Next week, Angela Recalde-Salas (Centre for Marine Science and Technology (CMST)) will be attending the Student Conference on Conservation Science Australia. Running from the 21st January to the 1st February […]
Last week the Busselton Dunsborough Times newspaper published an article about the work of SouWEST in Geographe Bay. Featuring a lovely blue whale picture by Chris Burton (Western Whale Research), […]
Some really interesting sightings from up the hill this week, including a humpback whale mega-pod, some large blue whale groups, and a pair of extremely-pigmented humpbacks! On Monday afternoon Angela, […]
On Wednesday, SouWEST researcher Sarah Marley will be giving a free public talk to the Busselton Naturalists Club. The talk will cover information about the history of whales in Geographe […]
It has been a busy week for D-CALC volunteers and Chris Burton of Western Whale Research! The community volunteers have been spending an average of 30hrs per week conducing observations […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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