Whale Conservation on Capitol Hill
Final week, Whale and Dolphin Conservation, Animal Welfare Institute, Endangered Species Coalition, Environmental Investigation Company, and Oceana partnered to host a congressional briefing and to foyer on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The congressional briefing titled, “Coast to Coast Methods for Saving America’s Whales and Marine Life: Addressing Local weather Change Impacts” with Dr. Heidi Pearson and Dr. Erin Meyer-Gutbrod was held in coordination with the Home Sustainable Vitality and Environmental Coalition’s Nature and Oceans Process Power.
The briefing and subsequent discussions with Senators’ and Home Representatives’ places of work from coast to coast aimed to deliver consciousness to restoration targets and advantages for big whale populations and the protections obligatory to assist them of their restoration. Whale conservation is a bipartisan situation; subsequently, it should require bipartisan options and assist.
For North Atlantic proper whales, defending bedrock environmental legal guidelines just like the Endangered Species Act and Marine Mammal Safety Act is essential to deliver their species again from the brink of extinction. “Supporting present strong laws just like the EPA and MMPA, seminal items of laws which can be working, ought to keep intact and nonetheless obtain continued full assist,” mentioned Dr. Heidi Pearson.
