Whales in a Changing Ocean – Richard Sidey (2021)

As the Ephesian philosopher Heraclitus stated, ‘Panta rhei! Everything changes in a constant state of flow…’ The same is true for Antarctica: nothing is stationary. The only constant is change. One noticeable and increasingly evident change is the recovery of the humpback whales that feed in the waters off the Antarctic Peninsula, after industrial whaling almost wiped them out. In February 2020, wildlife filmmaker Richard Sidey was invited to join a team of scientists undertaking humpback whale research in Antarctica […]

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