2025-2026 Season Progress
2025-2026 SEASON PROGRESS Our Humpback Whale in Banderas Bay (FIBB) Photo-identification Catalog celebrates 30 years! This catalog enables us to identify each humpback whale that has visited Bahía de Banderas and other parts of the world by its unique patterns on the flukes. The catalog contains more than 13,233 fluke photographs, and since 1996, we […]
FIVE MORE WHALES RESCUED
NOW WE ARE 17 RABEN TEAMS TOGETHER WE CAN RESCUE THE WHALES Without timely and accurate reports, we can not rescue whales. You can make the difference! Review this quick guide with the steps to follow up if you find an entangled whale 👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4G3-V_w6W4 NEW RABEN TEAM CABO PULMO In October, we integrated a new […]
THREE more whales rescued
An Amazing Whale Season Ends with many Whales and many Challenges. Below, we share a brief summary with the most relevant information. THREE More Whales Rescued After two seasons with a very high success rate, this time the ocean 🌊 reminded us that experience and effort are not always enough. We responded to hundreds of […]
Research
In 1996 we started the Banderas Bay Humpback Whale Photoidentification Project, known as the FIBB Catalog. Until 2017 season, the catalog has 2,686
Conservation
RABEN Interaction with fishing gear represents one of the most significant threats to whales worldwide. In Mexico, in order to address this crisis, Ecología y Conservación de Ballenas, AC (ECOBAC) created the Whale Disentanglement Network, known as RABEN, with support of CONANP (Mexico’s Park System). RABEN is an interagency team of people trained to perform […]
OUTREACH AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Environmental education is a very important tool that allows us to approach and teach the general population (locals, foreigners and tour operators) about the importance of protecting the natural resources our Bay offers, and especially humpback whales. Through workshops, talks and festivals we can share the singularities and needs of this charismatic cetacean, as well […]
ECOTOURISM AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
https://youtu.be/IxmtQWxfLZc Ecotourism is a very important tool in the development of local communities and it promotes sustainable development. In addition, it can be a very useful platform for research and environmental education. ECOBAC seeks to promote the development of ecological tourism, through consultant services in the following areas: specialized training for guides, regulations, route […]
MEXICAN WHALE WATCHING REGULATIONS
Whale Watching Regulations: NOM-131-SEMARNAT-2010 There are three basic rules for whale watching: Cause the minimum impact over the whales. Be patient. Only go whale watching with boats or companies that have a whale watching permit. However, as a conscious ecotourist you should know that: The minimum distance that should be kept from whales is 800 […]
10 more whales rescued!
10 more whales rescued! At the Whale Disentanglement Network, known as RABEN, we celebrate our 20th anniversary by being grateful for the rescue of 10 more whales this season. We have rescued a total of 97 whales in 20 years! We also celebrate that during this season there were no reports of gray whale entanglements. […]
We say goodbye to the Whales
We say goodbye to the whales! This end of whale season, we want to share some of the news and activities carried out. We conducted research outings and saw several well-know whales. We also had several RABEN rescues and even had to assist in attending strandings. We strengthened our campaign ‘Less Speed = More Lives’ to […]