Red List Status & Extinction Risk of the World’s Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises published in Conservation Biology showed that 1 in 4 cetacean species (26% of 92) were assessed as threatened (Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable)
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The IUCN published Red List update 2025-2 on October 10th, coinciding with the 2025 World Conservation Congress. Sperm Whales remain Vulnerable and Lahille’s Bottlenose Dolphins were assessed as ‘Endangered. Check out our news item for more: tinyurl.com/45yn4rvk
#IUCN #RedList #Conservation
Wishing you a joyful start to the new year!
In this time of new beginnings, we invite you to shake up your world view by shifting focus to the ocean. Check out why It's an Ocean World: go.whoi.edu/ocean-world
Well done Leena 🤓👏⭐️
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🌍🦋 Across 6 continents, 21 sites & 15,000 paper moths, we joined a worldwide experiment led by @wlallen.bsky.social & Iliana Medina, showing how ecological context shapes the evolution of animal colouration.
Proud to be part of this global team effort: doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Frontiers | A global review of operational fishery interactions with killer whales (Orcinus orca): dynamics, impacts, and management strategies
26.09.2025 16:57 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Wild map: all the places in the world where killer whales take fish from fishing activities, often right off hooks on lines
By @emmaluck22.bsky.social et al.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
🎉BREAKING: The High Seas Treaty has reached 60 ratifications — enough to enter into force!
This landmark agreement creates a pathway to help protect the high seas — waters beyond any one country’s authority that cover nearly half our planet. https://oceana.ly/3VqpI2Y
🐬 Dolphins & whales depend on sound to survive, but industrial noise is drowning them out 🔊
🐋 @whalesorg.bsky.social's new report 'Towards Quieter Seas' shows how noise pollution from industries like oil & gas disrupt vital behaviours
#EndOffshoreDrilling
👉 https://bit.ly/4nlxlUo
There is increasing interest in using AI tools not only to listen in on animal speech, but also to potentially talk back
go.nature.com/4mtVo2u
A portrait of a southern hairy-nosed wombat, with nose and many long whiskers prominently visible. The photo is credited as being by David Clode, Unsplash.
New research in #AusMammalogy compared the whiskers of wombats, finding that southern hairy-nosed wombats have longer, thicker whiskers.
Without a rhinarium, the study's authors suggest they may depend more on whiskers to navigate & interact.
www.publish.csiro.au/AM/AM25025
@womsat.bsky.social
North Atlantic right whales “Arpeggio” (Catalog #2753) and Catalog #4617 pass by each other while skim feeding in the Great South Channel in February 2024
🌐🧪🦤 Considering prey availability has the exciting potential to improve marine conservation efforts, as evidenced in this case study modeling the habitat of critically endangered North Atlantic #RightWhales. #OceanScience #Maine #ProtectOurOceans #BluePlanet. bit.ly/esr_58_67
12.09.2025 05:56 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
NEW RESEARCH
Application of spatially robust stereo-BRUV sampling for quantifying fish assemblages in UK marine protected areas
Watch the video to learn more, and find the paper here - esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@owenexeter.bsky.social @kristianmetcalfe.bsky.social
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New study by @exetermarine.bsky.social
@heriotwattuni.bsky.social
@zslofficial.bsky.social underscores the critical importance of Very Large Marine Protected Areas for safeguarding wide-ranging marine species. #MPAs
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
B.C. researchers can now determine a #whale’s sex from its wake vancouversun.com/news/how-bc-... via @vancouversun.bsky.social
12.09.2025 16:47 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 4
Rising Heat, Rising Risks: Understanding the Nexus of Marine Heatwaves, Fishing Dependence, and Vulnerability to Coastal Communities
🔗 buff.ly/wrmWoS0
The number of terrestrial vertebrate species highly thermally exposed (>25% range) over time versus the mean global terrestrial temperature anomaly (denoted by color scale of points).
One in six species on Earth experienced extraordinarily high temperatures across more than 25% of their range in 2024--the hottest year on record. For most, this was the second year of extreme heat, likely compounding risks. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Kate Sprogis, Emma Carroll and Rob Harcourt presenting at UWA Albany campus
Southern right whale off Western Australia
🐳 Collecting small skin samples from southern right whales to examine questions on genetics, diet, sex and age. With @robharcourt.bsky.social and @emma-carroll.bsky.social. 🔗 tohoravoyages.ac.nz/welcome-to-m... 🇦🇺 #southernrightwhale
11.09.2025 12:16 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"Bottom trawling is one of the most widely used, & most destructive, fishing practices in the world" 🎣
Yet it's allowed in most of our marine protected areas.
Check out this new BBC podcast for more info 🌊👇
www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
Then TAKE ACTION 🪸🔽
only.one/act/uk-mpa-c...
By being large and fat, baleen whales can endure long periods with little or no prey 🌐🌏🧪🌱
We found that:
🐋 A southern right whale in average condition could survive up to 17 months without feeding.
🐋 But a severely entangled North Atlantic right whale may only last about 50 days.
🔗 to paper:
📸 Southern right whale: Fredrik Christiansen, Aarhus University 📸 North Atlantic right whale: Center for Coastal Studies, taken under NOAA permit #24359 👉 Link to paper: https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v768/meps14914
Our recent study in the #MarineEcologyProgressSeries
highlights how body size, condition, and human impacts shape the survival of right whales & why they are so vulnerable to prey limitation and disturbance 🐋
🔗 in thread
#Conservation #WhaleResearch #RightWhales #OceanHealth #MarineScience 🌐🌏🧪🌱
🔊 Paper alert! 🐬🎧
Noise of high-speed vessels 🚤 impairs the #biosonar ability of #harbourporpoises 🐬 - making it more difficult for them to
🤯 sense surroundings,
🧭 navigate and
🐟 hunt prey
within several hundred meters.
🥳Huge contribution to understanding masking effects!
🌐 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Check out this huge international initiative to enhance whale conservation: bluecorridors.org. 🐋 Such a great example of global collaboration towards an important goal. So excited to get to be part of this cool group of people! 🤗
x.com/WWF/status/1...
New paper alert!🚨Satellite tracking reveals southern right whales🐋feed in key high seas area, outside of existing protections. shorturl.at/2Vgst
Funders: @aucklanduni.bsky.social @royalsocietynz.bsky.social LiveOcean @docgovtnz.bsky.social IWC-SORP ASOC @Macquarie_Uni RaeFamilyFoundation
Giving a talk on Mirnong Southern Right #Whales @UWA Albany with @robharcourt.bsky.social and Kate Sprogis
www.tohoravoyages.ac.nz
