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Projects

Since 1996 we work in the Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) in Banderas Bay Photoidentification Project, known as FIBB Catalog. Until the season 2008-2009 the catalog has 1,342 different individuals photoidentified and a database of 3,268 registers. Right now we are working with the 700 registers obtained during the last season 2009-2010. We expect that at least 120 of this registers to be new whales.

In 2006 we started the Humpback Whale in Isabel Island, Nayarit, Photoidentification Project. The results of our first field season will support the Mexican National Park System (CONANP) to establish a protected maritime area of 5 to 10 km around the Isabel Island National Park. In the near future we expect to compare the behavior of the humpback whales around Isabel Island, an area almost free from navigation, with the behavior of humpback whales in Banderas Bay.

In 2009 we collaborated with the National Comision for the Protection of National Parks (CONANP) on the project: Action Plan for the Conservation of Species: Humpback Whale (PACE). Right now we are working with the Autonomous University of Baja California Sur (UABCS) in the Regional Protection Program for Humpback Whales in Los Cabos, BCS and Banderas Bay, Rincon de Guayabitos y San Blas (Jalisco and Nayarit Coast). This project is sponsored by CONANP.

In 2004, 2005 and 2006 we participated with the international research project SPLASH (Structure of Populations, Levels of Abundance and Status of Humpback Whales in the North Pacific), and with the NOPP OBIS SEA MAP (Maping and Distribution of the Humpback Whales in the North Pacific). We also collaborate on the Humpback Whale National Catalog with the National University of Mexico, UNAM and the Autonomous University of Baja California Sur, UABCS. We participate in the Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) identification project of the Technological Institute of Banderas Bay and with Olive Ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) protection and conservation projects in Jalisco and Nayarit