How this garden, with native plants and canoe planters, can help save salmon, orcas
Gardens aren't just for flowers. They can boost the recovery of salmon and orcas, too.
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News tagged with orca
Feds seek expanded habitat protection as salmon, orcas battle climate change, habitat degradation
Most of the outer coast of Washington, Oregon and California would become protected habitat for southern resident orcas under a federal proposal released Wednesday.
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Sep 19, 2019
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New lawsuit seeks protection zone for Northwest orcas
A new U.S. lawsuit filed Monday seeks to establish a whale protection zone for endangered orcas in the Pacific Northwest.
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Aug 19, 2019
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Family crucial to orca survival
Orcas live in stable, structured social groups. And their survival directly depends on it, as a CNRS and University of La Rochelle research team has just demonstrated. Between 1996 and 2002, half of the Crozet Islands orca ...
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May 23, 2019
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SeaWorld publishes decades of orca data to help wild whales
The endangered killer whales of the Pacific Northwest live very different lives from orcas in captivity.
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Apr 22, 2019
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Study finds white sharks flee feeding areas when orcas present
New research from Monterey Bay Aquarium and partner institutions published today in Nature Scientific Reports challenges the notion that great white sharks are the most formidable predators in the ocean. The study "Killer ...
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Apr 16, 2019
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The decline of salmon adds to the struggle of Puget Sound's orcas
The crew of the Bell M. Shimada hauled in the net, long as a football field and teeming with life. Scientists, off the coast of Washington for a week on this June research trip, crowded in for a look.
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Apr 2, 2019
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Feds could restrict Pacific Ocean fishing over endangered orcas, NOAA letter says
SEATTLE—The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is taking a fresh look at whether new fishing restrictions are needed to help prevent the extinction of endangered southern resident killer whales that ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 8, 2019
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Scientists ID another possible threat to orcas: pink salmon
Over the years, scientists have identified dams, pollution and vessel noise as causes of the troubling decline of the Pacific Northwest's resident killer whales. Now, they may have found a new and more surprising culprit: ...
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Jan 19, 2019
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New orca calf seen among Puget Sound's critically endangered killer whales
A new calf has been born to the critically endangered southern resident killer whales, researchers confirmed.
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Jan 14, 2019
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