Conservation groups in B.C. are suing two federal cabinet ministers over their failure to recommend an emergency order to protect highly endangered orcas.

An 'imminent threat' assessment in November 2024 set a ticking legal clock that requires two ministers to recommend an ...

with record sightings of Bigg's killer whales reported last year, according to the Pacific Whale Watch Association and Orca Behavior Institute. Unlike southern residents, Bigg's prey on marine ...

In December 2014, we wrote in a commentary in the Times Colonist that said “southern resident killer whales are no better off now than when they were listed as endangered 15 years ago.” ...

Conservation groups filed a legal challenge over the failure of government to make a timely recommendation to Cabinet for an emergency order after determining that Southern Resident killer whales face ...

Tahlequah is one of 73 endangered Southern Resident orcas, a killer whale population that lives in three pods − J, K an L − along the Salish Sea near British Columbia and Washington State.

drawing attention to the critically endangered southern resident killer whales. Researchers say this behavior is a sign of grief. Dr. Deborah Giles, science and research director at Wild Orca ...

The month of December brought the endangered Southern Resident killer whales sadness and joy.

Both Canada's environment minister and Cabinet acted reasonably in approving the expansion of a shipping terminal near ...

The southern resident killer whale population was down 73 individuals as of July 1, 2024. The orcas range predominantly in the coastal waters off southern Vancouver Island and Washington State and the ...

In 2018, an orca in the Pacific Ocean’s Southern Resident population named Tahlequah refused to let go of her dead calf, ...