25 March 2024.
Oryx, the International Journal of Conservation, from Fauna and Flora International, has published a conservation news article celebrating the 10th anniversary of the founding of the IUCN SSC-WCPA Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force. At the same time, they have noted the Important Marine Mammal Areas, IMMAs, in danger in the Black Sea where three subspecies of endemic bottlenose and common dolphins and the harbour porpoise have suffered to an as yet unknown extent due to the ongoing war, in northern Gulf of California for the vaquita, and along the southeastern Mozambique coast for Indian Ocean humpback dolphins and dugong.
The Oryx article is open access: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/important-marine-mammal-areas-celebratedyet-some-are-now-in-danger/39B31227E56D976BD3E79CEBED1CA1EF?fbclid=IwAR075Xsu_leEYrPZVlmyjAeE2LUNErfKjbdMVUw7UOAJ6d2qQtOTBxtx_TE
Find out more about IMMAs in danger here: https://www.marinemammalhabitat.org/imma-celebrated-yet-now-in-danger/
Find out about the individual IMMAs mentioned in the Black Sea, northern Gulf of California and southeastern Mozambique by clicking on the IMMAs found on the e-Atlas: https://www.marinemammalhabitat.org/imma-eatlas/
