100,000 Sign Petition Seeking Critical Habitat Protections Beyond Puget Sound
SEATTLE—(ENEWSPF)–June 6, 2016. Conservation groups and more than 100,000 people today called on the Obama administration to immediately expand protected critical habitat for Southern Resident killer whales along the West Coast. The population remains critically endangered with just 83 individuals left.
The National Marine Fisheries Service last year announced plans to expand orcas’ habitat protections to 9,000 miles along the West Coast (some 2,500 miles…
