Tracking narwhals

Visit our new narwhal tracker.
These satellite tags were fitted painlessly in order to follow the movements of the narwhal as they go about their annual feeding and reproductive routines, in order to better understand these unique creatures.
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This one is a tremendous example of an effective partnership approach to wildlife conservation work – filling key information gaps (like where are the key areas needed by narwhals at different times of year ? and what are they doing there?), and then sharing the findings with all the main players, including those who make decisions that will affect the long-term human activities in such areas.  In this case, combining forces with local Inuit, and using the very best high-tech equipment like satellite radio technology, allows us to really start addressing these formerly mysterious and impossible questions.
As a lifetime naturalist and wildlife ecologist, I most certainly don’t mind being woken up at 2 a.m. to rush out and start handling narwhal that have swum into the net.  After all, I can catch up on sleep in the winter months when the narwhal are down at 5000 ft feeding on the bottom of Baffin Bay!
Visit our new narwhal tracker.