Colleen Weiler from Whale and Dolphin Conservation

About this Episode

We talked with Colleen Weiler from Whale and Dolphin Conservation about how Free Willy led her to a career in orca conservation. We also talk about orca behavior, the differences in orca groups, what threats they are currently facing and what we can do to help

Orca Month

• Orca Action Month
• Orca Network
• Orcas Love Rain Gardens

Movies

• Free Willy
• Blackfish
• Damned to Extinction

Books

• Orca the Whale Called Killer by Eric Hoyt
• The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins by Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell
• Beyond Words by Carl Safina
• The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One by Sylvia Earl