Good Bye Whales! Happy end of whale season 2022
We successfully finished another whale season, but our work is not done. We continue working on the conservation and research of the humpback whale in Banderas Bay! Take a look on some of our results from the 2022 whale season: FIBB Catalog: We made it to 2,848 whales! In our Banderas Bay Humpback Whale Photo-Identification […]
Banderas Bay
Dear friends of ECOBAC: Some of you will remember that in the season 2011-2012 our beloved humpback whales surprised us by feeding in Banderas Bay. As is well known, humpback whales feed during the summer at high latitudes and in the winter they travel to more tropical latitudes to their breeding grounds, such as Banderas Bay, […]
Rescuing Whales, Dec 2019
Did you know that rescuing a Whale can cost around 500 dollars? Humpback Whale Season just started this December but also the work of the National Network of Assistance to Entangled Whales, RABEN. So far this season there have been 3 successful rescue events: 1) December 14th: RABEN team Los Cabos released a juvenile humpback […]
Whales feeding off Banderas Bay
Dear friends of ECOBAC: Some of you will remember that in the season 2011-2012 our beloved humpback whales surprised us by feeding in Banderas Bay. As is well known, humpback whales feed during the summer at high latitudes and in the winter they travel to more tropical latitudes to their breeding grounds, such as Banderas Bay, […]
Season 2019 is over and we want to share the good news!
This season 2019, was very productive, with many whales, many vigilance trips and environmental education … This is our end of season bulletin 2018-2019! We want to thank everyone for your support and for making possible to help our whales of Bahia de Banderas! PROTECTING WHALES IN BANDERAS BAY For the 8th consecutive year and […]
XV International Festival of Altruism- Ecobac
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Te invita al XV Festival Internacional del Altruismo Marriott Puerto Vallarta 6pm-9pm 5th of May, 2019 Join us in the most important altruism event in Puerto Vallarta. With your participation, we will be able to HELP 20 organizations including ECOBAC. The Goal is to sell at least 50 tickets! With your donation, we want […]
When whale rescues become viral for the wrong reasons
It is increasingly common to find videos on social networks of members of the public who disentangle whales and other marine life. These videos have all the elements of an amazing story: danger, courage and, hopefully, success. However, in the Whale Disentanglement Network (RABEN, by its initials in Spanish), we never share these videos, and […]
Mexican Big Whale Disentanglement Network RABEN Video
Mexican Big Whale Disentanglement Network RABEN Video We are proud to share with you our RABEN video, so you can learn how and what we do in order to rescue our beloved giants! We made a version with English subtitles for our English speaking friends.Please feel free to share it.Soon we´ll send you a newsletter […]
Our Best Wishes for this 2018.
Newsletter, season 2017 – 2018 OUR BEST WISHES FOR THIS 2018. The official whale watching season began on December 8, and Will end on March 23, 2018. Therefore, SEMARNAT (bureau of natural resources management) handed out the permits and the flags (grey this year), which will have to be onboard and visible by […]
Newsletter February 2016
ECOBAC´s February 2016 Newsletter ¡¡¡We went to San Francisco!!! We are pleased to inform you all that, we had the opportunity to participate and attend in the “21st Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals”, which took place in San Francisco, California from the 13th to the 18th of December 2015. This conference is […]