Sentences with phrase «on small cetacean»
«Solomon Islands dolphin hunts cast spotlight on small cetacean survival.»
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A new study on the impact of «drive - hunting» dolphins in the Solomon Islands is casting a spotlight on the increasing vulnerability of small cetaceans around the world.
Among the issues these committees were asked to look into this year were the possible dangers of whale watching, the effects of chemical pollution on whales, how the IWC might protect dolphins, porpoises and other small cetaceans, and whether subsistence whaling by indigenous peoples should be subject to scientific management.
Cetaceans (either whales or their small cousins the porpoises) were sighted on 80 % of all our kayak tours combined.
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.
Updates at end Here's a sobering update on efforts in Mexico, Hong Kong and mainland China to stave off the extinction of the vaquita, a critically endangered porpoise inhabiting Mexican waters at the north end of the Gulf of California that is the world's smallest, and rarest, cetacean.