Cook Inlet

AWA's Kenai Peninsula Coordinator wins NOAA Partners in the Spotlight award!

AWA's Kenai Peninsula Coordinator wins NOAA Partners in the Spotlight award!

Our Kenai Peninsula Coordinator, Teresa Becher, was just awarded a 2023 'Partners in the Spotlight Award' from NOAA fisheries! These national awards recognize partners who have expanded and enhanced recovery of the country's most imperiled marine species.

In the News: Belugas are back: Spring monitoring kicks off on the Kenai

In the News: Belugas are back: Spring monitoring kicks off on the Kenai

Belugas are back in the Kenai! Read more about the efforts being made to monitor for critically endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales and how you can become involved this spring with the Alaska Beluga Monitoring Partnership.

In the News: Feds urged to save beluga whales in Alaska

In the News: Feds urged to save beluga whales in Alaska

Read more to learn about Alaska Wildlife Alliance’s involvement in assisting to file a legal petition to induce the National Marine Fisheries Service to explore whether allowing a certain number of incidental deaths of critically endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales in connection to oil and gas development in the region should be tolerated.

Petition to Protect Lower Cook Inlet Wildlife

Petition to Protect Lower Cook Inlet Wildlife

Sign the petition to protect Lower Cook Inlet!

In the News: Volunteers make over 200 beluga observations in rivers this spring

In the News: Volunteers make over 200 beluga observations in rivers this spring

Alaska Wildlife Alliance’s Kenai coordinator, Teresa Becher, made another great appearance in the news for monitoring of critically endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales as part of the Alaska Beluga Monitoring Partnership! Read on to learn more about this past spring’s observations of belugas and how you can help these whales this fall.

In the News: ADN / As endangered beluga whales head up the Kenai River, committed volunteers help ‘unravel the puzzle’

In the News: ADN / As endangered beluga whales head up the Kenai River, committed volunteers help ‘unravel the puzzle’

Citizen scientists fill an important gap in helping understand when and how critically endangered Cook Inlet belugas use rivers.

VIDEO: Harbor Porpoise Wildlife Wednesday

VIDEO: Harbor Porpoise Wildlife Wednesday

Free virtual presentation as we host Dr. Deborah Boege Tobin, UAA-KPC Professor of Biology and Coordinator for the Kachemak Bay Campus’ Semester by the Bay program in Homer, for her presentation "Is it a Whale? Is it a Seal? No! It's a Harbor Porpoise!" Dr. Tobin will teach us about harbor porpoises, focusing on those in Cook Inlet.

Lower Cook Inlet lease sale: Our concerns for endangered beluga whales

Lower Cook Inlet lease sale: Our concerns for endangered beluga whales

The Cook Inlet beluga whale is a revered whale population that resides off the coast of Alaska’s largest city and along Alaska’s popular Kenai Peninsula. Its population has plummeted in recent decades from nearly 1,300 individuals in 1979 to only 279 in 2018, and despite its status as an endangered species, the population shows no signs of recovery and continues to decline at a rate of 2.3% per year.