Kate Sprogis

🐳 Southern right whale migration routes 🐳 🇦🇷 Argentina, Siguiendo Ballenas 🇳🇿 New Zealand, Tohorā Voyages 🇦🇺 Australia, Mirnong Maat 🇿🇦 South Africa, Whale Unit 🇬🇸 South Georgia Right Whale Project by L.Oliveira, Instituto Aqualie #rightwhale southernrightwhaleconsortium.org

New study quantifies how body size and condition affect fasting endurance in right whales. Southern right whales can fast ~17 months, but a severely entangled North Atlantic right whale may only survive ~50 days. #RightWhales #marinescience bit.ly/meps_768_99

🎉 Historic day for the ocean! With ratifications from Sri Lanka, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Sierra Leone & Morocco, the High Seas Treaty has hit 60 ratifications, triggering its entry into force. 🌊💙 Read our press release: highseasalliance.org/2025/09/19/his…

Big ocean conservation news: 60 countries have ratified the landmark #HighSeasTreaty, paving the way for countries to establish a network of high seas marine protected areas and helping governments meet global #30x30 goals. 📸 Francois Baelen/Ocean Image Bank

🎉BREAKING: The High Seas Treaty has reached 60 ratifications — enough to enter into force! This landmark agreement creates a pathway to help protect the high seas — waters beyond any one country’s authority that cover nearly half our planet. oceana.ly/3VqpI2Y

Body size & condition set fasting limits in right whales. A healthy southern right whale may endure ~17 months without food, while an entangled North Atlantic right whale could survive only ~50 days doi.org/10.3354/meps14… Photos: FC & Center for Coastal Studies (NOAA 24359)

@FinntasticLeena @AucklandUni @royalsocietynz @docgovtnz @AntarcticaSouth @iwc_int @Macquarie_Uni @UWAresearch @AliDrifting @GoffAndrews @RobHarcourt @alex_zerbini @EmzLCarroll Congratulations Leena and team 🤓

New paper alert!🚨 Satellite tracking reveals southern right whales🐳feed in key high seas area, outside of existing protections. shorturl.at/2Vgst Funders: @AucklandUni @royalsocietynz LiveOcean @docgovtnz @AntarcticaSouth @iwc_int SORP @Macquarie_Uni RaeFamilyFoundation

🐋Discover how new #UWA research on whale feeding grounds and how they are used can help shape the recovery and long-term resilience of the species.🐳@UWAresearch @BiolSci_UWA @uwaoceans @AucklandUni @UWAAlbanyCentre @KateSprogis uwa.au/xvvkf0

🌊#UWA students had a whale of a time on their Marine Mammal Science field camp 🐋🐬🐳 on Merningar/Menang Boodjar in Kinjarling/Albany, WA️. More details ▶️ uwa.au/y6pbht @UWAAlbanyCentre @uwaoceans @BiolSci_UWA #MarineMammalScience #UWAmarinemammalscience

The Society for Marine Mammalogy’s Official List of Marine Mammal Species and Subspecies has been updated. Visit the SMM website for the full list: marinemammalscience.org/science-and-pu… Image: Uko Gorter 2025 #SMM #Marinemammal

To protect life on Earth, we must safeguard the ocean. In his lifetime, Sir David Attenborough has seen the ocean go from mystery to what he calls Earth's most vital ecosystem. In #OceanFilm, he recalls his first dive – a moment of awe. #UNOC @Silverback_Films @OpenPlanetOrg

BlueCorridors.org, a new platform that maps 30 years of whale tracking alongside threats & real-world solutions, offers hope. RT if you ❤️whales! 🐋

Half of all great whale species are at risk. Their ancient migration routes, known as blue corridors, are under threat.

READER PIC 📸 A spectacular photo of the moon rise behind Corndarup/Mt Clarence over Princess Royal Harbour on Australia Day, taken by our reader Kate Sprogis. Send your photos to news@albanyadvertiser.com for the chance to be featured in the paper.

Australia's most endangered marsupial and rarest marsupial in the world, the Gilbert's potoroo, is back thanks to 30 years of conservation efforts. ow.ly/4TB050UVnB9

Male Amazon river dolphins have been documented rolling upside down and firing urine into the air - and other dolphins seem to follow the stream. #Echobox=1738514412" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/246628…

#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's landmark book 'On the Origin of Species' was first published. The work is one of the foundations of evolutionary biology, and one of the most important scientific works of the 19th century. #HistoryOfScience

Humpback whale distribution in north-west Australia New paper quantifying Exmouth Gulf as a high density area for whales: an important nursery area Sprogis, Sutton, Jenner & Jenner 2024. Australian Journal of Zoology. Free download: publish.csiro.au/zo/ZO24020

A new paper by lead author OI Member @KateSprogis has recommended protection measures for a humpback whale nursery ground in the Exmouth Gulf in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. uwa.edu.au/news/article/2…