WDCS in the Arctic
Ozone depletion and global warming threaten whales, dolphins and porpoises world wide, but nowhere are the impacts more prominent than in the polar regions. Around ten percent of all the world's riverine discharge flow into the Arctic Ocean, resulting in elevated pollution levels - a particular concern for whales, dolphins and porpoises as marine top predators. Some populations of narwhals, belugas and bowheads are still threatened by hunting.
WDCS's historical contribution to this region has included conservation projects to protect:
Issues WDCS is currently working on in this region:
Whaling
WDCS Species Programme
  Stop Bloody Whaling
A new threat to the world-wide ban on commercial whaling is looming. For years, Japan, Norway and Iceland have tried to overturn the moratorium on commercial whaling that was imposed by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 1986.
2008-February-20 |
|
