[I just realized that I'd not reposted this entry from my previous blog. But it's too heart-warming to leave behind, so I'm reposting it here and now. Plus, vowing to get blogging again.]
I just came across great video posted by Gershon Cohen of fellow Great Whale Conservancy (Earth Island Institute) founder Michael Fishbach and friends saving a juvenile Humpback Whale caught in a drift net this past winter in the Gulf of California/Sea of Cortez.
It's an abject lesson in the perils of even the most local of fishing practices, if it's carried out recklessly. That's no more than a few kilograms of monofilament webbing bringing down an animal that weighs tens of tons and is among the largest that's ever inhabited the earth.
Bravo to Cohen and Fishbach, and to others like them.
Showing posts with label Gulf of California. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gulf of California. Show all posts
Monday, September 26, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?
Bad news for one of the Western Hemisphere's best marine conservation success stories, Cabo Pulmo in the Gulf of California, says "National Geographic."
In the comments, the article's author, Enrico Sala, says he and a colleague have a paper due out soon that's full of the "hard data" tracking sea life in Cabo Pulmo between 1999 and 2009.
I didn't see any links to online petition efforts to convince Mexican authorities to abandon plans to sell off this coastline to the hotel industry, though.
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