A team from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources was documenting the second North Atlantic right whale calf of the season about four miles offshore of the Florida/Georgia border on Wednesday when they received an urgent message. “We had just started a biopsy,” Jessica Thompson, senior wildlife biologist, told The Current GA. “We were literally […]
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Mary Landers is a reporter for The Current in Coastal Georgia with more than two decades of experience focusing on the environment. Contact her at mary.landers@thecurrentga.org. She covered climate and environment for nearly 24 years at the Savannah Morning News, where she began and ended her time there writing about health, including most recently focusing on the pandemic. Mary is a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi, where she taught environmental science at Lake Malawi National Park.
