Orcas

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Environment

Have we already passed the time to save Puget Sound orcas, task force member asks?

Members of the governor's Southern Resident Orca Task Force are seeing a lot of work ahead to save the Pacific Northwest orcas. Task force member Laura Blackmore says she's not confident help will come in time for the endangered whales, but she's not giving up.
Kim Malcolm
Environment

Orca population drops as 3 more killer whales presumed dead

Three endangered orcas are believed to be dead, according to the Center for Whale Research, which keeps an eye on the southern resident killer whales of the Salish Sea.
Isolde Raftery
Environment

Salmon catch airlift toward spawning grounds after rock slide blocks their way

An emergency operation is under way to help salmon fly – and help orcas not run out of food.
John Ryan
Environment

The San Juan Islands could become home to a sanctuary for captive orcas

Kim Malcolm talks with Lori Marino, founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project.
Kim Malcolm

Andy Hurst
Puget Sound orcas look fatter ... maybe because they've moved away

It looks like endangered Orcas that reside around Puget Sound… may be residing somewhere else.
Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Environment

Endangered orcas have been missing for 8 weeks. This is unprecedented, researchers say

It all comes back to chinook salmon.
John Ryan
Environment

Washington tribes and Inslee alarmed by Canadian pipeline approval

Expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline to the Vancouver, B.C., area would boost tanker traffic in Washington waters, poses threat to orcas.
John Ryan
Environment

Bombs, guns and sea lions on the Columbia River

I take a journey up the Columbia River, where people, sea lions, orcas and salmon have a complicated relationship.
Chris Morgan

Matt Martin
Environment

It's a calf! New baby orca seen in endangered pod

Whale watchers spotted a new orca calf in the J pod of the endangered southern resident killer whale population Thursday.
Caroline Chamberlain Gomez
Environment

Lummi Nation asks federal government for emergency intervention to aid Puget Sound orcas

Kim Malcolm talks with Squil-le-he-le Raynell Morris about why the Lummi Nation is asking NOAA to issue an emergency intervention to save Puget Sound orcas.
Kim Malcolm

Andy Hurst

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