Give them Space! Take the Pledge. Today, with other conservation groups and environmental leaders, we sent a letter to whale-watch operators and recreational boaters in the Salish Sea, asking them to stop watching southern residents ...
Springer near Alert Bay, July 27, 2020. Photo by Jared Towers, DFO Last week we hosted our first ever virtual event! Celebrate Springer 2020 brought together members of Springer’s team for a retelling of her story, followed by ...
Springer and Spirit, photo courtesy DFO Hello everyone, I hope this finds you safe and well. Like most of you we’ve been hunkering down, laying low, not quite sure what day it is… Turns out it’s May 5 – time ...
Orcas Celebration #mywhaletrail #alki Celebrate World Whale Day on The Whale Trail! This year we’re launching an intiative to help even more people Discover The Whale Trail. We’re kicking it off with a social media ...
L41 (Mega) Near La Push, WAPhoto by C. Emmons, NOAA Fisheries Permit 16163 In January we learned that another southern resident orca was missing and presumed dead. This time it was L41, Mega, a 43-year-old male. The southern ...
Spyhopping Southern Resident by M Sears #21348 Should federal regulations for vessels be changed to better protect the endangered southern resident orcas? (We think so!) NOAA Fisheries recently heard public comments at a meeting in ...
The Whale Sanctuary, a nonprofit organization based in Santa Barbara, is proposing to build a net pen for orcas in Puget Sound. The facility would be used either as a “retirement” pen for captive orcas, or to support ...
On a soggy Sunday in September, nearly 1300 people ran or walked a half-marathon course around the shores of West Seattle, passing four Whale Trail sites along the way. Each runner ran for an individual orca, whose ID and life ...
Governor Inslee, First Lady Trudi and their grandson Brody visited The Whale Trail yesterday! They stopped by to see our new sign at West Beach in Deception Pass State Park. We talked about the benefits of land-based whale-watching, ...
A year after grieving orca Tahlequah showed the world how tightly bonded orcas are to their families, the Whale Sanctuary is proposing to build a net pen in Puget Sound to capture, treat and house southern resident orcas temporarily or ...