IUCN – SSC Cetacean Specialist Group

Meetings

17 Jun 2026

5th Asian Marine Mammal Stranding Network Symposium in Singapore

14th June 2026 By Grant Abel and Lindsay Porter, and other members of the AMMSN Steering committee: Lem Aragones, Carlos Camarena, Nantarika Chansue, Thanida Haetrakul, Alfonso Lopez, Chris Torno, Wong Yee Man (Cynthia) and Wei-Cheng Yang (Jack) 5th Asian Marine Mammal Stranding Network Symposium in Singapore The 5th...

07 Oct 2020

Nuremberg Workshop on Ex-situ Options for Cetacean Conservation and the Launch of ICPC

Nuremberg ESOCC Workshop The extinction of the Yangtze River dolphin, or baiji, in China in 2006, and the recent precipitous decline of the vaquita in Mexico, have highlighted the urgency of gaining information and taking action to anticipate and prevent such rapid declines in other threatened...

18 Nov 2019

Critically Endangered Taiwanese white dolphin: International Collaboration for Recovery Plan

In August of 2019, Wild at Heart Legal Defense Association (Wild at Heart) and Matsu Fish Conservation Union (MCFU), both based in Taiwan, organized and sponsored an international workshop for the purpose of producing a recovery plan to identify actions needed to stop the decline...

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...

14 Mar 2019

11th meeting of the Vaquita Recovery Team

The report of the 11th meeting of the international vaquita recovery team (CIRVA), held in La Jolla, California on 19-21 February 2019, is now available. The report recommends a series of immediate, near-term, medium-term, and long-term actions to prevent extinction of the vaquita. It calls...

03 Feb 2018

Arabian Sea humpback whale tagged off the coast of Oman crosses to India!

In November 2017, a research team led by the Environment Society of Oman (ESO) and Five Oceans Environmental Services placed a satellite tag on a humpback whale in the Gulf of Masirah, Oman. First observed, photographed, and biopsied close to the same site in October...

19 Apr 2017

Workshop on Important Marine Mammal Areas in the South Pacific

The IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force invited 23 marine mammal researchers and other experts from 14 Pacific countries to Apia, Samoa, for the second in a series of regional Important Marine Mammal Area (IMMA) workshops, 27-31 March 2017. This followed the first IMMA...

10 Apr 2017

Announcement of the Second Indian Ocean Cetacean Symposium

The Second Indian Ocean Cetacean Symposium will be held by the Marine Research Centre (www.mrc.gov.mv) in the Maldives in 2019. This is to follow on from the first Indian Ocean Cetacean Symposium that was held almost a decade ago, in July 2009, (see report here),...

31 Jan 2013

Southeast Asian Marine Mammal Symposium (SEAMAM III)

The Third Southeast Asian Marine Mammal Symposium (SEAMAM III) will be taking place in Langkawi Island, Malaysia, from 4 - 10 March 2013. The event will be co-hosted by the MareCet Research Organization along with the Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University Malaya. SEAMAM...

03 Nov 2012

Conservation of cetaceans and manatees in Western Africa

A new publication on cetaceans and manatees in the Western African region has just been published by CMS. The publication is a compilation of articles presented at the scientific symposium ‘Western African Talks on Cetaceans and their Habitats (WATCH)’ held in Adeje, Tenerife in 2007....

Meetings

5th Asian Marine Mammal Stranding Network Symposium in Singapore

Nuremberg Workshop on Ex-situ Options for Cetacean Conservation and the Launch of ICPC

Critically Endangered Taiwanese white dolphin: International Collaboration for Recovery Plan

Cetaceans in the Western Indian Ocean

11th meeting of the Vaquita Recovery Team

Arabian Sea humpback whale tagged off the coast of Oman crosses to India!

Workshop on Important Marine Mammal Areas in the South Pacific

Announcement of the Second Indian Ocean Cetacean Symposium

Southeast Asian Marine Mammal Symposium (SEAMAM III)

Conservation of cetaceans and manatees in Western Africa

5th Asian Marine Mammal Stranding Network Symposium in Singapore

A global strategy to combat cetacean and other marine megafauna bycatch in the growing trade for fish maw (swim bladders)

The National Park and the Environmental Protection Area of Albardão: A New Outlook for the Franciscana and other Threatened Species in Brazil

Vaquita in the spotlight

🚨The Indianapolis Zoo Uproar Conservation Challenge presented by T-Fiber is here! 🚨

Gephyreus Project NewsLetter

HuDoNet releases Network Action Plan for the Indian Ocean humpback dolphin

Joint visual and acoustic survey finds vaquitas surviving and reproducing, mostly in and near the sanctuary

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