— from Joe Gaydos, Chief Scientist and Regional Director —
Tracking the health of individual endangered wild animals has only been done in rare cases. This “extreme conservation” measure, as it was called when describing its benefits to endangered mountain gorillas, is a tool we know will benefit Southern Resident killer whale recovery.
It was an honor to work with NOAA and the National Marine Mammal Foundation to pull together nearly 30 killer whale experts from around North America to start this process. It was also an honor to have private SeaDoc donors give $30,000 last summer to facilitate a larger grant and NOAA funding to make this work possible. Thank you!
