1201, 2017

Federal Government Weighs Proposal for Whale Protection Zone for Puget Sound’s Killer Whales

By Elora West|January 12, 2017|News|

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

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0901, 2017

Killing the Killers: A Leading Indicator of Planetary Ecological Destruction

By Elora West|January 9, 2017|News|

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

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0501, 2017

J2 (Granny) The oldest known Orca, assumed dead

By Elora West|January 5, 2017|News|

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

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2312, 2016

J Pod Orca J-34 Found Dead in British Columbia

By Elora West|December 23, 2016|News|

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

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3011, 2016

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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