For more than a thousand miles, a Southern Resident killer whale known as Tahlequah carried the body of her dead calf on a ...

The stories of salmon and orcas in the Pacific Northwest are linked. Their paths intermingle in a vast web of ecosystems and ...

The stories of salmon and orcas in the Pacific Northwest are linked. Their paths intermingle in a vast web of ecosystems and ...

For a second time, the world watched as Tahlequah, an endangered southern resident killer whale, struggled to keep her dead newborn calf afloat in the Salish Sea. But with Ottawa failing to take ...

Environmental groups are taking federal ministers to court in a push for them to recommend an emergency order to save ...

An 'imminent threat' assessment in November 2024 set a ticking legal clock that requires two ministers to recommend an ...

The sight of an orca clinging to her dead calf for a heartwrenching reason turned out to be a way of coping with loss, just ...

There were just 73 orcas left in the population as of the latest census, in July 2024.  The conservation groups are now ...

Conservation groups filed a legal challenge over the failure of government to make a timely recommendation to Cabinet for an emergency order after determining that Southern Resident killer whales face ...

Backbone Campaign interpreted Tahlequah’s heroic journey in 2018 as a call to action. It turned its energy, creative tools ...