page_title: Pacific Islands Cetaceans Memorandum of Understanding
section_title: Species covered by MoU
hierarchical_section_title: Pacific Islands Cetaceans Memorandum of Understanding / Species covered by MoU
caption_attribution_description: English: Bottlenose Dolphin - Tursiops truncatus A dolphin surfs the wake of a research boat on the Banana River - near the Kennedy Space Center. Español: Delfín nariz de botella. Français&#160;: Un Grand dauphin (Tursiops truncatus) surfe dans le sillage d'un bateau de recherche sur la Banana river, près du Centre spatial Kennedy. Latina: Delphinus speciei Tursiops truncatus, genere tursiopse inesse. Magyar: Palackorrú delfin.
context_page_description: The Memorandum of Understanding for the Conservation of Cetaceans and their Habitats in the Pacific Island Region is a Multilateral Environmental Memorandum of Understanding concluded under the auspices of the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals, also known as the Bonn Convention, and in collaboration with the Pacific Regional Environment Programme. The MoU provides an international framework for coordinated conservation efforts to improve the conservation status of the Pacific Islands Cetaceans and came into effect on 15 September 2006.
  The MoU covers 22 range States. As of September 2012, 15 States have signed the MoU as well as a number of co-operating organisations.
context_section_description: The MoU protects all populations of cetaceans (whales and dolphins) in the Pacific Island Region (area between the Tropic of Cancer and 60° South latitude and between 130° east longitude and 120° West longitude). Some of the species occurring in the Pacific Islands Region are:
  Minke whales
  Sei whale
  "Bryde's-like" whales
  Blue whales
  Fin whale
  Humpback whale
  Pygmy killer whale
  Short-finned pilot whale
  Orca
  Striped dolphin
  Bottlenose dolphins
  Common dolphins
  Sperm whale
caption: Bottlenose Dolphin
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