Ep 5: Don’t Blame Canada
Right Whales start appearing in busy shipping lanes further north, with fatal consequences. Rhod gets the Canadian response and learns just how much climate change affects whales.
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.
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The Song of the Right Whale
A species facing extinction. An industry struggling to change. Will it be adapt - or die?
