@erichhoyt.bsky.social - Erich Hoyt

08 Jun 2025 19:28 +0000

On this #WorldOceanDay, I am re-reading my piece for the BBC written on the first UN World Ocean Day in 2009. Then, I reported 0.65% of the ocean was protected. Today 8.3% is protected. But how long to reach the 30% target?! Find out more: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/erich-hoyt-a3860317_on-this-world-ocean-day-as-we-lead-in-to-activity-7337550731987611648-nItT Photos ©Tatiana Ivkovich

17 Mar 2025 14:14 +0000

Hi Emma, Happy to be added, thanks for doing this! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

10 Mar 2025 15:46 +0000

Celebrating new Important Marine Mammal Areas, IMMAs, IDed in Carib & internal waters of Panamá. Approved last month, they add to existing IMMAs on the Pacific coast. #manatee #bottlenosedolphin @defenders.org @oceangill.bsky.social @whalesorg.bsky.social https://www.panamaamerica.com.pa/aldea-global/panama-cuenta-con-dos-nuevas-immas-1246961

06 Mar 2025 21:10 +0000

I’m celebrating #WorldBookDay by giving away a signed copy of one of my books. Leave a comment & share (if you like) for a chance to win. U.K. only because of postage & I’ll need your address (I’ll delete after use). #readers #reading #authors #nature #science #underwater #marine #wildlife

07 Mar 2025 10:42 +0000

The current status & #extinction risk for #whales, #dolphins & #porpoises. 1 in 4 are in immediate trouble. I wonder how that will look 4 years from now? @disciara.bsky.social @oceangill.bsky.social @defenders.org @whalesorg.bsky.social @imma-network.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]

06 Mar 2025 21:10 +0000

13 Feb 2025 15:55 +0000

Today we've announced 43 new Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) spotlighting whale, manatee & other marine mammal habitats needing protection in NW Atlantic & Caribbean. See our news story here: www.marinemammalhabitat.org/news/ See the IMMA e-Atlas: www.marinemammalhabitat.org/imma-eatlas/

13 Feb 2025 15:55 +0000

07 Jan 2025 12:40 +0000

US announces withdrawal of 2.5 million km2 (almost 1 mil sq miles) of US waters from oil & natural gas leasing. This includes U.S. East & West coasts; the eastern Gulf of Mexico; & Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area in Alaska. Helps insure chance of a future for NA right #whales & others.

19 Dec 2024 13:56 +0000

This is big: New Zealand's High Court has ruled Dept of Conservation (DoC) has acted unlawfully for decades by relying on fishing laws instead of its own legislation to protect marine species. Hector's & Maui #dolphins & other marine species have lost out. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/high-court-rules-doc-failed-to-protect-marine-species-for-decades/JMFMSHIAGNEA5C32LJE5BJQ65M/

12 Dec 2024 15:14 +0000

In May this year, at our IMMA Workshop in Yucatán, Mexico the world seemed alright. In the photo, lower right, Eric Angel Ramos, aged 37, is a beaming bright spark, generous & wise, & behind him stands Oswaldo Vasquez, charming, dedicated, still young at 65. Now they are gone & we are heartbroken.

12 Dec 2024 15:14 +0000

28 Nov 2024 16:44 +0000

Honoured to have ORCA: THE WHALE CALLED KILLER listed as number 30 on American essayist-critic & novelist Jan Harayda's Substack post & reviewed as one of "50 great nonfiction books": https://jansplaining.substack.com/p/100-books-i-like-part-2-nonfiction

28 Nov 2024 16:05 +0000

Orcas from West coast Canada - US NW coast seen carrying dead salmon on the head. Revival of a cultural fad first noticed with an #orca pod in 1987? Do they eat / share the #salmon? Researchers want to find out. @marinemammalogy.bsky.social @whalesorg.bsky.social https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-start-wearing-dead-salmon-hats-again-after-ditching-the-trend-for-37-years?utm_term=A1E6C864-C950-4E19-89C3-B68AB3FEB9A3&lrh=0b751023bd7e42c6bc007c4d3d6821a144390ad4f305be50f1e61c25973152bb&utm_campaign=368B3745-DDE0-4A69-A2E8-62503D85375D&utm_medium=email&utm_content=1257DF26-35A5-4CFA-B103-5B0BF97DD95B&utm_source=SmartBrief

22 Nov 2024 20:48 +0000

Breaking: Science mapping paper finds fast growing #shipping industry crosses 92% of large #whale ranges but <7% of risk hotspots have protection. Expanding management over only 2.6% more of #ocean surface would protect hotspots! @highseasalliance.bsky.social https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp1950

19 Nov 2024 20:53 +0000

My book STRANGE SEA CREATURES just released in paperback (with elegant French flaps) as well as earlier hardcover edition. For ages 8 to 88. Available from all online booksellers & signed from erichhoytbooks.com