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I was born in Italy on 02/07/1998, since I was a child I have always had a great passion for nature and its animals,
they gave me a sense of freedom and awe. I spent my days watching documentaries and drawing what I had seen.
Today I am a self-taught wildlife artist who has kept the passion of when i was a child, in the hope of
convey through my works the beauty and uniqueness of the creatures that surround us, realistically enhancing them
features and details.
I want to participate in this project to make my contribution to the preservation of African species.
Being able to help protect them is one of the reasons I started and will continue to create this kind
of works where every brushstroke is an immersion in the world of nature.
The Killer Whale, as the taxon is presently defined and recognized (Society for Marine Mammalogy 2017), does not meet any of the IUCN Red List criteria for a threatened status. Killer Whales are numerically abundant (at least tens of thousands of mature individuals) and very widely distributed. Experts agree that the present taxon likely includes more than one subspecies, and possibly multiple species. Some small regional populations are known to have declined significantly and would easily qualify for a threatened status if assessed individually (e.g., ENP southern residents, the Bluefin Tuna-dependent population associated with the Strait of Gibraltar), but there is insufficient evidence to support a global decline in the species abundance that would make it meet Criterion A. However, the statement in the previous species assessment (Taylor et al. 2013) still holds: “The combination of potential declines driven by depletion of prey resources and the effects of pollutants is believed sufficient that a 30% global reduction over three generations (77 years; Taylor et al. 2007) cannot be ruled out for some ‘groups’ that may [eventually] be designated as species.”
Although considerable effort continues to be made on improved understanding of the taxonomy of the genus Orcinus, the taxonomic issues have not been fully resolved. This is especially problematic due to the occurrence of sympatric, non-interbreeding ecotypes in the ENP, Antarctic, and possibly elsewhere. The taxon has previously been listed by IUCN as Data Deficient due to taxonomic uncertainty, and that listing should be continued until proper taxonomic units are described and Red List assessments of them can be carried out.
SOURCE: IUCN REDLIST
