SHOCKING: Over 60,000 African penguins have STARVED to death because of disappearing sardines. How much longer will destructive fishing be allowed to empty our seas of fish that ENTIRE ecosystems depend on? Add your voice - act.gp/4iXiM8n #ProtectTheOcean #Penguins

Welcome K47! The Center for Whale Research announced the official designation for the new K-Pod calf today. Here’s a short video clip of Ks exiting Puget Sound yesterday, filmed by Jason Shields. Can you spot the tiny dorsal fin of the calf? 😍 It surfaces three times in this clip! #whalesky #srkw

IMO this did not get enough attention this year #climate awareness project that integrated #science #art #engineering #travel youtu.be/y_Vqcbv_W9M?...

🦑 #Dolphins help #orca hunt #salmon, eat scraps “They were sort of spread out and pinging through the water in a much broader area than what the whales can search — and the whale was listening.” Orcas and dolphins caught on video collaborating to hunt salmon | CBC News share.google/84AUFF2PoWrS...

Here’s the link to our Patreon channel: www.patreon.com/orcabehavior

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www.theguardian.com/environment/... extinction chronicles

Welcome to Boston, buddy! ☘️ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/03/m...

"Belize is on track to protect 30% of its marine environment by 2026. What does that mean for those doing the protection?" Uprooter @andrehabet.bsky.social for @climatespotlight.bsky.social climatespotlight.com/marine-prote...

We are getting closer to our #GivingTuesday goal! 🎉 We have raised enough to pass another milestone and open our second surprise! Open your gift here: globalelephants.org/2025-gt-lock... We have raised $126,718 of our total GivingTuesday goal of $150,000!

Research shows underwater noise from vessels drowns out clicks & whistles narwhals rely on to navigate, feed & communicate. Slower speeds, rerouting around sensitive areas and quieter propellers, hulls & engines can all help quiet the ocean for migratory species: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"To turn recognition of the human right to a healthy ocean into real-world protections, governments must lead the way. That means enshrining the right to a healthy ocean in law — and making it operational through policy." news.mongabay.com/2025/12/heal...

Coming back from vacation to some good news! The first baby whale of the 2025-2026 North American right whale calving season was spotted Nov 28 near South Carolina. Mom is Champagne (ID #3904) and its her 2nd documented calf. What joyful news for a species with 384 whales remaining.

The Salmon That Surprised Everyone www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/o... - great Emma Marris commentary on nature’s resilience when humans get out of the way

🫧🐋🫧Sat, Nov 29 Today: reports of orcas by Whidbey & a humpback off Edmonds. Hope you have a chance to see these lovely beings, would love to hear if you do. 📸 A humpback, seen here breaching backdropped by Golden Gardens, has been keeping a presence this week. Photo by Hongming Zheng. #psws

More Salish Sea cephlapods - The brave Rubies are out and about in Cove 3 right now! This is rhe same individual showing off its colors for the camera. #octopus🐙 #pnwdiving #underwaterphotography #coldwaterdiving #marinelife #macrophotography #macro

“For global warming, organisms can migrate towards the poles if they’re really lucky, but ocean acidification is everywhere. It’s absolutely pervasive and totally underreported. The sea is already 30 per cent more acidic than it was in pre-industrial times.” www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Each year bottom trawlers disturbs about 4.9 million km² of seabed, roughly 1.3% of the ocean.👺 That’s about 1.5× the area of India (or ~two-thirds of Australia) being ‘harvested’ from the bottom every year. #BanBottomTrawling #StopEatingFish #LiveVegan ✌️

Mexico brought #vaquita porpoise figurines made from recovered & recycled fishing nets in San Felipe by local community group to #CITESCOP20 🐬

Incroyable !!! 😱 👺Unbelievable that this is still happening. Bottom trawling destroys sea life the sea bed and is releases as much CO2 as air travel does. #Fishing = #Ecocide => #MassExtinction Don’t be part of the planetary destruction of life. #LiveVegan 🙏

1/3 Highlights of statements by Switzerland & UK @CITES #CITESCOP20 during the discussion in Samarkand today which agreed by consensus in Committee II the amended Decisions jointly proposed by the Mexico & the US on #vaquita #totoaba x.com/ernesto_men...

🎄 We just have to find MELIA a forever home by Christmas 🎄 Heres her bio. Shelter contact information is there. Please read it, maybe you're the one for her. If not repost. Her human is out there. We have to find them. 🤞 ⬇️ 24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... “They eat different things, hunt in different areas and very rarely spend time with each other."

Without whale pee, the world’s oceans would probably fall apart. Here’s why https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/ocean-whale-pee 🐋 #cetaceans #marinemammals #marinelife #marinebiology #whales #Science

It's really hard to overstate the conservation significance of this, and what doors it unlocks for future conservation. Mood among my global endangered species conservation colleagues is off-the-charts happy today.

phys.org/news/2025-11... sure, we’ve poisoned the cetaceans, but we got all this nonstick cookware, water-resistant fabrics, food packaging, firefighting foam…

If a politician: -Has never cared at all about whales before; -Is in the pocket of big oil, an industry which has a financial incentive to oppose alternative energy; and -is a well-documented liar, You don't have to take their "we have to stop offshore wind to save whales" claims seriously.

Bowhead whales live twice as long as humans, and have a unique DNA repair mechanism to avoid cancer. Novel research w U Rochester in collaboration with the Inuit in Alaska. 🧪#cancer apple.news/Ag-kaIoQ2QSG...

Strengthening #Vaquita community monitoring program a focus of 2025 survey "Continued investment & more training can go far in creating a dedicated team to continue vaquita observations & build community knowledge & enthusiasm for saving the vaquita & preserving marine ecosystem"

💔Blue whales are going eerily silent Blue whale vocalizations dropped nearly 40% alongside a collapse in krill and anchovy populations "it’s like trying to sing while you're starving,” Ryan adds “They were spending all their time just trying to find food" www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

#Vaquita porpoise 🐬 in the high level dialogue opening #CITESCOP20 - Among the group of ministers invited to share their experiences with CITES implementation was Mexico's Marina Robles García, Vice Minister of Biodiversity & Environmental Restoration Earth Negotiations Bulletin @enb.iisd.org

"Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years."--David Gruber of Project CETI

I take on average 10,000 stills and a half hour of video every week. Most I'll never think about again. This I'll hold onto until I grow old. 4 hours ago. Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑

BBC News - Cornwall's coast becomes a whale-watching hotspot www.bbc.com/news/article...

Another entangled whale has been saved thanks to local experts. BCX1493 "Eugenia" was first reported as entangled near Nanaimo, BC last weekend. After intervention in Washington, we now believe she is swimming free. 🐋 cascadiaresearch.org/20251117mn_e...

For migratory wildlife, rising heat, extreme weather and disrupted waters are shrinking habitats, cutting food and undermining ecosystem services. As #ClimateChange #COP30 ends, we must put migratory species at the heart of climate action. 🌍🐋 More on these impacts: www.cms.int/news/global-...

1/2 Nifty tech: #vaquita survey lead drone pilot @FabianRguez94 flew with adapted LIDAR altimeter at precisely vertical position above the #vaquitas they spotted; calibrated equation converts pixel length into real distance; length & girth estimated for assessing age & condition.

Thanks to our citizen donors who helped us support #vaquita acoustic science 🤝 in the September survey

www.theguardian.com/environment/... We're headed for net zero coral. #Environment

From Lori Marino, founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project; also of @safinacenter.bsky.social (gift link). www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760cd5...

"On the morning of Nov. 10, researchers say they could hear the gathered excitement of the orcas on a hydrophone in Sunset Bay, Wash." love that the whales had a family vacation

3/3 Still most of #Vaquita Refuge unmonitored, too many gillnetters in parts that are, & too many days of skiffs where vaquita porpoises were recently detected outside ZTA area. It's urgent to eliminate gillnetting to prevent extinction & enable recovery. tinyurl.com/VSC79

2/3 Two different consecutive fishing seasons were compared & overall fishing activity declined annually in both seasons (-37% in shrimp & -19% in finfish). Also, for the first time found annual declines (-23 & -27%) rather than increases in gillnetting in the VRA #Vaquita Refuge

1/3 Before @CITES #SC79, new CAT report analyzing @SeaShepherdSSCS counts of fishing skiffs on its ship radar in 4 parts of #Vaquita Refuge - ZTA Zero Tolerance Area, its EXTension (both with anti-gillnet devices), its Buffer Zone & nearby VRA area visible on 8 naut mile range

Edge of Extinction: The Last #Vaquita -- An ABC 10News Special Aired November 14. #cetacean #whale #endangeredspecies #conservation #seashephard #vaquitaporpoise #mexico #seaofcortez 10news.com/news/local-news/edge-of-extinction-the-last-vaquita-an-abc-10news-special

We would love, love, LOVE to see a basking shark! 🦈 salish-current.org/2025/11/17/b...

Since 2020, Henderson and her colleagues from Mexico and the US had been tracking a group of whales producing a distinctive call, tagged as BW43, which they initially thought was Perrin’s beaked #whale, another species that had never been seen in the wild. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A clip of the active orcas we saw off Bainbridge Island while out with the @whaleresearch.bsky.social yesterday 🤩 In addition to being very surface active, they were also vocalizing, allowing us to get our first-ever Bigg's killer whale calls paired with drone video. #whalesky #salishsea