Mr.Trunk · @mrtrunk
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Paul · @Vivthesetter
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23/7: I spent the morning on the sea - another trip on 'Kelly's Hero'. We spotted an early returning Purple Sandpiper and Mediterranean Gull before we'd left Harbour.

Short-beaked Common Dolphin, Harbour Porpoise, Manx Shearwater, Gannet, Kittiwake, Fulmar were the highlights out in Lyme Bay.

📷 Purple Sandpiper & Turnstone
📷 Short-beaked Common
📷 Young Razorbill
📷 Trawler 'Emilia Jayne'

#dolphin #lymebay #razorbill #porpoise #nature #wildlife #birdsofmastodon #birds #devon #Brixham

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Jon Gary ⌘Z · @jongary
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Kate :verigold: · @DolphinSeeker
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After decades of seemingly irreversible decline, the critically endangered Yangtze Finless has been showing signs of recovery. 🐬
{📷©Justin Jin}

#China #extinction #porpoises #marinescience #marinemammals #cetaceans #porpoise

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🌬 NorthWind · @NorthWind
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@birdwriter1
Wonderful news! Increase of 237 porpoises in 5 years. Let’s hope the populations of the other species of does the same.

"Incredible results like these for the Yangtze finless remind us that there is still hope for the world's other five remaining species of river dolphins – all of which are threatened with ."



#WildLife #WeAreAllConnected #extinctionisforever #extinction #porpoise #riverporpoises #endangered

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Oden · @Gjallarhornet
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Kate :verigold: · @DolphinSeeker
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PhoenixSerenity · @msquebanh
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Things haven’t looked good for the for decades, but the last few years have brought the species to the . & to the upper - the pint-size has become an unfortunate bycatch of fishing operations in the area, primarily the illegal catching of
Listed as on the International Union for Conservation of Nature
of
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#vaquita #brinkofextinction #endemic #exclusive #gulfofcalifornia #porpoise #totoaba #vulnerable #iucn #redlist #threatenedspecies #nature #ecocrisis #wildlife

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Tamsin Lewis · @passamezzo
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Sui Lixi :verified: · @lixisui
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GLOBALink | A shutterbug's passion for the .

The finless porpoise, the namesake of 's longest river, is so connected to the Yangtze River that any change in the health of its environment can support -- or threaten -- the species' survival. Photographer Yang He understands this and has made it his life's mission to document the recovery of this precious creature.

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#finless #porpoise #yangtze #china

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Kate :verigold: · @DolphinSeeker
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getmisch · @GetMisch
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Dolphins are near extinction in the Bay of Biscay, Atlantic Ocean, due to fishing nets there. Each year they kill between ten and eighteen thousand, by mistake.
apnews.com/article/france-dolp

#dolphin #porpoise #extinct #atlantic #ocean #fisheries #fishing #nets #France #protest

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Kate :verigold: · @DolphinSeeker
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[Popov et al.] Assessment of the level for the Black Sea harbour in the light of new data on population abundance frontiersin.org/articles/10.33 🐬

#fisheries #porpoises #marinemammals #cetaceans #marinescience #porpoise #ByCatch

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Giuseppe Michieli · @GMIK69
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Ruth Mottram · @Ruth_Mottram
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In addition they report that for the endangered population, the explosions were probably catastrophic, any within 5km would have been killed immediately by the shockwave (presumably any other species too). Any within 50km we're almost certainly deafened.

There is a hypothesis that deafening of can lead to beach strandings, would be interesting to find out if they increased after this explosion ..

#cetaceans #porpoise #Baltic

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Primo Natura · @primonatura
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"The world’s smallest porpoise is on the edge of extinction - but an environmental group has successfully reduced fishing in the protected areas it calls home."

euronews.com/green/2023/01/30/

#Fishing #biodiversity #extinction #Animals #WildLife #porpoise

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Kate :verigold: · @DolphinSeeker
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