On this #WorldOceanDay, I am re-reading my piece for the BBC written on the first UN World Ocean Day in 2009. Then, I reported 0.65% of the ocean was protected. Today 8.3% is protected. But how long to reach the 30% target?!
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Hi Emma, Happy to be added, thanks for doing this!

Thanks, Henricus!

Celebrating new Important Marine Mammal Areas, IMMAs, IDed in Carib & internal waters of Panamá. Approved last month, they add to existing IMMAs on the Pacific coast. #manatee #bottlenosedolphin @defenders.org @oceangill.bsky.social @whalesorg.bsky.social
www.panamaamerica.com.pa/aldea-global...

I’m celebrating #WorldBookDay by giving away a signed copy of one of my books. Leave a comment & share (if you like) for a chance to win. U.K. only because of postage & I’ll need your address (I’ll delete after use).
#readers #reading #authors #nature #science #underwater #marine #wildlife

The current status & #extinction risk for #whales, #dolphins & #porpoises. 1 in 4 are in immediate trouble. I wonder how that will look 4 years from now? @disciara.bsky.social @oceangill.bsky.social @defenders.org @whalesorg.bsky.social @imma-network.bsky.social

I’m celebrating #WorldBookDay by giving away a signed copy of one of my books. Leave a comment & share (if you like) for a chance to win. U.K. only because of postage & I’ll need your address (I’ll delete after use).
#readers #reading #authors #nature #science #underwater #marine #wildlife

Today we've announced 43 new Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) spotlighting whale, manatee & other marine mammal habitats needing protection in NW Atlantic & Caribbean. See our news story here: www.marinemammalhabitat.org/news/
See the IMMA e-Atlas: www.marinemammalhabitat.org/imma-eatlas/

Today we've announced 43 new Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) spotlighting whale, manatee & other marine mammal habitats needing protection in NW Atlantic & Caribbean. See our news story here: www.marinemammalhabitat.org/news/
See the IMMA e-Atlas: www.marinemammalhabitat.org/imma-eatlas/

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US announces withdrawal of 2.5 million km2 (almost 1 mil sq miles) of US waters from oil & natural gas leasing. This includes U.S. East & West coasts; the eastern Gulf of Mexico; & Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area in Alaska. Helps insure chance of a future for NA right #whales & others.

This is big: New Zealand's High Court has ruled Dept of Conservation (DoC) has acted unlawfully for decades by relying on fishing laws instead of its own legislation to protect marine species. Hector's & Maui #dolphins & other marine species have lost out.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/high-cour...

In May this year, at our IMMA Workshop in Yucatán, Mexico the world seemed alright. In the photo, lower right, Eric Angel Ramos, aged 37, is a beaming bright spark, generous & wise, & behind him stands Oswaldo Vasquez, charming, dedicated, still young at 65. Now they are gone & we are heartbroken.

In May this year, at our IMMA Workshop in Yucatán, Mexico the world seemed alright. In the photo, lower right, Eric Angel Ramos, aged 37, is a beaming bright spark, generous & wise, & behind him stands Oswaldo Vasquez, charming, dedicated, still young at 65. Now they are gone & we are heartbroken.

Honoured to have ORCA: THE WHALE CALLED KILLER listed as number 30 on American essayist-critic & novelist Jan Harayda's Substack post & reviewed as one of "50 great nonfiction books":
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Good to see so many friends and colleagues in the photo! Remembering our last get together in Okinawa in December 2019!

Orcas from West coast Canada - US NW coast seen carrying dead salmon on the head. Revival of a cultural fad first noticed with an #orca pod in 1987? Do they eat / share the #salmon? Researchers want to find out. @marinemammalogy.bsky.social @whalesorg.bsky.social www.livescience.com/animals/orca...

Breaking: Science mapping paper finds fast growing #shipping industry crosses 92% of large #whale ranges but <7% of risk hotspots have protection. Expanding management over only 2.6% more of #ocean surface would protect hotspots! @highseasalliance.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My book STRANGE SEA CREATURES just released in paperback (with elegant French flaps) as well as earlier hardcover edition. For ages 8 to 88. Available from all online booksellers & signed from erichhoytbooks.com