Collaborative Solution Needed to End the Deadlock Over Dams
NRDC joins a diverse group of seventeen conservation, energy sector, and port leaders from across the Northwest in a letter to the governors of Oregon, Washingt...
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A Home for Orcas
The Southern Resident orcas are at their lowest abundance in 40 years. ...
New Study Offers Way Out of Hot Water & Salmon Crisis
The Pacific Northwest’s salmon are in big, hot trouble. Billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent on a wild range of government efforts to save these sacre...
Without Salmon, We Lose Our Killer Whales
We're losing the Southern Resident Killer Whales at an astonishing rate. But you can help....
Losing Killer Whale L95 and Trying to Find Hope
A deadly infection from a satellite research tag killed a 20 year old male Southern Resident killer whale called L95 (or Nigel), NOAA admitted this week . The...
Without Their Mother: The Loss of Killer Whale J14
Perhaps even more than we do, killer whales need their moms. I’m heartbroken to report that the Southern Resident killer whales—a small, endangered group of...