WhaleX Foundation
On a mission
Multiplying what whales do to help remove CO₂ and increase fisheries.
Photo: Marcos Rossi-Santos
We are addressing the greatest challenges of our time.
Restoring the climate
Regenerating the ocean
Benefiting the malnourished
by simulating what whales have been doing for millennia
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Whales have been helping store Carbon in the deep ocean for almost 40 million years!
But whaling has contributed to the loss of around 3 million whales from the ocean.
Numbers have fallen from 4 to 5 million in pre-whaling times to around 1.3 million today.
With the loss in whales has come a loss in CO2 stored in the ocean.
Ocean Regeneration
One of the ways whales help to restore the climate and regenerate marine ecosystems is through their pee and nutrient plumes or “poo”! Their excreta is rich in the nutrients that enable microscopic plants (phytoplankton) to grow regenerating the marine ecosystem. The phytoplankton take up CO2 from the sunlit layer of the ocean during photosynthesis as they grow. This CO2 is replenished in the surface of the ocean from the atmosphere. Some phytoplankton are eaten while others sink to the bottom of the ocean as maine snow where they remain for centuries sequestering carbon.
Additinally phytoplankton are eaten by microscopic animals such as zooplankton, whose carbon-rich fecal pelltes also fall to the bottom of the ocean or may in turn be eaten by fish and other marine animals up the food chain. This process is known as the “biological pump” that helps to restore the climate. As the base of the food chain, phytoplankton regenerate ocean health that helps to increase fish stocks to provide protein for malnourished populations.
Guided By Whales
The WhaleX Foundation aim to simulate what these beautiful creatures have been doing for millennia to restore the climate, regenerate our oceans and benefit the malnourished.
