Monitoring on the edge: tracking Southern Residents from a Pender Island bluff
This is our third year monitoring the Pender Vessel Restricted Zone (VRZ), a protected area designed to reduce disturbance to critically endangered Southern Resident killer whales. From a cliffside lookout on Pender Island and through our underwater hydrophone, we track when whales use this area and how vessels behave around them. An acoustic environment free from human noise is…
https://www.raincoast.org/2026/04/monitoring-tracking-southern-residents-pender-island-bluff/
