Happy Right Whale Day! It’s a day to celebrate, cherish, and renew our call to protect our big marine mammal neighbors swimming along our shores, and I’m inviting you to take a moment to support them.
Right whales were once teeming in the waters of New England, but after commercial whaling, fishing, shipping, and recreational boating each took a toll, our friends need some human help to get back to thriving numbers.
So, we’re working to establish a Right Whale National Marine Sanctuary along the coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island and calling for better, more comprehensive management of the ocean waters and briny depths that these right whales call home.
This designation would finally establish modern protections for the right whale – allowing a safer place for them to live and raise their young calves.
Working together with governments, shippers, fishers, boaters, local communities, and all lovers of the ocean, we’ve won groundbreaking protections before, and that’s how we’re going to do it again.
It won’t be easy – actually, it’s a leviathan undertaking, but we’re up for the challenge, and we’re thrilled you are too!
Steady on,
Rob
