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Ship ahoy: The analysis found that the number of large, fast-moving vessels travelling faster than 15 knots — considered the greatest ship-strike threat to whales — has quadrupled since late 2023. Photo: University of Pretoria’s Whale Unit at the Mammal Research Institute
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Whale strike risk rises as shipping surges off SA coast

Scientists warn that increasing global shipping traffic rerouted around the Cape of Good Hope is intensifying overlap with whale habitats off South Africa’s west coast, raising…

  • Sheree Bega
9 min read