As we enter a new year, the International Marine Mammal Project is still hard at work laying out our plans and hopes to help save whales, dolphins, and their ocean homes.
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The Bahamas plans to open 3.9 million acres of water to offshore drilling in December. Its waters are home to one of the most studied dolphin populations in the world.
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Look around you – can you find a disposable plastic item? Perhaps a plastic bag, a coffee cup, a pen… Do you wonder where they eventually end up after being tossed in the trash can?
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On June 5, 2020, President Donald Trump, surrounded by New England fishermen and their prop lobster traps, opened the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to commercial fishing. Unsurprisingly, environmentalists did not get an invite.
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The International Marine Mammal Project and Shark Stewards of Earth Island Institute plan to sue the federal government, should the Trump Administration attempt to illegally reinstate commercial fishing in the Marine National Monuments or shrink the boundaries of the monuments.
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Although the COVID-19 pandemic has brought on great stress, turmoil, and devastation to the world, it has also brought on small victories, such as Iceland's halt on whaling. Hundreds of whales will be kept safe due to Iceland’s decision this year.
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Opportunities for environmental exploitation are arising amidst the pandemic. The Trump administration has loosened the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulations, allowing large industries to pollute at whatever levels they please during the crisis.
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In his recent story, Joe Roman of the University of Vermont notes that “one of the most important global conservation events of the past year was something that didn’t happen.”
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The gray whales that migrate today along the coast of North America are one of the bright spots for whales that were severely depleted during the heyday of commercial whaling. The species has the unfortunate distinction of having been repeatedly reduced before protection efforts were put in place by the League of Nations and nations that host the migrations. And still today, every summer, they are hunted in Russia.
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The International Marine Mammal Project (IMMP) of Earth Island Institute joined 38 national organizations in supporting legislation to block offshore oil drilling in the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean, and off the Gulf Coast of Florida.
These are areas of sensitive wildlife habitat, including the homes of many species of whales and dolphins. Offshore oil drilling is known to cause large and chronic oil spills, as well as the dumping of toxic drilling muck into the sea. Exploring for oil can also precipitate harmful noise pollution (from the air canons that probe the ocean bottom for oil-bearing rock formations). Furthermore, coastal businesses in fishing and tourism are dependent on clean, oil-industry-free oceans. Oil drilling operations can ruin these businesses due to toxic discharge and noise pollution. Organizations supporting the legislation include the Sierra Club, Oceana, IFAW, IMMP, and many others.
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