The Species in the Spotlight initiative is a concerted agency-wide effort to spotlight and save endangered marine species most at-risk of extinction in the near future. This plan focuses on priority actions needed in 2021-2025 for the Hawaiian monk seal.
On February 13, 2021, we received a report of a dead North Atlantic right whale off the coast of Florida. We will update this web page as more information becomes available.
The Sacramento River system is home to the only winter-run Chinook salmon in the world. This unique population is cut off from its historical spawning and rearing habitat, and faces many other threats, but efforts are underway to help it recover.
Pacific leatherback sea turtles are at a high risk of extinction. We are working closely with our partners throughout the Pacific to protect and conserve this endangered species.
Allison Henry is a fisheries biologist with the large whale team at the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center. She flies in a plane over the Gulf of Maine collecting critical population data about the North Atlantic right whale.
The endangered North Atlantic right whale population has been steadily declining for nearly the past decade. Today, researchers estimate that only about 360 right whales are left. Learn more about what we are doing and what you can do to help save right whales.
