The Whale Sanctuary Blog Archives
2023

Kat Blais

Katherine Blais is the cofounder and Director of Elephant Health and Wellbeing for Global Sanctuary for Elephants. Katherine carries over ...

Posted September 26, 2023 in

Scott Blais

Scott Blais is the CEO and cofounder of Global Sanctuary for Elephants. For more than 30 years, he has focused ...

Posted September 26, 2023 in

Samantha Goddard

Samantha Goddard, Captivity Campaigns Officer of the Born Free Foundation, has been campaigning against the captivity of wild animals for ...

Posted February 12, 2021 in

Valeria Vergara

Valeria Vergara moved from Argentina to Canada in 1989 to pursue her passion for biology, aided by a full scholarship ...

Posted June 10, 2020 in

Harry Rabin

Harry Rabin is a photographer/filmmaker whose career has spanned science, environment and public entertainment (award-winning films), with a notable strength ...

Posted September 2, 2019 in

Matthew Payne

Matthew Payne is working with the Whale Sanctuary Project to develop education programs for children, teenagers and adults. Initially, he ...

Posted January 7, 2019 in

Denise Herzing

Denise Herzing, the Founder and Research Director of the Wild Dolphin Project, is known for her pioneering studies on communication ...

Posted May 22, 2018 in

Hal Whitehead

Hal Whitehead is a University Research Professor in the Department of Biology at Dalhousie University. His research focuses on social ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Ingrid Visser

Ingrid N. Visser is the Founder and Principal Scientist of the New Zealand-based Orca Research Trust, which works to protect ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Kimberly Ventre

Kimberly Ventre is a brand consultant, specializing in brand identity, marketing operations, conservation marketing and impact production. She also has ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Jeffrey Ventre

Jeffrey Ventre is a medical doctor in Washington State practicing in the specialty of physical medicine and rehabilitation. Prior to ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Courtney Vail

Courtney Vail is a senior policy professional who has worked within the conservation and animal welfare field for over 30 ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Helena Symonds

Helena Symonds is Co-Director of the orca research station OrcaLab on Hanson Island in British Columbia, Canada, and a director ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Kathryn Sussman

Kathryn Sussman is the founder of Kathryn Sussman Consulting. She has worked most recently with Zoocheck Inc., the Vancouver Humane ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Ed Stewart

Ed Stewart is the President and Co-Founder with Pat Derby of the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS). In 1985, Ed ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Paul Spong

Paul Spong is co-director of OrcaLab, a land based whale research station on Hanson Island in British Columbia, and president ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Matthew Spiegl

Matthew Spiegl is an attorney, environmental blogger and ocean advocate living on California’s Central Coast. His work focuses on the ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Carol Ray

Carol Ray worked for three years training cetaceans at SeaWorld of Florida. She is a co-sponsor of proposed California state ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Heather Rally

Dr. Heather Rally is a wildlife veterinarian with specific training in marine mammal medicine. She has worked with a number ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Michael Partica

Michael Partica worked as part of the Back to the Blue project, which resulted in the successful release of two ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara

Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara is the Chairman and Director of the Tethys Research Institute, and a marine conservation ecologist who ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Sandro Mazzariol

Sandro Mazzariol is a veterinary pathologist involved in coordinating the National Stranding Network in Italy. Since 2010, he has coordinated ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Curt Lahti

Captain Curt Lahti performed the phase one site research for the whale sanctuary, analyzing more than 100 potential sites in ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Ron Kagan

Ron Kagan is the CEO of the Detroit Zoological Society and an advocate for compassionate conservation, animal welfare, and humane ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

John Jett

John Jett is a visiting research professor at Stetson University. His background is in the environmental sciences, with undergraduate research ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Michael Jasny

Michael Jasny is a Senior Policy Analyst and Director of NRDC’s Marine Mammal Protection Project. An expert in the law ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Steve Huxter

Steve Huxter lives on the south coast of British Columbia, Canada, on the edge of the Salish Sea; home to ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Terry Hardie

Terry Hardie is the chief field researcher for the New Zealand-based Orca Research Trust, which works to protect orca and ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

David Hancocks

David Hancocks is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and has specialized in planning and exhibit design ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Joan Gonzalvo

Joan Gonzalvo, born in Barcelona, is a Catalan biologist whose main research interest is the conservation of the marine environment ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Pierre Gallego

Pierre Gallego is a veterinarian specializing in marine mammal medicine. He has been working in the field of marine biology ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Toni Frohoff

Toni Frohoff is an ethologist and behavioral biologist who has specialized in cetaceans for over 30 years. She has distinctive ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Sylvia Earle

Sylvia Earle is President and Chairman of Mission Blue / The Sylvia Earle Alliance. She is an oceanographer, explorer, author ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Sara Dubois

Sara Dubois is Chief Scientific Officer for the British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BC SPCA), ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Chris Draper

Dr. Chris Draper is the Chief Operating Officer of the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS). He has more than 20 ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in

Catherine Doyle

Catherine Doyle is the director of science, research and advocacy for the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), which cares for ...

Posted November 6, 2017 in