6/18/2023 0 Comments Nzb search whale wars![]() We're also combating risks to whales by lobbying to bring whale hunting under the strict control of the International Whaling Commission, through field research, training and capacity building, conservation education, and by securing improved national and international action and agreements. WWF is working to significantly reduce threats to endangered populations of our great whales as well as smaller cetaceans. Reduce the threats to increase their numbers ![]() In order to help secure the future of the world's whales, WWF is developing an ambitious conservation programme for endangered whale species and populations. It's illegal, but it still happens: commercial whalingĭespite a moratorium on commercial whaling and the declaration of virtually the whole of the Southern Ocean as a whale sanctuary, each year over 1,000 whales are killed for the commercial market. Collisions with ships and entanglement in fishing gear threaten the North Atlantic right whale with extinction, while the Critically Endangered Western North Pacific gray whale is at serious risk because of intensive oil and gas development in its feeding grounds.Īlarm is also growing over other hazards including toxic contamination, the effects of climate change and habitat degradation. Whales, dolphins and porpoises are succumbing to new and ever-increasing dangers. ![]() ![]()
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