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Sightings of thin killer whales have led researchers to blame the decline of these whales to the shortage of Chinook salmon. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Keith Holmes, Hakai Institute

2 abril 2023

With only low-fat Chinook on the menu, southern resident killer whales are going hungry

Jacob Lerner, University of British Columbia

Food quality, not just quantity, matters when it comes to the health and survival of the southern resident killer whales.

Neighbours from Tla’amin, K’omoks, Qualicum and Tsimshian Nations gather around the newly. erected plaque on Xwe’etay honoring the ancestral Indigenous people of the island. (Kathy Schulz)

13 novembro 2022

How community-engaged archaeology can be a pathway to reconciliation

Dana Lepofsky, Simon Fraser University; Christine Roberts; Oqwilowgwa Kim Recalma-Clutesi e Sean Markey, Simon Fraser University

One project on a small island in B.C. is demonstrating how archaeology can bring communities together and serve as a basis for reconciliation.

An endangered female orca leaps from the water in Puget Sound, west of Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

20 setembro 2022

As chinook salmon get thinner and fewer, southern resident killer whales struggle to find enough food

Fanny Couture, University of British Columbia

The declining salmon and whale numbers raise a critical question: Is the southern resident killer whale population solely reliant on the abundance of salmon? And, if so, since when?

A female resident orca whale breaches while swimming in Puget Sound in January 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Elaine Thompson

8 janeiro 2019

Quieter ships could help Canada’s endangered orcas recover

Priyanka Varkey, Dalhousie University e Tony Robert Walker, Dalhousie University

Noisy waters may be making it harder for southern resident killer whales to communicate with each other and find their food.

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