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Clearing the air: WWF-Canada leadership leads to reduced Arctic ship emissions

April 4, 2024

Arctic communities and wildlife in Canada can now take a deep, clean breath: the International Maritime Organization (IMO) recently announced its approval of an emission control area (ECA). The designation, which imposes strict regulations... Read More

Arctic communities and wildlife in Canada can now take a deep, clean breath: the International Maritime Organization (IMO) recently...
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The Power of Ports: How Canadian Port Authorities can bring change to shipping

December 6, 2023

Marine shipping is integral to our everyday lives — from our food and clothes to cars and electronics, about 80 per cent of the items we use on a daily basis arrived by ship... Read More

Marine shipping is integral to our everyday lives — from our food and clothes to cars and electronics, about...
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Decoding narwhal migration: Insights from a two-decade tracking study

July 24, 2023

A recent study is shedding new light on narwhal migration behaviors, their choice of migration routes, and the factors that influence these patterns — findings that could be critical to the conservation of this... Read More

A recent study is shedding new light on narwhal migration behaviors, their choice of migration routes, and the factors...
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Southern humpback whale looking up in dark blue water.

The need for action on underwater noise pollution is loud and clear

March 13, 2023

WWF-Canada's Hussein Alidina on underwater noise pollution and why it’s critical that Canada act now to turn down the volume. Read More

WWF-Canada's Hussein Alidina on underwater noise pollution and why it’s critical that Canada act now to turn down the...
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An Inuk man watches an icebreaker, Nunavut, Canada

The Arctic needs an Emission Control Area — and it needs one now

September 6, 2022

The shipping industry transports goods around the world — but that’s not all it brings. Eighty-six per cent of international ships burn Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO), the residual product left over from the fuel... Read More

The shipping industry transports goods around the world — but that’s not all it brings. Eighty-six per cent of...
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Humpback whale tail visible from the water.

Listen to the sounds of whales in the Great Bear Sea

July 11, 2022

Below the Great Bear Sea’s surface, this underwater ecosystem abounds with the sound of whales. Take a listen to the sound of three whales. Read More

Below the Great Bear Sea’s surface, this underwater ecosystem abounds with the sound of whales. Take a listen to...
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Speed kills: How to make shipping less deadly for whales

June 8, 2022

A rare fin whale, last spotted alive off the coast of Seattle back in January, tragically washed ashore two months later in Pender Harbour, just north of Vancouver. Less than two years old and... Read More

A rare fin whale, last spotted alive off the coast of Seattle back in January, tragically washed ashore two...
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Killer whale off BC coast with large ship in background

Billions of litres of ship waste are dumped in protected ocean areas each year

March 1, 2022

WWF-Canada’s National Vessel Dumping Assessment reveals for the first time how much waste ships are producing — and potentially leaving behind — as they traverse Canadian waters. Read More

WWF-Canada’s National Vessel Dumping Assessment reveals for the first time how much waste ships are producing — and potentially...
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Blue whale diving with a cargo ship in the background

Making noise for quieter ships: Why we need to reduce underwater noise pollution

January 31, 2022

Commercial shipping is the most significant contributor to underwater noise, and its impacts on marine species and the marine environment have been well-documented worldwide. Yet noise pollution levels are still increasing and affecting some... Read More

Commercial shipping is the most significant contributor to underwater noise, and its impacts on marine species and the marine...
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Freighters stop at the bay of Vancouver at sunset.

How Canada’s shipping industry can reduce its climate change impacts

November 24, 2021

Marine shipping connects the world by supplying essential goods. But while boasting in some cases transportation’s lowest carbon footprint per tonne transported, the industry’s still-significant climate change impacts can no longer be ignored. Canadian... Read More

Marine shipping connects the world by supplying essential goods. But while boasting in some cases transportation’s lowest carbon footprint...
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Giant fin whales return to B.C. rainforest fjord — there’s just one problem

October 5, 2021

By SWAG Project After decades of absence in the wake of whaling, the remote fjords of northern British Columbia are home again to the world’s second-largest whale. Fin whales — the giants known for... Read More

By SWAG Project After decades of absence in the wake of whaling, the remote fjords of northern British Columbia...
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Right whales aren’t the only cetaceans at risk in eastern Canada: Report

July 21, 2021

More than nine out of 10 fatal incidents affecting cetaceans in eastern Canada are not killing North Atlantic right whales, the government’s primary conservation focus, according to a new report by the Marine Animal... Read More

More than nine out of 10 fatal incidents affecting cetaceans in eastern Canada are not killing North Atlantic right...
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