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Gray Magic: The Plight of San Ignacio Lagoon

Gray Magic, featuring Pierce and Keely, was our first film and played a pivotal role in saving San Ignacio Lagoon, a United Nations World Heritage Site and the last pristine mating and birthing lagoon of the California gray whale from being turned into the world's largest salt plant by Mitsubishi Corporation.

This film was presented and distributed to the delegates attending the December, 1998 meeting of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and as a result, the UN sent an investigative team to San Ignacio Lagoon in 1999 and met with then, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, and strongly recommended he withdraw his government’s support for the salt plant which he formally did on March 3, 2000.

This was a huge victory and showed the power films can have when presented to the right audience and this has been our primary mission ever since: to educate key decision makers, while raising public awareness, to the critical issues that affect dolphins, whales and our oceans through our films and Public Service Announcements (PSAs).

- Whaleman Founder Jeff Pantukhoff



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