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Protecting Whales from Dangerous Sonar
News

NRDC intensifies the campaign to secure precautions against military sonar's deadly effects.

Whale Nursery Saved
News

Mitsubishi and the Mexican government announced on March 2, 2000 that they are abandoning plans to build a massive industrial salt plant in southern Baja California. The Mexican government had proposed to construct the saltworks in partnership with the Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan at Laguna San Ignacio, the last undisturbed birthing and nursery grounds of the gray whale.

U.N. World Heritage Conference
History

In late 1998, a team of NRDC experts and partners in the campaign to save the gray whale nursery in Laguna San Ignacio, Mexico attended a meeting of the United Nations World Heritage Committee in Kyoto, Japan. To focus international attention on a proposed industrial salt factory in Laguna San Ignacio, the last untouched nursery of the Pacific gray whale, the team urged the Committee to designate the lagoon and two others making up the "Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino" as a World Heritage Site "In Danger". In March 2000, Mitsubishi and the Mexican government abandoned their plans for the saltworks.

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Whale Songs in the City
News

Whales have been recorded singing near New York harbor, but noise pollution puts them at risk.

Sounding the Depths II: The Rising Toll of Sonar, Shipping and Industrial Ocean Noise on Marine Life
Report

Ocean noise produced by military sonar, oil and gas exploration, and shipping traffic can have impacts on marine life ranging from long-term behavioral change to hearing loss to death. This November 2005 NRDC report reviews the science, surveys the leading contributors to the problem, and suggest what might be done to reduce the impacts of noise on the sea -- before the proliferation of noise sources makes the problem unmanageable.

Wildlife on the Brink
Overview

In the words of Teddy Roosevelt, "The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value." The Endangered Species Act is the best tool we have to ensure that future generations will inherit a nation of soaring forests, redrock canyons, lumbering grizzlies and tiny songbirds. Without its protections, we risk losing hundreds of species of plants and animals across the nation to pollution and private development. See our photo gallery of endangered wildlife and learn about the terrain they need to survive.

Laguna San Ignacio Gray Whale Nursery
Photo Album

Laguna San Ignacio in Baja California, Mexico is best known as winter home to the gray whale. Every year the whales migrate over 10,000 miles between their summer feeding grounds above the Arctic Circle and the coastal waters of Baja. They have adopted the warm, shallow waters of the lagoons along the west coast of the Baja peninsula for their calving nurseries. Here they spend the months of December to March birthing, feeding their calves, breaching and spyhopping, joined by hardy ecotourists.

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