Message from Julio Cardoso Diretor/Coordenador Projeto Baleia a Vista: "The first humpbacks were seen last april 16th and since then we have seen mainly juveniles humpbacks almost everyday and in a growing number every day and some are very actives (breaching, tail slapping) just in the areas of shipping routing. We have call alert system (whales inside the channel) about 2 or 3 times per week since then. The São Sebastião Port, the Tebar (Oil Terminal) and the Ferryboats are

In 2025 the Whale Guardians teamed up with our Brazilian Partners at Instituto Baleia Jubarte and funded additional whale surveys on the offshore or easterly portions of the Abrolhos Bank in Brazil. These surveys made it clear that the season where the vessels of the international fleet needed to transit a bit futrther to the east and off the entire Bank needed to be extended by one month. So the routing document for Abrolhos has officially been extended to include the month

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Written by Cristóbal González Comella · The white blue whale our team encountered earlier this month during their 5-week long expedition in Loreto, Mexico is the blue whale that has the strongest visual component of albinism in the world. It was first officially documented in 1997 at the very same region of the Sea of Cortez where our team had their experience. This blue whale has been observed over the past few decades between the Oregon and Baja California Sur coastlines.

Vports Initiative Uses Port Monitoring System to Prevent Vessel Collisions with Humpback Whales Along the Coast of Espírito Santo. Vports began the year with national recognition in the field of sustainability. The company won second place at the 2025 ANTAQ Award , in the Innovative Initiatives category, with a whale protection project developed in partnership with the Instituto Baleia Jubarte and the international organization Great Whale Conservancy , in the waters off Es

Standing in the very same room at the Royal Geographical society in London, where Sir Richard Burton described his role in the discovery of the source of the Nile, and Darwin illuminated the world with proofs for the theory of evolution by natural selection, Michael Fishbach, CEO & Co-Founder of Whale Guardians, in his usual tone of inquiry, encouraged the crowd of biologists and conservationists to work together. A fragment of the presentation. "How many of you consider you

👑 On the 28th of January our CEO and Co-Founder Michael Fishbach had the honour of meeting King Charles in a Shipping Convening organised by Sustainable Markets Initiative . The convening brought together CEOs from ship owners, logistics, ports, data analytics, insurance, banks and satellite monitoring to collaborate on innovative financing, risk-sharing, and market mechanisms that make sustainable shipping commercially viable and attractive. We were pleased to see that

18 months of scientific research study completed on the whales seasonally present in the general entry area to the port region of Ensenada, Mexico. Local biologists, led by Jasivi Arcos-Dias under permit with Professor Gustavo Cardenas , have completed 18 months of 4x monthly day-long surveys, all done under the guidance of Michael Fishbach. The conclusions are that a number of great whale species are at great risk from transiting ships unaware that the area is critical to w

Whale Guardianstm proudly announces their partnership with Bogerd Martin and Luxspace. The partnership sets out to provide shipping lines, p

A few weeks ago I attended the CLIA Cruising Week in Genoa to represent Whale Guardians™ at the world’s leading cruising industry conference

Granting legal personhood to living creatures & natural entities is a protective tool. Personhood grants certain rights under the law. This

Abstract "In natural systems, animal-mediated nutrient transport can be a major driver of primary productivity, but the role of marine...

This short 3 minute segment aired on live TV March 30th, 2023, featuring our very own Michael Fishbach and Delphi Waters talking about...

In the latest episode of SeaLegacy | The Voyage, Sony Artisan & SeaLegacy co-founder Paul Nicklen is joined by Whale Guardians™

Nine Official Whale Guardians™ Rerouting Documents Implemented between 2020 & 2022, with even more planned for 2023! This is a critical win

Whale Guardians™ Program Implements Two Shipping Lane Rerouting Documents To Protect Whales From Unintentional Vessel Strikes

"After going to the Atacama desert in Chile for the Whale Guardians™ Reroutring Document Implementation Ceremony in Mejillones Chile, I...

This gives us and the whales a "Proof of Concept ''

On August 5, 2022 the Whale Guardians Team along with our partners at Baleia Jubarte delivered a detailed proposal to the managers of the la

This document aims to be a summary for all shipping companies and their mariners in regard of the regulatory and voluntary whale protection