Demand-driven commercial whalewatching in Península Valdés (Patagonia): conservation implications for right whales

• Main Authors: Rivarola, Mariana, Campagna, Claudio, Tagliorette, Alicia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge. International Whaling Commission
• Subjects: Right whale; Whalewatching; Southern Hemisphere; South America; Behaviour; Sustainability; Breeding grounds; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Patagonia; Argentina; Argentine; Chubut; Alicia; Southern Right Whale
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/103478

One of the largest remaining populations of the southern right whale, Eubalaena australis, breeds along the coast of Península Valdés, in Argentine Patagonia. The area offers excellent opportunities for whalewatching because it is possible, with predictability, to have close-up views of animals of a...