This short 3 minute segment aired on live TV March 30 2023, featuring our very own Michael Fishbach and Delphi Waters talking about the importance of whale feces. This is a short that proceeds a longer 24 minute episode, airing on April 1st as part of the CNN Call To Earth series with official guest editors Cristina Mittermeier and Paul Nicklen. Follow this link to watch the full video. https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2023/03/30/michael-fishbach-whales-c2e-spc-intl.cnn ..read more

Our week 3 guests hailed from New Jersey, England, North Carolina, and California and all were old friends of ours. Our week 4 guests were from Virginia, California, and England and included shipping industry personnel and their friends and marine colleagues. The general story of the 2023 season is now clear. It is a very poor year for food production in our working area and whale numbers are as low as we have ever seen them. Blue whales are astonishingly a rare sight these past 2 weeks. Still, we have had fabulous encounters with humpback, Bryde's, and fin whales, and numerous super energetic ..read more

We are overjoyed to welcome the inspiring human & conservation powerhouse, Mitty, to our board of advisors. We can't wait to exponentially increase the number of whale lives saved across the globe through our Whale Guardians™ Program with her by our side. Read on to learn about some of the ways that Cristina has dedicated her everyday life to active conservation efforts across the globe. "World-renowned conservationist and photographer Cristina "Mitty" Mittermeier believes that stunning visual storytelling conservation powerhouses the key to unlocking critical action to help heal our ocea ..read more

ORCAS AGAIN, & A FEW NICE WHALES Our week 2 guests hailed from Washington DC, Virginia, and California For the second consecutive week our first day brought an orca encounter. That in itself is highly unusual. This encounter included 17 orcas in 4 groups that coalesced into 3 groups. As the images will show this was a fabulous encounter with a lot of time spent in very close proximity to some very curious orcas. They are amazing animals and to see so many of them in such calm seas was a thrill for everyone. All these orcas were traveling south, and there was no hunting or feeding observed ..read more

Our very own Michael and Delphi were featured in this episode of The Voyage by Sealegacy and Sony. Give it a watch and let us know what you think! "In the latest episode of SeaLegacy | The Voyage, Sony Artisan & SeaLegacy co-founder Paul Nicklen is joined by a group of scientists (Whale Guardians™ Founders & Directors) to explore how the iconic blue whale plays an important role to our entire ecosystem. Get up close and personal with the largest animal to ever live on earth. https://youtu.be/Fn4utgjHZoI Join the Tide, our monthly recurring giving program, to help SeaLegacy amplify its ..read more

OFF WITH A BANG! The 2023 season is underway and our first week offered up quite a start. We began it all with a 2-day vacation in the wettest of places in Baja, the canyon with a million palms. We stayed as guests at our gracious friend Pepe Hevia's ranch, where avocado and fruit trees covered the property. THEN: Our week 1 wonderful and very helpful guests hailed from Kentucky, Florida, California, and North Carolina. But week one was not just hosting these guests. We began the week filming with our dear friends Paul and Cristina at SeaLegacy, and a lovely small film crew from CNN for a spec ..read more

https://youtu.be/1fsYmmGJhoo Whale Guardians x Transpetro Trailer - Full Video Coming Soon! On August 5, 2022 the Whale Guardians Team along with our partners at Baleia Jubarte & Baleia a Vista delivered a detailed proposal to the managers of the large oil terminal at the Port of Sao Sebastiao in Brazil. This proposal will guide the ships entering and exiting this important port so as to avoid the most heavily used Humpback, Southern Right, and Bryde's whale habitat in a manner that has a very minimal addition in the time and distance any individual ship transit takes. The team at Trans Pe ..read more

“Euronav wants to set the example for the industry,” says Hugo de Stoop, CEO of Euronav. “We have looked into the different voluntary measures and the commercial impact for our operations is insignificant, whereas the impact for the local whale habitats is huge. If large ships stay out of the critical breeding and feeding habitats of these magnificent animals, we can reduce the ship strike problem drastically and improve the quality of life of those mammals so that they can mate and gradually grow their population. These elementary measures are the right thing for us to do as a responsible shi ..read more

"Our results say that if we restore whale populations to pre-whaling levels seen at the beginning of the 20th century, we’ll restore a huge amount of lost function to ocean ecosystems," said Nicholas Pyenson, co-author and curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian’s National Museum. "It may take a few decades to see the benefit, but it’s the clearest read yet about the massive role of large whales on our planet." "Further analysis supports the need for whales as the amount of krill in places like the Southern Ocean have significantly dropped since the early 1900s. The amount of nutri ..read more

The Great Whale Conservancy (GWC), in collaboration with our friends at CIFAMAC, are very happy to announce the release of our voluntary proposal to minimize ship strikes on great whales in and around the region of Mejillones, Chile. This region has had numerous documented whale deaths from ship strikes on blue, fin, humpback, and Bryde's whales recently. The GWC/CIFAMAC collaboration features whale biologist Ana Garcia Cegarra from CIFAMAC, along with the team from GWC, Michael Fishbach, Michael Barbaix (super tanker ship captain), and Delphi Waters. The proposal combines years of whale data ..read more