Programs

EXPLORE

• Smithsonian: North Atlantic Right Whale
• National Geographic: Right Whales
• WWF: North Atlantic Right Whale
• 10 Facts You Didn’t Know About North Atlantic Right Whales

WATCH

• A Close Look: Skim Feeding Right Whales
• The Right Whale Urbanizes
• Endangered Ocean: North Atlantic Right Whale
• Identifying and Reporting North Atlantic Right Whales
• Entangled Right Whale Lives to Swim Another Day
• North Atlantic Right Whale: Stay 500 Yards Away!
• North Atlantic Right Whales graphic footage

READ

• “The Kids’ Times: Right Whale”
• “An Illustrated History of North Atlantic Right Whales”
• Tybee Craddock and the North Atlantic Right Whale Mystery by Angela Kakabeeke
• The Eye of the Whale by Jennifer O’Connell
• The Stranded Whale by Jane Yolen
• Abigale the Happy Whale by Peter Farrelly

EXPLORE

• Conservation Law Foundation: Right Whales
• Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life: Right Whales
• NOAA Fisheries’ Species Directory: North Atlantic Right Whale
• Right Whale Listening Network
• Center for Biological Diversity: Right Whales
• Maine Lobstermen’s Association

WATCH

Please note that some videos contain graphic images of dead or injured whales—we have placed warnings beside these titles.

• NRDC: Right Whales
• Brian Skerry on Marine Ecosystems
• The Right Whale Urbanizes
• The North Atlantic Right Whale graphic footage
• Save the North Atlantic Right Whale graphic footage
• Entangled Right Whale Lives to Swim Another Day
• Right Whale Disentanglement
• The North Atlantic Right Whale-Nova Scotia graphic footage

READ

• “An Illustrated History of North Atlantic Right Whales”
• “All Hands On Deck to Save the Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale”
• “Bad Breeding Season Spells Trouble for Endangered Whale”
• “To protect right whales, scientists propose major changes for lobstermen”
• “Faces of North Atlantic Right Whale Conservation: Barb Zoodsma, Recovery Program Coordinator”
• “Documenting the decline of the North Atlantic right whale”
• “Right whale extinction threat is being overstated, lobstermen fear”
• “Can anyone save the North Atlantic right whale?”
• “Fate of the Lobster Fishery May Depend on Fate of the Right Whale”
• “A Whale of a License Plate”
• “Ships fined for speeding in Gulf of St. Lawrence” graphic image
• “Slow Down for Right Whales” graphic footage
• “Canada Makes Significant Efforts to Protect Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whales”
• “New snow crab fishing rules rein in use of ropes to protect North Atlantic right whales” graphic image
• “North Atlantic Right Whales Are Near Extinction. We Can Avert It.”
• “New Technology Could Save A Whole Lot of Whales”
• “Ropeless traps could help mitigate right whale deaths, says U.S. scientist”
• Waltzes With Giants by Peter C. Stone
• The Urban Whale: North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads by Scott Kraus and Rosalind M. Rolland
• Disappearing Giants: The North Atlantic Right Whale by Scott Kraus and Kenneth Mallory

EXPLORE

• North Atlantic Right Whale Catalog
• The North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium Database

READ

• “Recent Scientific Publications Cast Doubt on North Atlantic Right Whale Future”
• “Why black whales are called ‘right whales’”
• “How Nantucket Came to Be the Whaling Capital of the World”
• “North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium 2017 Annual Report Card”
• Living with Whales: Documents and Oral Histories of Native New England Whaling History edited by Nancy Shoemaker

• How are humans connected to North Atlantic right whales?
• How is the health of North Atlantic right whales connected to the health of the ocean?
• Why are North Atlantic right whales endangered?
• How do you feel about this issue?
• What does it mean to lose a species?
• What would happen if the North Atlantic right whale goes extinct?
• How do you think this situation could be improved or solved?
• Why should we protect non-human beings?
• How can you personally help this cause?