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Monika Wieland Shields

Endangered Orcas

Monika Wieland Shields

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Orca Watcher
19 March 2019
Marine & freshwater mammals; Endangered species & extinction of species; Wildlife: general interest; Wildlife: mammals; Wildlife: aquatic creatures
The Southern Resident killer whales are icons of the Pacific Northwest, a beloved population of orcas that are considered the most-watched whales in the world. Despite decades of research and focused conservation efforts, they are on the brink of extinction.

Each year J-, K-, and L-Pods return to the inland waters of Washington State and British Columbia, a region known as the Salish Sea, where scientists and whale watchers alike know them as individuals. J2 Granny lost relatives to captivity but went on to lead her family for decades. The controversial satellite tagging of K25 Scoter reshaped orca conservation efforts. L112 Sooke was only three years old when she washed up dead from blunt force trauma to the head on the outer coast, a death shrouded in mystery.

From the capture era and the beginning of killer whale research to the whale-watching boom and endangered listing, the whole story of the Southern Residents is told here. Our relationship to these whales, complicated by both the positive attachments and negative politics we have created around them, has changed dramatically over the last 50 years. With more challenges on the horizon, one question looms: can we still create a sustainable future for humans and orcas in the Salish Sea?
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Imprint:   Orca Watcher
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   585g
ISBN:   9781733693400
ISBN 10:   1733693408
Pages:   402
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Book
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Endangered Orcas

Orcas are the world's largest, biggest-brained, and most peaceful predator. There is a lesson for us right there. But this book is so much more. The Southern Resident orcas are the world's best studied, most humanly abused population of orcas, and it is through their sacrifices that we have learned much about them, about the living world, and about ourselves. They deserve a new era of love as payback from us. This wondrous and important book explains why, and how we will accomplish that task. -- Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words; What Animals Think and Feel A timely book, well researched, that tells the troubling, inside story, personal and passionate, of how these whales came to find themselves in their present dire situation... It's late, but the hope is that it's not too late for recovery. -- Erich Hoyt, author, Orca: The Whale Called Killer, and research fellow, Whale and Dolphin Conservation


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