The Whale Trail goes bicoastal! Reporter Antonio Fins discovered The Whale Trail on a recent visit to San Juan Island. What’s the connection between south Floridians and the southern resident orcas? Read the story in the ...
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 ...
K pod in Puget Sound. Photo by Kersti Muul Governor Inslee’s Southern Resident Orca Task Force has received a draft report of potential recommendations for actions to recover southern resident orcas. The draft recommendations were ...
J pod in Haro Strait, 7/20/2018. Photo by Stephen Rink NOAA Plans Résponse to Save J50 (Seattle Times) Bills Allowing Sea Lions to be Killed Clears Key Hurdle Harbor Seals are Easy Scapegoats in Harbor Seal Decline (Vancouver Sun) ...
Southern Resident Killer Whales, courtesy NOAASouthern Resident Killer Whales, courtesy NOAA Washington Gov. Jay Inslee issued an Executive Order yesterday to protect Southern Resident Killer Whales. With just 76 individuals in the ...
Humpback Whale, courtesy of Laskeek Bay Conservation Society Another Whale Goes Free! Rescuers disentangled a young humpback whale  in Desolation Sound BC last week. Congratulations to Paul Cottrell (DFO) and everyone who had a hand ...
Springer and New calf, Photo by Lisa-Spaven ORPHAN ORCA SPRINGER GIVES BIRTH TO SECOND CALF BEFORE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF RESCUE CELEBRATION JULY 21–23 AT TELEGRAPH COVE, BC The heroic rescue in Puget Sound fifteen years ago of the ...
Sad news to start the new year. The Center for Whale Research reports that J2, aka Granny, is missing and presumed dead. Granny was the oldest whale in the southern resident community, and the matriarch of J pod. With Granny’s ...
An 18-year old male orca, J-34 (or Double Stuf) was found dead near Sechelt BC on Tuesday. The whale was recovered and towed to shore on Wednesday. Cause of death has not been determined yet. Canada’s Department of Fisheries and ...
Yesterday we learned the distressing news that another southern resident orca, J-34 (aka Double Stuf), had been found dead near Sechelt BC. The male was just 18 years old – another orca who died too young, from causes yet ...