Erich Hoyt
Erich is a Research Fellow at WDC and Co-chair of the IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force. He is a director of the Far East Russian Orca Project (FEROP).
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Two orcas taken in illegal capture in Russia
Two killer whales were captured in recent weeks in Nikolaya Gulf, in the southwestern Sea of Okhotsk, the Russian Far East. The captors are reporting…
Read MoreWDC Report Captures the Attention of NZ Politicians
New Zealand’s endemic dolphin species (the Hector’s dolphin and its subspecies Maui’s dolphin) have been in rapid decline since the 1970s due to fisheries by…
Read MoreAre whale watching boats the greatest collision threat to whales?
“Revealed: whale-watching boats the greatest collision threat to whales” — this big hype headline sadly comes from The Guardian which is normally more careful about reporting.…
Read MoreRussian authorities recommend quota for 10 orca captures in 2014
Recommendations to take 10 more killer whales from the Russian Far East in 2014 were made yesterday, 19 March 2014, by TINRO, the Pacific Research…
Read MoreNew Zealand Dolphin – How to lose the race to extinction, Part 1
Extinction is a sensitive word in New Zealand. Around the world, people have an image of New Zealand as a wild, natural landscape with protected…
Read MoreScientists ponder the question of orcas captured in Russia
A highlight of this week’s Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, in Dunedin, New Zealand, was the panel discussion on killer whales in…
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