The Arctic food web: marine mammals, seabirds, fish, marine invertebrates and microorganisms as well as the local population all depend on each other. Illustration: WWF Global Arctic Program This spring, ArcNet became available as a framework that takes a holistic...
The habitat of walruses is changing drastically due to the rapid warming of the Arctic and it is essential to better understand them to ensure their survival as a species. (Photo: Julia Hager) Counting wild animals with the help of satellite images is probably the...
Orcas in the Bering Strait. (Photo: Olga Filatova, WWF Russia) A joint report by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and scientific partner organizations on “whale highways” that act as major whale migration routes and their intersections with human economic...
Walruses are having an increasingly difficult time finding suitable resting places on the sea ice in light of the rapid warming in the Arctic. Photo: Dr. Michael Wenger Scientists are more frequently using satellite imagery to monitor and count animal populations in...
The pollack or saithe is native to various seas. It colonizes the shelf regions, where it lives at depths of 100 to 300 meters. Usually, pollacks reach a total length of about 75 centimetres, but occasionally a size of up to 130 centimetres is also possible. The...
