even whales have predators: ships

This is an article that is informing us of this new movement or solution that some people are trying to make to protect whales. It may seem that whales do not have to hide or run away from anything, but that is wrong, scientists have found a huge amount of whales dead around charleston harbour which is a place with a huge amount of shipping, and also a huge amount of whales that pass throught there every year, scientist founs so many whales like this because they were hit by ships, all whales have to go to surface and becasue of all the ships, the probability of them being hit is not small.

Why is it important to worry about this?

Whales are in extintion, they are very few of them, and they are a huge important part of the sea food chain and enviorment, we have to protect them, they are very important and consecuenses could come if they become extint, people cant let that happen!

Ships are one of the two leading causes of unnatural death among right whales, and scientists have warned that the unnatural death of even one breeding female has the potential to tip the species toward extinction. From 2002 to 2006, there were 17 confirmed deaths by ship strike, at least six involving adult females.



What is the solution that this article is talking about?

In an effort to stop this problem, the National Marine Fisheries Service has tried to impose speed limits on ships within 30 miles of port. But the White House has delayed approval of the rule, which is opposed by some shipping companies, it has been a year after this and still, the white house has not approved this rule and whales keep dying!

my opinion
I think this article is very good because it shows and makes you think about the whales, and how can they become extinct, this article made me angry because after reading everything about the whales and how they are dying, I found out that the government is doing nothing at all to stop it, when they should be the first ones trying to solve this! I think that the idea of putting a speed limit is very reasonable, because whales could see a ship is coming becasue like the article said, ships are going at a extrmely high speed and the whale goes out and doesent see anything and suddenly a ship with alot of speed comes, that is the problem, and the solution that the National Marine Fisheries Service is trying to apply is really good but people with shipping companies are too sellfish to accept that they have to have this new rule and even if they are loosing a little bit of money, they would be saving a part of the enviorment, and what gets me really mad is that they wont even consider it, people that care about it have been trying to accomplish this for more than a year, and they have got nothing, and I really do think that if this continues a little bit more, it will be too late, and then the government will realize it and will be willing to make some rules or to try to stop it, but maybe it will be too late and they will regret it, so I think if there must be a change it should be now, that it can still be controlled! I liked this artice because now I know that this is happening with whales and that we must protect them, i would like to learn more about it, its really interesting!!!

maria rubio!