At its 2014 meeting, the IWC agreed to an updated action plan for the WKMAWI-WG and held a workshop in 2015 to consider development of a “cetacean welfare assessment tool” for nonhunting threats, ...

Small cetaceans also face indirect threats which may impact them cumulatively or synergistically. Such threats include bycatch (accidental capture in fishing gear), chemical and noise pollution, ship ...

WWF believes it preferable, and of greater potential conservation to cetaceans, to now address all of the threats to cetacean populations, particularly that of bycatch. In 2003 scientists from the U.S ...

This rare marine mammal is found exclusively in Mexico's Gulf of California and is on the brink of extinction because of ...

According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), entanglement is responsible for at least 300,000 cetacean deaths per ...

It is estimated that more than 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises die each year from entanglement in many types of fishing gear, which is an average of one cetacean killed by bycatch every two ...

Though the vaquita may have formerly occurred throughout the Gulf of California, the species today has the most limited distribution of any cetacean and is restricted ... population is threatened by ...