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- Bycatch and illegal fishing on the agenda of a new, international collaboration
- Brazil hosts Conservation Management Plan Workshops for two vulnerable populations in the southwest Atlantic
- Third virtual meeting of the IWC Scientific Committee begins
- IWC workshop: the value of whales to the ecosystem
- Scientific Committee Implementation Review workshop
- Annual Scientific Committee meeting begins
- Collaboration and co-existence: the key to bycatch reduction and a winning formula for Pedro Fruet
- Available now: IWC Scientific Committee meeting report for 2021
- Annual IWC-POWER research cruise sets sail from Shiogama, Japan
- 75 years of recommendations: the IWC’s new, public database
- Special Virtual Meeting: Actions on Voting Rights and the Plight of the Vaquita
- IWC-POWER completes twelfth successful research voyage
- Fifth IWC Workshop on Climate Change and Cetaceans will focus on increased efforts and collaboration
- Pollution 2025: Intersessional Workshop
- 75 years of the IWC
- Marine debris workshop, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
- IWC Whale Watch Operators Workshop, Brisbane, Australia
- Conservation Management Plans, IWC Working Group Brisbane, Australia
- Southern Ocean Research Partnership (SORP) Conference, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, 31 May – 2 June
- 2013 IWC Scientific Committee Meeting, Jeju, Republic of Korea
- IWC POWER Research Cruise
- Extending the global whale entanglement response network – IWC training in Salinas, Ecuador.
- 2013 IWC Scientific Committee Report published
- 2013 POWER Research Cruise sets sail
- New IWC Bureau meets in St Lucia, September 2013
- IWC-POWER Whale Research Ship Coming to Shiogama, Japan
- Extending the global whale entanglement response network
- Journal of Cetacean Research and Management moves online and open access
- CMP Working Group Report Published
- Now published - report of the IWC Whale Watch Operators Workshop
- Research establishes whale-friendly approach to seismic surveys
- Extending the global whale entanglement response network
- Arctic Impacts Workshop, 6-7 March 2014
- Understanding the threat to cetaceans from microplastics and PAHS - Pollution 2020
- North Pacific Gray Whale - range-wide review begins
- Cetaceans and the Soundscape workshop
- IWC report published on stranded cetaceans – Euthanasia Protocols to Optimize Welfare Concerns
- The whale entanglement response network extends to the Dominican Republic
- Successful release of entangled gray whale calf by newly trained Mexican response team
- Workshop: Collisions Between Marine Mammals and Ships, 18-20 June, 2014
- Nineteen cetacean species recorded by the latest IWC-POWER Research Cruise in the eastern North Pacific
- Long distance acoustic monitoring: the IWC-Southern Ocean Research Project (SORP)
- Experts gather for second marine debris workshop
- IWC Workshop - Southern Right Whale Die-Off and Kelp Gull Management
- The fifth IWC-POWER research cruise sets sail.
- Extending the whale entanglement response network – Tonga and Vanuatu.
- Vaquita: increasing concern for Mexico's 'little cow.'
- The 65th IWC meeting gets underway in Slovenia
- Aboriginal whaling and sanctuaries on the first day's agenda at the IWC meeting in Slovenia.
- Ongoing discussions and a Resolution regarding highly migratory species at IWC65
- Endangered vaquita and western gray whale on the agenda at the IWC meeting in Slovenia
- IWC’s 65th meeting closes with progress - and praise for a constructive dialogue
- Extending the global whale entanglement network - Oaxaca, Mexico
- IWC and SPREP - the benefits of collaboration
- Extending the whale entanglement network - Baja California Peninsula, Mexico
- Satellite tagging to help understand Southern Right Whale Die-Off in Patagonia
- IWC POWER Research Programme prepares for next phase.
- Expert assistance to help minimise the risk of collision to both racing crews and whales
- Expanding and evolving: the Global Entanglement Response Network
- Workshop to progress Strike Limit Algorithms for Greenland Subsistence Hunts
- Expert Review Panel workshop of NEWREP special permit proposal
- RMP Implementation Reviews workshop: North Atlantic minke and fin whales
- The IWC brings ship strikes to the agenda of Whalefest, Brighton.
- Stage two of the Gray Whale Rangewide Review.
- New report highlights surprising gray whale telemetry results
- Growing success: the IWC Global Whale Entanglement Response Network
- New website section explains the work of the Small Cetacean Voluntary Fund
- Research confirms perilous fin whale migration across busy shipping lanes
- The Scientific Committee of the IWC meets in San Diego
- Humpback whale 'Spinnaker' disentangled for the third time
- IWC Scientific Committee report is published
- Entanglement response training for IWC-POWER research crew - Shiogama, Japan
- The sixth IWC-POWER research cruise sets sail from Japan
- A very real test for IWC's entanglement apprentices
- IWC Bureau meets in Bern, Switzerland
- Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling: Expert Workshop begins in Greenland
- Building capacity - entanglement response apprentices share their knowledge
- Report of the IWC Expert Workshop on Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling
- New paper presents major advances in understanding of Omura’s whale
- An experimental success: entanglement & stranding response training in Oman
- Entanglement Response Training: critically endangered Southern Right Whales
- IWC Entanglement Training in Eastern Caribbean
- International collaboration on mass strandings and large scale mortalities
- Prestigious award for IWC funded scientist
- Sustainable whalewatching on the agenda in the Indian Ocean
- Call for Applications – the Small Cetaceans Voluntary Fund
- IWC Entanglement Response Training for Greenland
- IWC-SORP Research Fund - Call for Proposals
- IWC entanglement response training for northern Peru
- Entanglement response training for southern Brazil
- IWC Plenary begins in Portorož, Slovenia
- A wide variety of topics on day two of the IWC Plenary
- Focus on whaling, welfare, cetacean health and habitat on day three
- Five Resolutions adopted on day four of IWC66
- A comprehensive and diverse workplan is agreed as 2016 Plenary concludes
- Need for collaboration is demonstrated at entanglement workshop, Mexico
- Special Permit Whaling: Expert Panel Review
- Applications sought for new Voluntary Assistance Fund
- Scientific Committee meeting begins in Slovenia
- Scientific Committee Report available
- IWC entanglement and stranding response training for Sakhalin, Russia
- Annual IWC-POWER Cruise sets sail from Alaska
- Cetacean Tagging Workshop begins in the US
- IWC-POWER Research Ship returns to Japan
- IWC entanglement response training for Norway
- Entanglement training concludes in Columbia
- Latest satellite tagging information shows that nothing is simple in cetacean science
- IWC Governance Review Report published today
- Successful conclusion to Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling Group Workshop (ASWWG)
- IWC Scientific Committee Meets in Bled
- Publication of annual Scientific Committee Report
- Entanglement Response Experts Meet in Provincetown, USA
- Marine Mammal Bycatch on the agenda at FAO
- IWC Plenary Meeting begins in Florianopolis, Brazil
- IWC meeting opens with agreement on next steps for IWC Governance Review
- IWC67: discussions on Subsistence Whaling and vote on South Atlantic Sanctuary
- Subsistence whaling catch limits & £50,000 for bycatch initiative
- Future direction of IWC & special permit whaling on IWC agenda
- IWC Plenary concludes in Florianopolis, Brazil
- Launch of the global Whale Watching Handbook
- Statement on Government of Japan withdrawal from the IWC
- Multi-faceted approach to protecting endangered southern right whales in the eastern South Pacific.
- Scientific Committee workshop: western North Pacific common minke whales
- IWC Workshop: Locating Ship Strike Hotspots
- IWC Workshop: Understanding Small Cetacean Catches
- Collaboration at the heart of the first Bycatch Mitigation Initiative workshop
- Annual Scientific Committee begins in Nairobi
- IWC entanglement response training for Kenya
- Whale Song Library and Satellite Tagging Guidelines amongst wide-ranging recommendations of the 2019 Scientific Committee
- Expanding entanglement response capability for endangered Southern right whales in the western South Atlantic.
- Annual IWC-POWER Cruise sets sail from Alaska
- Small Cetaceans Task Team workshop: South Asian River Dolphins
- IWC attends Whaling Captains’ Convention, Utqiaġvik, Alaska
- Bycatch Mitigation in the Indian Ocean: IWC workshop report published
- Latest Entanglement Response trainees complete an action-packed apprenticeship in Cape Cod.
- IWC hosts international biodiversity group
- Entanglement response training in Scottish Highlands
- Conservation Management Plans: raising awareness at every level
- Guiana dolphin workshop gets underway in Brazil
- Next steps in work to understand and mitigate the threat to cetaceans from marine debris
- New Tagging Guidelines to protect whales and their observers
- Review of the IWC’s Pacific Ocean Whale and Ecosystem Research Programme (IWC-POWER)
- Workshop: status of the Franciscana dolphin
- Indian Ocean's whale watching aims for gold standard in sustainability
- Species of the Week
- Week Two - IWC Species of the Week
- New publication: IWC Scientific Committee’s 2019 annual meeting report
- Species of the Week - Week Three
- Species of the Week - Week Four
- Virtual meeting of the IWC Scientific Committee begins
- Species of the Week - Week Five
- Species of the Week - Week Six
- IWC reflects on World Oceans Day 2020 - with collaboration at its core
- Available now: report of the 2020 (virtual) meeting of the IWC Scientific Committee
- New educational resources for Whale Watching Handbook
- Marine debris: a substantial threat with more research required
- Pacific whale and ecosystem research programme completes 11th annual cruise.
- Meeting of the Conservation Committee: six work plans, 150 participants and over £125,000 of voluntary contributions
- Guided tours of the Whale Watching Handbook
- 75 years of the IWC
- Successful response to entangled Arabian Sea humpback
- Published: FAO technical guidelines to reduce and prevent bycatch
- Call for Applications – the Small Cetaceans Voluntary Fund
- On World Wildlife Day, scientists highlight the threat of cetacean extinctions - and importance of acting now
- JCRM relaunch - a long-standing journal for today’s digital age
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