Hi everyone, I wanted to highlight the recent launch of a collaborative conservation science and policy report from WWF and members of the marine mammal science community. "Protecting Blue Corridors" visualises the satellite tracks of over 1000 migratory whales worldwide. The report outlines how whales are encountering multiple and growing threats in their critical ocean habitats – areas where they feed, mate, give birth, and nurse their young – and along their migration superhighways, or ‘blue corridors’. "Protecting Blue Corridors" provides the first comprehensive look at whale migrations and the threats they face across all oceans, highlighting how the cumulative impacts from industrial fishing, ship strikes, pollution, habitat loss, and climate change are creating hazardous journeys. The report is a collaborative analysis of 30 years of scientific data contributed by more than 50 research groups, with leading scientists from Oregon State University Marine Mammal Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, University of Southampton and many others. "Protecting Blue Corridors" calls for a new conservation approach to address these mounting threats and safeguard whales, through enhanced cooperation from local to regional to international levels. Using infographics and regional case studies, we highlight examples such as how IUCN Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) can help inform marine connectivity conservation efforts - including for upcoming negotiations of a new treaty for the high seas (Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction) in March 2022 at the United Nations. Also, I wanted to thank all of the co-authors and data contributors who made this report possible. Please reach out anytime if you have any questions. Media release: https://wwfwhales.org/news-stories/protecting-blue-corridors-report Report (PDF): https://zenodo.org/record/6196131#.Yh3drhNByko List of data contributors: https://wwfwhales.org/references Best Chris CHRIS JOHNSON Global Lead, WWF Protecting Whales & Dolphins Initiative Web: wwfwhales.org | Twitter: @WWF_Whales Based @ WWF-Australia 60 Leicester St. Level 3, Carlton, Victoria 3053 AUSTRALIA mob: +61 437 226 011 em: cjohnson@wwf.org.au This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and may contain privileged information. If you are not the addressee of this e-mail, you may not copy, disclose, distribute or otherwise use it, or any part of it, in any form whatsoever. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail or by telephoning 1800 032 551 (or +61 2 8228 6800 outside of Australia) and then delete this e-mail.