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Written by Fabien Vivier We are pleased to announce a new publication  in Animal Conservation  entitled: Inferring dolphin population status: using unoccupied aerial systems to quantify age-structure.     Abstract: Assessing trends in population abundance and demographics is crucial for managing long-lived and slow-reproducing species. Obtaining demographic data, and age-structure information, is challenging, notably for cetaceans. To address this, we combined Unoccupied Aeri

It’s mid-January 2021, and the first gray whales ( Eschrichtius robustus ) from the eastern North Pacific population have started to arrive in the breeding lagoons in Baja California, Mexico. Since the start of their southbound migration from their high latitude feeding grounds, several sightings of emaciated gray whales have already been reported along their migration route. This has raised concern among scientists that the unusual mortality event (UME, an unexpected phenom