#CAPTIVITYKILLS
#BLACKFISHMOVIE
#DONTBUYATICKET
#BOYCOTTSEAWORLD
#SHUTDOWNSEAWORLD
#SHUTDOWNDOLPHINARIA
#SHUTDOWNDOLPHINARIUMS
Please take action by signing the Orca Petitions, and never buying a ticket to SeaWorld, Marineland, or any other Marine Mammal Amusement Park that captures and imprisons Orcas, Beluga Whales, and Dolphins.
Thank you for being the Voice for our Voiceless Ocean Buddies.
DEMAND RELEASE OF LONE ORCA IMPRISONED FOR OVER 40 YEARS
SEA WORLD,ORLANDO ~ FREE TILLY
Petitioning Tatyana Zhukova
Russian Department of Fisheries and Utrishskiy delphinarium: ALLOW A PANEL OF EXPERTS TO REHAB AND RELEASE 18 WILD ~ CAUGHT BELUGA WHALES
DON'T BUY THE TICKET : WHALES AND DOLPHINS SHOULD NOT BE IN CAPTIVITY
PETITIONING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
SEAWORLD, ORLANDO, FLORIDA:
FREE TILIKUM
FREE ORCA MORGAN : PETITIONING EUROPEAN UNION /
EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE
THANK YOU TO ANIMAL ADVOCATE
CLOSE THE DOLPHIN RESORT HOTEL IN BALI
DEMAND THAT MARINE MAMMEL PARKS "EMPTY THE TANKS AND RELEASE ORCAS AND DOLPHINS BACK INTO THE WILD
FREE LOLITA,THE CAPTIVE KILLER WHALE
PROTECT NORTHWEST ORCAS FROM DIRTY COAL :
URGE THE ARMY CORP OF ENGINEERS TO REVIEW THE RISKS FROM COAL PROPOSALS
KEEP ORCA WHALES ON ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES :
STOP SUPPORTING CRUELTY AT SEAWORLD
BOYCOTT SEAWORLD
Petitioning President and
Congress of the United States
MAKE THE CAPTIVITY OF MARINE MAMMALS ILLEGAL IN THE UNITED STATES
WHITE HOUSE CALLING FOR A PERMANENT LAW BANNING THE CAPTURE IN U.S. WATERS OF DOLPHINS AND WHALES FOR PUBLIC DISPLAY
The recent documentaries Blackfish and
The Cove show that putting dolphins and orcas in captivity is unethical and cruel, ripping them from their families that they would normally grow up with and depriving them of the freedom of the open ocean, instead confining them to small concrete tanks to do tricks for dead fish.
WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:
We the undersigned call for a permanent law banning Capture in US waters of Dolphins & Whales for Public Display.
Dolphins and Whales have evolved over millions of years and have adapted perfectly to life in the oceans of the world. They are intelligent, social and self-aware, exhibiting evidence of a highly developed emotional sense.
The capture of dolphins is traumatic and stressful and can result in their injury and even death. The number of dolphins that die during capture operations or shortly thereafter are never revealed in dolphinariums or Swim-with-the-Dolphins attractions. No permits have been approved since 1993 to capture dolphins in US waters for public display. Let's make it law.
We the undersigned call for a permanent law banning Capture in US waters of Dolphins & Whales for Public Display.
Created: Oct 18, 2013
URGE MACY'S TO CANCEL
SEAWORLD'S FLOAT AT MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE
Despite receiving information from PETA about SeaWorld's shameful history of denying animals everything that is natural and important to them, Macy's, Inc., is planning to include a SeaWorld float at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
SeaWorld's cruel treatment of animals and lack of concern for safety have been exposed internationally with the release of the documentary Blackfish. SeaWorld keeps intelligent, social ocean animals such as whales and dolphins in pitifully small tanks. In the wild, dolphins swim up to 100 miles a day in the open ocean, but captive dolphins are confined to small tanks in which the reverberations from their sonar bounce off the walls, driving them insane. Some of these animals were violently captured and torn away from their homes in the wild, and many are forced to learn and perform circus–style tricks. According to whistleblower tips from trainers, withholding food from animals who refuse to perform is a common training method, and because of the intense boredom and aggression caused by captivity, orcas gnaw on the metal gates and concrete corners of the tanks and damage their teeth.
SeaWorld and other marine parks are not educational. Instead, they teach people that it is acceptable to imprison animals, deprive them of their freedom of movement, forbid them the chance to establish a natural territory and explore, breed and separate them as we please, and watch them go insane from boredom and loneliness.
After the orca Tilikum violently killed trainer Dawn Brancheau at SeaWorld in 2010 (the third person he has killed), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration assessed the maximum fine against SeaWorld for willfully violating federal law. SeaWorld's own corporate incident log contains reports of more than 100 incidents of orca aggression at its parks, often resulting in injuries to humans.
Please tell Macy's that promoting SeaWorld at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade would offend many viewers. Using the link above, take a moment to contact the company's CEO and parade producer and urge them to cancel plans for a SeaWorld float at the parade.
Urge NMFS To Rectify Exclusion of Lolita from the ESA and BRING LOLITA HOME!
BOYCOTT SEAWORLD !
TELL SEAWORLD PUTTING PROFIT
ABOVE ANIMAL WELFARE
WON'T EARN YOUR SUPPORT OR PATRONAGE.
A SURGE IN WILD ORCA CAPTURE
FOR KILLER WHALE SHOWS
“A lot depends on how many people
per year pay to get into SeaWorld in the U.S.,
as well as paying to get into the growing number
of such facilities in China, Japan and Russia”
OUTSIDE ONLINE
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2013
A Surge In Wild Orca Capture for Killer Whale Shows
In the past two months 7 wild orcas have been captured in the Sea Of Okhotsk for the purposes of stocking aquariums and water parks. These are the first wild orca caught in more than a decade, making it clear that Russian fishermen are earnest about reviving the wild capture trade.
By: TIM ZIMMERMANN
A blogger posted a story about his visit to the "Centre of Marine Mammal Adaptation, near Vladivostok, Russia, where Narnia is kept. He captured a photo of three small pools and 20 new young beluga whales in them.
Narnia 2, at Vladivostok.
“A lot depends on how many people per year pay to get into SeaWorld in the U.S., as well as paying to get into the growing number of such facilities in China, Japan and Russia”
No matter what one thinks about the wisdom and morality of marine park killer whale shows, most people find the idea of marine parks stocking their pools with killer whales taken from the wild objectionable. The reason is pretty simple: wild captures are traumatic, break up tightly knit killer whale families, and deplete wild populations.
In one 1970s capture in the Pacific Northwest, documented in both Killer In The Pool and the documentary Blackfish, boats, explosives, and nets were used to ensnare dozens of orcas so that young calves (smaller and easier to transport) could be taken and shipped to marine parks. In Blackfish, one grizzled veteran of the hunt—who likens the experience to taking a child from its family and during the capture was ordered to cut open, weigh down, and sink a number of orcas that had drowned in the nets—calls it the worst thing he has ever done.
The public backlash against taking wild killer whales drove SeaWorld’s capture teams out of United States waters and on to Iceland. More important, it prompted SeaWorld to develop the know-how and technology needed to breed killer whales in captivity. The first successful “Baby Shamu” birth was celebrated in 1985. Since then, SeaWorld and other marine parks have preferred to rely on captive breeding, which now includes artificial insemination techniques, to keep their killer-whale inventories flush. Today, only 12 of the44 killer whales at marine parks around the world were taken from the wild (and two, a killer whale called Kshamenk in Argentina, and a killer whale called Morgan, who was found off the Netherlands in 2010 and is now with SeaWorld’s killer whales at Loro Parque in the Canary Islands, started as rescues). In most of the world, the era of wild captures has long been over.
But killer whale entertainment is a profitable business, and captive breeding is not prolific enough to supply new or planned marine parks that may be hoping to draw big crowds with killer whale shows. Hoping to score big and meet potential new demand (a killer whale can sell for a $1 million or more), Russian hunters are reported to have recently caught seven wild killer whales in the Sea Of Okhotsk. After being netted and dragged ashore in two separate operations in August and October, the killer whales were trucked hundreds of miles to a sea pen near Vladivostok, where they joined a young female, dubbed Narnia, who was snared last year.
The reports come via orca researcher Erich Hoyt, author of Orca: A Whale Called Killer,who in 1999 helped found the Far East Russia Orca Project (FEROP) to study Russian killer whale populations. According to Hoyt, Russian hunters, working for the Utrish Dolphinarium, have been trying to capture wild Russian orcas since at least 2002. In 2003 they managed to corral a group more than 30 orcas off southeast Kamchatka, killing one in the nets and transporting one across Russia to the Utrish Marine Station on the Black Sea, where it died 13 days later.
Since then, Hoyt says, additional attempts were made (five orcas in total are estimated to have been killed during Russian capture attempts), but Russia, thanks in part to appeals by FEROP, stopped issuing permits for orcas off Eastern Kamchatka. Permits for 6-10 orcas a year continued to be issued for the Sea Of Okhotsk, but it is more logistically challenging, which seemed to put a brake on capture efforts.
Last year, however, a Russian team, which had already been engaged in beluga captures in the Sea Of Okhotsk, managed to capture Narnia, a young female. That same team pulled off two more capture operations this year, in August and October, netting the additional seven orcas who have joined Narnia near Vladivostok. According to at least one account, the newly captured orcas arrived at the sea pen after the long transport in very poor condition, and initially refused to eat. It was only after Narnia started to bring them fish that they started to feed normally.
Hoyt says that these new wild captures are being conducted by a conglomerate of companies called White Sphere, which captures marine mammals, and builds and operates aquariums in Russia. One aquarium, the Sochinskiy Delfinariy has been identified as the owner of Narnia. Hoyt believes that two of the recently caught orcas, a 4-year-old female and an 8-year-old male, are being offered for sale abroad, perhaps to a Chinese facility, and that at least two of the remaining group of five (one is a mature female; the sex and ages of the others are not known) will be shipped to Moscow soon to be placed in an Oceanarium that is being built at the All-Russia Exhibition Centre. Hoyt worries that the mature female might be the mother of the two young orcas being offered for sale abroad, which means that the family group would be broken up.
No one seems to know where the remaining three orcas will end up. But Russia has 17 marine parks, and China already has some 50, with two more nearing completion. “It seems like China is becoming, or has become, a primary source of the demand for belugas, dolphins, and orcas alike,” says Courtney Vail, Campaigns and Programs Manager for Whale And Dolphin Conservation, which helps sponsor Hoyt’s and FEROP’s work. “Chinese facilities also source from the Taiji dolphin hunts. Twenty-four dolphins were exported from Japan to China in 2012, and CITES trade reports suggest over 60 wild-caught belugas were exported from Russia to China between 2008 and 2010 alone.”
Hoyt and FEROP are lobbying the Russian government to end orca-capture permits in the Sea Of Okhotsk for 2014. But as the Russian Far East threatens to become the next wild orca gold rush, tapping into a remote orca population that until now has mostly been left alone, Hoyt sees only one way the wild orca hunts will truly stop. “A lot depends on how many people per year pay to get into SeaWorld in the U.S., as well as paying to get into the growing number of such facilities in China, Japan and Russia,” he says. “By last count, more than 120 facilities in these countries exhibit whales and/or dolphins. If there is no demand from the owners of these facilities and from the paying public, the selling price will go down and eventually there may be little or no supply offered for sale. Then the orca trafficking can stop.”
Photo credit: Tatiana Ivkovich (Far East Russia Orca Project/ Whale and Dolphin Conservation)
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ORCAS AND DOLPHINS
DO NOT BELONG IN CAPTIVITY!
This is what should be life for an Orca Whale
This is what the life of Lolita Orca Whale is
A WIN-WIN SOLUTION FOR
CAPTIVE ORCAS
AND MARINE THEME PARKS
By Naomi A. Rose, Special to CNN
updated 11:25 AM EDT, Mon October 28, 2013
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Naomi A. Rose is working with an entertainment conglomerate to create a dolphin sanctuary
She says this business model could work for other marine theme parks, like SeaWorld
Rose, a marine mammal scientist, says "captivity kills orcas"
Watch an encore of "Blackfish" on CNN, Saturday, Nov. 2 at 9 p.m. ET
Editor's note: Naomi A. Rose, Ph.D., is the marine mammal scientist for the Animal Welfare Institute and is part of a team working with Merlin Entertainments Group to create the first sanctuary for captive bottlenose dolphins. She has been advocating for the welfare of captive whales and dolphins for more than 20 years.
(CNN) -- The film "Blackfish" compellingly describes many of the reasons why keeping orcas in captivity is -- and always has been -- a bad idea.
The main premise of the film is that these large, intelligent, social predators are dangerous to their trainers. But orcas are also directly harmed by being confined in concrete tanks and the science is growing to support this common sense conclusion.
The latest data show that orcas are more than three times as likely to die at any age in captivity as they are in the wild. This translates into a shorter life span and is probably the result of several factors. First, orcas in captivity are out of shape; they are the equivalent of couch potatoes, as the largest orca tank in the world is less than one ten-thousandth of one percent (0.0001%) the size of the smallest home range of wild orcas.
Second, they are in artificial and often incompatible social groups. This contributes to chronic stress, which can depress the immune system and leave captive orcas susceptible to infections they would normally fight off in the wild.
The truth behind orcas in captivity History of killer whale capture SeaWorld trainer on recent controversy
Third, they often break their teeth chewing compulsively on metal gates. These broken teeth, even drilled and cleaned regularly by irrigation, are clear routes for bacteria to enter the bloodstream. These are the obvious factors; there are almost certainly others contributing to the elevated mortality seen in captivity.
These factors boil down simply to this: Captivity kills orcas.
Yes, they may survive for years entertaining audiences, but eventually the stressors of captivity catch up to them. Very few captive orcas make it to midlife (approximately 30 years for males and 45 for females) and not one out of more than 200 held in captivity has ever come close to old age (60 for males, 80 for females). Most captive orcas die while they are still very young by wild orca standards.
There is a win/win solution to both the trainer safety and orca welfare dilemmas facing marine theme parks around the world, including SeaWorld in the United States.
These facilities can work with experts around the world to create sanctuaries where captive orcas can be rehabilitated and retired. These sanctuaries would be sea pens or netted-off bays or coves, in temperate to cold water natural habitat. They would offer the animals respite from performing and the constant exposure to a parade of strangers (an entirely unnatural situation for a species whose social groupings are based on family ties and stability -- "strangers" essentially do not exist in orca society). Incompatible animals would not be forced to cohabit the same enclosures and family groups would be preserved.
Show business trainers would no longer be necessary. Expert caretakers would continue to train retired whales for veterinary procedures, but would not get in the water and would remain at a safe distance (this is known in zoo parlance as "protected contact"). And the degree to which they interact directly with the whales would be each whale's choice.
A fundamental premise of these sanctuaries, however, is that eventually they would empty. Breeding would not be allowed and captive orcas would no longer exist within the next few decades.
Many wildlife sanctuaries, for circus, roadside zoo and backyard refugees, exist around the globe for animals such as big cats, elephants and chimpanzees. The business (usually nonprofit) model for these types of facilities is therefore well-established for terrestrial species and can be adapted for orcas.
Wildlife sanctuaries are sometimes open to the public, although public interaction with the animals is usually minimized. A visitor's center can offer education, real-time remote viewing of the animals, a gift shop, and in the case of whales and dolphins can even be a base for responsible whale watching if the sanctuary is in a suitable location for that activity.
Marine theme parks do not need to lose out financially by phasing out orca shows; this is a transformative proposal, not a punitive one.
Creating a whale or dolphin sanctuary is not entirely theoretical. Merlin Entertainments http://www.merlinentertainments.biz/
is pursuing the establishment of the world's first bottlenose dolphin sanctuary with Whale and Dolphin Conservation),
http://us.whales.org/news/2009/03/wdcs-to-work-with-merlin-entertainments-on-better-future-for-captive-dolphins a nonprofit environmental group. Whale and Dolphin Conservation put together a team to determine the feasibility of such a concept and the company has now identified potential sites and is studying the infrastructure that will be needed to support a group of retired dolphins.
Before the tragic death of SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010,
the ethical arguments against keeping orcas in captivity came largely from the animal welfare/animal rights community, with the marine theme parks basically ignoring or dismissing their opponents as a vocal and out-of-touch minority.
Now even staunch SeaWorld supporters are wondering if the time has come to think outside the (concrete) box.
Furthermore, the marine mammal science community, which has long maintained a neutral stance on the question of whether orcas are a suitable species for captive display, has finally recognized the need to engage. An informal panel discussion on captive orcas is scheduled at the 20th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals http://www.marinemammalscience.org/index.php
in December, the first time this topic will be openly addressed by the world's largest marine mammal science society.
The first orca was put on public display in 1964. The debate on whether that was a good idea -- for people or the whales -- began the next day but didn't really heat up until the 1970s. It raged mostly on the fringe for the next 25 years. It picked up steam in the mid-1990s, with the release of the film "Free Willy" and the rehabilitation of its orca star Keiko. And now, thanks in part to "Blackfish," it is mainstream and consensus is building that orcas don't belong in captivity.
The marine theme parks can shift with the paradigm or be left behind -- it is up to them.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Naomi A. Rose.
Please visit Sea World of Hurt
to learn about captive Orcas.
#captivitykills
MARINELAND:
COLLEGE INVESTIGATING MARINELAND VETERINARIANS
The Ontario College of Veterinarians is investigating vets who practice at Marineland,
but won’t reveal the scope or purpose of the probe, nor the number of vets involved.
By: Linda Diebel Canada,
Published Sep 13 2013
The Ontario College of Veterinarians is investigating vets who practice at Marineland, but won’t reveal the scope or purpose of the probe, nor the number of vets involved.
There is no indication that the College’s investigation is related to a series of Star stories in which former Marineland trainers criticized the quality of animal care at the Niagara Falls tourist attraction.
In a statement to the Star, Marineland lawyer Andrew Burns emphasized the College is not investigating the veterinary care of animals or the park itself.
Jan Robinson, registrar and CEO of the College, said she can’t talk about what is — or isn’t — being investigated.
“It is a look at anything related to the practice of veterinary medicine relating to the issue we’re looking at,” she said, adding the probe began in late April and is in the “final stages.”
Robinson said the results of the investigation would be sent to the College’s executive committee. It has options that include a decision to close the file with “no further concerns” or take such action as a “letter of advice.” In these cases, nothing is released to the public.
Or it could decide the matter is more serious and send it to a disciplinary panel that could invoke more serious penalties, including suspension or the loss of a vet’s license. Disciplinary hearings are public.
There are, said Robinson, “always two sides of a story and the college has to investigate both sides of the story.”
She said its role is to be “fair and appropriate (because) it is related to the public interest.”
None of the vets who work at Marineland responded to the Star’s questions about the College’s investigation.
The Star began a series of stories on Marineland last August in which former trainers blamed poor water and lack of sufficient staff for animal health issues, including death. Eventually 15 whistleblowers spoke to the Star.
Marineland has always maintained there are no such problems at the marine mammal and land animal facility, privately owned by John Holer.
Robinson said this case falls under the category of “registrar’s investigation” — unlike a formal written complaint to the college. In this type of case, the registrar is “made aware of information that is brought to (her attention)” and decides there are “reasonable and probable grounds” for an investigation.
On another matter, she said her organization continues to work to have zoos and aquariums in Ontario accredited by the college. By law, Ontario vets must work in or form a facility that holds a College certificate of accreditation — with the exception of privately owned facilities. (Individual vets are still accredited by the College.)
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KILLER WHALES STRIKE BACK
AT SEAWORLD
A NEW DOCUMENTARY EXPOSES
SEAWORLD'S DEADLY BUSINESS
By David Browne
Oct 2013
'Blackfish' Documentary Bites Into SeaWorld's Reputation
Magnolia Pictures
As it turns out, Shamu holds a grudge. Airing this month on CNN, the documentary 'Blackfish' examines why captive orcas – popularly known as killer whales – are killing and injuring trainers at aquatic parks like SeaWorld. The movie opens with the 2010 death of SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau, 40, who was repeatedly pulled underwater by Tilikum – a 32-year-old, 12,000-pound orca – before dying of blunt force trauma to the head and neck and drowning. As director Gabriela Cowperthwaite learned, Tilikum was also responsible for two previous deaths at water parks dating back to 1991. Three years after Brancheau's death, SeaWorld maintains Tilikum "had become interested in the novelty of Dawn's ponytail in his environment" and pulled her in, but Cowperthwaite disagrees. "They paint it as something innocuous," she says, "but once I peeled back the onion, I realized how deliberately the orca attacked Dawn. Killer whales don't make mistakes like that. If they want to kill you, they'll kill you."
Featuring interviews with former SeaWorld trainers and marine biologists, and a slew of footage (some taken by SeaWorld with its own cameras and obtained through the Freedom of Information Act), 'Blackfish' contends that captivity distorts killer whales' personalities, causing the animals to disobey trainers and fight among themselves for territory – behavior uncommon in the wild. "They don't have a lot of space or social partners," marine-mammal scientist Naomi Rose says. "This really builds up frustration, and every once in a while that frustration manifests itself."
Given the natural differences among killer whales, breeding them at parks is contentious. "SeaWorld states it's saving an endangered species, but that's bogus," Ken Balcomb, senior scientist at the Center for Whale Research, says. "They make up stories about their lifestyle, social structure, and life span and try to sell it as fact. It's like Disneyland telling a mouse biologist the way it is. It's horseshit."
Before 'Blackfish' premiered in July, SeaWorld went on the attack by rebutting the movie in a letter to the media. "'Blackfish' focuses on a handful of incidents at the exclusion of everything else," SeaWorld spokesman Fred Jacobs says. "Human beings have interacted safely with killer whales hundreds of times a day, every day, for nearly five decades." For SeaWorld – a public company said to be worth $2.5 billion – the damage to its brand is considerable. It's been fined $12,000 by OSHA for safety violations, and its visitors have posted YouTube videos of orca tricks gone bad at the parks. The Obama administration recently rejected an Atlanta aquarium's request to import 18 beluga whales from Russia – some of which would have been on display at SeaWorld.
Despite 'Blackfish's' buzz, parks like SeaWorld still have little incentive to stop breeding more killer whales. "Having a baby Shamu in your park is a big boom – it's 60 or 70 percent of their income," Cowperthwaite says. "Who doesn't want to see that?"
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CHILDREN SPEAK UP AND CREATE A VIDEO RESPONSE TO THE DOCUMENTARY "BLACKFISH"
Saturday, September 7, 2013
by: Candace Calloway Whiting
Children often have strong opinions about what goes on in the world around them, and can feel powerless to express their thoughts and to be heard, yet their thoughts can have a powerful effect on us all – two examples that come to mind are The Diary of Ann Frank, and the famous letter “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” .
Teachers must have their work cut out for them in today’s world, where because of media access children are bombarded with information and are witness to events from which they once were sheltered. How to help and empower them so that they can grow up to be contributing adults who work to solve problems may not be every teacher’s task, but it certainly is every teacher’s mission.
One such person is Mr. Parkinson, a computer specialist at a school in Manchester, England, who is focusing on teaching kids how to use ipads as a tool and who found the documentary film “Blackfish” touching and powerful. Because he felt that some of the content would be disturbing, he only has the children watch the trailer (below).
Please view the video from here:
http://blog.seattlepi.com/candacewhiting/2013/09/07/children-speak-up-and-create-a-video-response-to-the-documentary-blackfish/
The film is not scheduled to be released in Europe so there is no question that the kids would be exposed to the really disturbing events. Mr. Parkinson writes:
In my quest to find a topic that I want to ignite the children’s passion to write and share work through the school blog, I watched a very moving and interesting film over the summer called Blackfish. The documentary exposes the dreadful life of Killer Whales in captivity. Although I don’t feel the film is appropriate for children to watch and have emphasised this point with them (some scenes of the whales attacking trainers etc.) The message that it portrays, however, is one I wanted to share with the class. I wanted to use a real life issue to inspire writing and this is one that the film has really brought into the public eye.
From the children in Mr. Parkinson’s class:
Mr Parkinson told us about a film he watched over the summer called, Blackfish. This documentary explored the effects captivity have on killer whales. After Mr Parkinson told us a little about the film, we wanted to research some of the effects ourselves and were astonished to see how unfair and unnatural it is to keep these very intelligent animals in captivity. Mr Parkinson made it clear that the film wasn’t appropriate to watch however did show us a suitable clip that demonstrated some of the effects captivity has on Orca.
We wanted to start this topic with a bang and raise as much awareness as possible so we decided to make a class advert for this issue. We discussed features we could include to make our advert as effective and really grab people’s attention. We used camera effects and emotive music to set the mood. We used rhetorical questions to make the viewer think and persuade them to agree with our viewpoint.
If you agree with the message in our video, please help us raise awareness by sharing our video with as many people as possible. This will hopefully provide our blog with an audience to showcase the writing we will be producing over the next few weeks. We would also love it if you can comment on our video to let us know what you think. Some of the children have already been writing about this issue and you can read them here.
THE START OF OUR WHALE PROJECT
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HOW SEAWORLD'S TREATMENT OF KILLER WHALES VIOLATES JEWISH LAW
Keeping Giant Marine Mammals
is Affront to Faith
Born Free: The orca Tilikum was sold to SeaWorld after being separated from its mother in the wild.
By Deena Shanker
Published September 02, 2013, issue of September 06, 2013.
If you’re looking for a good cry but are tired of Adele and don’t have the time for “Les Misérables,” try watching the first 20 minutes of “Blackfish,” the new documentary by Gabriela Cowperwaith, originally in theaters and set to air on CNN in October. You’ll hear the story of the 1983 capture of Tilikum, the 6-ton orca responsible for the death of three people and still living on-site at SeaWorld Orlando. If the orca herd’s failed attempt to save its babies, its refusal to leave the side of the boat holding the captured 3-year-old and the sounds of the crying mothers demanding the child’s return don’t bring you to tears, just wait: The emotional breakdown of one of the captors — a full-grown, white-haired man — calling the capture “the worst thing [he’s] ever done,” will probably do the trick.
But that is just the beginning of Tilikum’s sad, ongoing tale. After being separated from his family, he is sent to Sealand of the Pacific, a now closed, shabby (to put it mildly) little water park in Victoria, British Columbia. There he is trained using techniques that pit the other, larger whales against him, and then locked in a tiny cage (20 feet deep and 28 feet in diameter) with them all night, emerging in the morning covered with teeth marks.
When a trainer falls in the pool, Tilikum is implicated in her death; but instead of putting down the whale (as would have immediately happened if he were, say, a pit bull) or setting him free, Sealand closes and he is sold to SeaWorld.
Of all the abuses that, according to the documentary, the whales, including Tilikum, suffer at SeaWorld, there is nothing more heartbreaking than the company’s seemingly blasé attitude about separating babies from their mothers. Both the trainers and the scientists attest to the obvious signs of mourning the female orcas exhibit when the calves are taken from them.
Killer whales, we learn, are not only highly communicative, even cultured mammals, but are also extremely family oriented. Offspring stay with their mothers for their entire lives. Separating them, we see (and hear — the mothers sound like they are literally screaming and crying), is nothing short of cruel.
Unlike most of Western civilization, Judaism has long recognized the basic lack of humanity inherent in animal abuse. In contrast to say, Kierkegaard who viewed animals as anxiety- and despair-free creatures, and Descartes, who famously wrote that a dog with a broken paw can’t even feel its own pain, Jewish law not only forbids us from inflicting pain on animals, but also goes even further, requiring us to ease their unnecessary suffering, whatever has caused it.
The doctrine of tza’ar ba’alei chaim, or the prevention of the suffering of animals, originates in the Torah and has modern-day implications that go far beyond the days of plowing fields with oxen. The Torah tells us — not once, but twice — that if we see an overburdened animal, whether we know or like the owner, we must unload the baggage from its back. (Exodus 23:5; Deuteronomy 22:4). We cannot walk by and ignore it.
The Torah also instructs us to consider the differences between animals and their abilities: It forbids tying together an ox and a donkey to plow a field; these two animals don’t naturally work at the same pace, so pairing them will likely cause injury or pain. If Tilikum’s trainers had taken this lesson into account when training him, he might not have spent his nights under attack from the other whales.
But by far the most emotional, heart-wrenching tragedy shown in “Blackfish” is the mother-baby separation, which occurred in the wild with Tilikum’s capture and now continues in captivity every time a female orca gives birth and the powers that be decide to move the baby to a different water park. The Torah’s stance on the existence of a mother-child bond in animals is unwavering. Examples include the prohibition of boiling of a kid in its mother’s milk — mentioned three times (Exodus 23:19; Exodus 34:26; Deuteronomy. 14:21) — and forbidding us from slaughtering a cow or sheep on the same day its young is slaughtered (Leviticus 22:28).
“Blackfish” only begins to tell the story of the abuse that makes venues like SeaWorld possible, and orcas are not the only animals that are exploited. The 2009 Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove” explains how creating a market for live dolphins (they are sold to water parks for around $200,000 each) also creates a market for dead ones.
Every year, fishermen in Taiji, Japan, corral more than 20,000 dolphins into a cove, where trainers come, pick their favorites and take them to their new “homes” to be coached into performers. Those who aren’t chosen are then slaughtered en masse and sold as meat. While SeaWorld has stopped buying its dolphins from Taiji, it hasn’t used its authority in the world of dolphinariums to end the practices, either. Why?
As Fred Jacobs, vice president of communications for Busch Entertainment Corp., SeaWorld’s corporate parent, told MSNBC, “We do not want to be accused of being disingenuous… if we go to an aquarium in China and say, ‘You guys should not be involved,’ the first thing out of their mouths will be, ‘Well, you did it,’ and we cannot argue that point.” That might be fine for a giant, mega-corporation, but as we know, Jews are not allowed to sit idly by while an animal, whoever the owner is, suffers.
Deena Shanker is a writer and occasional attorney living in New York City.
You can see more of her work on her website, www.deenashanker.com and follow her on Twitter, @deenashanker
IT IS TIME TO END ANIMAL SLAVERY?
THE REAL STORY BEHIND THE SEA WORLD WHALE MACHINE
Nancy Colier ~Psychotherapist, interfaith minister, author and public speaker
Posted: 07/29/2013 1:35 pm
This weekend I saw the movie Blackfish. If you have ever or ever intend to visit a SeaWorld-type theme park, or if you just care about the wellbeing of other creatures who share our earth, Blackfish should be mandatory viewing. The film is about orca whales and the horrors that they endure after they are captured from the ocean and turned into theme park slaves.
When we attend a SeaWorld-type theme park, we see "smiling" and "happy" Shamus, splashing us playfully, kissing their trainers, waving at us, rolling over and bellying up for fish treats. What we don't see, don't know however, is what these "smiling" animals are really living, so that we may have an afternoon of "fun."
Just to begin...
-- Scouts for theme parks combing the oceans, kidnapping young whales from their families. (In the wild, orcas never separate from their clans.)
-- Orcas held in small, dark, steel tanks, when not singing for their supper. (If orcas don't perform their tricks properly they are deprived of food and left hungry.)
-- Orcas hanging motionless all night and much of the day, confined in boxes that are too small for them to be able to swim in properly. (In the wild, orcas swim up to one hundred miles per day and are in constant motion.)
-- Orcas kept in solitary confinement for most of their lives. (In the wild, orcas are profoundly social animals and never alone.)
-- Orcas systematically attacking each as a result of being forced to live in claustrophobic quarters, in inescapable proximity to (non-family) orcas with whom they do not share a language and do not naturally cohabit. (The attacks are also a result of the extreme frustration the animals are forced to endure through the deprivation of food, movement and companionship.)
And perhaps most horrifying:
-- The removal of young, captive orcas from their mothers. More specifically,
a baby is born into captivity and lives its first few years inseparable from its mother, at her side constantly. When the baby is useful enough to be sold, something (I find) unfathomable is perpetrated on these creatures. The young whale is taken from its mother and sold to another theme park. The mother whale, having had her child stolen from her, buries her body into the steel corner of the swimming pool, convulsing and screeching at unheard-of sonar pitches, (seemingly) trying frantically to communicate with her abducted child.
Through MRI studies, we have learned that orcas have a part of the brain that even humans don't have, one that is specifically related to emotional development and connectivity. Orcas experience emotions, are attached to their families, and have a developed sense of self. So too, orcas communicate with each other through a shared language, which appears to be specific to each clan. In the ocean, their life span is similar to humans and they can live up to 100 years, while in captivity they live between 25 and 35 years.
I wonder, in what universe is it okay for us to kidnap peaceful, self-aware and intelligent beings... to steal them from their families, wrench them from their natural environments, for the sake of our entertainment and profit? How could anyone be so arrogant as to believe that they have a right to do this to another living creature? I wonder too, would SeaWorld executives be okay if we took their children from them and sold them into slavery? What rationalization could possibly justify the kind of suffering that such actions create?
When I left Blackfish I was horrified. I still am. I did not sleep for days and I am still haunted by the sound of that mother whale screeching into the sky, a sound of suffering that is no different than the wail of a human mother having her child wrenched from her arms, never to be seen or held again. That mother whale screamed for hours unending, for her child, who was now strapped to a stretcher on its way to a theme park thousands of miles away, so that some corporate executive could take a nicer vacation.
Interestingly, following the film, the friend with whom I had seen it was quick to inform me that there was nothing I or we could do to change the system, that SeaWorld was way to big to go up against. We had to just accept that this kind of thing happened. Corporations would always trump individuals; Goliath would always defeat David. I wouldn't believe it, and was up all night obsessing about what I could do to help these intelligent and self-aware creatures that, as we speak, are hanging motionless in dark tanks, separated from their families, their oceans, their everything. I turned to the internet and what I found allowed me to start breathing again. All over the internet and social media, sites addressed the hostage whales. The movie was being dialogued about everywhere. The petitions were already in the pipeline, the letters already written, the copy already fashioned and addressed to the CEO of SeaWorld, public officials, and other power sources. The wheels were rolling... the train already filled with so many haunted like myself. What I realized was that where was something I could do, a place to enter, a channel to reach other like-minded people, a way to create change.
Those of you who follow my blog know that I often write about technology and the ways that we are changing in response to it. While I am frequently disturbed by the changes I witness, I am occasionally struck by the positive effects that technology is having on who we are and how we behave in the world. As a result of technology, we as individuals are becoming more empowered in our relationship with the big machines of the corporate world. Technology is opening up our voice and our courage; it is inspiring our sense of possibility, teaching us that we can make a difference in this world if we choose to. Social media and its partners are giving us the paths through which to create change, the "How-to-s" in a world full of "How can this be-s." As a result of technology's capacity to unite many small personal voices into one collective and powerful movement, who we are is changing and at the same time, we are more able to change the world. Technology is reshaping our sense of identity from isolated and powerless to collective and powerful -- a synergistic entity with the rolling stone force and volume to carve out its own path.
But my intention here is not to get lost in an intellectual commentary on technology. Rather, let me make use of the aforementioned benefits of technology and ask for your assistance in this movement for change. Technology has given me the power and privilege of your attention so let me use it mindfully -- to encourage you to stop patronizing SeaWorld-type theme parks, and to teach your children that it is in no way okay to enslave non-human self-aware creatures for the benefit of our own entertainment and profit. Please see Blackfish and join us in uniting our individual voices and ideas into one large, unified and inescapable force. Together, let us put an end to the barbaric and abusive process that is orca whale slavery. Together, let us liberate these giant mammals and their giant hearts, and release them back into their world, the world in which they belong.
Is the giggle that we enjoy on an afternoon outing to SeaWorld really worth the suffering that it creates for these animals? Is it a fair trade... their lives, their wellbeing... all so that we may delight in a moment of entertainment? Are we personally willing to participate in abducting a child from its mother in order to watch a whale turn on its side and wave at us, because this is what we are doing when we buy a ticket to such a "show." I hope you join me in saying no, and in making this no actually happen.
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Pixar Changes Ending of ‘Finding Nemo’ Sequel, Won’t Promote Captivity
In the last act of ‘Finding Dory,’ captive animals will now be given a choice to leave a fictional marine amusement park.
August 9, 2013 David Kirby
As a solid demonstration that art sometimes does, indeed, imitate life, the makers of the upcoming sequel in the Finding Nemo franchise have rewritten the ending of the screenplay, which originally had all the sea creatures winding up at a marine-based theme park, such as SeaWorld.
According to news reports, it was the controversial new documentary Blackfish, which excoriates SeaWorld for its captive orca program, that convinced the film’s writers and producers to change course.
The sequel, Finding Dory, comes on the heels of the 2003 box office hit Finding Nemo, and is being made by Disney’s animation studio, Pixar. According to the Los Angeles Times, Pixar executives attended a private screening of Blackfish last April, with the film’s director, Gabriela Cowperthwaite.
According to the Times: “Louie Psihoyos, who directed the Oscar-winning dolphin slaughter documentary ‘The Cove,’ Pixar chief creative officer John Lasseter and ‘Dory’ director Andrew Stanton sat down with ‘Blackfish’ director Gabriela Cowperthwaite in April after seeing her movie.”
After watching the film, which “raises sharp questions about the health of whales in captivity,” the Times reported, “the studio decided to make substantial changes to the Dory script.
Psihoyos told the paper that, in the early script, a number of marine mammals are dispatched to an “aquatic park/rehab facility—a SeaWorld-type environment.” The script has been altered so that the animals “now have the choice to leave that marine park,” he said. “They told Gabriela they didn’t want to look back on this film in 50 years and have it be their ‘Song of the South,’ ” the 1946 Disney musical widely considered to be racist.
Pixar has declined comment, but Cowperthwaite acknowledged the screening, and said, “These are obviously people who are dedicated to researching every topic they cover. Whether Blackfish affects their creative decisions, I can’t say.”
Members of the Blackfish cast were astonished by the power of an independent documentary to affect the creative plans of such a major studio.
Tilikum whale
Death at SeaWorld: Inside the Abduction of Tilikum, the Whale That’s Killed Three Times
“It’s huge and stunning that the Pixar team was moved to alter the ending of the Nemo sequel after viewing Blackfish,” says Jeffrey Ventre, a former trainer at SeaWorld Orlando who is featured in the documentary, and profiled in the 2012 book Death at SeaWorld.” “Movies like Finding Nemo are timeless, in terms of shelf life, so this is evidence of a cultural attitude shift.”
Samantha Berg, another former trainer who also appears in the documentary and book, is equally impressed.
“The reference to Song of the South in the article is illuminating,” she notes. “This draws a parallel between the exploitation of orcas in the entertainment industry and our tragic history of human abuse and slavery. I think someday we’ll look back on marine circuses like SeaWorld and see them as no different than the Coliseum. I’m glad Pixar recognized that highly social, intelligent beings who live human equivalent lifespans and travel 80 to 100 miles per day should not be kept in woefully inadequate facilities purely for human entertainment and profit. I applaud Pixar for choosing not to glorify orca captivity in cartoon form.”
There has been no comment from the captive marine mammal display industry, and none are expected. But one has to wonder what the top brass are thinking right now at places like Pixar’s parent company, Disney, which holds captive dolphins at Epcot Center, and of course, at SeaWorld. After all, SeaWorld executives are stewards of a huge entertainment conglomerate, one that relies on the goodwill and respect of the public in order to keep turnstiles spinning and stockholders happy.
Which begs the question, if Pixar executives don’t want to be looked back upon with shame and scorn 50 years from now for celebrating captivity (What a happy ending!), then what is going on inside the minds of people who make money from using intelligent, sentient animals—real ones, not cartoons—as a form of human entertainment?
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SeaWorld Has a Vested Interest in Helping Stranded Whales and Dolphins
Candace Calloway Whiting has studied and trained dolphins, seals, and orca whales. She is currently a volunteer at the Center for Whale Research at Friday Harbor.
The efforts by volunteers, government officials, the Marine Mammal Conservancy and SeaWorld to save some of the pilot whales that beached themselves recently in the Florida Keys is both heartwarming and admirable. Although many of the whales died, two were successfully released and five others are receiving care (Sun-Sentinel).
Yet having SeaWorld and The Marine Mammal Conservancy involved is a double-edged sword, since both groups are committed to maintaining whales and dolphins in captivity (the majority of both the advisory board and the research committee of the Conservancy is composed of ex-Seaworld executives or those of other captive facilities (more here)). Both organizations have the needed expertise to help the stranded whales though, and since they get the public to support them with donations they have the financial resources to help as well. But it is like leaving the proverbial foxes to guard the hen house, because dolphins and whales are worth hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to theme parks.
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Why are these stranded animals worth so much money? It is the old law of supply and demand in action- it is next to impossible for the theme parks to obtain wild-caught animals, and they are now trying to breed them in captivity. But there are so few individuals of some of the species in captivity that inbreeding, with all the associated genetic liability, is inevitable and SeaWorld is desperate to deepen their gene pool. In a Frankenstein-esk move, SeaWorld applied for and received a permit to collect reproductive parts from dead animals:
The research will involve the collection, receipt, import, export and analysis
of marine mammal specimens (hard and soft parts) under the jurisdiction of both the National
Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). Specimens
of interest fiom dead animals include, but are not limited to, testes (including the epididymis and
vas deferens), ovaries, uterus (with any conceptus if present), cervix and proximal vagina, pineal gland, urine, feces, teeth, and blood. Specimens of interest fiom live animals include, but are not limited to, semen, urine, feces, saliva, ocular secretions, and blood.
2 For species under NMFS jurisdiction, receipt does not include samples from animals stranded in the U.S. Such samples would be obtained under separate authorizations issued by the NMFS Regional Offices, or for ESA-listed species, under a separate NMFS permit. Such samples may be exported and re-imported under the authority of this permit.
To obtain samples from stranded animals under NMFS jurisdiction, you should contact the appropriate Regional Stranding Network Coordinator (list attached) to become a designated stranding responder or authorized recipient of such specimens.
Naturally enough, SeaWorld is a designated stranding responder: NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources.
In early 2010 they deemed a young stranded and rehabilitated pilot whale, “Sully”, unreleasable and brought him to live with two females in their San Diego facility. On the face of it, this seems reasonable enough because the rescuers had been unable to reconnect the young whale with his family, or with another pod in the wild. But then the picture gets a bit fuzzy because the SeaWorld animal keepers suspected that the whale had hearing loss, which led to tests that did indeed show diminished hearing, giving SeaWorld another justification for keeping the whale in captivity. But I could find nothing more about the hearing tests, and my call to SeaWorld on the subject was fruitless.
Japan fishermen measuring a pilot whale (Reuters)
In November of 2009 SeaWorld had tried to import a young male pilot whale from their own park in Japan, but it met with outcries and accusations that SeaWorld supported the Japanese drive fisheries (responsible for the slaughter of hundreds of pilot whales each year). From the Federal Register:
The applicant requests authorization to import one male nonreleasable stranded pilot whale from Kamogawa SeaWorld 1404-18 Higashi-cho, Kamogawa, Chiba, Japan to Sea World of California. The applicant requests this import for the purpose of public display.
SeaWorld denies the association with drive fisheries vehemently:
Sep 25th, 2010 – Updated Information on Sea World California’s Request to Import a Pilot Whale
“Argo the pilot whale has no association with the drive fisheries. He was a lone stranding, as a neonate, six years ago on a beach northeast of Kamogawa and was nearly dead when rescued. Animal care specialists nursed him to health at Kamogawa SeaWorld saving his life. Because Argo was hand raised by humans, he is not releasable. Kamogawa SeaWorld does not have any other pilot whales at its park while we have three pilot whales here. We were asked if could provide long-term care for Argo so that he could live with other whales of his own species. We of course said yes. And in case you are not aware, we are providing long-term care to a young pilot whale named Sully rescued after he stranded near death on the island of Curacao a year ago. Argo, like Sully, was given a second chance at life by passionate and dedicated animal care specialists working in marine-life parks like ours.”
- SeaWorld San Diego
The problem with SeaWorld is that it just lacks credibility, and has a tendency to distort facts and re-write history. Below is a prime example, in which SeaWorld is either mixed up and less than competent in it’s record keeping, or is tweaking reality to suit it’s needs. The dates/age/identity of this whale just don’t add up:
SEAWORLD’S GRAND DAME, BUBBLES THE PILOT WHALE
Press Release (by SeaWorld) Created: January 2010
It’s hard to find an animal with a more legendary career than SeaWorld’s short-finned pilot whale superstar, Bubbles. This grande dame’s career spans more than 40 years. “I’ve never known an animal with a more impressive air spin, where she jumps out of the water and spins around at lightning speed,” says Bill Winhall, assistant curator at SeaWorld San Diego and one of Bubbles’ original caretakers at Marineland of the Pacific, once located along the coast of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., where Bubbles career first began.
As a young 12-foot-long, 1,600-pound female pilot whale, she began her expansive career at Marineland in the 1960s and was eventually given her own stadium and placed center stage.
At approximately 47 years old, Bubbles is one of the oldest marine mammals at SeaWorld and perhaps at any park, according to SeaWorld senior veterinarian Tom Reidarson.
Information provided by SeaWorld to marine mammal inventories put Bubbles’ capture date at September 6th, 1966,
but Bubbles was actually captured on February 27th, 1957. She was estimated to be 7 years old at that time. So in 2010, the time of the SeaWorld press release, Bubbles would have been 60 years old, not 47. Here she is in the first few minutes of an episode of Sea Hunt, which aired in 1958.
Right now SeaWorld San Diego has the two older female pilot whales and the young male, and will most likely need to find a young female if they wish to breed these whales, but they seem to be committed to providing a home for any of the unreleasable whales – which is fine, as long as someone else is making that determination.
Note: I contacted Hubbs/SeaWorld Research about the ages of the pilot whales and to find out specific information on the stranded animals, and will post that information when/if I hear back.
Posted by candace_calloway_whiting on May 10, 2011 at 8:17 am
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: captivity, Marine Mammal Conservancy, pilot whales, Seaworld, stranded whales, whale rescue, whales
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Wonderful page! Thanks so much for putting these petitions and videos together. Will share.
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