http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/2318/0 en http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/all-song/33239 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Researchers hope whale listening devices will fill in habitat gaps </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/photo_2_16.jpg" alt="" title="The North Atlantic right whales are the only recovering population in the northern hemisphere. Should they disappear here, it’s likely they will disappear from this half of the planet. [Kent Smedbol photo]" width="450" height="369" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) - Atlantic Canada is home to the largest population of right whales anywhere in the northern hemisphere and if declining trends continue as they have, it&rsquo;s on track to be the <i>only</i> right whale population in the northern hemisphere.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/all-song/33239" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/all-song/33239#comments Zack Metcalfe Environment Atlantic Canada cetaceans right whale whale Zack Metcalfe Mon, 09 Mar 2015 15:18:49 +0000 Miles Howe 33239 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca