A tale of two whale protection groups
By David Wojick |September 18th, 2023
There are two groups specializing in trying to protect the severely endangered North Atlantic Right Whale, of which only about 340 critters remain alive, fewer every month, it seems. One is new and small, while the other is old and big.
The small group says that offshore wind development is killing whales, which I, too, believe, but NOAA denies. The big group, which includes NOAA and some of their funded researchers, is now up to thinking about the possibility that offshore wind might actually affect the whales. This dramatic difference is worth exploring a bit.
The small group is the Save Right Whales Coalition (SRWC) at
https://saverightwhales.org/. The really big group, founded in 1986, is the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium (NARWC) at
https://www.narwc.org/. The members of NARWC are a wealthy lot indeed.
https://www.cfact.org/2023/09/18/a-tale-of-two-whale-protection-groups/
