{"id":14346,"date":"2023-11-17T16:09:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T21:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=14346"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:42","slug":"worlds-1st-sperm-whale-reserve-protects-carbon-heroes-of-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2023\/worlds-1st-sperm-whale-reserve-protects-carbon-heroes-of-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s 1st sperm whale reserve protects &#8216;carbon heroes&#8217; of the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        World&#8217;s 1st sperm whale reserve protects &#8216;carbon heroes&#8217; of the sea\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/shane-gero\/\">Shane Gero<\/a>, scientist-in-residence in <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/\">Department of Biology<\/a>, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University has been researching family of whales for almost 20 years. Shane frequently works with the whales in Dominica, and is an advisor to the Dominica government on &#8220;How sperm whales fight climate change&#8221; project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His work has been recognized and appreciated by the Dominican government and we congratulate Shane for his exceptional work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"446\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Shane-gero-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Shane-gero-1.jpg 446w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Shane-gero-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Shane-gero-1-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Shane-gero-1-400x224.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Shane-gero-1-360x202.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Shane-gero-1-200x112.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/amp\/1.7030683\">Click here!<\/a> to know more about his milestone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Gero, scientist-in-residence in Department of Biology, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University has been researching family of whales for almost 20 years. Shane frequently works with the whales in Dominica, and is an advisor to the Dominica government on &#8220;How sperm whales fight climate change&#8221; project. His work has been recognized and appreciated by the Dominican government and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14356,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14346\/revisions\/14356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}