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Inexpensive and easy to use, drones are proving invaluable for activists monitoring illegal fishing, hunting and deforestation – as well as keeping tabs on zoos and aquariums

Global squid fishing increased by 68% between 2017 and 2020, according to our international analysis, prompting concerns that much of the internationa...

Sea Shepherd ship The expedition, led by the renowned beaked whale researcher Dr. Gustavo Cárdenas Hinojosa (National Commission for Nature Reserves, Marine Mammal Research), Dr. Jay Barlow and Dr. Elizabeth Henderson, director of the NIWC PAC’s Whale Acoustic Reconnaissance Program in collaboration with Sea Shepherd’s research division, set out to investigate a species of a beaked whale that could be the cause of a previously unidentified acoustic signal previously recorded in the ar...

A new whale species may have been discovered off a remote island in Mexico Joshua Bote, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT A team of beaked whale researchers are “highly confident” that they have likely identified a new species of whale off Mexico’s western coast. The trio of researchers — Gustavo Hinojosa, Jay Barlow and Elizabeth Henderson — working in conjunction with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society say they detected a rare type of beaked whale first linked to...

Possibly a new species of beaked whale. Image credit: Simon Ager / Sea Shepherd. A team of researchers on board Sea Shepherd vessel Martin Sheen aimed to study the cetaceans present in the waters surrounding San Benito Islands, a group of three remote islands located approximately 483 km (300 miles) from the U.S. border. The scientists set forth to identify a beaked whale species associated with an unidentified acoustic signal previously recorded in the area. On November 17, 2020, they observe...