The sight of an orca clinging to her dead calf for a heartwrenching reason turned out to be a way of coping with loss, just ...

The southern resident orca population marked the turn of the year with both heartbreak and hope: the death of a newborn calf ...

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.” ...

Environmental groups are taking federal ministers to court in a push for them to recommend an emergency order to save ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

SEATTLE — The recent death of a J pod orca calf highlights the plight of the Southern Resident killer whales, which have struggled to increase their population after it reached the lowest level ...

Whale researchers in the Pacific Northwest reported a day of extreme highs and lows on the last day of 2024. On the low side, they learned that a Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW) calf ...