Research and technology won’t feed starving southern resident orcas

WWF-Canada and four other conservation organizations, represented by Ecojustice, are calling on the federal government to use the tools available to it in the Species at Risk Act and enact an emergency order to provide immediate protections for southern resident orcas.

A cash infusion alone from Ottawa won’t feed the 76 southern resident orcas in B.C. currently facing extinction, writes Megan Leslie.Photograph courtesy of Christopher Michel

Opinion

BY MEGAN LESLIE

March 28, 2018

More funding was announced by Fisheries and Oceans Minister Dominic LeBlanc on March 15 for initiatives to protect southern resident killer whales, the iconic orcas off the southern coast of British Columbia that are slowly starving to death. While funding for technology and research is important, a...

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