Sentences with phrase «on endangered whales»

The group met and deliberated over the course of 2015 and ultimately created a suite of management, education, outreach, and research recommendations that seek to reduce the risk of ship strikes on endangered whales, decrease air pollution, improve navigational safety, and manage ship traffic to reduce conflicts between ocean users.

Fuller noted that after last year's mortalities, Canada acted quickly to implement new protections, including area closures, speed restrictions and a $ 167 million investment in research on endangered whale species.

Not exact matches

The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada recommended that beluga whales in the St. Lawrence River be declared endangered, forcing TransCanada to scrap a planned oil export terminal in Cacouna, Quebec, where the whales migrate and raiEndangered Wildlife in Canada recommended that beluga whales in the St. Lawrence River be declared endangered, forcing TransCanada to scrap a planned oil export terminal in Cacouna, Quebec, where the whales migrate and raiendangered, forcing TransCanada to scrap a planned oil export terminal in Cacouna, Quebec, where the whales migrate and raise calves.

Part of Estella's collection of endangered animal organic baby toys, the whale rattle is a cute, mini-sized take on Earth's largest animal.

- The endangered humpback whale is on the rebound, with 18,000 of them swimming around the North Pacific Ocean, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

South Korea belongs to the IWC, and last year joined the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which bans trade in whale meat.

Researchers are using underwater microphones to interpret and characterize the calls of blue whales swimming through Southern California's oceans, revealing new insights into the behavior of these endangered marine mammals, according to new research being presented at the Ocean Sciences Meeting here on Tuesday.

The discovery of the krill and whale «super-aggregations» sheds light on an important but overlooked foraging ground for the endangered humpbacks — one that may be threatened by the region's rapidly changing climate.

«The enigmatic endangered whale shark: 22 - year - long global citizen science project sheds light on these animals.»

On 10 April, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) in Tucson, Arizona, joined three other organizations — the Humane Society of the United States, Defenders of Wildlife, and Whale and Dolphin Conservation — to file a federal lawsuit calling for the government to increase the amount of space designated as critical habitat for the whales under the US Endangered Species Act.

As a result, understanding changes in population size for social species — several of which, such as African wild dogs and southern resident killer whales, are endangered — requires understanding of what goes on within groups and how individuals fare when they strike out on their own.

OTTAWA — August 11, 2017 — The Canadian Federation of Humane Societies (CFHS) congratulates Transport Canada and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans on its joint decision to impose a mandatory slowdown order on large ships in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to protect the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale from fatal ship strikes.

Come face to face with grey whales in San Ignacio Lagoon, see highly endangered Guadalupe fur seals and observe blue, sperm, Bryde's and humpback whales on this trip of a lifetime on board the Sear...

Media release: Conservation groups are putting the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister of Fisheries and Oceans on notice as the groups race to secure protection for endangered Southern Resident killer whales...

The federally endangered fin whale that died this week on Stinson Beach in front of curious onlookers could turn out to be a boon for scientists looking to glean new information about the species.

Marine life ranges from microscopic plankton to the endangered blue whale, the largest animal ever to live on earth.

The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada have listed the northern resident killer whales, transient killer whales and humpback whales as threatened.

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.

Altering them, as was done on the East Coast to try to protect critically endangered Northern Atlantic right whales, would be costly to the shipping industry and there is no guarantee it would save whales.

A seasonal 10 - knot speed limit is already in place on large ships traveling through key areas off the U.S. East Coast to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales.

Hundreds of whales — even endangered finback, gray and blue whales — travel from the Arctic to the peninsula to mate and feast on plankton.

«We intend to use our influence and expertise to protect it, focusing on reef conservation and on creating safe migratory routes for the endangered species that travel this coastline, from turtles to humpback whales.»

Whale sharks are listed in appendix 2 of the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES), which stipulates that they can only be held for scientific purposes provided that it does not harm the survival of the species.

The orca whales» survival depends largely on another endangered species, the chinook salmon.

Since 1994 when the species was delisted from the US Endangered Species Act, the conservation efforts by the US government on behalf of the Gray Whale have been a carefully orchestrated symphony of spin with senior bureaucrats becoming the Spin Doctors.

We have posted twice before on this topic and the potential dangers it holds for the endangered orca whales that we enjoy on our kayak tours in the San Juan Islands.

They are violating an international ban on whaling, illegally slaughtering these intelligent, sensitive, endangered mammals for MEAT not for «science».

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.

A clarification: although there are discrepancies about the populations of humpback whales, they are indeed on the federal endangered species list.

For three years running, the International Whaling Commission, on the advice of its Small Cetacean Working Group, has called on both Mexico and New Zealand to protect their tiny, endemic, endangered dolphins from the common threats of set nets.

In my latest piece on how Chinese appetites for an endangered fish are indirectly driving Mexico's tiny porpoise, the vaquita, to extinction, I passingly mentioned the world's other deeply imperiled toothed whale — New Zealand's Maui's dolphin.

On Thursday, President Obama ordered government agencies to ramp up pressure on Iceland to end its slaughter of endangered fin whales, the second largest whale specieOn Thursday, President Obama ordered government agencies to ramp up pressure on Iceland to end its slaughter of endangered fin whales, the second largest whale specieon Iceland to end its slaughter of endangered fin whales, the second largest whale species.

Some marine conservation groups last Friday decried Iceland's final tally of more than 150 whales killed in this year's harvest, including 94 fin whales — the second largest whale and one that is still on some lists of endangered species.

On January 31, 2014, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell certified under section 8 of the Fisherman's Protective Act of 1967 (the «Pelly Amendment»)(22 U.S.C. 1978), that nationals of Iceland are conducting trade in whale meat and products that diminishes the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITESOn January 31, 2014, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell certified under section 8 of the Fisherman's Protective Act of 1967 (the «Pelly Amendment»)(22 U.S.C. 1978), that nationals of Iceland are conducting trade in whale meat and products that diminishes the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITESon International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

In one example, despite the international trade ban, seven companies on Yahoo! Japan's website were selling endangered fin whale imported from Iceland.

The report also confirms that many of the products are from internationally protected great whale species including fin, sei, minke, sperm and Bryde's whale — all of whom are protected under the moratorium on commercial whaling established by the International Whaling Commission in 1986 and have the highest level of protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Swhaling established by the International Whaling Commission in 1986 and have the highest level of protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered SWhaling Commission in 1986 and have the highest level of protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

The blue whale, the largest creature ever to have lived on earth, remained «endangered» along with the fin whale and sei whale.

These shipments, worth an estimated US $ 17 million, and Iceland's escalating whale hunts, are clear abuse of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) as well as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), to which Iceland is a signatory.

Under an objection to the global moratorium on commercial whaling and a reservation to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) ban on international trade in minke whales, Norway is able to legally hunt and trade minke whales.

Ask the Japanese Prime Minister to stop targeting endangered fin whales, and to refrain from hunting endangered humpback whales, both violations of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Faunendangered fin whales, and to refrain from hunting endangered humpback whales, both violations of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Faunendangered humpback whales, both violations of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and FaunEndangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES).

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.

It is also crucial to remember that Iceland's fin whaling operation targets an endangered species and defies the international moratorium on commercial whaling, in addition to flouting a CITES Appendix I listing by trading in whale products.

On Monday, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) gave conditional approval of Shell's revised multi-year exploration plan to drill in the Chukchi Sea in Alaska's Arctic, a decision which endangers Arctic marine mammals like the beluga whale.

Major International Environmental Agreements: A party to Conventions on Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands and Whaling.

The United Nations Convention on the Trade of Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna (CITES) lists the whale shark, basking shark, and great white shark as species that could become threatened if trade is not controlled.

The Winter Bay, chartered by notorious Icelandic whaler Kristján Loftsson, departed Iceland on June 4 carrying an estimated 1,800 metric tons of endangered fin whale products; the vessel docked in Osaka, Japan on August 30.

Slayed in Iceland: The commercial hunting and international trade in endangered fin whales has been jointly released by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) on the eve of the 65th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Portorož, Slovenia.

Iceland's fin exports to date are worth an estimated US$ 50 million and clearly undermine both the IWC moratorium and the ban on international commercial trade in fin whale products imposed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

In addition to hundreds of Minke whales, the ships slaughter a few dozen endangered Fin whales every year, which inevitably end up in cans on store shelves.

Major International Environmental Agreements: A party to Conventions on Air Pollution, Air Pollution - Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution - Sulphur 85, Antarctic - Environmental Protocol, Antarctic - Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Wetlands and Whaling.