Jan 30, 2025

First Circuit Decision Reinstates Rule Protecting Right Whales

Conservation groups applaud a First Circuit Court of Appeals decision reinstating a 2024 National Marine Fisheries Service rule that protects critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from fishing gear entanglements — one of two major threats to the species’ survival and recovery.

Entangled North Atlantic right whale
Apr 02, 2024

Conservation Groups Decry Yet Another Preventable Right Whale Death

“How many more right whales need to die before we stop the carnage?” said Erica Fuller, senior counsel at the Conservation Law Foundation. “We have a solution — a seasonal 10 knot vessel speed restriction. Yet the Biden administration continues to condone policies that are driving the species toward extinction.”

Right whale mother swimming after a small calf