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Cred to @orcatalkoz Your chance to help killer whale research in Australia! 🌏🐋💙 Want to help dedicated killer whale research in Australia and get some cool orca merchandise as well?? We have teamed up with Australian artists, designers and eco-friendly production teams to create a unique variety of goods illustrating our local Australian orca population by some incredible artists. Watch this space, our campaign is coming soon! 🎉🙌🏽😁🌊💦💙🐋🐬 #projectorca #orcatalkoz #killerwhaleresearchaustralia

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Credit to @pnwprotectors "Killer whale (Orcinus orca) abundance in the Bremer Sub-Basin.” 🌏🌊🐬 • A HUGE congratulations to our Honours student Emily Evans handing in her thesis at CMST, Curtin University today. Emily's Honours thesis is titled "Killer whale (Orcinus orca) abundance in the Bremer Sub-Basin, Western Australia: A photo-identification study". 🐋🌊💦🌏 Emily has been busy this year crunching and analyzing data, going through thousands of images taken of the Bremer killer whales. 📷🐬 Her research looked into an abundance estimate of the killer whales found in the Bremer Sub-Basin during the Austral summer and fall using photo identification and non-invasive mark-recapture techniques. 📷🐋📷 • This research is a first in Australia for the killer whale populations found in our waters 🌏🌏Very exciting work and we are so proud of you Emily! Well done! 👏🏽✨🎉 #projectorca #orcatalkoz #killerwhaleresearchaustralia

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Post from @orcatalkoz ~ POLLUTION ~ Ask most people about pollution, and they will think of rubbish, plastic, oil, smog, and chemicals ☢️🚯When you hear that word - what do you imagine? Have you ever thought about noise pollution? 🎵🔇🎵 Marine mammals rely heavily on acoustic communication. Light doesn’t reach far under water. So many marine animals have evolved to “see with sound”, using acoustics for navigation, for detecting predators and prey, and for communicating with other members of their species. And our man-made sound can interfere with these behaviours. 🛳✈️⛴ Before I go on about this (and as an acoustician believe me- this topic is close to my heart and what I study!) I urge you to watch "Sonic Sea". A real eye opener. And before you feel the doom and gloom of conservation issues we face today - find solace in knowing that one positive in all of this is that even though noise pollution travels very fast and very far through the ocean, the moment you switch off the source, the noise is gone. This is very much unlike plastic or chemical pollution, and gives us hope that noise pollution can be successfully managed. Here's some Bremer killer whales out near the shipping channel. Bremer really is a unique area, so far offshore in a pristine environment- let's keep working to keep it that way! • • #projectorca #killerwhaleresearchaustralia #orcatalkoz #sonicsea #pollution #noisepollution