The world’s last 350 North Atlantic right whales live along the East Coast. Collisions with ships are a deadly hazard, but new listening buoys are helping. Here’s how.
The green dots on this map show locations of buoys listening for endangered right whales. If you see a red whale icon instead, it means a buoy at that location has heard a right whale within the last 24 hours. This information is made available to ship captains, who can slow to 10 knots and post a lookout to avoid a collision.
http://listenforwhales.org/ via SA
We really need this down here in Florida. I want my children and my children’s children to enjoy the sight and sounds of the right whales and this would be a huge benefit to it. This kind of progress needs to be communicated with the “higher ups” here in Florida so we can save these precious creatures. Something needs to be done but I wouldn’t even know how to go about doing it. Anyone else got any ideas?