Big picture: looking beyond politics to save southern resident killer whales

Killer whales don’t vote or drink B.C. wine or attend town halls. But, like us, they depend on our government to protect their environment.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, pictured in Ottawa. Under the Species at Risk Act, the federal government has the power to help protect endangered southern residents, writes Dr. Lance Barrett-Lennard is director of the Cetacean Research Program at Ocean Wise.The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

February 26, 2018

You can tell a lot about a southern resident killer whale from above. In my field work with the Coastal Ocean Research Institute, an Ocean Wise initiative, my colleagues and I use drone-based aerial photography to measure orcas from season to season. Changes over time help us gauge the health of bo...

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