Endangered right whale floating dead off Georgia is rare species’ second fatality since January
Associated PressSAVANNAH, Ga. — The carcass of a North Atlantic right whale found floating off the coast of Georgia marks the second known death in the past month for the critically endangered whale species. “It’s going to be challenge to determine the cause of death because it’s been so heavily predated and decayed,” Jones said The discovery came after another young female right whale was reported dead Jan. 28 off Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. “The death of two juvenile North Atlantic whales within three weeks of each other is heartbreaking and preventable,” Kathleen Collins, senior marine campaign manager for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, said in statement Thursday. “The right whale graveyard off our eastern seaboard continues to grow and inaction from the administration is digging the graves.” A coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday in an effort to force the U.S. government to finalize rules that would expand zones off the East Coast where ships are required to slow down to protect right whales.
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