Decisions on how to tackle oil spill prevention and response and the way ahead with a photographic identification progamme for the Western Gray Whale are amongst the outcomes of the first meeting of the new Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel and Sakhalin Energy Investment Company, which was convened by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) recently. The new panel will continue to advise Sakhalin Energy on the impacts of the Sakhalin II offshore oil and gas development in the Russian Far East on the critically endangered Western Gray Whale population.
The area serves as the summer feeding ground of the Western Gray Whale population. However, IUCN is also keen to see other oil and gas companies working in the region, participate in this new process.
http://www.iucn.org/en/news/archive/2006/11/20_whale.htm
Please also see:
Western Gray Whale
(photo source)
http://www.nrdc.org/wildlife/habitat/esa/international01.asp
Bottom trawling: world watches EU, Canada, South Korea and Russia
http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/the-expedition/news/bottom-trawling-eu
Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society http://www.wdcs.org
Whalewatch http://www.whalewatch.org
The area serves as the summer feeding ground of the Western Gray Whale population. However, IUCN is also keen to see other oil and gas companies working in the region, participate in this new process.
http://www.iucn.org/en/news/archive/2006/11/20_whale.htm
Please also see:
Western Gray Whale
(photo source)
http://www.nrdc.org/wildlife/habitat/esa/international01.asp
Bottom trawling: world watches EU, Canada, South Korea and Russia
http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/the-expedition/news/bottom-trawling-eu
Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society http://www.wdcs.org
Whalewatch http://www.whalewatch.org