Erich’s talk will inspire and inform our efforts to protect J, K and L pods, here, where his work began.” “Erich has been thinking about how to protect orcas as long as he has been writing about them, starting in the 1980s when he contributed to the successful effort to protect Robson Bight, a critical habitat for the Northern resident orcas. “This is a rare chance to hear from Erich in person,” said Donna Sandstrom, Executive Director of The Whale Trail and a member of Governor Jay Inslee’s Task Force on Southern Resident Killer Whale Recovery. His book, “Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises,” has helped set the standard for marine biodiversity conservation work. As co-chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force, and policy lead for the Healthy Seas program of the U.K.-based Whale and Dolphin Conservation, Hoyt co-directs a 10-year project to map the habitats for 130 species of marine mammals across the world’s oceans. “Orca: The Whale Called Killer” charts Hoyt’s adventures and conservation work, which began with killer whales off the British Columbia coast and was followed by two decades of orca research in Kamchatka, Russia. The talks, as well as the release of the Hoyt’s expanded new edition of “Orca: The Whale Called Killer,” are especially timely given the recent loss of three Southern resident orcas. “Orca Tour 2019” follows the sell-out 20 tours and will focus on Hoyt’s efforts to protect marine mammal habitats worldwide and how they might support the conservation of orcas in the North Pacific. Erich Hoyt, internationally renowned author and marine conservationist is returning to deliver a new series of talks about orcas and marine conservation.
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