Just in time for World Oceans Day, the new map displays a stunning diversity of marine life, including one of
the most endangered whales on the planet.
Not exact matches
The
most worrying, toxoplasmosis, has caused declines in sea otters, beluga
whales and the critically
endangered Hawaiian monk seal, among others.
A member of the baleen family of
whales, the
endangered North Atlantic right
whales spend
most of their time along the eastern coast of North America from Canada's Bay of Fundy south to Florida.
Japan has long maintained that
most whale species are not
endangered and began what it called scientific
whaling in 1987, a year after an international moratorium came into effect, despite growing global outrage, including from key allies such as the United States.
In one year, a Soviet expedition took 1200 right
whales, the
most endangered of large
whales, from a world population estimated at only 2500 animals.
North Atlantic right
whales (Eubalaena glacialis) are among the
most endangered of all marine mammals: despite a recent population uptick, only about 450 remain.
It provides breeding and feeding grounds for at least twenty - five
endangered or threatened species; thirty - six marine mammal species, including blue, gray, and humpback
whales, harbor seals, elephant seals, Pacific white - sided dolphins, and one of the southernmost U.S. populations of threatened Steller sea lions; over a quarter - million breeding seabirds; and one of the
most significant white shark populations on the planet.
Some of the
most heavily used shipping lanes in and out of ports in Los Angeles, Long Beach and San Francisco Bay run through the migratory paths and feeding areas of
endangered whales.
Most residents of the San Juan Islands and Washington state still don't realize that our local killer
whales are listed as
endangered along with all five species of salmon.
The two
whale calving lagoons are the World's most important place for the reproduction of the once - endangered North Pacific Gray W
whale calving lagoons are the World's
most important place for the reproduction of the once -
endangered North Pacific Gray
WhaleWhale.
There are fewer than 400 North Atlantic right
whales alive, making this one of the world's
most endangered marine mammals.
Make a symbolic
whale adoption to help save some of the world's
most endangered animals from extinction and support WWF's conservation efforts.
A. Several
whale populations are indisputably
endangered, including western gray
whales (eastern gray
whales, which are the population of gray
whales found on the Pacific coast of North America, are no longer considered
endangered), eastern bowhead
whales, North Atlantic and Pacific right
whales, blue
whales, and
most humpback
whales.
These 76 orcas — also known as the southern resident killer
whales — are Canada's
most endangered marine mammal.
Japan's proposal to remove small cetaceans from the agenda was dismissed, allowing the IWC to maintain competency over the world's small
whales and dolphins, the
most endangered marine mammals.