Help DOC track nationally endangered southern right whales

Date: 1/8/2008

New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DoC) asks the public to report sightings of the endangered southern right whales). These whales are easy to see from the shore. A recent sighting of three whales close off the Otago coast signalled the start of this year’s whale migration season. Report sightings to the

0800 DOCHOT line (0800 36 24 68)



Find out more about the southern right whale on the

DoC website


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