Shipping giant changes course to save Sri Lanka whales | Bor

COLOMBO (AFP) – Animal rights activists yesterday cheered a move by a shipping giant to alter course in Sri Lankan waters to avoid collisions with blue whales, the world’s largest mammals. The island’s southern coast has an unusually high density of blue whales, classed as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and […]

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