These whales will be extinct in 25 years, scientists say — unless we act now to save them

Erica Fuller, an attorney with the Conservation Law Foundation, observed the proceedings with growing frustration.

“We’re facing extinction,” she said afterward. “We don’t have time to say nothing works, or everything is too expensive.”

Her organization is one of several conservation groups to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service over a recent biological opinion regarding right whales. The agency is reviewing its opinion.

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