The Pacific Legal Foundation has challenged the endangered listing and protection of the Southern Resident pods saying that they are not genetically any different than any of the other thousands of orcas in the oceans and therefore do not deserve protection. They believe the Southern Residents are an "unjustified subspecies" of orcas and believe that NOAA invented a subspecies for the Pacific Northwest.
Read the full story: http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2012/08/02/kill-protection-of-killer-whales-lawsuit/
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