BOSTON—(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2014. A deadline for expanding critical habitat protections for the North Atlantic right whale— one of the world’s most endangered whales — has been set in response to a legal settlement agreement. Each year most of the 500 North Atlantic right whales remaining on Earth migrate from their feeding and breeding grounds off the U.S. Northeast to their nursery areas off the Southeast. But only a tiny portion of this expansive range…
