​​​Giving whales the right of way over ships  - WWF.CA Ice whales make marathon underwater migrations across the Arctic Ocean, but the safety of their "blue corridors" is under threat from growing ship traffic.

🌊🐋 This #WorldWhaleWeek, let’s give whales the right of way! Ship traffic is a major threat to these gentle giants, but *Blue Corridors* are creating safer waters for them to thrive.

🔗 Dive into how we can protect whales by reducing collisions and noise pollution.

Protecting the Baltic harbour porpoise: New technology helps WWF find harmful ghost nets - WWF Baltic The Baltic harbour porpoise is critically endangered. One threat is ghost nets, which porpoises risk getting entangled in and drowning when they cannot reach the surface to breathe. However, locating ...

Ghost nets pose a big threat to our sea’s only whale 🐬

Discover what @wwfsverige.bsky.social and @wwf.de are doing to protect the Baltic harbour porpoise in our latest article 🔗 www.wwfbaltic.org/newsroom/marine/finding-harmful-ghost-nets

#BalticSea #WorldWhaleWeek #GhostGear

Whales travel every year to the #Arctic & #Antarctic to feed on krill. But their prey is being affected by #ClimateChange. Less sea ice = less krill and fewer humpback calves. Learn more 👉 wwfwhales.org/news-stories... #WorldWhaleWeek

📸 © Logan Pallin / UCSC. Photo taken under a scientific permit

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🤓 What's YOUR #WhaleEncounter story? Share it with us here and let's celebrate #WorldWhaleWeek together!

In celebration of #WorldWhaleWeek, WWF-Canada's Joshua Ostroff shares his incredible beluga whale encounter in a Baffin Island fjord during a polar expedition.

"It was wild. Watching these amazing belugas, as curious about us as we were about them." 🐳

Having a close encounter with a blue whale 💙🐋 surfacing next to the boat.

👀 Taking your child #WhaleWatching for the 1st time & having “the best day ever.”

Connect with #nature and create wonderful memories like these 👇 from WWF colleagues. #WorldWhaleWeek
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It’s #WorldWhaleWeek! Did you know we have whales right here in our Baltic Sea? 🐬🌍

But the Baltic harbour porpoise is being pushed to extinction from bycatch, noise, pollution, overfishing and climate change. Only a few 100 individuals remain.

Let’s save our only whale, together 🐋