Target: United States’ Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus
Goal: To protest sonar tests in whale inhabited waters.
Whales, the largest mammals on our planet, have been victims of hunting and overfishing. But with increased technology, risks to whales continue to increase. The United States Navy’s sonar tests may not seem like a threat, but it actually poses great danger to whale populations.
Sonar may not seem like a particularly deadly device, but it can be when you rely on echolocation as a communication system. Even at three hundred miles away, sonar can reach a level of one hundred and forty decibels—one hundred times louder than the communications used by marine life. These communications make it nearly impossible for whales to find krill, their main source of food, as the echo sound