{"id":3541,"date":"2026-06-16T09:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=3541"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:40:12","slug":"risk-of-whale-strikes-surges-in-south-africas-cape-of-good-hope-waterway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/risk-of-whale-strikes-surges-in-south-africas-cape-of-good-hope-waterway\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk of Whale Strikes Surges in South Africa\u2019s Cape of Good Hope Waterway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to geopolitical tensions in the Red Sea, a large number of cargo ships have diverted their routes to sail around South Africa\u2019s Cape of Good Hope, causing a 60\u201370% surge in the number of large vessels in the area. This waterway coincides exactly with the breeding and migration routes of southern right whales and humpback whales. It is currently the calving season for these whale populations. The underwater noise generated by cargo ships can mask the acoustic signals whales use for communication and locating their calves, severely disrupting their breeding behavior; When ships travel at speeds exceeding 15 knots, the fatality rate from collisions with whales reaches as high as 85%. As of early June, three cases of whales being severely injured by cargo ships have already been recorded, and the number of newborn calves dying has risen significantly, posing a severe threat to the survival of coastal whale populations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to geopolitical tensions in the Red Sea, a large number of cargo ships have diverted their routes to sail around South Africa\u2019s Cape of Good Hope, causing a 60\u201370% surge in the number of large vessels in the area. This waterway coincides exactly with the breeding and migration routes of southern right whales and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cetacean-conservation"],"views":31,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3543,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions\/3543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}