The 21st Biennial Society for Marine Mammalogy Conference will open its call for abstracts and workshop proposals on February 1, 2015. Early bird registration begins April 6, 2015.
Just four weeks left to submit your entry to the 2015 Ocean 180 Video Challenge! Ocean scientists are invited to submit a 3 minute video abstract highlighting the findings of a recent peer-reviewed publication to compete for $9,000 in cash prizes. Scientists submitting entries to Ocean 180 must be US citizens or affiliated with a […]
Well here we go – my first blog in my new role as President of this very fine Society. Like all of us privileged enough to serve in the variety of roles that keep our Society vibrant, relevant, informative, influential and above all, attractive to be a part of, we do so in a voluntary […]
The report of the fifth meeting of the Comité Internacional para la Recuperación de la Vaquita (CIRVA V) put forth strong recommendations that, if heeded, will give the greatest chance of recovery for the critically endangered vaquita. The CIRVA V report makes clear that with fewer than 100 individuals remaining, declining at 18.5%/year, time is […]
The following is an update on Mekong and Ayeyarwady Irrawaddy dolphin conservation, including a summary of a workshop held on June 1, 2014 in Phnom Penh to assess progress on implementation of the recommendations from the Kratie Declaration and to update Cambodia’s river dolphin conservation strategy. http://www.iucn-csg.org/index.php/2014/07/03/update-on-mekong-and-ayeyarwady-irrawaddy-dolphin-conservation/