Whale Research
Schedule
Wed, 27 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
36 Belper Road, Wynberg, Cape Town, South Africa | Cape Town, WC
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Many large whale populations were whaled to extremely low levels over the last 250 years. Afforded protection from whaling from 1935 onwards, some of these populations have shown significant recoveries, while others are facing new pressures of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss in the world’s ocean. This talk looks a whale science of the Southern African region and the Southern Ocean, unpacking changes in abundance and the impacts changing whale populations on the ocean and the changing ocean on whale populations, evidence-based ocean management and conservation.
About the presenter:
With a 35-year background in marine mammal (whales, dolphins and dugong) science, Ken has worked in marine mammal conservation and management across the Southern Hemisphere, including directing the University of Pretoria Mammal Research Institute’s Whale Unit for a number of years. Specialising in population demographics and species conservation, Ken has extensive field survey experience across the Southern African Subregion and the Southern Ocean, and numerous peer-reviewed publications to his name. He has been a member of the IWC’s Scientific Committee for 25 years and is a member of the IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group, and the IUCN Sirenian Specialist Group. More recently, as a Cape Peninsula University of Technology Research Chair, Ken concentrated his ocean research towards ocean economies, sustainability and ocean governance through the realisation of the pressures that ocean development places on ocean systems, and the need to manage these to ensure adequate ocean and species conservation. Ken currently directs a consultancy, AfriSeas, working in the ocean governance and sustainability space.
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