What does CORE do in the Conservation field?
CORE not only provides education program aboard commercial whale watching vessels, but also conducts research on the whales encountered during each trip. These trips provide CORE a free research platform, as well as a “captive” audience to help raise funds to continue our research. Aboard these trips we ensure that passengers become aware of such important issues such as pollution, habitat degradation, overfishing, entanglements and ship strikes and their negative effects on whales. It is only through research and promoting stewardship of the whales that we might be able to continue important conservation measures that will protect the whales themselves, as well as their important marine environment. Our research maps out those areas that are critical whale habitat. We were involved in a petition drive with Senator John Kerry, garnering over 10,000 signatures to ensure the designation of Stellwagen Bank a National Marine Sanctuary in 1992.
