Sentences with phrase «gray whale conservation»

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In the modern era, whaling has been the biggest threat to the gray whale survival, and in fact the species has rebounded to 22,000 individuals from a low of 1,000 in the past 75 years of conservation.

Dr. Jaime Jahncke, California Current Group Director for Point Blue Conservation Science, went on an eight - day research expedition along the California coast in May 2016 and observed about 30 to 80 whales every day — mostly humpbacks and a few gray whales.

The IWC Bowhead, Right and Gray Whale subcommittee in 2011 reiterated the conservation risk to western gray whales is large because of the small size of the population and the potential anthropogenic impacts.

In 2005, two conservation biologists proposed a plan to airlift 50 gray whales from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.

As of 2008, the IUCN regards the gray whale as being of «Least Concern» from a conservation perspective.

7 During the winter, the Marine Bio Conservation Society states that the gray whales inhabit shallow coastal waters of the eastern and western North Pacific often sighted along the North American Pacific Coast between the arctic and the equatorial lagoons of Baja California, Mexico.

On 30th May 2010, members of SUBMON, a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the conservation and assessment of marine habitats, sighted a gray whale in front of Barcelona's harbour.

Today, gray whales only inhabit the Pacific Ocean, so to find one in the North Atlantic, let alone the Mediterranean Sea, is bizarre in the extreme,» says Nicola Hodgins of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS), which has its headquarters in Wiltshire, UK.

Salt Point State Park, for instance, features a marine conservation area and over 30 kilometres of hiking trails along the rugged coastline, making it a prime spot to watch gray and blue whales.

Join the Laguna San Ignacio Conservation Alliance and be part of a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to save a global treasure and the gray whales that depend on it.»

Salt Point State Park, for instance, features a marine conservation area and 20 miles of hiking trails along the rugged coastline, making it a prime spot to watch gray and blue whales.

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«Unfortunately, the complete disappearance of the Atlantic gray whale is the only instance of a whale extinction from an ocean basin during the historical era,» said Dr. Howard Rosenbaum, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Ocean Giants Program and co-author of the study.

Meanwhile, populations of eastern gray whales were also in a tight spot, but conservation efforts have brought them back — today they are believed to have a population of some 18,000.