Keeping whales safe in sound

(Terry Collins Assoc) The International Union for the Conservation of Nature is intensifying global efforts to safeguard whales and other marine species from the harms of powerful noise used in seismic seafloor surveys by the oil and gas industry and others.The impetus is the newly-documented success of harm mitigation measures used in a study near critical whale feeding grounds around energy resource-rich Sakhalin Island, Russia, just north of Japan.