Navy Training Blasts Marine Mammals With Harmful Sonar

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Wildlife Protection Agency Challenged for Not Doing Its Job

Low Frequency Active Sonar spectogram

SAN FRANCISCO— A coalition of conservation and American Indian groups today sued the National Marine Fisheries Service for failing to protect thousands of whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals and sea lions from U.S. Navy warfare training exercises along the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington.

Earthjustice, representing InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth, Friends of the San Juans, Natural Resources Defense Council and People For Puget Sound, today filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Northern California challenging the Fisheries Service’s approval of the Navy’s training activities in its Northwest Training Range Complex. The lawsuit calls on the agency to mitigate anticipated harm to marine mammals and biologically critical areas within the training range that stretches from Northern California to the Canadian border.

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Navy Training Blasts Marine Mammals With Harmful Sonar | Center for Biological Diversity

Earthjustice: Environmental Law: Because the Earth Needs a Good Lawyer | Earthjustice

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Spectrogram of Humpback Whale vocalizations

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