What's at Stake

A leading expert has called the use of airguns “the most severe acoustic insult to the marine environment short of naval warfare.” This sonic barrage can interfere with a whale’s ability to feed, breed, navigate, communicate and avoid predators — in short, to survive.

The Obama Administration has given the Apache Alaska Corporation the go-ahead to employ airguns in the critical habitat of the last 312 endangered beluga whales of Alaska’s Cook Inlet. And the administration is moving toward approval of airgun use up and down the Atlantic coast, home to dozens of marine mammal populations, including the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.

Progress Report

We’re fighting in court and mobilizing a massive public outcry to save whales from the energy industry’s sonic onslaught.

Here are a few recent developments:

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