Heavily decimated during the whaling era, the sei whale remains a modern-day enigma, rarely encountered in most parts of the world and with almost nothing known about its populations, ecology or ...

Dr Caroline Weir, Sei Whale Project lead for Falklands Conservation said, “We are incredibly proud of achieving this Key Biodiversity Area for endangered Sei whales, which is the culmination of ...

During the 1920s and 1930s, whaling ships operating along and beyond Argentina's shores decimated the sei whale population, driving them to the brink of extinction. The once-thriving presence of ...

Image credits: WAspearfisherman (YouTube) Now, nearly 100 years later, people are rejoicing because of the increasing whale sightings in their ancestral waters, with sei whales returning to ...

Japan responded by ending the high seas component of its sei whale hunt (reducing the take of sei whales from 134 to 25). It has continued, however, to allow the sale of thousands of tons of illegally ...

Why are whales dying in record numbers? And is the crisis man made? Biologist Ella Al-Shamahi joins a specialist autopsy into the death of a 40-foot sei whale, washed up near Edinburgh.

Some whale species evade killer whales by singing ... as their name suggests. They include blue, sei, fin, minke and Bryde’s whales. These whales — which are usually found in the open ocean ...

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The whales that travel in groups and are more likely to fight a killer whale, include right ... are more prone to flight include blue, fin, sei, Bryde’s and minke whales. Trevor Branch, a ...

Japan set a combined catch quota of 379 for the three other whale species: minke, Bryde’s and sei whales. The country’s only large-scale whaling fleet operator, Kyodo Senpaku Co, launched the ...