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WHOI scientist Michael Moore's book is about how consumers play a role and have responsibility for right whale's possible extinction.
The tight spaces cause high levels of stress and anxiety which results in violence to other whales and even death of whale trainers. Wild orcas can travel up to 62 miles a day, but captive orcas ...
There is an argument that whales should not be killed because of their high intelligence. [29] Pro-whalers claim that pigs also possess high intelligence, and are routinely butchered and eaten, and that intelligence should not be the determining factor of whether an animal is acceptable to eat or not. [30]
Tom Mustill is a British producer and director of nature documentaries, and the author of a popular science book How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication. [1] [2] He has collaborated with science and nature personalities including David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg, Stephen Fry and George Monbiot.
The objectives of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling are to protect all whale species from overhunting; establish a system of international regulation for whale fisheries to ensure proper conservation and development of whale stocks; and safeguard for future generations the important natural resources represented by ...
The comeback of the humpback is arguably the greatest success story in the history of conservation. New science is putting a value on the life of a whale — and finding they provide much more ...
Founded in 1967, the American Cetacean Society (ACS) was the first whale conservation group in the world. ACS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with an office in San Pedro, California and chapters in Los Angeles, Orange County, Puget Sound (Seattle), Monterey, San Francisco, and a Student Coalition based out of Indiana University.
Pregnant right whales travel down to waters off the East Coast to give birth in the winter. The pairs then swim back up to the Northeast for feeding grounds. During their journey, the mammals are ...