{"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>, Carleton 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, Carleton 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}]}}