Rice’s whale is in danger of piercing in the Gulf of Mexico

Sierra Club and other environmental groups have filed a case to protect adequate marine animals – including one of the rare whales of the world – not affected or killed by fossil fuel drilling and study The Gulf of Mexico.

The filing of the US District Court in Maryland on Tuesday released the long -awaited environmental assessment of the Trump administration.

Shipping strikes related to oil and gas piercing in the Gulf of Mexico have been found to affect the presence of dangerous rice whale in the US National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).

Last year, a federal judge ordered the new assessment, which the previous NMFS report ruled that the risks from oil leaks and shipping strikes did not address the risks.

The new report, meanwhile, agrees that marine gas and oil actions can kill nine rice whales and harm hundreds of sea turtles over the next 45 years.

In the mid -1960s, the rice whale, named after the first scientist (Dale Rice), was officially recognized as a unique species of the Baleen Whale in 2021.

There are 51 whales-they are 12.8 meters long and have pink underprers-in the field, according to analysis, other studies indicate that “less than 100” are the rest.

Helps to manage how to protect dangerous and threatened marine species from shipping strikes, oil spills and industrial noises in the region, Any President Donald Trump has renamed the Gulf of the United States.

For example, the report sets up speed control and the demand for ships to maintain a minimum distance of 500 meters from the species.

What are the reasons for the case of the Sierra Club?

However, the new report is not enough, the case is blamed. It was filed by the US non -profit company Ear Justice On behalf of the Sierra Club, the Biological Diversity Center, Earth’s Friends and Turtle Island Restoration Network.

“It is not enough to protect rare marine organisms as the last biological concept,” said Chris Eden, a lawyer with Earthjastis. “As for Rice’s whales, the fisheries service agrees over the next 45 years, which will kill nine whales and hurt three more people.”

Losing a reproductive woman may bring down the population, scientists warn.

Oil and gas industrial groups welcomed the release of the analysis. If this is not prepared by the judge’s May 21 deadline, the key measures may have been closed.

However, they criticized the report.

“We are worried by adding the discovery of Rice’s whale,” said National Ocean Industries Association President Eric Milito in a statement. “That definitive appears to be contradictory with the best science available and unnecessary discipline stimulates uncertainty.”

Whales of the rice Northeastern Mexico lives in the Gulf, especially on the Florida coast around De Soto Canyon, but the West has been discovered.

The Gulf of Mexico also treats five people Dangerous sea turtle species, Shipment strikes, ammunition and oil spills under the plan.

“Fisheries service continues to indiscriminate to marine oil and gas risks,” said Eaton. “This does not provide the protection required for the law.”

With reports from ReoidOvarian Ear Justice And Whales online