Lessons from Alaska: How an oil spill decimated a once thriving orca population

Capt. John

Thirty years ago, the tanker ship Exxon Valdez spilled thousands of metric tons of crude oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound, and the local killer whale population was literally swimming in the thick of it. The AB pod was a group of 35 orcas before the spill and afterwards it lost 14 whales in...

https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/lessons-from-alaska-how-an-oil-spill-decimated-a-once-thriving-orca-population/

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