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Conservationists win one for the whales against the US navy

The Navy said its war games couldn’t avoid precious whale habitat. This judge didn’t buy it. - The Washington Post:
A Navy ship near whales in 2003. (Kenneth Balcomb) from the Washinvgton Post
The Navy’s reputation as a fearsome fighter is more than earned — on the high seas and in U.S. courts.
In the 75 years since the Navy started conducting war games in a vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean between the Hawaiian and California coasts, conservationists have often sought to restrict its use of bombs and sonar that harms marine mammals. Each time, the military branch blew the activists away, arguing that what’s good for the Navy is best for America.
That’s why a recent court loss, and the Navy’s surprise capitulation to working out a settlement agreement with conservation groups that was announced this week, is startling. For the activists, it was a win by a hopeless underdog, a mouse chasing an elephant, an ant moving a rubber tree plant.

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