LE3 .A278 2021

2021

Biro, Andrew

Acadia University

Bachelor of Arts

Honours

Political Science

Politics

This thesis investigates biodiversity that includes ecosystems and nonhuman species that preserve one another. Assessment of the biodiversity of marine areas in Canada and the United States (U.S.) report major impacts on economic, social, and political success (Office of the Auditor General Canada 2012). The application of bio conservation theory allows for a collective analysis of the severe decrease in biodiversity that affects human and nonhuman populations (Takacs 2020, 43). The objective of this thesis is to examine the concepts of conservation and sustainability included in the biopolitical struggle of the North Atlantic Right Whale (NARW) (Eubalanena glacialis). Conservation efforts further relate to the current debate about the role of science in policy that includes biophysical and sociocultural variables. The concept of nature is also relevant to contemporary interactions and representations of the NARW that include the development of media technologies, scientific institutions, or transnational activist networks (Blok 2007, 75). This thesis thus questions how the preservation of the NARW is impacted by human and nonhuman tensions that are represented by political and scientific bodies and tools that monitor the whales along the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada and the Gulf of Maine. The conservation of both at-risk species and their habitats in these gulf waterways has been identified as a crucial factor for conservation biodiversity. The severe decrease in the NARW population is due to entanglements, vessel strikes, and diminished access to food sources, and each of these necessitates government action and investigation by scientific bodies. The depletion of the NARW population establishes concern for scientific bodies, government, and legal action to address issues of bioconservation that includes entanglements and ship-strikes. This thesis argues that the success of conservation policies involves cultural, economic, institutional, and social features of human societies..

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