News / 'Mad MAX' launches court action to protect whales from maritime industry

Credit Richard Max Strahan.

An angry Conservation biologist, Man Against Xtinction, also known as MAX citizen attorney general, has initiated a court case in the US District Court of Massachusetts against international shipping lines Cosco, CMA CGM and MSC in a bid to protect whales.

In a case that could, ultimately, shut US ports, court documents claim a failure to enforce the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1969 has led to the near extinction of a number of species of whale that currently feed, mate ...