whales &conservation

Dolphins pack
 iucn red list of threatened species

data deficient least concerned

Long Fin Pilot Whale Bottlenose Dolphin
Short Fin Pilot Whale Common Dolphin
Atlantic Spotted Dolphins Striped Dolphin
Brydes Whale Northern Right Whale
Killer Whale Frasers Dolphin
Trues Beaked Whale Pantropical Spotted Dolphin
Pygmy Sperm Whale Curviers Beaked Whale
Gervals Beaked Whale Minke Whale
Dware Sperm Whale Rough-Toothed Dolphin
False Killer Whale Rissos Dolphin
Northern Bottlenose Whale
Blainvilles Beaked Whale
Endangered
vulnerable Fin Whale
Blue Whale
Sperm Whale Sei Whale
Critically Endangered means the species faces an extremely high risk of extinction. Near Threatened means the species is very close to entering the endangered categories.
Endangered means the specie faces a very high risk of extinction Data Deficient means not enough is known of the species to make a determination
Vulnerable means the species faces a high risk of extinction of its conservation status. It does not mean the species is not endangered.

*IUCN International Union for the Conservation of Nature

 the canaries
Impact of Conservation threats on the whales and dolphins
blue whale
The largest animal ever to have lived and once common
in these waters was decimated by American whaling in
the 1930s. It is not thought that the North Atlantic population
will be able to recover.
Beaked whale
These extremely rare whales were once common here. In
2008 US Navy sonic warfare testing in the Canaries
resulted in the death of the entire population. After the
incident our data shows extremely few sightings.
Risso Dolphin
Once common sightings here with a resident community
living off of La Gomera. They disappeared from our records
after Fred Olsen introduced the high speed ferry from
Tenerife to La Gomera and are believed to have moved.
sperm whale
These huge animals were once frequently seen here, they
live just around the coast between Gran Canaria and
Tenerife. Sadly, their numbers were decimated by the Fred
Olsen ferry through frequent boat collisions.
pilot whale
Their cousins in the Faroe Islands (Denmark) are subject
to the largest whale hunt in the world in which around 1000
are slaughtered each year that is more than there are in
Tenerife!
fin & Sei whale
Frequent visitors to the Canaries as they migrate between
feeding and migrating grounds. Their numbers have been
falling year on year according to AWF data- no one knows
why, although large whales oike these are hunted.
bottlenose Dolphin
Dolphin populations face numerous threats: pollution;
illegal hunting; Drift and gill nets which kill thousands every
year. Many thousands more are killed by the dolphin
captivity industry. There are two dolphinariums on Tenerife!
right whale
Not seen at all. The population in the North Atlantic was all
but wiped out in the early years of whale hunting.
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 by-catch a contribution to extinction

over 300,000 whales, By-catch

is the number 1
Cetaceans sustain
lifetime injuries
even when freed
Fishing gear
causes
dolphins, and porpoises are killed
threat from by-catch
including lesions
each year as a result of By-Catch to 62 of the 71
existing species infection suffocation
of cetaceans and death

90%
Within 18 years
and deformation
in cetaceans
of all Humpback
85,000
sea turtles were
whale entanglements go
undetected or unreported caught in global
fisheries

humpback whales are the most common petition video website

species to be entangled, appearing most in
the 54 reports of entanglement since 2008

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 captivity a contribution to extinction

80
% of captive dolphins died inCetaceans live
large pods,
Cetaceans feed Tanks are kept
before they turned 20 years old with close social bonds
upon a variety of
fish & invertibrates clean with
and hierarchies, living in the wild. with chemicals
in the wild they can live in captivity with unknown
to 50 years on average they are housed side affects
with strangers causing problems

or alone in captivity with their

cetaceans
can swim upto
Animal trade is
the 3rd Biggest they are limited
sight & Skin
to just one species
100 miles per day illegal activity
no tank is ever of dead fish
in the world
big enough after sex and drugs

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confinement to relatively small pools
is reason enough to end orca captivity
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Global warming a contribution to extinction

more than 1 million species

have become extinct due to dissapearing habitats,
Global Warming
is the single
Global Warming
will completely
ecosystems, acidic oceans all caused due to global warming. biggest threat
towards the
alter the
Within 40 years we will lose oceans currents

1/3 great
of all our species unless we act now to change things. which will
cause a mini
global sea levels
are projected barrier ice age
to rise another
16 inches
by 2050
reef in Europe

around100 million people live within 3 feet petition video website

of sea level, and 13/20 of the worlds
largest cities are located near such
vulnerable areas. www.whalenation.org
 huntinga contribution to extinction

in the north atlantic

the Blue whale and the Right Whale
dolphins
have been known
Dolphin hunters
can get up to
since 1986
over 25,000
$210,000
to take whales have
have been hunted to near extinction
over
been legally
for a live killed for
30 minutes
dolphin scientific research
commercial whaling
was outlawed
in 1986 by the iwc
but dolphin
to die
hunts remain
and thousands no research
are massacred findings have
legal (a long, painful death) in the process yet been published

up to 1,000
pilot whales are killed
japanese drive hunts petition video website
every year in the kill nearly 20,000 whales,
Faroe Islands, as part of
the worlds largest dolphins and porpoises
whale cull each year.
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noise pollution
a contribution to extinction

In 2008 US Navy Sonic warfare As water activities

such as jet-skiing
Sources of Noise
Pollution include In 2015

55
killed an entire family of rare beaked whales rise in popularity Passing Ships, in the Bahamas
Oil Exploration,
off of the coast of Lanzarote, the growth in
harmful vibration
Seismic Surveys
research shows they had had a brain haemorrhage.
interference
and Naval
Low-Frequency
humpback whales
can sing to
sound travels
4 times faster
increases. Active Sonar.
Marine Species
have suffered
eachother in water than air
because the extensive injuries
over thousands due to sound
of miles molecules are
packed closer together exposure.
sonar testing can cause cetacean strandings. petition video video website
For example, Sperm Whales
will stop vocalising for 36 hours
after use of air guns.
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pollution a contribution to extinction

A
Cruise ships Plastic waste is
accumulating
over 300,000 marine mammals dispose of in our oceans in
are killed each year from plastic ingestion 250,000 vast islands
and over 1,000,000 sea birds gallons
of waste water
plastic
Sperm whales washed The fishing industry and sewage jug takes These islands
are estimated
up onto the coast of
dumps around into the ocean 1 million to be 3 times the

a day
Holland are so toxic
150,000 tons size of the UK
they are disposed
of as toxic waste of plastic into the years to
ocean annually decompose

plastic accounts for around

of all ocean trash 90% petition video video website

46,000 square mile of ocean

pieces of plastic for each

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