Colleagues at GRID-Arendal lay out the growing consensus for protecting the ocean’s marine life, including whales, due to their vital contribution to mitigating climate change. Whale populations have enormous value for the global good Our oceans, and all marine life, play a central role in stabilizing the Earth’s climate. Oceans mitigate climate change by serving…
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A strategy to protect whales can limit greenhouse gases and global warming A new paper by Ralph Chami, Assistant Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and a member of the Board of Advisors for the GWC, has just been published in the IMF’s Finance & Development, on valuing whales for their role in sequestering…
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A new International Monetary Fund (IMF) paper values the role of whales in carbon sequestration and healthy ocean functioning at over $1 trillion Coordinating the economics of whale protection must rise to the top of the global community’s climate agenda. Whales play an “irreplaceable role” in mitigating and building resilience to climate change. Altering shipping…
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Michael Fishbach and Ralph Chami appeared on CBC The World This Weekend Sunday, September 15 at 6:00 pm EST to talk about their work on valuing whales for their ecosystem and economic benefits. Listen to the podcast here: http://soundcloud.com/rhoda-metcalfe/the-2-million-whale
The tale of how a radical new view of the value of whales to planetary health was born aboard a boat. Author: Charlotte Smith, writer on sustainability issues The sun is just rising on the Sea of Cortez in March 2018 as a whale research boat sets forth from Loreto, Mexico – a town situated…
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Endangered beluga whales in Alaska’s Cook Inlet are about to face a seismic attack that will disrupt their eating and mating activities and could drive them closer to extinction. The Trump administration is allowing oil and gas company Hilcorp to expand its offshore drilling operations in Alaska — at the expense of beluga whales and…
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Unless you’ve been making a superhuman effort to avoid the news recently, you’ll know that the ocean is vital to life on Earth. But why, exactly, is this the case? Here are five reasons why we need to safeguard its future. Read article
Our week 7 guests hailed from California, Baja California and Arizona. Now, how might one ask could we possibly have ended up with a hammerhead shark in our panga? Simple answer: There was a juvenile hammerhead swimming above a sandy bottom shallow part of the sea and we tracked it for about 2 minutes. It…
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Our week 6 guests hailed from Texas, Hong Kong, and North Carolina Our days on the Sea of Cortez this week were remarkably similar to each other, and the diversity of experience for the week came also from our days off the sea. We had grand and diverse land excursions, including to the organic ranches…
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Our week 5 guests hailed from Virginia, Washington DC, England and Florida. This week was a reunion of old friends with all guests except one has been here to Baja with us multiple times previously. Many ideas for helping the great whales were shared among the backdrop of many whales, wind-free days, and spectacular Baja…
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Our weeks 3 and 4 guests hailed from New Mexico, New Jersey, Oregon, Massachusetts and New York. Week 3 brought us a few blue whales for the first time this season, and also a great grey whale day as well as some wonderful encounters with dolphins. In fact we saw one day a pod 1500-2000…
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Our week two guests hailed from California and Florida. We finally spotted our first blue whale of the season, with Delphi doing the fieldwork of documenting it. This was the one and only “Hook” a male first identified in 1983 as an adult. So this is an older whale which we now have on record…
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