The North Atlantic Right Whale: Our Urban Leviathan
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Channel: GBH Forum Network · 2014 · Education
The endangered North Atlantic Right Whale is probably our closest cetacean neighbor. There are only about 350 of them in total, and they live precariously near to shore, along the Eastern seaboard, in a horrendously busy commercial shipping corridor that stretches from Nova Scotia to Florida. Scott Kraus, the vice president for research at Boston’s New England Aquarium, and the head of its right whale research project, has studied these whales for decades, and the aquarium’s efforts on their behalf have led to dramatic improvements in right whale habitat. But they remain nonetheless threatened - primarily by us humans. ThoughtCast’s Jenny Attiyeh meets with Kraus at the New England Aquarium, to discuss his latest book, which he co-edited with his colleague Rosalind Rolland, called The Urban Whale.
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