Adjunct Professor, Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
Linda Nowlan heads the Marine Program at West Coast Environmental Law, where she works as a Staff Lawyer. She is an adjunct professor at the Allard School of Law at UBC and a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law and World Commission on Protected Areas. Linda previously worked as Director, Pacific Conservation with WWF-Canada, as a Faculty Research Associate at the UBC Program on Water Governance, and as a litigation lawyer in Vancouver. Her advocacy has contributed to numerous law reforms and her publications focus on ocean, water and biodiversity protection law.
Why the southern resident killer whales should have the same rights as people
Apr 27, 2019 06:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Each year, the number of southern resident killer whales in the Salish Sea on the Pacific coast declines yet another species on the road to extinction. Last summer, many grieved as they watched an orca named J35, also...
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