Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Sad news today that Lummi, the great-great-grandmother of a family of killer whales in Puget Sound known as the “K-Pod,” has gone missing and is presumed dead. She was believed to have been born in around 1910. When I read...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
John Platt, over at the Extinction Blog has an interesting item up about what the Korea Times calls "ghost whales" -- the elusive, mysterious, and highly endangered western pacific gray whale. A close cousin of the more populous eastern pacific...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Reviving the World's Oceans , U.S. Law and Policy
I've been traveling the last few days and didn't have much time to post on Switchboard, but I would be remiss if I didn't give a quick shout out to my colleagues at NRDC's Marine Mammal Protection Program, who scored...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Today's AP featured a rather extraordinary claim by the United States Navy. In a story about the particular vulnerability "beaked" whales (a kind of small toothed whale that encompasses about twenty different species) to naval sonar, the commander of the U.S. Pacific...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Kate, you're absolutely right that I should have mentioned this. My only excuse is the dizzying excitement of being on vacation in Cape Cod when the ruling was issued (whale central, actually...so I guess that's not much of an excuse).At any...continued→
