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News flash: The Important Marine Mammal Area (IMMA) layer has been added to @GlobalFishWatch to monitor fishing activity in individual IMMAs on hourly, daily, yearly basis. This tool illuminates fisheries impacts on #marinemammals worldwide. @mmpatf @whalesorg marinemammalhabitat.org/glob…
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In Society for Marine Mammalogy keynote, Helene Marsh proposes Important Marine Mammal Areas #IMMAs be adopted as priority places for actions on effects of fishing on dugong+other marine mammals #SMM2024 #fishing4change @marinemammalogy @mmpatf @whalesorg @CetaceanSociety @WFSJ
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What do the Southern Labrador Pack Ice Whelping Area, True's beaked whale aggregation area and St. Vincent-Bequia Channel Rat Porpoise Alley have in common? @marinemammalogy @MarineMammalCom @whalesorg @whales_org @whalesorg_de @CetaceanSociety See: marinemammalhabitat.org/46-n…
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It is great to see many more referring to one ocean this #WorldOceanDay BUT I am still seeing the 's' creeping in. #DropTheS - there is one ocean! Pass it on.
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Icelandic government: what a heart breaker!!! Just when you thought that finally the North Atlantic would be safe for fin whales. Awful news government.is/news/article/2…
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HAPPY @WorldOceansDay - 8 June.
To celebrate, IUCN SSC Marine Conservation Committee made a webinar. We talk about our IMMA tool & how it's helping to put a spotlight on threatened #whales & marine mammals. It's on youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=448Qstk1… @whalesorg @marinemammalogy
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Announcing results from our 11th Important Marine Mammal Area (IMMA) Workshop for the NW Atlantic Ocean & Wider Caribbean: 46 new candidate IMMAs and 7 Areas of Interest (AoI) go forward for review. We're talking about NA right whales, Rice's whales, manatees, harp seals, polar bears & more.
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To celebrate the first World Species Congress, the IUCN SSC Marine Conservation Committee is presenting a one-hour Virtual Satellite Event, sharing hopeful conservation stories for marine species.
Tuesday May 14, 7.30pm EDT / Wednesday May 15, 11.30am NZST. bit.ly/WSCMarine
Erich Hoyt, Co-Chair of the IUCN SSC Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force - Contributing to Place-based Marine Mammal Conservation through Important Marine Mammal Areas - IMMAs
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IMMA team, scientists & observers from NW Atlantic-Wider Caribbean have arrived in Playa del Carmen, Yucatan, Mexico for our 11th Important Marine Mammal Area workshop: 48 participants including 10+ online. Old friends & new....And so we begin. @whalesorg @Defenders @CetaceanSociety @marinemammalogy @OceanCare
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New Zealand’s Māori king & other Pacific native leaders have signed a declaration recognising #whales as legal individuals with freedom of movement & other rights. @CetaceanSociety @whalesorg @whalesorg_de @WFSJ @BBCScienceNews @OceanCare @OceanChampions
uk.whales.org/2024/04/09/mao…
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Fantastic talk from @BettyBoyse on her PhD work about using #eDNA to track spatiotemporal variation in habitat use by cetaceans and their prey. More details here: doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.21.5… #ECS #ECSconference2024 @ScienceLeeds @LeedsEcoEvo @MariaBeger
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Ida Carlen is the fabulous new @EuroCetSoc Mandy McMath Award winner for her conservation work to champion highly endangered Baltic Sea harbour #porpoises (now listed in CMS App I). The Italian project C.Re.Di.Ma has also been named as a winner for their stranding work. Huge congratulations to all! #ECSconference2024 @marinemammalogy @MarineMammalCom @CetaceanSociety @Defenders @oceancare @whalesorg @whalesorg_de
ALT Former Mandy McMath Award winner Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara presents this year's award to Ida Carlen at the European Cetacean Society meeting in Catania, Sicily 12 Apr 2024. Photo: Simone Panigada.
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Still remembered in #Wales - great to see Mandy McMath Award is inspiring future generations. 🐬🦭
Ida Carlen is the fabulous new @EuroCetSoc Mandy McMath Award winner for her conservation work to champion highly endangered Baltic Sea harbour #porpoises (now listed in CMS App I). The Italian project C.Re.Di.Ma has also been named as a winner for their stranding work. Huge congratulations to all! #ECSconference2024 @marinemammalogy @MarineMammalCom @CetaceanSociety @Defenders @oceancare @whalesorg @whalesorg_de
ALT Former Mandy McMath Award winner Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara presents this year's award to Ida Carlen at the European Cetacean Society meeting in Catania, Sicily 12 Apr 2024. Photo: Simone Panigada.
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The ECS conference has started!
We would like to share your videos and pictures of the ongoing workshops, don't forget to TAG @EuroCetSoc and @Marecamp_CT !
Use also the #ECSconference2024 tag!
#ECS
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Time line of the Important Marine Mammal Area / IMMA programme — Caterina Lanfredi talks about the implications of this spatial tool as it spreads around the world. #ECS2024 @savingoceans @EuroCetSoc @marinemammalogy @IucnOcean @IUCNssc @IUCNCetaceanSG @whalesorg @whalesorg_de
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Caterina Lanfredi from @mmpatf opens 2nd session at 35th European Cetacean Society conference with update of the 280 Important Marine Mammal Areas, IMMAs, identified in 75% of the global ocean, including European waters. #ECS2024 @savingoceans @MarineMammalCom @EuroCetSoc @marinemammalogy @IucnOcean @IUCNssc @IUCNCetaceanSG @whalesorg @whalesorg_de
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35th European Cetacean Society conference opens today in Catania, Sicily with a focus on marine mammals & human activities — conservation esp in coastal areas. #ECS2024 @savingoceans @MarineMammalCom @EuroCetSoc @marinemammalogy @IucnOcean @IUCNssc @IUCNCetaceanSG @mmpatf @whalesorg @whalesorg_de
Time line of the Important Marine Mammal Area / IMMA programme — Caterina Lanfredi talks about the implications of this spatial tool as it spreads around the world. #ECS2024 @savingoceans @EuroCetSoc @marinemammalogy @IucnOcean @IUCNssc @IUCNCetaceanSG @whalesorg @whalesorg_de
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Caterina Lanfredi from @mmpatf opens 2nd session at 35th European Cetacean Society conference with update of the 280 Important Marine Mammal Areas, IMMAs, identified in 75% of the global ocean, including European waters. #ECS2024 @savingoceans @MarineMammalCom @EuroCetSoc @marinemammalogy @IucnOcean @IUCNssc @IUCNCetaceanSG @whalesorg @whalesorg_de