Donna Sandstrom, the founder of The Whale Trail has published these thoughts on what you can do, right now, to help safeguard the Southern Resident Killer Whales! To submit a public comment to the Federal Register, in support of a Whale Protection Zone, click here. __________ What you can do – personally – to help save Puget Sound’s resident orcas Donna Sandstrom The Whale Trail Let the untimely death of this young
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced today that it will consider a whale protection zone that will reduce noise and vessel disturbance of endangered southern resident killer whales. This population of killer whales has declined severely with only 78 whales remaining. The scientific petition seeks to protect core foraging habitat for the killer whales by reducing vessel disturbance. The key threats to killer whales include prey limitation, noise and
By, Mark R. Anderson Founder and Chairman, Orca Relief Citizens’ Alliance There are two top predators on the planet. But I am already getting ahead of the story. On land, animals have no requirement for streamlining, as they would in water, which covers three-quarters of the planet. On land, it is possible to build a house, grow food, make roads, have fingers and toes, store things in buildings, write on
The Center for Whale Research announced on December 31st that the world’s oldest known Orca J2, compassionately named Granny, has not been seen since October and is most likely deceased. J2 recently acted as the matriarch of the J-pod, and it is believed she was anywhere from 75 to 105-years-old. The Southern Resident Killer Whales are classified as endangered and the death of J2 brings the population down to an
News broke Wednesday that Southern Resident J-34, a male born in 1998 and compassionately named Double Stuf, was found dead floating off shore in Sechelt British Columbia. The whale was brought in and The Vancouver Aquarium will be performing a necropsy to identify potential cause of death. In 2003, Canada listed the Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW) as endangered. The Southern Residents are also categorized as endangered under the United States Endangered