The T19s are changing their status from San Juan Spring whales to San Juan September whales! 🍂 We've had several encounters with them this month, including this evening right outside Friday Harbor where T19B Galiano did a spyhop next to his brother T19C Spouter. #orcas #whalesky #salishsea
Colombia bill could ban intensive #octopus farming before it starts 🙏🐙 www.speciesunite.com/news-stories...
Colombia bill could ban intensive octopus farming before it starts — Species Unite
As opposition to octopus farming grows worldwide, Colombia is moving to ban the practice before a single farm is built.
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My latest for @therevelator.org is all about the important shark and ray areas project, a global-scale collaboration that has identified over 1,000 places significant for migration, reproduction, and more. 🧪🌎🦑🦈 To Save Sharks and Rays, Protect These Places therevelator.org/save-sharks-...
To Save Sharks and Rays, Protect These Places • The Revelator
The Important Shark and Ray Areas project has identified thousands of critical habitats for some of the world’s most threatened fishes. Now saving these sites is up to us.
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We need to know more about the consequences before we start doing permanent damage to the #ocean www.reuters.com/graphics/MIN...
The promise and risks of deep-sea mining
A vast treasure of critical minerals lies on the ocean floor. Should they be extracted to help fight climate change?
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Iceland’s 2026 fin whaling season has now ended with 93 whales killed but with nobody to sell them to. A perverse slaughter, but could these poor whales be the last to die at the hands of Icelandic whalers? 🤞👇 tinyurl.com/22pd9uv7
This is the way the World is ending Not with a bang But a whimper www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Sea dragon populations decimated in ‘mind-blowing’ mass mortality event caused by South Australian algal bloom
Thousands of sea dragons, pipefishes and seahorses have washed up along state’s coastline according to analysis of citizen scientist records
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In the presence of three more legends this evening 🤩 T19 Nootka, estimated to be over 60 years old, flanked by her sons T19B Galiano and T19C Spouter off the west side of San Juan Island. #orcas #killerwhales #salishsea #whalesky #wssjis
Another cruise ship has docked in Alaska with a dead endangered fin whale on its bow. 💔 Ships can kill these swimming giants in an instant as they hurtle through their habitat, and these collisions are one of the most frequent causes of premature death for several highly endangered marine mammals.
This is our extraordinary 🌎 Why are we destroying the oceans , killing whales in 2026 ? #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis #WarOnNature
Norway’s 2026 whale hunt season has come to an end. Here are two key figures: 418 minke whales killed (but this does not include the unborn calves that die when pregnant females are shot). 1% of Norwegians regularly eat whale meat. This is a pointless slaughter. 👇 tinyurl.com/5n89eenx
On September 6, Samish Indian Nation held a naming ceremony for J63, the youngest member of J-Pod. She will be known as “Ts’ele7álhse”, meaning “heart of the Salish Sea”. Read the article at the link below for additional information about the ceremony. www.goskagit.com/anacortes/th...
'They have always been our relatives': Samish Indian Nation names baby orca
The Samish Indian Nation held a naming ceremony Sunday, Sept. 6, for the region’s latest baby Southern Resident orca whale.
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Birds are migrating! Turn off your lights at night. 100s of 1000s in the sky. Amazing annual journey share.google/RcmSZZTel5fA...
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Mission We use weather radar to detect and predict the numbers and flight directions of migrating birds aloft to support bird conservation and expand our understanding of migratory bird movement. ...
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In Jeju, Korea, a community of women are well-known for their freediving skills. But now: "I've worked at the sea for about 45 years, earned money, and sent my children to school on it. Now the catch has run dry, and it makes me very sad." japantoday.com/category/fea...
'Slumping' South Korean corals worry divers, scientists studying climate change
Ko Myeong-hyo loved the vibrant color and thriving life of South Korea's soft corals when she first began diving off the coast of Jeju island six years ago, looking to harvest seafood for sale. "...
japantoday.com
The winners of this year's Ocean Photographer of the Year have been announced! From the depths of our oceans to their sunlit surface, the winning images invite us to peer into a world that would otherwise remain unknown, stirring reflection on our ocean inhabitants.
Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 winners announced - Oceanographic
The winners of the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026, presented by Oceanographic and Blancpain, have been revealed.
oceanographicmagazine.com
A lake sturgeon alive today may have been born before the Mayflower sailed—and more than 150 years before the United States existed. Females can take decades to mature before spawning. We can dismantle in a generation what evolution built to persist for centuries.
This Giant Fish Could Be 400 Years Old—Which Means It Would Have Been Alive Before the United States Existed
The fish’s extreme lifespan could reshape how conservationists protect it.
popularmechanics.com
We have a chance to turn the tide. If world leaders act swiftly, they can protect at least 30% of the ocean by 2030 — giving marine life space to recover, helping stabilise our climate, safeguarding the livelihoods of billions of people, and securing a thriving planet for generations to come.
Let’s Turn the Tide to Protect 30% of the Ocean by 2030 - Greenpeace International
Call on your government to start implementing protected ocean sanctuaries.
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The future of coral reefs is worrying. The latest report from the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network found that a succession of marine heatwaves over the past three decades has destroyed at least 9.5% of the world's corals. 🪸 Here’s what you need to know: https://ow.ly/wIrg50ZLe5b
Another dolphin that is perilously close to extinction... the vaquita... #vaquita #dolphins #cetaceans #porpoise #endangeredspecies #extinction #redlist a-z-animals.com/articles/can...
With Fewer Than 10 of These Animals Left, Can the Species Be Saved?
There are only 10 or less of this little porpoise species left in the world. What can be done to save the vaquita?
a-z-animals.com
🍃🌹🌿Have you signed this petition to protect the last remaining 48 Maui Dolphins? #nzpol www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/09/09/i...
Iwi petition hits 10k signatures to ban bottom trawling and save the last 48 māui dolphins
Ngāti Te Wehi has gained 10,000 signatures to stop bottom trawling in Māui dolphin habitats, hoping the government will take action as the number reduces to 48.
teaonews.co.nz
🌊 We’re not protecting our oceans as well as we think: new research <2% of the ocean falls inside marine protected areas where ecosystems are actually recovering… and that’s an optimistic estimate. theconversation.com/were-not-pro...
We’re not protecting our oceans as well as we think: new research
Overfishing and poor enforcement are just two reasons marine ecosystems are struggling to recover.
theconversation.com
On September 4th, J-Pod exited Admiralty Inlet and started their trek north to the Strait of Georgia. They passed the west side of San Juan Island at dusk, giving us just a glimpse of them before it got too dark to see. Here is a serene video highlight compilation of the encounter. #orcas #whalesky
J-Pod at Dusk
YouTube video by Orca Behavior Institute
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It's International Manatee Day! Featured partner: Centro de Conservación De Manatíes del Caribe! We are so glad to be able to support their amazing work!
We don’t need to "save the planet." The planet will be fine. We need to save the conditions that allow human civilization to thrive. Let's be clear about the stakes.
♥️💞♥️ Sat, Sep 5 J pod moved up Admiralty Inlet in resting mode, awoke in a lively lovely breach-fest south of Bush Pt (Skunk Bay video), continued along Whidbey, exited inland Puget Sound waters, headed NW & ended their Friday off west San Juan Island at nightfall. ♥️ #psws youtu.be/vEXGv-IhyMI?...
An Orca Breach Fest - September 4, 2026
YouTube video by skunkbayweather
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'Shock' dugong decline in Gulf of Carpentaria prompts calls for more research, fishing bans
Researchers find dugong numbers halved in Gulf of Carpentaria
New research finds the number of dugongs in the Gulf of Carpentaria — one of the animal's most globally important populations — has halved in the past two decades, a decline scientists have called a "real shock".
abc.net.au
Nature and Science! Beauty beyond belief and new knowledge we keep finding! scienceblog.com/k-a-single-f...
A single female elephant seal was fitted with a depth logger and sent back to sea, and it turned out she was diving more than a mile straight down into darkness so complete it has never seen sunlight,...
A creature built for extremes reveals the ocean's most inhospitable depths through the eyes of a single tagged female, rewriting what we thought possible for a marine mammal's body and mind.
scienceblog.com
FUN FACT If we switched to all renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half, slashing global CO2 emissions. Because those ships are JUST carrying coal, oil and gas. ~ Bill McKibben SUPPORT ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES!
