/ Southern Resident Whales Content for ºÙºÙÊÓƵ en /news/aaas-press-briefing-protecting-health-endangered-whales-and-vaquitas <p>Marine mammal health is changing across the globe due to human activities and climate change. Increasing numbers of animals are dying from trauma, environmental pollution, disease and lack of food. Some populations have recovered while others face extinction.</p> <p>Scientists and veterinarians from the University of California, Davis, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will hold a press briefing about new and ongoing efforts to protect marine mammal health, including that of endangered southern resident killer whales, North Atlantic right whales, and the vaquita.</p> February 16, 2020 - 4:34pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/aaas-press-briefing-protecting-health-endangered-whales-and-vaquitas /news/wild-killer-whales-get-personal-health-records <p><strong>Update April 4: </strong>Experts at the symposium last week agreed to formulate a plan for individual health records, or a health database, for each of the 84 endangered southern resident orcas in Puget Sound. &nbsp;</p> <p>•••</p> <p>The endangered&nbsp;southern resident killer whales of Puget Sound could soon get their own personal health records following a meeting of wildlife health experts being held March 28-29 in Seattle.</p> April 04, 2016 - 9:10am Katherine E Kerlin /news/wild-killer-whales-get-personal-health-records