Editor’s Note: Seismic Testing is known to harm marine mammals. Is it another trashing of the ocean’s or an essential tool to learn more about earthquake faulting and oil exploration? What is Seismic Testing? Following the news story by David… Read More ›
By Charmaine Coimbra I celebrated my mid-December birthday with a hike along a Central California bluff. The day was warm and eucalyptus blended with salt air invigorated my soul. When I finally reached trail’s end on a bluff that overlooks the… Read More ›
Editor’s Note: The gray whale is currently in migration from their summer feeding grounds in the Artic Ocean to their birthing and breeding grounds in Mexico. To follow a gray whale’s migration route and for more about the dangers these… Read More ›
Editor’s Note: December 29, 2011: Scroll to bottom for story update From the San Luis Tribune http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/09/03/1742473/mama-whale-klamath-river.html By Julia Hickey | jhickey@thetribunenews.com Julia Hickey The Tribune Morro Bay resident Ashala Tylor’s intimate photographs of “Mama” — the gray whale that… Read More ›
By Charmaine Coimbra This year I’ve been up close and personal with marine entanglement. A near-handful of northern elephant seals that hauled out to molt at Piedras Blancas, where I volunteer as a docent, arrived with strapping bands around their necks. If the straps… Read More ›
A note from Sue Arnold CEO California Gray Whale Coalition Dear Colleagues, As expected, National Marine Fishery Services (NMFS) knocked back the petition in spite of a very significant number of responses which supported the concerns outlined in the document…. Read More ›
Editor’s Note: This is a reprint of an editorial published 11/13/10 in The Santa Cruz Sentinel By Sue Arnold Three years ago, the California Gray Whale Coalition was created with one specific goal: to relist gray whales under the… Read More ›
If he skips entanglement, then our garbage still threatens him. Last year, a necropsy on a near-adult gray (so it wasn’t Skippy) discovered 20 plastic bags, small towels, surgical gloves, sweat pants, plastic pieces, duct tape, and a golf ball in its stomach.
From Frank Bonoccorso, PhD: Ten years ago as Curator of Natural History at the Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery, I searched for information on the marine mammals of the waters that surround this nation of 600 islands… Read More ›
Neptune 911! 