Southern Resident Orcas Conservation Plan

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A world first: Researchers announce plan to save B.C.'s endangered southern resident orcas

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Scientists from around the world have come up with a plan to save the endangered southern resident orcas .

The report recommends tougher restrictions on toxic chemicals that are harming the orcas, mainly by killing the salmon they depend on for food.

The Salish Sea is too noisy for the endangered orcas to hunt successfully, according to new research.

They found 4-nonylphenol or 4NP , which is used in manufacturing as emulsifiers in pulp and paper processing, as well as soap and other detergents, in 46 per cent of the samples. In 2018 , a southern resident killer whale known as Tahlequah captured the world’s attention when she pushed the body of her dead calf for more than two weeks in waters off B.C. ’s South Coast , in what many scientists called a display of public grief..

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