To mark World Ocean Day, June 8th 2018, the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) and Google LLC collaborated to produce “Sustaining the World of Humpback Whales” a Google Voyager story within Google Earth. The presentation featured the surveys of humpback whales conducted by the Churashima Foundation.

The purpose of the multimedia presentation is to spread the importance of conserving marine ecosystems through an education-centered promotion to the public. The webpage introduces how humpback whales migrate to different areas around the world. It shows their ecology and the surrounding marine ecologies and introduces the research institutes that conduct the surveys of humpback whales.

The migration of humpback whales to the waters of Okinawa and the research of Churashima Foundation Research Center are part of the presentation.

The Research Center will continue its efforts to research and survey the humpback whales, while cooperating with overseas research facilities in an effort to conserve humpback whales around the world.

Attachments: Photo posted from Google Voyager