News | Alaska Wildlife Alliance (AWA)

Text “beluga” to 833-541-0408 to get our text alert when critically endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales are spotted in the Kenai or Kasilof Rivers! If you have trouble signing up, try texting “UNSTOP” to the same number.

Kelsey Hansen

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Publication: A RADical approach to conservation in Alaska

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Publication: A RADical approach to conservation in Alaska

Our board vice president, Dr. John Morton, and our executive director, Nicole Schmitt, have both been recently published! Read more about the RAD Framework and AWA’s outlook on climate adaptation for wildlife in Alaska.

Publication: Flight plan for the future: floatplane pilots and researchers team up to predict invasive species dispersal in Alaska

Publication: Flight plan for the future: floatplane pilots and researchers team up to predict invasive species dispersal in Alaska

Our board vice president, Dr. John Morton, has been recently published. Learn more about Alaska’s first known aquatic invasive species, Elodea spp. (Elodea) and its floatplane-related dispersal.

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Unusual Mortality Event Occurring with Gray Whales

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Unusual Mortality Event Occurring with Gray Whales

There’s a mystery waiting to be solved in Alaskan waters, and it could take your help to crack the case. Along the west coast of the United States, gray whales have been having unusually high mortality events since 2019. National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA) is looking to continue collecting data on these whales to further gain insight as to what could be causing this unusual occurrence.

The Kodiak Archipelago: The Importance of the Kodiak Bear in the Naming of Alaska’s Largest Island

The Kodiak Archipelago: The Importance of the Kodiak Bear in the Naming of Alaska’s Largest Island

“A language’s relationship to its community is not unlike the connection nature has to individual animals- the two depend on one another.” Discover a sense of place through the interconnection between native language and Kodiak bears in the Kodiak Archipelago of South Alaska.