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ACTION ALERT: END THE SHOW! Pledge to Boycott Parks That Keep Marine Mammals as Entertainers!
Animals  (tags: orca, marine mammals, captured, imprisoned, marine parks, animal acitivists )

Simone
- 80 days ago - change.org
Orcas, dolphins, and other marine mammals are suffering in captivity for our entertainment. Please take this pledge vowing to boycott marine theme parks: I will not visit nor support marine parks that keep marine mammals in captivity. If I wish to see
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An Orca Named Lolita
Animals  (tags: lolita, orca, history, captivity, fighting for freedom, wild ocean mammals, conservation )

Simone
- 145 days ago - examiner.com
Many years ago an orca was born in L pod. She swam to the surface to take a breath of air, and then swam next to her mother. She fed on her mother's milk for the first year of her life. She was gradually weaned and introduced to eating fish. She was
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Rescue Baby Orca in Mexico   video
Animals  (tags: animaladvocates, GoodNews, rescued, Orca, whales )

Teresa
- 159 days ago - youtube.com
The first part of the story, the stranded whale being rescued by the comunity of San Blas, Mexico, and being taken care of in the facilities of Dolphin Adventure.
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The Little Killer Whale Who Refused to Leave
Animals  (tags: british columbia, marine wildlife, whales, orca, luna, movie, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, protection )

Jacquelin
- 297 days ago - nationalpost.com
It's a story so entirely tragic and nauseatingly sad that some viewers may look at Suzanne Chisholm and Michael Parfit's movie about Luna -- the lone orca who tried to befriend humans on B. C.'s Nootka Sound -- as an experience too depressing to relive.
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Penguin Flees Killer Whales ~ Amazing Escape, ~Video
Animals  (tags: marine wildlife, whales, orca, penguin, amazing escape )

Jacquelin
- 321 days ago - news.com.au
A PENGUIN escaped a hungry pack of killer whales by jumping out of the water and into a boatload of stunned tourists watching the cat-and-mouse drama.
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Killer Whales Join Taranaki Line-Up
Animals  (tags: new zealand, marine wildlifge, whales, orca, habitat, huimans, close encounter, endangered, extinction, protection )

Jacquelin
- 330 days ago - nzherald.co.nz
A Taranki surfer got a close-up glimpse of an orca when it swam by him at the Stent Road surf break near Cape Egmont yesterday. The orca - also known as a killer whale - was accompanied by two smaller orca. The black and white mammals are the larges
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Killer Whales Missing
Animals  (tags: Orca, killer, whale, sea, ocean, San Juan Island, Puget )

Tanja
- 405 days ago - superpastime.com
Killer whales missing - presumed dead
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Beached Killer Whale Euthanized ~ Video
Animals  (tags: hawaii, marine wildlife, whales, orca, stranded, wounds, cookie cutter shark wounds, euthanized, suffering, sadness, protection, endangered, extinction )

Jacquelin
- 412 days ago - kitv.com
HONOLULU -- A beached killer whale was euthanized in Kauai Wednesday. The Orca was discovered in bad shape at about 11 p.m. at Brennecke's Beach, which was still closed Wednesday night. Witnesses said they tried to push the whale back into the water
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Dead Whales Discovered on Beaches
Animals  (tags: scotland, marine wildlife, whales, orca, death, endangered, extinction, protection, humans, sadness )

Jacquelin
- 590 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The body of a killer whale has been found on beach in the north-west of Scotland. The 8-metre orca was discovered at Sandwood Bay in an estate in Sutherland owned by wildland conservation charity the John Muir Trust. The Hebridean Whale and Dolphi
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Let's Save Lolita - PETITION
Animals  (tags: orca, lolita, captivity, marine mammal, exploitated, imprisoned, welfare, freedom, rights )

Simone
- 626 days ago - helpsaveslivestcst.com
ta, she is the only survivor of the captive Orcas. Her family still roam the seas in freedom and there is no doubt that Lolita will remember them, and they will remember that fateful time when the pod was destroyed. Lolita is forced to perform tricks
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The Fight for Orca's Freedom
Animals  (tags: Orca, whales, animal welfare, animal rights, endangered, family, habitat, humans, protection, sadness, society, whales, whaling, ethics, ocean, habitat )

J.
- 694 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
Lolita was one of 80 orcas herded into Penn Cove on Whidbey Island from Puget Sound on Aug. 8, 1970. That day, six whales were captured, and five were killed in the process. She was sold to the Miami Seaquarium to live out her days as a performer.
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Former St. Ignatius Residents Co-Direct Film on Orca Luna
Animals  (tags: whales, orca, AnimalWelfare, animals, protection, wildlife, killed )

Cher
- 787 days ago - missoulian.com
Luna died one day off the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, chopped up in the propellers of a tugboat But the story of the baby orca is, for two former Montana residents, more revealing of humans than of a lone killer whale
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