Orca & Ocean News Round-up - May 2024
June is Orca Action Month! Celebrate by sharing Skaana and your favourite orca stories
June is Orca Action Month in Canada and the US (or at least in BC and Washington State). Here’s the scoop from our friends at Georgia Strait Alliance.
Let’s start with a few links to some of our favourite orca stories before we get to our news round-up. First off… a free link to my documentary about the southern resident orcas and their former matriarch - Granny.
And our latest episode of Skaana… which is the latest on orcas…
NOAA scientists Kim Parsons & Tom Jefferson on killer whale science, killer whales versus orcas, orcas versus dolphins, how science becomes official, the challenges of translating science to civilians and so much more in the first of a special two-part episode on the two soon to be official species of orcas who call the Salish Sea home.
Orcas Everywhere the audiobook on Audible and Spotify:
And The Killer Whale Who Changed the World on Audible and Spotify
And in Orca News in May!
Brave Little Hunter
The latest on the orca looking for their family. Ehattesaht First Nation ‘very concerned’ about orphaned orca contacting boats - CHEK
Orcas Finding family
We’ll Get You Out of Here—Just Follow the Sound of My Voice - Hakai
Orca politics
B.C. First Nation to reactivate judicial review of DFO's salmon farm virus policy - CHEK news
Are the oceans too loud? Critically endangered orcas in B.C. are struggling to navigate in a sea of shipping noise
On the Etiquette of Whale Watching
When Stalking Killers, Be Nice to Them - The Tyee
Orcas vs. yachts
Orcas Just Sank Another Yacht - Scientific American
Yacht sinks after being rammed by orcas in Strait of Gibraltar - BBC
Idiots vs. orcas…
And this is why animal protection laws need to be enforced… and no fines and warnings are not enough…
Man is fined after trying to 'body slam' killer whale
New Zealand man filmed trying to ‘body slam’ an orca in actions described as ‘idiotic’
Untangling right whales
Onboard a dangerous mission to disentangle a right whale | CBC Documentaries
And as the anniversary of Jaws filming approaches, time to irrationally panic about Great White sharks
Shark tales: Canada’s great whites - Canadian Geographic
And some random ocean weirdness
Don't Call the Blobfish Ugly - Smithsonian
