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To promote conservation of marine mammals and their habitats through scientific research and educational outreach. Now on Bluesky @bmmro.bsky.social

Bahamas

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Jan 14, 2025
Please see our paper published yesterday on the recent challenges of conducting scientific research in the Bahamas;
mdpi.com
Implementation of Access and Benefit Sharing in The Bahamas: A Precautionary Tale
Biodiversity is incredibly important for the myriad ecosystem services it provides, especially for coastal nations such as The Bahamas. However, the newly implemented access and benefit sharing (ABS)...
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Dec 13, 2024
We are back in the Sea of Abaco assessing the current status of the dolphin population impacted by hurricane Dorian. We encountered 15 individual animals. There were three mother-calf pairs and eight of the dolphins are in our catalogue, one first documented here in 1992!
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Nov 9, 2024
Wonderful week #GCFI77 in Guadeloupe sharing knowledge and creating new collaborations.
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Oct 30, 2024
Being interviewed by our BREEF BESS intern Journey about the threats to marine mammals that the proposed development in south Abaco might cause; bnt.bs/news/kakona-de… environmental.kakona.com
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Oct 16, 2024
Nice encounter yesterday. Conducting research of beaked whales for our Vital Rates project addressing reproductive success and other vital life functions. This work includes using any skin samples collected for an epigenetics study to compare biological to chronological age.