— and their vertebrae protruding along their spines.
“It was amazing to see them here, so close ... but really concerning too,” he said. Like the researchers in Baja, he hadn’t seen anything like this since the last time hundreds of gray whales stranded, in 1999. During that period, which stretched through to 2000, 24 whales died in the bay. “Weird,” said Daniel Aguilar, a guide at Antonio’s Ecotours and son of the proprietor, Antonio Aguilar. “They don’t usually do that kind of thing.”
Along California’s northern coast, Scott and Tree Mercer have helped to fill the data void. For the last 15 months, the couple have taken a nearly daily excursion to the Mendocino Headlands in their minivan. Wearing matching blue windbreakers and carrying folding chairs and binoculars, they perch themselves on a bluff overlooking the crashing waves below, and scan the horizon for whales and other ocean life.
And as spring turned to summer, they began to notice things they’d never before seen — or expected to see. They started seeing gray whales nearly every day of the year — not just during the migration.
A small population of roughly 200 still roams the western Pacific waters, from Russia’s Sakhalin Island, where ExxonMobil has a major development, south to the Korean Peninsula.Mexico’s Baja Peninsula, including places like San Ignacio Lagoon, provide warm, shallow estuaries where gray whale mothers come each year to nurse their calves, as other adults arrive to mate.
In 1988, the Mexican government named the region a protected biosphere. In 1993, it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Mexican government limits the number of boats allowed in the lagoon at any given time to 16, restricts the amount of time each boat can spend on the water and regulates fishing to certain times of the year.
Yet more alarmist claptrap.
Humans
We're next.
breaks this ol’ heart 😥
As if we needed another indication that we've f**ked our most precious natural resources, including our oceans, rivers, fresh water and air. Are we too late?
Covid in the water
wow
Sad.......nobody really knew what is going on....
It's all your fault.
Maybe micro-particulates of plastics... Maybe the heat.....
'Is it a sign of oceans in peril?' Ummmm, have you all been under a rock? There was a legit portal to hell in the Atlantic less than 3 months ago.
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maybe they just got old...
Could be that they are boiling in water GlobalWarming
Maybe from the 1.5 billion masks in the ocean....
hmmm idk maybe the ongoing warming and acidification of the oceans and massive coral reef die offs? truly a mystery
Fukushima, ocean acidification...not hard to figure out.
So dumb
what’s killing whales how about sharks, turtles, general marine life, and coral
In peril. Wherever it is we thought we might be headed in the climate crisis, we are already there. Our government could not handle a pandemic, climate crisis, unification, or big business greed. It’s sort of depressing when u think about it, so let’s not.
Force industries to invent an alternative to plastics right now.
Humans
Look into the long term effects of the *Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster*
Between the nuclear meltdowns, and other government bomb experiments in the waters I’m sure it has nothing to do with that though…
Eating plastic isnt good I wouldn't eat anything from the ocean we polluted the fuck out of it.
Death Stranding
Uhm. Newsflash. Tht radioactive shit from fuckUshima didn’t just vanish. Maybe it affects the whales differently
Probably Orcas.
Why don’t you run some articles on the corporations responsible and the governments that enable it? Real journalism or nah?
We are literally killing ourselves and this planet. 😞
They probably need get a vaccine!
Humans are basically viruses killing mother earth
Have they figured out whether the commit 'suicide' or what? One hypothesis was that it was radar signals that interfered with their brains, is that true?
It’s probably the fact that the oceans are polluted, navies just blow stuff up, and the food supply is depleted
all these oil rigs in the ocean blowing up isn’t helping shit either
All that DDT dumped off LA in the 80s?
If only we could actually stop people from dumping shit into the ocean, or start holding these giant corporations accountable.
Probably all the chemicals and nuclear waste being out into the oceans
Sad, so sad oceanprotection whalesprotection
Hmmm maybe the Fukushima meltdown is the reason?
The Oceans are in Peril with Oil Spills and People Throwing Garbage in the Ocean like it's a Huge Trash Can. We only get one World we need to Respect it and Care for it.
Rose Webster GetMyGist here. DLeBlancNB & 100s in medicine / science were notified by me 2016 - now. Wolbachia was mass released 2009 & 2016 beside Canada; toyed with 30 yrs, right TheAtlantic? My petition: Lawyers use EndangeredSpeciesAct?
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Maybe it’s the trash we toss into the oceans? **just a hunch**
Humans are the cause. Case solved.
The beginning of the end for Earth as we have known it. Earth must be cleansed of all humans as soon as possible.
I wonder if the japan nuclear meltdowns have anything to do with this
Damn those are huge numbers and there aren't that many whale's left.
Japan dumping over 1 million tons of nuclear wastewater, contaminated by the 2011 fukushima nuclear disaster, into the ocean is also killing everything in the ocean. In addition to all other shitz we dump in there. We will all soon die from destroying this Earth.
And we're next.
Some people are really selfish. Would rather let a species go extinct. They don't want to pay more for sewage and garbage🙏😭😭. God. We are guilty. COVID-19 could be the beginning of the apocalypse.
💔💔💔💔
They are such beautiful and majestic creatures. Poor whales 🐋 ♥️
Maybe its the toxic OIL from Sunken Ships RISk
Oh I guess it can’t possibly be the radiation waters Japan is releasing into the water or the multiple oil spills. Or all the plastic floating around. Nope can’t be any of that. 🤦🏻♀️ wHaT iS iT?
Make this into a podcast, people love true crime
This is heartbreaking
One wild fucking guess.... It doesn't even matter what we do here we could be spotless with pollution, other countries are so much worse & could careless what happen to the ocean as long as they get theirs
😑🙄😒
It is a sign of humans lacking respect for nature.
Ban all plastics by Executive Order immediately
What can we do?
Oh no!! My favorite animal on earth, except for my doggies.
Alarming!!!!! All the climate change talk ..... clean these oceans, lakes , rivers!!!
It’s me. I’m killing the whales and the wales
Of course the ef it is. But nobody would listen, and still won’t. We are in a period of huge change, and this generation and others will suffer, this isn’t grandparents 100years from now, anymore.
It could be a scary ghost that's living in the ocean.👻
I just watched a South park episode on this
Water was LITERALLY on FIRE the other day. BILLIONS of mussels/clams SHRIVELED under blistering heat the other week. So if you’re still asking if the oceans are in peril… 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
I know what, humans
What? Seriously! You don't know man is killing the entire planet earth? It's dumb greedy ass sick individuals blasting into space on their spacecraft also the incompetence on our seas drilling and spilling. No care at all for any life or humanity just Money Power Sex SAD!
Did i win the prize for calculating?
Yea it's called humans
Can someone update me, are Conservatives still on the 'climate change isn't real' set of lies or have they progressed to the 'blame the people who warned you about it for decades' set of lies yet?
Corporate pollution, and you know it. Why pretend it doesn't exist?
The end is here and people will not repent. They are bowing down to the sins of this world and these animals are paying for it. Ask God for forgiveness
GODDAMMIT KOJIMA
HUMANS - very obvious hahahah
heartbreaking... surely it's bc of something WE are doing
So glad this is being looked into. In no way meant to belittle the real problems being faced here - but doesn’t anyone remember Star Trek 4 - these babies are critical to saving our planet! 🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️
Its me
Maybe it's the pollution
😣
ham_hox I figure at least a third of these have to be mistaken identity when I go sunbathing at the beach.
Damn
Maybe after we kill all the whales, an alien probe will arrive and destroy humanity. Wait! That sounds like a good movie plot.
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