Azores Whale Lab - Cetacean Ecology Group

Starting a new year in great with a new project. Make sure to follow @detekt.bsky.social to keep updated with the scientific developments and amazing images and sound. A project led by @azwhlab.bsky.social of @okeanos-uac.bsky.social

Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of thre...

Protecting 30% of the oceans is an ambitious Global Biodiversity Framework goal, but insufficient to encompass all areas important to marine megafauna; a major conclusion of a study published today in Science by the megamove consortium, with our contribution. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Protecting Blue Corridors — Home Protecting Blue Corridors combines 30 years of satellite tracking data to identify critical whale habitats and migratory routes in an effort to aid global and regional conservation plans, mitigate thr...

We are excited to participate in the Blue Corridors Initiative, a
dynamic new platform that brings together three decades of whale tracking data with information on overlapping marine threats and conservation solutions: BlueCorridors.org

Let's kick start with some sperm #whales just dozing off, somewhere around the #Azores islands after what must have been an exhausting day searching for squid. Enjoy.