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Endangered Orcas West Coast Habitat Receives New Federal Protection - Center for Biological Diversity
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New cranes, cross-docks to help handle growing volumes in Pacific Northwest
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Seattle-bound cranes pass by Edmonds
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Earth Day Celebration at Port of Seattle Seeks to Protect Ocean, Endangered Orcas From Vessels in Salish Sea
SEATTLE Thursday’s socially distanced Earth Day gathering across from the Port of Seattle offices will celebrate the year-long absence of noisy and polluting cruise ships from the Salish Sea.
Conservation groups will hold this festive event to highlight how the Port of Seattle’s proposed expansion could harm critically endangered Southern Resident killer whales. That population has dropped to just 74 orcas. The expansion includes an additional cruise terminal near Pioneer Square and plans to expand the harbor to allow more cargo shipping.
A southern resident killer whale preys on a salmon. (Candice Emmons/NOAA Fisheries)
(CN) The Trump administration rushed through a project to expand Seattle Harbor for ultra-large container ships that would further threaten endangered Southern Resident killer whales, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.
Only 75 Southern Resident killer whales swim the Salish Sea a number that has increased since three baby whales were born in the relatively quiet waters of the pandemic. Noise from whale watching boats and ships headed to and from ports across the Pacific will increase when pandemic restrictions are lifted.
Added to that is a new worry: the underwater cacophony of ultra-large container ships that would visit Seattle Harbor, in the heart of the whales’ home waters, and the release of hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of toxic material dredged during the harbor project.