After my last blog with the Orca message, Leslie Corin-Ash wrote to me about her desire to find out from other animal communicators around the world if they have asked animals what they are thinking and feeling about the huge climate changes on Earth and what they might want to do about it.
She relates her experience:
I’ve been hearing from whales for a while now. I live in the Boston area and got interested in the whales back in the 1980’s. I discovered I could talk to them and they could talk to me.
At one point I even became involved in helping the Center for Coastal Research try to find an entangled Northern Right Whale. She was dragged by the fishing lines way below the surface and she couldn’t resurface. The Coast Guard and local marine biologists were trying desperately to locate her but were unable to reach her before she died.
She did communicate with me while she was dying. I stayed present with her as much as I could. I had worked in hospice and didn’t want her to go through her dying alone. In her last moments I felt the touch of her flippers gently touching my face. I saw what seemed like her body, fragmenting into jello-like squares as her spirit slowly left her body.
I’ve had many conversations with Right whales and Humpbacks since but what happened this winter was something I hadn’t encountered before.
Northern Atlantic Right Whales are critically endangered. There are only about 350 individuals left. This year, about 80 individuals from that pod, who normally winter in the Caribbean, migrated north and were seen in Cape Cod Bay in January. This hasn’t ever been seen before.
I asked the whales who migrated north what was happening. They said they feared that the food they normally depend on in their migration north to New England and Nova Scotia wouldn’t be available to them if they headed north at their usual time, late March. They figured since the water would be warming, the krill, their primary food, would also have moved north.
They didn’t want to take the risk of migrating without having eaten all winter, only to reach their usual rest stop and find nothing to eat. Without food at that point in their journey, they wouldn’t have been able to keep going.
They know how few their numbers are and want to remain on Earth. They tried to persuade the whales who remained to join them but those who stayed insisted the whole thing was probably overblown and they didn’t think it was an emergency. Regretfully, the 80 whales decided they had to leave the others behind; they owed it to themselves to survive as best as they could.
Today in the Boston Globe there was an article about the waters of the North Atlantic heating up much faster than anyone expected. This is the first instance I have heard of a group of animals making a major change in their migration because of climate change. I worry about them and all the animals who will be affected.
This has caused me to wonder what other animal communicators around the world are thinking about the effect of climate change on animals. I wonder if perhaps some communicators are talking with animals to find out what they think.
We should give the world’s animals a voice. They might have something we need to hear.
I loved Leslie’s suggestion. I already have a category for articles in The Animal Communicator Blog called Animal Ecological Messageswith a number of entries, and there are more messages from other animal communicators published in the Species Link Journal archive that I can also post here.
I invite you to send ecological messages you have received from animals, plants, waters, land areas, and any other life forms for possible posting here.
Please read the previous message from an Orca representative after a similar query about Orcas ramming boats made in September 2020, Orcas Issue a Wakeup Call to Humanity. I didn’t remember that I wrote about this subject three years ago until I came across this article again in reviewing the Animal Ecological Messages section. I invite you, too, to read again the messages of the two Orca representatives who communicated about this issue.
