Kinder Morgan Pipeline – Threat to Southern Resident Orca Whales

By Elora West|November 30, 2016|News|

Environmentalists have been working hard to hinder the recent approval of the Kinder Morgan Canadian pipeline, which will be a death knell to the Southern Resident orca whales. The Salish Sea orca population is already facing extinction. The pipeline will be a continual threat to all wildlife in these waters. The Trudeau government is not addressing environmental and ecological risks to the Southern Resident orca whales. According to a Takepart article,

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Major Interventions Needed to Save Salish Sea Orca Populations

By Elora West|November 30, 2016|News|

Stopping boat intervention into the Southern Resident Orca population’s core critical feeding area needs to happen immediately. There is a regulatory petition to NMFS to create a whale protection zone on the west side of San Juan Island. Discouraging harassment by humans is what we can do right now. Read the full TRUTHOUT News article here.  Sign the People’s Petition here. 

The Southern Resident Killer Whales Need Our Help!

By Elora West|November 4, 2016|News|

By Elora Malama West, guest blogger Eloramalama.com When I was sixteen-years-old my father and I traveled to Taiji, Japan, and spent three months documenting the slaughter of dolphins and small whales at the infamous Cove located in the Wakayama Prefecture. It would be the first of two trips I would take, before the Japanese government considered our photographing and writing about the events unfolding were acts of terrorism. My awareness

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