Sentences with phrase «beluga whale populations»

Donna Hauser, Kristin Laidre, Harry Stern and colleagues examined changes in autumn migration timing of Beluga whale populations since the 1990s.

Our work doesn't just end with helping one geographic population — we're marine mammal advocates; our continued work ensures the protection of beluga whale populations around the world.

Not exact matches

The calf belongs to a critically endangered population of beluga whales.

Laidre's team looked at what is known about marine mammal populations that play a key role in Arctic ecosystems and human communities, focusing on polar bears, beluga whales, narwhals, bowhead whales, walrus, and six different seal species.

The paper reviews population sizes and trends over time, if known, for each group, ranging from millions of ringed seals to fewer than a hundred beluga whales in Northern Canada's Ungava Bay.

Only four of the 29 beluga populations worldwide are considered stable by the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission.

Their analysis indicated that «any removal of belugas from that population is not sustainable,» Payne says, because it adds yet another threat to the many that the whales already face.

Among the many other marine animals dwelling in American coasts whose populations have fallen and struggling to recover or persist are orca, beluga whales, manatees, otters, seals, and sea lions.

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POPULATION COUNT It is estimated that there are about 40,000 to 80,000 beluga whales world wide.

Beluga whales are a mysterious, little studied species that lives surprisingly close to Alaska's few major centers of human population.

Tagged Barber and Iacozza, bearded seal, beluga whales, Gulf of Boothia, local Inuit knowledge, M'Clintock Channel, multiyear ice, narwhal, polar bear population density, ringed seal, sea ice habitat, Thiemann

The stronger presence of this species, bound to become a new apex predator of arctic seas, will likely affect populations of endemic arctic marine mammals such as the narwhal, bowhead, and beluga whales.