Wild Cetacean News

Navy Dolphins are involved in seeking the Vaquita Porpoise, apparently their natural sonar is better than current methods of seeking them:

Navy Dolphins' Mission Help Locate Rare Vaquita Porpoises | Military.com

 

I heard about this. I wonder if it will work? I don't know much about military dolphins so I can't really make a guess.

 

World's first underwater footage of the True's beaked whale has been taken:Caught on film for the first time: One of the world’s rarest whales

 

Massive number of Humpback whale gatherings:Never-before-seen gatherings of hundreds of humpback whales

 

That's so crazy!

 

20 captive dolphins rescued and released from the illigal trade on the Solomon Islands :

Twenty dolphins saved in Solomon Islands

 

Highest count of Irrawaddy river dolphins in Cambodia in the last 20 years :

Cambodia's endangered river dolphins at highest population in 20 years

 

Another 11 Beluga's from Srednyaya Bay released in the Khabarovsk region. Another 26 had already been released there and in the Srednyaya Bay another 50 are waiting to be released :

11 more beluga whales from Srednyaya Bay released in Khabarovsk Region

 

I really hope they do okay, I know a lot of captured cetaceans tend to be pretty young. I wonder how they're being monitored.

 

Last 50 also released :

Fight for freedom: Last batch of belugas on a doorstep of ‘whale prison’ ready to go to the wild (VIDEO)

 

13 Irrawaddy dolphins born in Cambodia sofar this year :

Cambodia welcomes 13 newborn Irrawaddy dolphins this year

 

Report about marine mammal strandings in the Philippines 2017 - 2018 :

Aragones & Laggui 2019 Marine mammal strandings in the Philippines from 2017 to 2018; initial biennial analysis.pdf

 

Good news for the Blue whale, number are rising again :

The Guardian view on the blue whale’s comeback: an ocean’s glory restored | Editorial

 

Future of the Chinese white dolphin looking bleak in Hong Kong :

If nothing done, extinction ‘most likely outcome’ for white dolphins

 

Consern about the released Belugas :

Concern for released Russian beluga whales | Marine Connection

 

Update about released Beluga's :

Merlin Entertainments | Little White and Little Grey are in the Bay

 

This is unrelated to the recently released Russian belugas. Little White and Little Grey are whales that have been in captivity for about a decade and there aren't any plans to release them into the wild.

 

Technically this is from July, but I thought it was interesting and relevant enough to post in this thread. I have a friend who is a PhD student at the University of Arizona and his speciality is Ganges river dolphins in Nepal. I actually edited the english for a paper he wrote.

Freshwater dolphins make comeback in Nepal

The blind aquatic mammals swim upstream to breed during the monsoon

It is the annual monsoon season, and despite the rains this would be the time of year when tourists flocked to the tributaries of the Karnali River in Nepal for dolphin watching.

When the rivers are in spate is when the endangered Gangetic Freshwater Dolphin swim upstream from India to the mighty Karnali, Nepal’s longest river, to find mates on the still backwaters of the oxbow lakes.

Freshwater dolphins make comeback in Nepal

 

I hope I am not in violation of forum rules by sharing this petition, but I felt that it was relevant to the topic of this thread and awareness for this matter needed to get out into the open.

"Shut down oil leasing in beluga and sea otter habitat

Belugas and northern sea otters both count on critical habitat in Alaska’s Cook Inlet for survival – and both species are in decline.

That’s why a proposal to bring more oil and gas drilling to new areas in Cook Inlet is such a dire threat. Oil spills, toxic pollution, noise and other dangers threaten to harm and even kill these animals – and the very survival of these populations is in jeopardy.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is taking your comments now. Tell them to shut down more oil and gas development in this sensitive and critical habitat! We can’t let these marine species disappear for the sake of more oil profits – raise your voice now to protect belugas, sea otters and more!"

Shut down oil leasing in beluga and sea otter habitat

 

Seismic Blasting Ocean for Oil, Which Could Have Wiped Out Endangered Whale, Halted in Atlantic

No more seismic blasting will be carried out in the Atlantic Ocean this year, in a move that has been wholeheartedly welcomed by environmental campaigners due to the harm the offshore oil searching practice is know to inflict on marine animals near and far, amongst them the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.

Seismic blasting ocean for oil, which could have wiped out endangered whale, halted in Atlantic