US EditionHow Vancouver’s urban orcas create connections and community among followers
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, JUL 18 – Sightings of orcas and humpbacks have surged around Vancouver due to decades of marine protection, with the Pacific Whale Watch Association noting an exponential increase in recent years.
- Chatchawan Jaksuwong, a whale enthusiast who moved from Thailand, recently raced to catch a pod of orcas hunting a seal near Stanley Park in Vancouver.
- This resurgence of whales follows the late 1960s end of commercial whaling and the 1970 wind-down of large-scale seal and sea lion culls in British Columbia.
- Experts like Andrew Trites and Erin Gless observe an exponential increase in whale sightings, with humpbacks like Malachite, born in 2021, now regularly present in local waters.
- Trites describes whales as 'ambassadors of the Salish Sea,' warning vessel noise and ship strikes threaten their recovery, while Gless stresses, "we need to keep it that way."
- The return of marine mammals offers a chance to raise awareness and protect their habitat, but further industrial development or increased shipping could jeopardize this fragile recovery.
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How Vancouver's urban orcas create connections and community among followers
VANCOUVER — Chatchawan Jaksuwong says he used to feel empty when he looked at the ocean.
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VANCOUVER — Chatchawan Jaksuwong says he used to feel empty when he looked at the ocean. But after encounters with whales in the urban waters of Vancouver the photographer now feels a deep sense of connection, and he’s found community with fellow enthusiasts. “It’s a switch from that feeling that I used to have before to, I don’t know, let’s say (a) warmer feeling,” says Jaksuwong, who moved to the city from Thailand about two years ago. He grow…
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