What It’s Like to Visit the Last Untouched Gray Whale Sanctuary on Earth

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What It’s Like to Visit the Last Untouched Gray Whale Sanctuary on Earth

A few years ago, I was lucky enough to visit Laguna San Ignacio in Baja, Mexico. This is the only lagoon of its kind left in the world where mother gray whales travel thousands of miles from Alaska each year, encountering many risks along the way, to give birth to their babies without human disturbance. From the moment our boat left the shore on our first day in this magical place, I could see immediately how safe the whales felt in the tranquil waters of the lagoon. We were told that, unlike many other animal species, the mothers and babies love to be touched and they did! Several times they came right up to our boat and we were able to reach out and pet them. It was absolutely incredible. If you can believe it, not long ago, the future of this extraordinary refuge was in jeopardy . In 2000, NRDC stopped Mitsubishi from building a saltworks plant that would have turned...

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