The fate of the calf trapped in a British Columbia lagoon has gripped the public. Can Brave Little Hunter be reunited with her pod?In the early 1960s, Canada's fisheries ministry installed a .50-calibre machine gun on an island in British Columbia. The weapon, typically used against armoured vehicles and low-flying aircraft, was mounted with the sole purpose of killing orcas. The high-powered gun was never used, but the message was clear: the whales, derisively called "blackfish", were the enemy.Now, six decades later and less than 100 miles away from where the gun was mounted, that same ministry has joined residents of a remote community in a frantic attempt to rescue a stranded orca calf. Continue reading...
'We're all cheering for her': time is ticking for Canada's stranded orca orphan
6. dubna 2024 18:18
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/06/time-ticking-for-canada-stranded-orca-orphan-vancouver
Zdroj: The Guardian