Ports act as a funnel for incoming and outgoing vessels - bringing high concentrations of maritime traffic into areas where whales may be present. This makes port regions key areas for reducing the risk of ship-whale collisions. At Whale Guardians, we focus on turning data into practical action. 🐋 When a whale-sensitive region on the map above is linked to seasonal or year-round recommendations, that information is available through our API, making it easy to integrate our w

Members of the Whale Guardians team, including local manager Greg Vogt of Durban, South Africa, and Michael and Galen Fishbach and Heather Watrous from the US, are presently in the Western Cape of South Africa, meeting with environmental ministry, local whale tour operators and biologists, all of whom have valuable roles to play and contributions to make in Whale Guardians' coordinated effort to protect whales in South African waters. It is presently the high season for South

In this article, I, Capt. Michael Barbaix, will explain why whales and the “rules of the road” for ships can be a blessing for each other, and why sometimes they “collide” (blink, blink, blink) with each other… First, a bit of history. Ships have been navigating the world’s oceans for centuries. But as maritime traffic became busier, simply giving every vessel the freedom to sail wherever it wanted was no longer sufficient. After multiple head-on ship collisions in the busy w

Kpler is a global leader in maritime and trade intelligence, tracking the movement of the world’s merchant fleet through AIS data, satellite imagery, and proprietary analytics. Every day, our platform processes more than 1.5 billion AIS messages, giving us one of the most complete pictures available of where ships are, where they are heading, and how traffic patterns shift over time and across seasons. That same visibility is exactly what whale conservation needs. Many of the

Copied & translated from: https://www.maritime.bg/151465/ On September 8, 2026, a life-size inflatable model of a female blue whale, approximately 28 meters long, will be unveiled at the entrance to the Sea Garden in Varna. The whale is named Star and will focus public and professional attention on a serious, but still insufficiently recognized problem – unintentional collisions between ships and whales. The initiative is organized by the global Whale Guardians program, with

Argentina: Golfo Nuevo, Peninsula Valdes Australia: Consider reducing vessel speed and modest course alteration in areas where cetaceans have been sighted. Brazil: Abrolhos, Vitoria, South Bar Pilot Station, Sao Sebastiao Canada: Artic, North East Saguenay St Lawrence, North East St Lawrence, US West Chile: Antofogasta, Mejillones Costa Rica: Gulf of Nicoya & Osa peninsula Dominican Republic: Silver Bank Greece Hellenic Trench New Zealand North-Western Mediterrean Sea Oman: p

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