Apr 24, 2023 | Info, News Story
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN – Whales were once an economic obsession. Oil rendered from their blubber—which lit the lamps and lubricated the machinery of the industrial era—fetched up to about $63 per gallon in today’s dollars in the mid-1800s. Whaling fleets killed...
Mar 15, 2023 | Info, News Story
NEW HAMPSHIRE BULLETIN – Once hunted to near-extinction, the greatest threats to the endangered North Atlantic rightwhale now are accidental encounters with humans. Federal efforts to protect the whale species, which spends most of the year off the coast of New...
Mar 8, 2023 | Info, News Story
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION – With fewer than 350 North Atlantic right whales left on the planet, the species is one step away from extinction. Humans pose the biggest threat to their survival due to entanglements with fishing gear and collisions with ships and...
