Western gray whales

This document is a practical guide to the responsible and effective planning of offshore geophysical surveys and other forms of environmental imaging.

This document is a practical guide to the responsible and effective planning of offshore geophysical surveys and other forms of environmental imaging.

IUCN, as a neutral forum for objectively-based consensus seeking, is facing an ever-increasing demand to conduct independent scientific reviews of controversial development projects. As IUCN gains experience in conducting such processes, it is important to document which approaches lead to success and which ones cause problems, and to draw all these lessons into a more established methodology.

The population of western gray whales numbers only about 100 animals and is classified on IUCN's Red List as "critically endangered".