CIRVA, the international recovery team for the vaquita, has asked an international group of experts to consider ex situ (out-of-habitat) options for conservation of the species. These options include the capture and housing of vaquitas in the Gulf of California. You can read about this approach in a news piece in Science. Presidents Pena […]
Yearly Archives: 2016
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After a couple weeks of wind and rain, the weather gods smiled on us last week, and afforded us a chance to start our third year of satellite tagging work off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, with Daniel Webster of Cascadia Research Collective. To date we have tagged forty short-finned […]
In May Andy attended the seventh meeting of CIRVA – the international recovery team for the vaquita. The team reviewed the results of the 2015 survey, which found only about 60 vaquitas left. Since then, at least three vaquitas have been killed by totoaba poachers. You can read the report […]
Doug Nowacek, Ari Friedlaender, Erin Puckett and Logan Pallin (a Duke undergraduate and now one of Ari’s master’s students at Oregon State) are on their way to the Antarctic to study the ecology of humpback whales as part of the annual Palmer Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program, funded by the […]