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SeaWorld's Captivity Kills Another Orca
| Mark J. Palmer

Kasatka was around a year or two old when she was captured and removed from her family in Icelandic waters in 1978.
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SeaWorld Attendance Continues to Plummet
| Mark J. Palmer

SeaWorld experienced a net loss of $175.9 million for its second quarter.
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The Tank Where Keiko Was Kept Is Being Shut Down
| Laura Bridgeman

The bill, which is under the Law of Protection of Animals, prohibits using cetaceans for entertainment, scientific research or therapy
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SeaWorld's Breeding And Killing Of Orcas
| Mark J. Palmer

The sad death of 3 month old Kyara mirrors everything wrong with keeping orcas in captivity.
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Mexico City Just Banned Dolphin Performances!

Mexico City just passed a set of laws that prohibits performances, therapy and scientific research involving captive dolphins.
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Last Calf to be Born At SeaWorld is Dead - Is SeaWorld to Blame?
| Mark J. Palmer

On Monday, July 24th, yet another of SeaWorld’s captive orcas has died, this time at only 3-months old, which suggests once again that keeping orcas in small concrete tanks is not healthy or defensible.
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SeaWorld Under Federal Investigations over Blackfish Documentary
| Mark J. Palmer

SeaWorld’s stock took another hit when the company revealed the federal Department of Justice and SEC are investigating the company and had subpoenaed records.
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Keiko Documentary At World Cetacean Alliance Conference
| Laura Bridgeman

The award-winning documentary Keiko: The Untold Story remains extremely relevant to today’s efforts to liberate dolphins and whales from captivity. This is why the film will be featured at the World Cetacean Alliance conference, happening in Durban, Africa, on June 24-29.
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Stop Mississippi Aquarium From Building New Dolphin Tanks!
| Laura Bridgeman

19 organizations sent a letter to stop construction of a new captive dolphin facility in Gulfport, Mississippi.
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Shameful Dolphinariums in Japan Insist on Getting Dolphins from Taiji Slaughter
| Kelly D’Ambrogia

members of JAZA have stated that they don’t see the dolphin drives as cruel in any nature, and believe that they are an integral part of “local culture”
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International Marine Mammal Project >
  • From the cold reaches of the Russian coast, to Japan's notorious Cove, to global tuna fleets, to Barataria Bay, to the concrete tanks of SeaWorld - the International Marine Mammal Project had key accomplishments for whales and dolphins, thanks to your support!
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  • There's a lot of whale and dolphin jargon out there. Here's some explanations about what we know about cetaceans.
  • The damages of global warming are already here, and worse is to come. Can COP28 overcome national resistance and lobbying from the oil industry to adopt real solutions to global warming, including an equitable phase-out of the burning of fossil fuels?
Save Japan Dolphins >
  • The Taiji dolphin slaughter was as horrendous as always, but the numbers of dolphins being killed and captures continues to decline. Can we end the dolphin hunts for good?
  • A recent analysis by scientists, adopted by the IWC Scientific Committee, shows what many opponents of the Taiji dolphin hunts have feared -- the hunts are depleting several dolphin species along the coast of Japan, leading the dolphin hunters to go after other species, while still killing the depleted species.
  • The Taiji dolphin hunts are well underway, with a pod of bottlenose dolphins recently herded into the notorious Cove. The Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission is warning that some dolphin species are declining.
Dolphin + Whale Project >
Keiko Whale Rescue >
  • We are deeply saddened at the death of orca whale Tokitae. Calls for her release were denied for decades and it’s shameful that she never got a chance to go home.
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    Tokitae (also known as Lolita) has died. Photo Credit: Dr. Ingrid Visser, Orca Research Trust

  • 30 years ago, the movie "Free Willy" was a huge hit. The plight of its orca star, Keiko, touched the public along with the moving story. Read how the International Marine Mammal Project took that spark of concern and returned Keiko to his home waters. SeaWorld and other captive dolphin parks would never be the same!
  • The last captive orca in Canada, Kiska, has died, after being kept alone for twelve years at the notorious MarineLand park in Niagara Falls. If Tokitae (Lolita) goes home to a seaside sanctuary, the only North American captive orcas will be those in SeaWorld's three parks.
Dolphin Safe Fishing >
  • For more than 30 years, Trixie Concepcion and her staff have worked to protect dolphins and other marine life in the Philippines, monitoring tuna fishing in the Western and Central Pacific Oceans to ensure the tuna is caught by Dolphin Safe methods, saving the lives of tens of thousands of dolphins annually.
  • The history of the drowning of millions of dolphins by the tuna industry turned a corner in 1990, when US tuna giants agreed to work with the International Marine Mammal Project to establish Dolphin Safe fishing standards that avoid harm to dolphins and other marine life.
  • In order to better monitor tuna vessels to ensure no dolphins are netted or harmed, the International Marine Mammal Project of Earth Island Institute is supporting placing closed circuit television (CCTV) aboard tuna vessels.
Freeing Orca Whales from Captivity >

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