New York Times Article On Right Whale Conservation
By Matt J. Weiss, March 22, 2009 @ 01:00 AM (EST)
Source: Nytimes.com
Editor's Note-
It's always great to see marine mammals and conservation issues get national attention in well written pieces in reputable publications. Here is one from the NYtimes.
The biologists had been in the plane for hours, flying back and forth over the calm ocean. They had seen dolphins, leatherback turtles, a flock of water birds called gannets and even a basking shark — but not what they were looking for.
Then Millie Brower, who was peering with intense concentration through a bubblelike window fitted into the plane’s fuselage, announced “nine o’clock, about a mile off.” The plane made a stomach-churning lurch as the pilots banked left and began to circle. And there, below, were a right whale mother and her new calf, barely breaking the surface, lolling in the swells...Comments
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