News — whales

Ric O'Barry works to stop the capture, sale,  and trade in dolphins, whales, and  porpoises- especially when captive dolphins are used in  entertainment (at shows  or for swim-with or touch-the-dolphins programs).

Orcas near Seattle and Vancouver face challenges-     A CBC report says that in order for the orcas to increase their numbers to be a sustainable population, the orcas need:   reduce  salmon fishing, stop ships from dumping  sewage, preventing new pipelines and increased shipping.  there are 75 orcas left in this population.  A new calf wea born this year!  $ have been born in the last year!  You can join the David Suzuki Foundation, as it helps monitor these orcas.

link  Marchs, boycotts, protests outside embassies, fiction, recordings of whalesongs along with general distrust of lying institutions and politicians during the Vietnam War- all led to the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Pelley amendment.   Friends and I circulated petitions, oranized writing  letters  to newspapers, printed save the whale t-shirts, read Mind in  the Waters and John Lily's books, Merwin's poems,  bought whale books,  organized groups, got films and speaker about wildlife, hosted Greenpreace talks, etc.....

NYT article  Only 450 remain.  Solutions: weaker ropes for lobster traps, more regulations to prevent ships from hitting them , and reducing climate change.

One whale sequesters  as much carbon as 30,000 trees.  One blue whale is worth $ 2 million in carbon storing.  link

Over 57 Whales have been killed by plastics and/or pollution near the Phillipines. 

NPR