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Meet a WDC Supporter Who is Helping Us Make Change
Grant Hensel is the Founder and CEO of Nonprofit Megaphone & The RoundUp App. A graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois, Grant is passionate…
Read MoreWDC participates in ropeless fishing workshop
Last week, WDC was invited to participate in Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s workshop on reducing entanglements to critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. At this…
Read MoreTrump Administration targets marine mammals…again
*Update: In spite of this Administration’s attempt to eliminate the US Marine Mammal Commission, the House and Senate have approved funding to continue the important…
Read MoreCanadian government announces measures to protect North Atlantic right whales
Steps in the right direction or too little too late? Today, the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans outlined four immediate measures being put into…
Read MoreUS population of Bryde’s whale declared as critically endangered
Gulf of Mexico (GoM) Bryde’s whales are genetically isolated from other baleen whale populations and are only found in the deep water canyons of the…
Read MoreDeath of a species
The discovery of yet another dead endangered North Atlantic right whale off Virginia brings the loss to a total of 18 dead since April, a…
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