The whale families we work with, members of the Eastern Caribbean Clan, are shrinking. Their population is declining by as much as 4 percent a year largely a result of climate change and the increasing human presence in these waters. We are not just losing specific whales that we have come to know as individuals; we are losing a way of life, a culture — the accumulated wisdom of generations on how to survive in the deep waters of the Caribbean Sea. They may have lived here for longer than we have walked upright. ** Every culture, whale or otherwise, is its own solution to the problems of the environment … Continue reading Shane Gero