ACS Grant Recipient’s Organization Helps A Mexican Community Build Culture and Economy Around Cetaceans
In a small village along the Mexican Pacific coast, Katherina Audley’s organization, the Whales of Guerrero Research Project identified an opportunity to help a community by creating a stronger bond with cetaceans that depend upon the Pacific Ocean for their survival.
When we consider major environmental threats to marine life, we often think of issues such as oil spills, overfishing, and plastic pollution. A threat that’s likely not as familiar to the general public but holds grave consequences is that of ocean noise pollution. NOAA’s National Ocean Service defines ocean noise pollution as “sounds made by human activities that can interfere with or obscure the ability of marine animals to hear natural sounds in the ocean.” An article in Yale Environment 360 shares a quote from marine scientist Christopher Clark: “We are injecting so much noise that we are effectively acoustically bleaching the world’s oceans.”