Agency asks public to name, get to know member of highly endangered Alaska whale population
There are fewer than 50 Eastern North Pacific right whales, so discovery of a previously unidentified animal was good news.
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There are fewer than 50 Eastern North Pacific right whales, so discovery of a previously unidentified animal was good news.
A species of whales found in Alaskan waters is on the verge of extinction. An organization is trying to save them.
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NOAA Fisheries is reevaluating critical right whale habitat in response to a petition seeking wider protective areas.
Nearly twice the size of Africa, the North Pacific seems to be endless. But somewhere in that vast ocean, 30 eastern North Pacific right whales (Eubalaena japonica) live their lives, mostly out of the view of human observers. These remaining leviathans are the survivors of past Yankee whaling – in Herman Melville’s famous words “so […]