Overview of Threats to Marine Mammals

1. •    Toxins
   

2. •    Whaling, culling and captivity
   

3. •    Noise (includes impacts of low / mid frequency sonar)
   

4. •    Marine debris
   

5. •    Reduced prey
   

6. •    Marine mammal viewing regulations 
   

7. •    Land to sea transfer of pathogens (i.e. marine mammals getting diseases originating in terrestrial animals)
   

Latest reports on issues facing whales/oceans:  

1. •        Cetacean Sightings Network
   

2. •        Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society  
   

3. •        American Cetacean Society  
   

4. •        Oceana 
   

5. •        David Suzuki Foundation 
   

6. •        National Resource Defence Council
   

7. •        Save Our Salmon