Bright extinction: Scientists have coined this term to describe the situation facing Southern Resident killer whales
In 2015, scientists from the Raincoast Conservation Foundation teamed up with international experts to model the viability of critically endangered Southern Resident killer whales (SRKW) that frequent the coastal waters of the US and Canada. That study (Lacy et al. 2017) found that if conditions didn’t change for the 81 killer whales alive at the time, the population had a 25%
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