New northernmost distribution records of the Eastern South Pacific southern right whale (Eubalaena australis), including the first cases from Ecuador and northern Peru.

Conservation implications The new records obtained of SRW are highly significant; however, their habitat, being so close to the coast, spatially coincides with anthropogenic activities including vessel traffic, fishing, unsustainable tourism, and marine pollution, all of which are considered potentially significant threats to the study population [ 61 – 64 ].

also in 132,142 other papers