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And smarter than some government agencies:

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/14976065/detail.html
Court Orders Navy To Protect Whales From Sonar
NRDC Says They Are Satisfied With Ruling

POSTED: 9:47 pm PST January 3, 2008
UPDATED: 6:14 am PST January 4, 2008
LOS ANGELES -- A U.S. District Court on Thursday ordered the Navy
to adopt a series of measures to lessen the impact of sonar on
whales and other marine life during exercises off Southern
California.

The preliminary injunction said the Navy must:
Create a 12-nautical-mile no-sonar zone along the coast.
Have trained lookouts watch for marine mammals starting 60 minutes
before and then during exercises.
Shut down sonar when mammals are spotted within 2,200 yards.

District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper also barred the Navy
from employing sonar in the Catalina Basin, an area that is home
to what she called "a high density of marine mammals." This area
extends from Santa Catalina Island south to San Clemente Island.

"We are aware of the court's decision and we are reviewing it,"
said Lt. Cmdr. Cindy Moore, a Navy spokeswoman.

The Natural Resources Defense Council filed the lawsuit to force
the Navy to lessen the harm of its sonar exercises.

Joel Reynolds, director of the NRDC's Marine Mammal Protection
Project, said he was pleased with the decision.

"Although the Court's order recognizes the Navy's need to train
with sonar for our national defense, this is the most significant
environmental mitigation that a federal court has ever ordered the
U.S. Navy to adopt in its training with mid-frequency sonar,"
Reynolds said.

The council's lawsuit alleges the Navy's sonar interrupts foraging
and mating of whales and other marine mammals and can cause them
to beach themselves. In 2000, naval sonar contributed to 16 whales
and two dolphins being beached in the Bahamas, according to a
federal study.

According to Thursday's court order, the Navy has used or planned
to use MFA sonar during 14 large-scale exercises off the Southern
California coast between February 2007 and January of 2009.

The Navy's assessment was that approximately 170,000 marine
mammals would be exposed to sonar in these exercises, with more
than 450 instances of permanent injury to some whales, the court
order said. ...



http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/14976065/detail.html
Blue Whale Requiem
Mystery reigns as sonar tests pit military training against
beloved Southland pods

By JUDITH LEWIS
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - 5:00 pm
None of the whales seemed to have been killed by sonar. Scientists
who examined two of them found no blood in their ear canals, nor
hemorrhaging in their brains, as was the case with seven whales
that became stranded and died in the Bahamas after Navy midrange
sonar testing in 2000. The blue whales did not come ashore in
groups, like 37 pilot whales that beached in North Carolina after
midrange sonar testing there. Nor did anyone find gas bubbles in
the blue whales’ tissue, which could indicate they had surfaced
too quickly out of fear, then died from the bends. All the blue
whales died with broken bones and blunt-force injuries, meaning
they died because they were hit by ships.




http://www.latimes.com/news/printedi...,5472074.story
She noted that the Navy's own study concluded that upcoming
exercises off Southern California "will cause widespread harm to
nearly 30 species of marine mammals, including five species of
endangered whales and may cause permanent injury and death."

Because scientists have chronicled panicked responses from marine
mammals as far as 40 kilometers away, Cooper said the 2,200-yard
shutdown requirement "represents a minimal imposition of the
Navy's training exercises" while preventing the harshest
sonar-related consequences.