The Song of the Right Whale - Ep 5: Don’t Blame Canada

Right Whales have been disappearing from some of their traditional feeding grounds due to climate change pushing their food further north.

And then in 2017, they started appearing further north in the Gulf of St. Lawrence - one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world - with deadly consequences. It could have been game over, but Canadian government managed to get legislators, fishermen and environmentalists to solve the problem together. Rhod finds out how they did it.

Published on Wednesday, 28th September 2022.

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