Yet another SeaWorld orca has died, this one a male only 20 years old. In the wild, males can live up to 50 years. Orcas do poorly in captivity.
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SeaWorld is one of the largest captive cetacean companies on Earth, housing several hundred different dolphin species, beluga whales, pilot whales and orcas in four parks in the United States. SeaWorld is a global kingpin in promoting cetacean captivity, instructing many overseas facilities in capture and training techniques and providing the captivity industry’s major talking points. They are building a new SeaWorld overseas in Abu Dhabi, which will not have any orcas, but likely will have captive dolphins and perhaps other species of marine mammals.
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SeaWorld is a global kingpin in promoting cetacean captivity, instructing many overseas facilities in capture and training techniques, and providing the captivity industry’s major talking points. We encourage you to send a message to SeaWorld’s Interim CEO, Marc Swanson.
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Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut has asked the US National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) for permission to import five beluga whales from Canada’s Marineland park at Niagara Falls. The International Marine Mammal Project (IMMP) of Earth Island Institute and many other organizations and members of the public strongly oppose the import. While Mystic claims the purpose of the import is to conduct scientific research on the beluga whales, the real purpose behind the import is to provide more breeding stock for captive whales to produce yet more captive cetaceans for the US captivity industry.
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Wild orcas live far longer than captive ones on average. Captive Corky just keeps swimming.
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After filing the lawsuit, "Anderson v SeaWorld"five years ago, two plaintiffs finally told their story in court earlier this month.
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The well-anticipated trial that's been in the making for 5 years finally goes to trial next week.
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Russian conservationists organized a massive turn-out of more than 100,000 petition signers, asking the Russian government to end captures of orcas, beluga whales and dolphins (essentially, any cetaceans) in Russian waters for captivity.
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In our final installment, expert scientists reveal the false claims made by SeaWorld to the public. The litigation will go to trial this spring.
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The International Marine Mammal Project (IMMP) of Earth Island Institute helped develop and is consulting on a lawsuit against SeaWorld (Anderson v SeaWorld), contending that the mega corporation has been deliberately lying to the public about the health and welfare of their orcas in captivity. SeaWorld is being called-out on these lies, as never before, because of the groundbreaking legal battle we’ve been waging on behalf of captive orcas for more than five years! Usually SeaWorld bullies their way through litigation. They’re a multi-billion dollar company and pay multiple aggressive hired-gun attorney teams to do their bidding. But this time, all five of SeaWorld’s attempts to have the case, Anderson v SeaWorld, dismissed have been denied. Their efforts to further delay and drag out the case and keep scientific expert witness reports sealed by the court and kept secret, are crumbling.
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