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The Orca Project and Orca Network, along with countless other marine mammal advocates believe they can handle the transport and care of Orca, released from captivity.
On the basis that continued animal abuse, for the benefit of profit and human entertainment, is both bad for the animal and human kind, a plan has been laid out on how to transport, house and care for formerly captive marine mammals, and one Orca whale in particular.
Text from The Orca Project site:
"August 8, 1970 in Penn Cove, Whidbey Island, Washington State. Lolita is the last surviving orca of 45 members of the Southern Resident community that were captured and delivered for display in marine parks between 1965 and 1973. At least 13 members of her family were killed during the brutal captures."
Now, 40 years later, the Orcanetwork and Orca Project, continue an exhaustive and comprehensive campaign to get Lolita released.
Read more about how they would handle such a monumental task at the link.
http://theorcaproject.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/lolita-the-orca-her-life-her-legal-issues-and-her-way-home/The Orca Project and Orca Network, along with countless other marine mammal advocates... more
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41 years after the horrific capture of Orca whales in Penn Cove, Whidbey Island, Washington, still shocks.
The video attached to this post might help those who continue to support being entertained by captured Orca to rethink their support of this form of entertainment.
No longer legal in the United States, capturing wild marine mammals continues in many countries today.
Help educate yourself and those you know by watching this link attached footage of how animals are captured for human entertainment, and contact orcanetwork.org to find out more about how you can put your animal loving to real work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfwnpjghVk041 years after the horrific capture of Orca whales in Penn Cove, Whidbey Island,... more
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Thanks to Howard Garrett and Susan Berta of Orcanetwork, for pointing out this important story from the seattlepi's Candice Calloway-Whiting, about the horrendous condition of SeaWorld's financial records.
How much profit is there left in captured sea mammal as public entertainment? Will a dwindling bottom line help end the violent capture of wild animals, for our amusement?
"Behind the tragedies at SeaWorld, behind the looming lawsuits, behind the rapidly changing attitudes toward orca captivity, come the economic losses now pinching the industry". - Howard Garret of Orca Network.
Interestingly enough, as Candace reports, "last year Costco ran a survey of it’s members, and reported that only around 17% feel that keeping wild animals in captivity for our amusement is right. It is time for the amusement parks to stop capturing and breeding whales and dolphins, there is nothing amusing about it".
Read seattlepi.com reporter Candace Calloway-Whiting's article about Sea World's bleak financial news (linked), since the story broke in the Wall Street Journal.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/candacewhiting/2011/02/13/seaworld-has-a-whale-of-a-debt-in-their-financial-tank/Thanks to Howard Garrett and Susan Berta of Orcanetwork, for pointing out this... more
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http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/15/1631428/seaquarium-protesters-call-for.html
For Lolita the killer whale, home has been the Miami Seaquarium for 39 years.
But Saturday her captivity became a cause of protest as more than 50 demonstrators waved signs demanding her return to the Pacific Northwest outside the marine life attraction along the side of the Rickenbacker Causeway.
``Keeping her in captivity is cruel and inhumane,'' said protest leader Shelby Proie, director of SaveLolita.com.
Organizers said critics of the 3.5-ton, 40-something orca's confinement rallied in 43 cities. They want her released to a sea pen near her native Puget Sound, near Seattle.
``She can be with her mother and her pod,'' said Simon Hutchins, director of expeditions at the Oceanic Preservation Society. A Canadian, he was also expedition director for this year's Oscar-winning feature documentary, The Cove.
For its part, the Seaquarium disagreed.
General Manager Andrew Hertz issued a statement calling plans for release an ``irresponsible . . . experiment'' that would ``jeopardize her health and safety.''
He also dismissed the idea of release as ``the whims of a small group of individuals who have no firsthand experience working with a killer whale.''
Hutchins countered that protesters were advocating a gradual, humane release. ``It's not like we're going to give her $50 and a bus ticket,'' he said.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/15/1631428/seaquarium-protesters-call-for.html#ixzz0oEgJBjckhttp://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/15/1631428/seaquarium-protesters-call-for.html... more
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The best way to fight the trend for girls to look like knowing 'nymphets' is to teach teenagers about real sexuality
The Lolita Effect, a critique of the modern obsession with prematurely sexualising young girls and a manifesto on how to renounce it. We have all seen this “effect” — the push-up bras for pre-teens, the satin thongs and “Eye Candy” T-shirts, the pink plastic “Peekaboo Pole Dancing” kit that was sold at Tesco, the magazines that tutor girls who have barely started their periods how to pander to an imaginary “he”.
Who would disagree that the “baby-faced nymphet” — perhaps embodied most explicitly by a school-uniformed Britney Spears in the Baby One More Time video — is a regular fixture on the media landscape? What we might disagree on though is how to counteract it. Some believe that shielding girls from sex for as long as possible — preaching the abstinence message and the pregnancy/STD/victimhood perils of sex — is the only way.The best way to fight the trend for girls to look like knowing 'nymphets' is... more
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Some books that are considered sensitive with religious degradation or slurs, foul language, violence, racism, political and sexual descriptions with vividness and graphicness have always attracted controversies from the general public, religious or political organizations.Some books that are considered sensitive with religious degradation or slurs, foul... more
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