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Northern Right Whale Hope Story: Why the Population Finally Rose and What It Means Next · How To Protect The Ocean

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  The North Atlantic right whale is one of the largest whales on the planet
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  with only 384 individuals left.
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  But this year, for the first time ever, their population didn't drop.
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  It actually went up slightly.
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  It's a small glimmer of hope for these species pushed to the edge by
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  ship strikes, fishing entanglement, and a rapidly changing ocean.
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  So what's actually working and what still needs to change is what we're gonna
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  be talking about on today's episode of the How to Protect the Ocean Podcast.
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  Let's start the show.
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  Hey everybody.
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  Welcome back to another exciting episode of the How to Protect the Ocean Podcast.
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  I'm your host, Andrew Lewin, and this is the podcast where you find
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  out what's happening with the ocean, how you can speak up for the ocean,
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  and what you can do to live for a better ocean by taking action.
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  On today's episode, we're gonna be talking about the North Atlantic right whale.
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  I know we talked a little bit about it the other day when we talked about their
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  slight increase in population numbers.
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  I want to get to the bottom of it.
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  I want to find out if this true, this number is truly something to hope for
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  a 2% increase, or is it something that we still need to be cautious about?
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  So I invited Nora Ives from Oceana to come on the podcast to talk about her campaign
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  work about the North Atlantic right whale.
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  She's a storyteller, she's an educator, she's a scientist, and
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  she's a campaigner for Oceana.
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  And she's here to talk all about the North Atlantic white whale.
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  What we should be looking out for and what we need to know so that we
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  can better protect these animals.
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  We're gonna find that out all on this episode.
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  Before we do, I just want to remind you, I am putting out a campaign, a crowdfunding
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  campaign to start another podcast in the podcast network for Speak up for Blue.
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  This podcast is part of this network about seagrasses.
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  I know we're talking about whales, but we're also talking about another
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  productive habitat called seagrasses, and it's called the sea grass effect.
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  I wanna put it out because we need to not only bring research,
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  restoration efforts, and conservation efforts together for the sea grass
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  world and for seagrass research, but we also need to have restoration efforts.
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  And by contributing to this campaign, not only are you going to be contributing
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  to information sharing across the world, but you're also gonna be
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  contributing to a restoration for a particular site of seagrass that's being
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  restored somewhere around the world.
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  We're gonna document it.
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  We're gonna talk about it.
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  It's gonna be amazing and I can't wait for you to find out.
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  So if you go to speak up for blue.com/seagrass, you can
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  contribute to that campaign.
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  We're on the Balean platform, which is a new platform that is
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  spurring ocean projects, independent ocean projects that are going on
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  just like this Seagrass Effect podcast that I wanna start.
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  So go to speak up for blue.com/seagrass.
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  Take a look at other projects after you donate to mine.
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  Now here's the interview with Nora Ives from Oceana, talking about
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  the North Atlantic right whale.
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  Enjoy, and I'll talk to you after.
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  Thank you, Nora, for joining us on today's episode of the How
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  to Protect the Ocean Podcast.
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  It was great to have you on the podcast.
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  I just love to hear people's stories about how they came to where they are right now.
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  And Nora's story is just a unique one that we not necessarily have seen that
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  particular path, but we've seen similar path of just kind of meandering through
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  the life and being able to find something that you really want to fight for.
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  And Nora has found that in these North Atlantic right whales, not
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  only is she finding it from a scientific point of view, but also
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  from a storytelling point of view.
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  There's a lot of stories that we can tell, and with monitoring efforts that
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  have happened and the ability to connect people with storytelling and these
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  whales is just an amazing addition to the weaponry I guess we have for conservation.
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  And I think it's something that is needed when we talk about conservation
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  and we talk about humanizing in a way
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  for humans to connect with these whales and to hear about ship strikes, to hear
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  about whale entanglements, but also to hear about some of the amazing feats and
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  distribution of like two individuals, as she mentioned, and then the other
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  of like seeing a calf after, you know, a mother about seven or eight that's
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  older, having a calf after a long time.
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  We're seeing those stories come to life through Nora's storytelling,
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  and I just think that's wonderful.
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  So I can't wait to have Nora back on the podcast to talk about
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  North Atlantic right Whales.
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  And I would love to hear your comments and your questions about that.
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  Just let me know in the comments below if you're watching this on YouTube.
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  If you're listening to this episode on your favorite podcast app,
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  thank you so much.
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  That's where we started.
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  We're gonna always continue with the podcast.
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  I mean, this is a podcast.
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  We have a video podcast as well with the YouTube channel, but the audio
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  podcast is always where it's at.
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  It's always my roots, and I love talking on this microphone
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  through audio, through video.
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  It doesn't really matter.
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  This is something that's always important.
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  We need to connect with everybody.
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  So if you're listening to this on your favorite podcast app, you can reach me by
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  going to Instagram at how to protect the ocean that's at How to protect the ocean.
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  And of course, you can go to speak up for blue.com/contact.
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  Fill out the form and go straight to my email.
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  There's so many ways to connect with me online.
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  I encourage you to do all of it.
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  I'll put all the connections in the show notes.
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  I wanna thank you so much for joining me and thanking Nora for joining us on this
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  episode and thanking you for listening and sharing this episode if you think
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  this is really important to share.
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  And thank you so much for joining us on today's episode of the How
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  to Protect the Ocean Podcast.
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  I'm your host, Andrew Lewin from the True Nord Strong and free.
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  Have a great day.
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  We'll talk to you next time and happy conservation.