AWI Quarterly Articles | Marine Wildlife

Three of five beluga whales imported to Connecticut’s Mystic Aquarium from Canada in 2021 have now died. In mid-September of this year, the aquarium was fined $12,200 by the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and...

The AWI team prepared for September’s 69 th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC69) in Lima, Peru, with a sense of trepidation. IWC68, in 2022, ended in recriminations and uncertainty after several developing countries...

In September, AWI—on behalf of a coalition that includes the Center for Biological Diversity, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Environmental Investigation Agency—provided a “detailed submission” to the Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC) regarding Mexico’s failure...

The 25 th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, hosted by the Society for Marine Mammalogy, took place in November, in Perth, Australia. AWI’s Dr. Naomi Rose has attended all but the first...

In recent years, anthropogenic disturbances such as maritime traffic, pollution, and fishing have had a negative impact on the welfare of great whales around the world. The town of Sept-Iles, Québec, located on the Gulf...

Poorly managed wildlife tourism poses major threats to the survival of endangered species globally. For marine mammals, chronically high levels of boat-based tourism can disrupt behaviors and have other negative impacts contributing to potential population...

AWI joined several hundred delegates representing nearly 80 countries and a similar number of observer organizations in Geneva this July for the 33 rd meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of...

The start of summer 2024 signaled a fitful continuation of the commercial whaling still conducted by three nations: Iceland, Norway, and Japan. Two years ago, Iceland killed 148 fin whales, despite having no domestic market...

A US government workshop was held in late August to discuss options for intervention on behalf of the bottlenose dolphins in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, once a project designed to restore coastal wetlands in the Gulf...

In May, two research vessels embarked on a survey in Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California, searching for evidence of the world’s rarest marine mammal, the tiny vaquita porpoise. Scientists conducted visual searches and deployed 34...