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A Dominican presidential decree on July 5, 1996, included the area in the Sanctuary for the Marine Mammals of the Dominican Republic. [2] Navidad Bank has a wealth of corals and is a safe haven for marine mammals, including the humpback whale. The humpback whales have long used the bank as a breeding and calving ground. As such, tourism focuses ...
On Oct. 14, 1986, the Dominican Republic established the Silver and Navidad Bank Sanctuary (Santuario de los Bancos de la Plata y de la Navidad) to protect the area as a safe haven for sea mammals. On July 5, 1996, a Dominican presidential decree enlarged the area, declaring it the 'Sanctuary for Marine Mammals' (Santuario de Mamíferos Marinos) .
In 1986, she was instrumental in the creation of the first protected area for the humpback whale, originally called the Humpback Whale Sanctuary on the Silver Bank (Spanish: Santuario de Ballenas Jorobadas del Banco de la Plata) but today known as Santuario de los Bancos de la Plata y la Navidad . [3]
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.
Two humpback whales swam to freedom after local responders helped the animals escape life-threatening entanglements. In separate incidents on Jan. 8 and 9, both off the coast of Maui, Hawaii ...
Salt Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands is in the middle of the humpback whales' annual migratory route to the Silver Banks, a humpback mating and nursery area, north of the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean Sea. It is a 75-square-mile (190 km 2) shallow coral reef area, an underwater plateau of limestone. It is believed that the whales choose ...
A surge in humpback whale sightings reported across the English Channel over the last month has whale watchers puzzled.. The Sussex Dolphin Project said the 30-tonne mammals have been spotted from ...
The Banco de la Plata y la Navidad is a marine protected area established in the Dominican Republic by decree no. 319 of 14 October 1986 and amended by Act no. 202 on protected areas, increasing the area to 32,879.8 km 2 (12,695.0 sq mi). [171] [172] The area is known to be a major breeding site in the Caribbean for humpback whales. An ...