Photo courtesy of NOAA
Alaska Wildlife Alliance (AWA) is part of a recent coalition of environmentalists that say the federal government is not doing enough to halt the steep decline of beluga whales in the Cook Inlet, which connects Anchorage to the Gulf of Alaska. There are only an estimated 279 beluga whales left in this region.
“For the past three years, the federal government has, astoundingly, authorized each member of this tiny, struggling population of Cook Inlet beluga whales to be harassed over 80 times,” said Nicole Schmitt, executive director of the Alaska Wildlife Alliance. “Before the fisheries service authorizes any more harassment, we simply ask that they take a comprehensive look at their cumulative effects and make informed decisions about how much harassment this imperiled population can actually sustain each year.”
AWA is joined in this petition by the Environmental Investigation Agency, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Cook Inletkeeper.
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