The blue whale guardians 🐋

study predicts plastic in the ocean will triple by 2040

Evening whale people,

Trust me if you could be a blue whale person, you would be. Below an inspirational story of two beautiful blue whale people saving whale lives today.

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🗞️ In Climate News

• 🌧️ Scientists prove clear link between deforestation and local drop in rainfall.

• 🇦🇶 Antarctic sea ice reaches lowest levels ever recorded.

• 🇪🇨 Ecuadorian indigenous leader Eduardo Mendúa of the Cofán, who was fighting against Chevron, was assassinated at his home.

• 🌊 Deadly floods in Queensland, Australia and California, USA.

• 🇬🇧 UK implements court restrictions on climate protesters.

.📈 Cool Trends

• ⚖️ blue bonds.

• 🐠 underwater permaculture.

♾️ eco-stories

🐋 Blue Whale Guardians

I met Michael Fishbach and Delphi Waters on a windy Tuesday afternoon in Loreto, Baja California. Every February and March, Michael and Dephi migrate south, from the east coast of the United States, to study these amazing creatures as they journey along the coast of Baja. Michael has followed the whale’s migration for 29 consecutive years, and today he is the world’s leading blue whale conservationist. Together with Delphi, he runs the Great Whale Conservancy.

“We’re blue whale people. We spend a lot of time around them.”

Blue whale people are as rare as blue whales, which are one of the rarest species of whales on the planet. Loreto is one of the few places in the world where large numbers of blue whales can be seen close to the coast, as most live solitary lives out in the ocean’s depths. But Michael wasn’t always a blue whale guy, he used to be a mountain guide.

💩 WTF NEWS?

• 🧴 Study estimates that there are already over 170 trillion pieces of plastic particles in the world’s, and predicts that this will triple by 2040.

• 🌏 UN reaches historic High Seas Treaty, yet it does not regulate fishing?

🌏 The Culture Club

📺 What we’re watching: Life in Syntropy

📸 Profile of the week: @whaleguardians

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📚What we’re reading: Souls in the Sea, By Scott Taylor
🤯 Fun fact we learnt this week: blue whales have hearts the sizes of a Mini car.