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One Planet: The Race To Save North Atlantic Right Whales From Extinction

David Abel
Scene from Entangled

On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, Pulitzer Prize-winning environmental reporter David Abel discusses his new documentary Entangled. The film chronicles efforts to protect North Atlantic right whales from extinction and the impacts of those efforts on the lobster industry.

There are believed to be fewer than 400 right whales, making them among the planet’s most endangered species.

Guest:

David Abel, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at The Boston Globe and director of Entangled

Web Resources:

International Ocean Film Festival Special Screening, Entangled: October 21 - 26 / Q&A with David Abel on October 26 at 6pm

Pulitzer Center: Entangled

Nj.com: Critically endangered whale entangled off Jersey Shore

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Rose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.