The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1 million members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.Future sites for the Army-Navy Game through the 2022 season were announced Tuesday by Naval Academy Director of Athletics Chet Gladchuk and West Point Director of Athletics Boo Corrigan.Īrmy-Navy Games from 2018 through 2020 and again in 2022 will be played at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. In response to a lawsuit filed by the Center and other groups, a federal judge ruled in 2015 that the Navy’s testing and training activities in the Pacific were illegal and ordered the Navy to adopt better protections for marine life. Millions of animals will be exposed to temporary injuries and disturbances, with many subjected to multiple harmful exposures. The Navy and Fisheries Service estimate that, over the current plan’s five-year period, training and testing activities will result in thousands of animals suffering permanent hearing loss, lung injuries or death. In 2004, during war games near Hawaii, the Navy’s sonar was implicated in a mass stranding of up to 200 melon-headed whales in Hanalei Bay, Kauai. Scientists have linked military sonar and live-fire activities to mass whale beaching, exploded eardrums and even death. Ocean mammals depend on hearing for navigation, feeding and reproduction.
The permits also anticipate injuries to 3,346 marine mammals, including three endangered blue whales, 20 humpback whales, 10 minke whales, 93 California long-beaked dolphins, 46 Risso’s dolphins, three critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals and 480 northern elephant seals. Endangered whales and Hawaiian monk seals will pay a heavy price for the Navy’s war games in their habitat.” “We don’t need to inflict this catastrophic damage to marine mammals to keep ourselves safe. “The Trump administration is doing disturbingly little to reduce the enormous number of whales and dolphins harmed by these explosions, sonar and ship strikes,” said Miyoko Sakashita, ocean program director at the Center for Biological Diversity. That’s according to Marine Mammal Protection Act permits and final regulations issued today by the Trump administration.Įxplosions, sonar and ship strikes during Navy exercises could harm blue whales 9,248 times over the next five years and the short-beaked common dolphin 6.8 million times under the incidental take permit issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Navy training exercises in the Pacific Ocean could kill, injure, or harass whales, dolphins and other marine mammals 12.5 million times over the next five years. Miyoko Sakashita, (510) 844-7108, Jones, (415) 305-3866, Pacific Training Will Harm Marine Mammals 12.5 Million TimesĮxplosions, Sonar, Ship Strikes Menace Marine Life Near Hawaii, Southern California
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