Keeping tabs on the Aegean’s and the world’s cetaceans

The sight of a humpback whale in the Mediterranean is rare. Just 45 have been spotted, photographed and recorded over the past decades. They are visitors who have passed through the Strait of Gibraltar, undertaking a unique kind of "exploratory tourism." When a large humpback whale was spotted and photographed in 2020 in the waters of the northern part of the western Mediterranean, researchers discovered that it had only been photographed once before then. It was in the waters of the Dominican Republic in 1986! "A traveling soul," who nevertheless likes to travel incognito…

Whales are very special creatures that need protection. Like all cetaceans living in our seas, they are indicators of the quality of the marine environment. Pollution, degradation and destruction of their habitats, the decline in fish stocks and therefore their food resources are placing unbearable...