Blue Whale Adoption Kit
Before whaling became a common practice, hundreds of thousands of blue whales swam in our oceans. Between 1900 and the mid-1960s, an estimated 360,000 blue whales were slaughtered, and they have struggled to recover. Today, experts estimate there are only a few thousand left. Though whaling has been banned, blue whales still face major threats from collisions with ships and entanglement in fishing lines and nets.
Your adoption supports our work to establish reduced speed zones and other protections to keep whales safe from vessel strikes and entanglement in fishing gear.