page_title: Short-beaked common dolphin
section_title: Conservation
hierarchical_section_title: Short-beaked common dolphin / Conservation
caption_attribution_description: English: Dolphins swim beside a ferry outside the port of Batumi, Georgia, May 5, 2015. The ferry was transporting Soldiers, assigned to Company A, 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, along with the unit’s M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, across the Black Sea from Bulgaria to Georgia, for Exercise Noble Partner, a bilateral training event focused on enhancing U.S. and Georgian NATO Response Force interoperability. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Brandon Anderson)
context_page_description: The short-beaked common dolphin is a species of common dolphin. It has a larger range than the long-beaked common dolphin, occurring throughout warm-temperate and tropical oceans, including the Indian Ocean although in smaller numbers than other places they are found. There are more short-beaked common dolphins than any other dolphin species in the warm-temperate portions of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It is also found in the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas. The short-beaked common dolphin is also abundant in the Black Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Red Sea. They follow the gulf stream up to Norwegian waters. Seldom do any short-beaked dolphin venture near the Arctic.
context_section_description: The Mediterranean population of the short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis is listed on Appendix I, while the North Sea, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean, Black Sea and eastern tropical Pacific populations are listed on Appendix II of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS). The regional listing on Appendix I  means that this population has been categorized as being in danger of extinction and CMS Parties strive towards strictly protecting these animals, conserving or restoring the places where they live, mitigating obstacles to migration and controlling other factors that might endanger them.  It was listed on Appendix II as it has an unfavourable conservation status or would benefit significantly from international co-operation organised by tailored agreements.
  In addition, the species is also covered by the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas (ASCOBANS) and the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS). The species is further included in the Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Conservation of the Manatee and Small Cetaceans of Western Africa and Macaronesia and the Memorandum of Understanding for the Conservation of Cetaceans and Their Habitats in the Pacific Islands Region (Pacific Cetaceans MoU).
caption: Dolphins porpoising along a ferry at the port of Batumi
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