Ask Congress to Urge Taiwan to Protect the Critically Endangered Taiwanese White Dolphin 

The Taiwanese white dolphin (TWD) is a subspecies of the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin found only on the west coast of Taiwan. Due to entanglement in fishing nets and habitat loss, the TWD population is under serious threat of extinction. With fewer than 60 TWD likely remaining, the subspecies has been declared endangered under the US Endangered Species Act. Despite that listing and efforts by international scientists and policy experts to provide a recovery plan, Taiwan’s parliament has approved a port expansion project right in the heart of the TWD’s habitat. Please use AWI’s Action Center to ask your US representative and senators to urge Taiwan’s government to reconsider the port expansion project and any additional development on the west coast of Taiwan that will jeopardize the TWD’s habitat.