First Blue Whales of 2012!
The Geographe Bay whale season has welcomed its largest visitors this week, with the appearance of the blue whales! Chris Burton (Western Whale Research) has been conducting land-based surveys from […]
Whales have arrived!
Chris Burton (Western Whale Research) and Ron Glencross (Dunsborough Coast and Landcare) – two of the founding members of SouWEST – were out at Pt Picquet last week and had […]
Proposed Australian Marine Reserves Network
The Australian government has revealed a proposal to create the world’s largest network of marine parks. The marine reserves will cover 3.1 million square kilometres of ocean, protecting more than […]
Australian Geographic Society Sponsorship
The Australian Geographic Society has offered to sponsor the research efforts of SouWEST! The support of Australian Geographic will allow us to run the 2012 field season in Geographe Bay […]
SouWEST in the Media
Curtin University recently published a media release about SouWEST and the work that we do: Saving Western Australia’s Iconic Whales by Andrea Barnard “Curtin University’s Centre for Marine Science and […]
Bye Blues!
So our 2011 field season officially ended last week. On Wednesday the remaining members of the theodolite team packed up and returned to Perth. This was a fantastic season and […]
Calves, fluke ups AND two types of cake!
What a fabulous weekend Slightly lower whale numbers than last weekend, suggesting we may be coming to the end of the season. But what we lacked in numbers was made […]
Onwards and Upwards!
We have just passed the 600 visitor mark for the SouWEST website! Hurrah! It’s wonderful that we have had so much interest since the website’s creation a mere two weeks […]
Whales at Sunset
What an amazing week! We have had a steady stream of blue whales coming through each day, culminating with a SouWEST record of 16 blues yesterday! Most of the blue […]
The Start of a Blue-tiful Season!
BLUE WHALE!!! We saw our first blue whale of the season today! We had been wrestling with uncooperative equipment for a while and had just switched to manual observations when […]
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