Southern Right Whale Conservation & Protection
(Originally posted by EW Member Karen Lettice Feb 2022.) Space technology company, Southern Launch, has plans to turn Whalers Way in South Australia into another Cape Canaveral. The devastating potential risk posed to the endangered Southern Right Whale and many other threatened / endangered species is simply unacceptable. The Wildlife of Whalers Way needs your...
Urgent. Please sign and share to save Whalers Way. Southern right whales, seals, rare birds & Aboriginal sacred sites are in danger at Whalers Way, SA. CONSERVATION GROUPS THROUGHOUT THE STATE ARE DEEPLY CONCERNED. Submissions close Feb 2nd. With enough public opposition, we have a real chance to stop this – the federal government is...
‘Ill Wind’ – written by Karen Lettice, for Encounter Whales, Southern Right Whale Conservation and Protection, 25th August, 2023 65 deaths and counting! This is the tragic & unprecedented number of whale deaths on the east coast of the United States in recent months. Why? As exposed in the documentary ‘Thrown to the Wind’,...
‘The whales are in trouble:’ Traditional Custodian files legal challenge to Woodside’s seismic blasting approval ...
(Post by EW Member Karen Lettice.) Where seismic surveying is occurring in the US., whales are washing up dead at an alarming rate – 3 in just 4 days earlier this month! In the years to come, Encounter Whales does not want to be posting the kind of tragic pictures our sister groups are...
(Post by EW Member Karen Lettice.) Noise and dumped rocket stages are not the only threats to the SRWs aggregating in, and migrating through, the waters surrounding Whalers Way (southern-most tip of the Eyre Peninsula), the toxicity of fuel loads is also a concern. Sadly, in the absence of regulations governing fuel loads and...
Because of two fortuitous, impromptu encounters in Port Lincoln last week, there now exists some real hope that our Southern right whales and other endangered wildlife at Whalers Way Sanctuary (Eyre Peninsula, SA), may yet be spared the threats they currently face, should Southern Launch Space Company’s Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex (WWOLC) receive...
Today marks the first ever ‘RIGHT WHALE DAY’. The situation for the North Atlantic Right Whale is dire. There are only 340 whales left on the face of the planet and for every calf born, 3 animals die. Scientists are DESPERATELY CALLING FOR ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT to ensure adequate food and minimal trauma and other...
At a time when the prospect of saving the remaining small population of NARWs seems grim indeed, let us be reminded why, world-over, we must petition our governments to strengthen and enforce laws to protect our remaining wildlife as essential to ‘the circle of life’. It is not enough to create lists and write...
It is CRUNCH TIME” as this NCSSA reports. If you are concerned about this environmentally devastating project being given the go-ahead, then NOW is the time to raise your voice! PLEASE HELP! This is our last chance in a long fight. Minister Nick Champion MP has the power to wave this all away. Please...
Post by EW Member Karen Lettice. Today we hold our breath as yet another launch of an ‘experimental’ rocket will be attempted from Whalers Way. Shame on you Southern Launch for putting our precious endangered wildlife at risk. Whalers Way is a significant conservation-zoned sanctuary, and by rule of commonsense, is no place for...
(Post by EW Member Karen Lettice.) Yet another rocket didn’t make it off the ground at Whalers Way today (15/12/22). At least this time there was no fire involved as there was in Sept 2021. Today’s problem was a fuel leak. Unsuitable weather has on occasion hampered launch attempts to date, but by far...
(Post by EW Member Karen Lettice.) https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/rocket-launch-safety/ Our whales and wildlife at Whalers Way are under dire threat… Rocket launching is a risky, explosive industry, but the launching of ‘experimental’ rockets is even more serious. Southern Launch is progressing plans to launch ‘experimental’ (ie formerly ‘untested’) rockets at Whalers Way. These are rockets built...
(Post by EW Member Karen Lettice.) What a speech from Tammy Franks at the ‘Save Whalers Way’ rally on parliament steps last Tuesday 15/11/22! “Beam me up Scotty, I want to get into Space “ is Tammy’s pithy depiction of former Minister Knoll phoning Scott Morrison to tell him SA had landed the opportunity to...
(Post by EW Member Karen Lettice.) On the floor of parliament on Wednesday 16/11/22, Tammy Franks Greens MLC called for a select committee to be established to inquire into and report on the decision-making process and impact of approval of the Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex at the tip of Eyre Peninsula by Southern...
(Post by EW Member Karen Lettice.) Thank you Tammy Franks Greens MLC for speaking up for the voiceless wildlife of Whalers Way at yesterday’s rally. Good luck with your parliamentary motion re Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex this afternoon! Tammy is calling the government to establish an inquiry into the decision-making process and impact...
(Post by EW Member Karen Lettice.) The threat posed to the Southern Right Whale by Southern Launch’s rocket launching operations was highlighted by the Eyre Peninsula EPA on the steps of parliament this morning. The SRW was also featured in the group’s theatrical dramatisation as seen in the accompanying video. So great to hear...
(Post by EW Member – Victoria Vizzari.) Today I attended the rally to save Whalers Way, joining the Port Lincoln community on the steps of Parliament house in Adelaide. Listening to their plight was heart wrenching, hearing about the risk to our Southern Right Whales and other endangered and vulnerable species, flora and the...
Posted by EW Member – Karen Lettice. Our Southern right whales need us to be their voice. See you on Parliament steps tomorrow at 11 am! On the edge of our SRWs main migratory path, near the nursery area of Sleaford Bay, is no place for disruptive, noisy, explosive rockets “ The bigger the...
Call to Action coming up on Tuesday 15th at 11:00 AM… join forces to oppose the construction of a rocket launching facility inside a wildlife sanctuary and right next to a major whale corridor used for migration and resting on migration and close to Sleaford Bay a known SRW aggregation and nursery area....
Commonwealth have deemed the Kingston Offshore Wind Farm proposal a 'controlled action' Since we brought this to everyone's attention in a post a few weeks ago, the Commonwealth have deemed the Kingston Offshore Wind Farm proposal a 'controlled action', which means a full Environmental Impact Statement will be required before any approval. There was...
Encounter Bay whales and their nursery under threat! ‘URGENT’ – Public submissions needed by this Friday 22nd January regarding concern on construction of new Granite Island Causeway during whale season. RE: GRANITE ISLAND CAUSEWAY PROJECT Construction of a new Causeway from Victor Harbor to Granite Island has been planned to take place during whale...
Please sign the petition to protect our Encounter Bay Whale Nursery Once a year, majestic and endangered Southern Right Whales travel up from Antarctica to give birth in Encounter Bay. If we’re lucky, these mothers and their new born calves stay in our warmer waters for many weeks within viewing distance from shore, delighting thousands of on-lookers....
