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States-parties to the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (in blue) [1] The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is an international environmental agreement aimed at the "proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry". [2]
Member states of the International Whaling Commission (in blue) [8] The IWC was created by voluntary agreement among the member states to function as the sole governing body with authority to act under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling which is an international environmental agreement signed in 1946 in order to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and ...
Whale conservation refers to the critical global effort aimed at protecting and preserving whale populations that have been historically threatened by human activities, particularly whaling. The ongoing conservation efforts involve complex debates surrounding whale protection, including discussions about scientific research, cultural practices ...
"Alfaguara" was the name given to blue whales by Chilean whalers. The focus of the project is on preservation of these endangered animals, the largest in the world. [ 1 ] The project is operated by the Centro de Conservacion Cetacea (CCC), established in 2001. [ 2 ]
The sanctuary encompasses 1,400 square miles (3,600 km 2) in the islands' waters.It was designated by United States Congress on November 4, 1992, as a National Marine Sanctuary to protect the endangered North Pacific humpback whale and its habitat [2] The sanctuary promotes management, research, education and long-term monitoring.
Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus) Delphinidae. Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Risso's Dolphin (Grampus griseus) Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) Pygmy Killer Whale (Feresa attenuata) Long-Finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala melas)
The research and conservation project Hoyt co-founded and has co-led since 1999, the Far East Russia Orca Project, has pioneered visual and acoustic monitoring, training of Russian students, and whale conservation in the remote, inhospitable Kamchatka seas, and has produced a number of papers on the communication and behavioural ecology of ...
The blue whale was abundant in nearly all the Earth's oceans until the end of the 19th century. It was hunted almost to the point of extinction by whalers until the International Whaling Commission banned all blue whale hunting in 1966. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has listed blue whales as Endangered as of 2018.