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Western Gray Whale

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18 Sep 2024

New Content Available in the CSG Online Library

  In September 2004, IUCN convened an independent scientific review panel with a mandate to (i) assess potential threats to western gray whales from an offshore oil and gas development project called Sakhalin-II Phase 2 and (ii) evaluate and advise on mitigation measures proposed by the...

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...

16 Apr 2015

Young Gray Whale Sighted near Tokyo Islands

  In March 2015 a young gray whale visited waters near Kozushima and Niijima, part of Tokyo’s outlying Izu Islands group. The occasional appearance of gray whales, such as this one, in Japan, together with a stranding on the mainland China coast of Taiwan Strait in...

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...

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