Whales in Trouble Worldwide
Whales are moving to new locations, and dying off, at a great rate. Some may be moving because they sense a change of temperature in the deep ocean, while others are dying off in their traditional waters due to toxins and noise pollution.
A large number of endangered sperm whales are making a home in the Gulf of Mexico, near the dangerously busy mouth of the Mississippi River, a few miles from the Louisiana coast. Sperm whales usually hunt far out in the ocean and it is unusual for them to remain so close to shore. Also, the presence of the approximately 500 of these creatures, some of them bigger than a Greyhound bus, presents a danger to the supertankers, barges, trawlers and warships in the area?and the ships could prove dangerous to the whales.
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