It's like environmental journalist Bob Berwyn has a hidden cache of tantalizing headlines that exist just for her perusal.
Today, we discover the politics of whales. They have 'right' leanings and they have 'blue' leanings!
Amazing.
In his stunningly brilliant expose', Berwyn also reveals that the 'right' leaning whales are an "endangered species".
Who knew?
"Back from the brink?"
By Summit Voice
SUMMIT COUNTY — The National Marine Fisheries Service last week announced it will prepare a recovery plan for endangered North Pacific right whales, one of the most endangered animals on Earth.
Bringing the cetacean back from the brink of extinction won’t be easy (lol on the word play..says, 'Nanny')— by most estimates, there are only about 30 right whales in the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska and perhaps several hundred in the Sea of Okhotsk.
Right whales are so named because during the whaling era, they were a prime target, considered the “right” whale to hunt. Unlike other cetaceans, they haven’t been able to bounce back yet from the whaling slaughter. Collisions with ships is one of the biggest threats facing the whales.
The decision to develop a recovery plan came after the Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice of intent to sue. At the same time, the federal agency said it will update an outdated recovery plan for endangered blue whales, the largest animals on Earth....." (Read more? Click title)
To prove 'right' whales do exist, here is a photo from NOAA:
1 comment:
Who knew? Something has to be done right away before the right loses a natural god given legacy.
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