06 Apr 2023

Vaquitas get action from CITES as totoaba poaching resumes

By Barbara Taylor, Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho and Kristin Nowell   On 27 March 2023 the Secretariat of the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) notified signatory countries to stop all commercial trade in CITES-listed (in Appendix I or II) species from Mexico. This decision stems...

10 Mar 2021

Successful release of an entangled humpback whale in Duqm Port, Oman

Photo credit: Ada al Jabri, Oman Environment Authority   On the evening of January 18th, 2021, staff at the Environment Authority – Oman (EA) were notified that an Endangered Arabian Sea humpback whale was entangled in fishing gear inside the Port of Duqm. The whale apparently had...

27 Aug 2020

3 Updated Cetacean Red List Assessments Published in 2020 So Far

  Assessments or reassessments of 3 cetacean species, subspecies or populations were published on the IUCN Red List in early 2020. This is in addition to the 6 published in December 2019, 2 published in July 2019, 5 published in March 2019, 35 published in November...

04 Mar 2020

Cetacean conservation in the world’s rivers, lakes and oceans

  A new article regarding the work and challenges facing the Cetacean Specialist Group, written by Dr. Randall Reeves, the group's Chair, was recently published by IUCN. You can read it at the following link: https://www.iucncongress2020.org/newsroom/all-news/cetacean-conservation-worlds-rivers-lakes-and-oceans...

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...

06 Dec 2018

35 Updated Cetacean Red List Assessments published in Nov 2018

  Assessments or reassessments of 35 cetacean species, subspecies or populations were published on the IUCN Red List in November 2018. This is in addition to the 10 new assessments published in July 2018, and 19 published in November 2017. The updated assessments included a number of...

11 Sep 2018

Ten Updated Baleen Whale Red List Assessments Published in July 2018

  Assessments or reassessments of 10 cetacean species, subspecies or populations were published on the IUCN Red List in July 2018. This is in addition to the 19 new assessments that were published in November 2017. The updated assessments were all baleen whales, and included the...