In 2019, I attended a Raincoast Conservation Foundation live stream on the future of Southern Resident killer whale recovery.
At the time, I was volunteering for the Right to Quiet Society based in British Columbia, Canada. I wanted to transcribe this Raincoast event to share the content with people who couldn’t make the live stream or who can’t hear enough to understand the content or discussion.
This live stream helped educate me on the issues facing this critically endangered species, and how scientists are recommending specific actions to help save the whales. My pdf transcript Raincoast: The future of killer whale recovery is available on my website and is now a stand-alone video.
If you’re reading this in 2025, the Southern Resident Killer Whales are still at imminent risk of extinction. An international Independent Science Panel on SRKW Recovery says it’s not too late. If we take evidence-based actions to restore their habitat, e.g. lowering noise pollution and disturbance plus increasing Chinook salmon prey.
For the latest action alerts, please follow the Orca Conservancy and Raincoast Conservation Foundation. As they say, endangered is not dead and Southern Resident whales have a killer future if we act.
In British Columbia, Roberts Bank Terminal 2 or DeltaPort 2 plans are still going ahead in the Salish Sea. This will add a massive human-made island shipping port in the middle of the whales’ legally designated critical habitat. The whales won’t survive 5 years of summer underwater dredging and construction where they go to feed and birth their calves. They won’t survive the massive increase in shipping traffic once the new island port goes into operation.
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