Monday, October 29, 2012

Categorized | Alaska, Arctic, Features, Photo, Video, Wildlife

Orphaned Baby Walrus Charms our Alaska Program Director, Karla Dutton!

Karla Dutton | Posted on 05 September 2012 | Tags: Alaska SeaLife Center, Karla Dutton, walrus, wildlife rescue

Pakak the orphaned walrus at the Alaska SeaLife Center

Quite often in our wildlife conservation jobs, we find ourselves spending far too much time at our desks, instead of viewing the very wildlife we work to protect. That changed for me this past weekend, when I was thrilled to volunteer at the Alaska SeaLife Center (ASLC) to help care for a walrus calf that was orphaned in July when it was separated from its herd off of Barrow, Alaska.
The ASLC is the northern most arctic marine research facility, the only permanent stranding facility for marine mammals in Alaska. It also houses a research facility and a public aquarium. In my role as a trained volunteer, I’ve assisted with the care of Steller sea lions, arctic seabirds, and seals. Working with the walrus calf was a very unique experience.
Walruses, or more specifically in this case Pacific walruses (Odobenus rosmarus divergens), are large flippered marine mammals that live in remote arctic locations. Adult males can weigh more than 3,700 lbs. and, among pinnipeds (the family that includes walruses, seals, and sea lions), are exceeded in size only by the two species of the elephant seal. Walruses prefer to haul out on sea ice over the continental shelf, near their main food source of mollusks and crustaceans. But as Arctic sea ice shrinks each year, it becomes more difficult for them to find a safe location to rest and raise their calves safely near their feeding grounds.

The young walrus is healthy and happy, thanks to excellent care by volunteers and SeaLife Center staff.

Knowing about the challenges walruses face made meeting the orphaned calf even more special. Staff and trained volunteers at the Alaska SeaLife Center care for the calf (who I called Walter) and another walrus calf 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I worked three four-hour shifts, during which we prepared walrus formula and fed the calf every three hours. He now weighs about 300 pounds! When we were not feeding or cleaning up after him, we spent time with him while he played in his pool filled with icy cold water or explored his pen. He has since been named Pakak, which means “one who that into everything” in Inupiaq. This adorable video was taken soon after he arrived:
Walrus are very tactile and social animals. The dedicated staff and volunteer caretakers provide the social interaction that he would otherwise receive from other walruses. Walrus calves almost immediately habituate to human care, and therefore cannot be released into the wild after being rehabilitated. So the two orphaned walrus will be placed in an aquarium with other walruses in the fall. Like the iconic polar bear, they will become ambassadors for Arctic wildlife.
Here’s Pakak in a later video enjoying his baby pool, which it looks like he may outgrow very soon!
To learn more http://www.alaskasealife.org/New/rehabilitation/index.php?page=firstpage.php

This post was written by: Karla Dutton

Karla directs the work of Defenders’ Alaska field program team. The Alaska office is focusing increasingly on initiatives on climate change and the related habitat impacts on polar bears.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Green Day- Guitar Tab Anthology

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Lightening the Load: Helping Working Equines in Haiti

HSI´s veterinary team brings much needed relief to the island´s working animals

Humane Society International

Watch this video of our equine work in Haiti from earlier this year.

by Arna Cohen
Examining one emaciated horse after another in a remote Haitian village, Brooke Vrany finally came across a good-looking mule belonging to an elderly man. “You could tell from his … interaction with his mule that it was his pride and joy,” says Vrany, director of emergency services at Days End Farm Horse Rescue in Woodbine, Md.
During the three-day clinic in February, Vrany and a team of Humane Society International equine specialists evaluated more than 200 working horses, donkeys, mules, and burros. The health of the elderly man’s mule would stand out as the exception: In this impoverished country where veterinary care is nearly nonexistent, most of the animals suffered from malnutrition, intestinal parasites, and chronic saddle sores filled with pus and maggots.

Hard at work

From sunrise to sundown, the American team supervised and instructed 20 Haitian veterinarians as they administered treatment.
Relied on for transporting goods to market, the equines are essential to rural livelihoods, and villagers listened closely as Vrany showed how to modify and pad pack saddles to allow open wounds to heal.

Empowering local vets

Part of the self-empowerment program HSI established after the country’s 2010 earthquake, the clinics were also an educational opportunity for the Haitian veterinarians, most of whom had never haltered a horse or lifted a hoof.
Their new skills will greatly improve the lives of people and animals in their home regions. Says Vrany, “Even if it’s just 10 horses in their locale that they’re treating once a week, imagine the number of people they can educate in one year.”September 26, 2012

Monday, October 22, 2012

Cagney got a rough start in life, but thanks to the ASPCA Humane Law Enforcement department, things have changed for her. Once starved and terrified, Cagney is now healthy and waiting to be adopted at our NYC Adoption Center.

And while Cagney spends her days getting all sorts of enrichment, affection and tasty treats in our care, ASPCA lawyers are helping prosecute the woman who starved Cagney when she was just a puppy. We’re sure Cagney’s happy ending—and justice for her abuser—is just around the corner.

Because of people like you, the ASPCA is able to rescue animals across the country from abuse, natural disasters and more. We’re fighting for animals on the streets, in the courtroom and in the halls of Congress, all because we believe every animal’s life matters.

If you can, please consider giving to our cause. We’re leading the charge on animal abuse, and we welcome you to join us.

Thank you for your compassion.

Changing hearts and minds in Washington, D.C.

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AFSC’s tradition of bringing constituents to meet face-to-face with lawmakers is providing a beacon of hope for change within a frustrating political climate in Washington, D.C.
“Amid all the powerful influences on a member of Congress—moneyed special interests, party politics, media spin—the final cards are held by their voters. Money doesn’t vote,” says Aura Kanegis, director of AFSC’s Office of Public Policy and Advocacy in Washington. “At the end of the day, policymakers work for their constituents, and the direct voice of constituent experience has unrivaled power to cut through political noise.”
And the emotional impact of their testimonies is undeniable.
“While change doesn’t happen in one conversation, face-to face sharing of the real-life implications of policy decisions can help to break the grip of slick special interests and pat political talking points,” Aura explains. “Over the long run, those voices of direct experience can impact the perceptions, assumptions, and motivations that drive a policymaker's decision process.”

Families split by immigration speak truth to power in D.C.

Seventy men, women, and children visited Washington, D.C., seeking justice for families divided by immigration. They described the impact of deportation and detention to an audience of 90 people in a briefing on Capitol Hill and during personal visits to lawmakers’ offices.

Upper Big Branch families plead for Congressional action on mine safety

Carrying enlarged photographs of their lost loved ones, family members of three of the 29 miners killed in the 2010 explosion at West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch mine spent June 6-7 in Washington, D.C., pleading with lawmakers to take action to improve mine safety and to stiffen penalties for mining companies that knowingly, willingly, and recklessly place miners’ lives at risk.

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Bringing sustainable farming, farmers together in China

Five farm managers from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and one U.S. farmer—Don Bustos of AFSC’s New Mexico program—joined AFSC staff and partners in northeast China in August, where they visited research facilities as well as conventional and organic farms to explore sustainable farming techniques that could be adapted on their own farms.
Linda Lewis, AFSC’s country representative for China and the DPRK and Zhang Jin, program assistant for training, coordinated and accompanied the tour.
They worked with the farm managers to decide where to visit.
“We discussed with them what it is they'd like to see,” says Linda. “They requested to learn a little about soil erosion and planting on sloping land, and they wanted to learn more about greenhouse construction and vegetable cultivation in greenhouses and outside greenhouses.”

Pictured: Farm managers take notes on simple weed-control methods used in a low-tech, free-standing greenhouse in the Jinzhou district, a farming area near Dalian, China, famous for its acres of greenhouses that supply produce for the city.

State-of-the-art techniques

Before visiting the countryside and urban cooperatives, the group stopped at Shenyang Agriculture University to talk with Chinese experts on greenhouses. It gave the farm managers a chance to see and understand ways that sustainable technologies are developing and consider how they can replicate them on different scales.

Pictured: Korean farm managers look at cultivation experiments conducted in the new high-tech greenhouse research center of the university’s College of Horticulture. The waffle walls are specially designed for efficient storage of solar energy.

For growing produce, bigger isn’t always better

Zhang Jin says Don changed some perspectives on U.S. farming. “Don gave a general idea about what American agriculture is. Usually people in North Korea think the United States is a modern country, so it should have modern agriculture with big machinery. Don showed us pictures of his small farm. They were really surprised.”

Pictured: Zhang Jin (center) translates as Don (right) talks with Professor Huang Yi from Shenyang Agriculture University College of Land and Environment during a tour of the university's soil erosion research center.
Don works with traditional farmers in New Mexico. This was his first trip to Chinese farms and first time meeting Korean farmers. “It’s amazing to see the similarities in the ways farmers act. It’s about the land, it’s about growing food. You see some of the same passion in some of the stuff that we did,” he says.
Pictured: Zhang Jin translates as the manager of Green Sunshine, an organic farm, discusses tomato cultivation with Don during a tour of the farm's solar greenhouses near Shenyang, China.

Harnessing the sun’s heat

Using plastic sheeting to cover greenhouses and crops for cultivation in cold climates is something that the U.S., Chinese, and Korean farmers were surprised to learn they have in common. Last year’s tour helped the farmers learn how to construct greenhouses so as to get the maximum benefit from solar energy.

Pictured: Korean farm managers examine a typical Chinese-style solar greenhouse constructed by the Jintian Greenhouse Company for a commercial vegetable farm near Dalian. Unlike a free-standing greenhouse, a solar greenhouse is constructed with a wall that retains heat. The farm managers were particularly interested in how to calculate the proper angle and location for this type of greenhouse.

A family-run farm

“The Korean farmers are always surprised that people do things by hand [on Chinese and American farms],” says Linda. “They assume everything in China will be mechanized. They are surprised when an older couple manages the farm and just hires a few laborers to help with transplanting.”

Pictured: Zhang Jin talks with a farmer in front of his greenhouse in the Jinzhou district near Dalian. The farmer and his wife manage the simple, free-standing greenhouse constructed with cement posts and plastic sheeting by themselves, with no machines and little equipment. The produce is sold to middle-men for marketing in Dalian.

Finding value in being chemical-free

The visit to an organic farm was revealing to the Korean farmers, who generally wish that they had more chemical fertilizers. “They are inadvertent organic farmers and now they see that there is a value to that,” says Linda. “They are proud of the quality of their produce. It tastes good. Coming to China helped them value their food.”

Pictured: A worker at Green Sunshine offers a Korean farm manager some tomatoes during a tour of the farm's greenhouses.
Zhang Jin, who is Chinese, says the organic farm was her favorite stop on the tour. The cellophane and digital scale used by the farm owners to prepare their goods for shipment to the city were new sights for the Koreans. “The DPRK farmers looked at every detail about the vegetables … they looked carefully at how they packaged their food,” she says.

Pictured: Korean farm managers pose for photos holding produce packaged for market at the Shenyang Green Sunshine Company, which produces organic vegetables on contract for restaurants and affluent private customers.

The reality of for-profit prisons

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Lance Page/t r u t h o u t

While New Hampshire’s corrections department reviews proposals from private companies seeking to build and operate its prisons, the state’s residents are learning how prison privatization has played out elsewhere—namely, in Arizona.
Arizona has embraced prison privatization. Currently, five state prisons are run by private companies, housing 13% of the prison population, and the state recently signed a contract for an additional 1,500 beds. Arizona is also home to six prisons run by the Corrections Corporation of America, which imports prisoners from other states and from the federal government’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
But Arizona’s track record with for-profit prison companies shows problems with accountability and public safety—not to mention that they don’t save the state money, says Caroline Isaacs, program director for AFSC’s Tucson office.
Caroline has worked on criminal justice reform in her state since the mid-1990s. Her research and mobilization against for-profit prisons has put her at the forefront of the movement to stop prison privatization.
At a series of public presentations in New Hampshire in early September, she shared insight from her work in Arizona, which has included publishing a report on private prisons and suing Arizona to uphold its statute to compare the performance of public and private prisons.
Three companies bidding for contracts in New Hampshire—GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut), the Management and Training Corporation, and the Corrections Corporation of America—currently run prisons in Arizona.
Arnie Alpert, program coordinator with AFSC in New Hampshire, organized the speaking tour so that his state could learn firsthand from Arizona’s experience.
“The record these corporations have created is the best way to predict what would happen if any of them gained control of prisons here,” he says.
Caroline visited regions of the state that one company is considering as potential prison sites. A diverse audience came out to hear the presentations; attendees included religious leaders, corrections workers, elected officials, candidates for public office, college students, and community activists.
In addition to walking her audience through a litany of documented problems, incidents, and contradictions that reveal why private prisons are hurting—not helping—the criminal justice system in Arizona, Caroline stressed the moral issue at hand.
“Is it right for a for-profit corporation to make money from incarceration?” she asked. “How does the profit motive affect a company’s incentive to rehabilitate offenders? Is privatization an abdication of a fundamental state government responsibility?”
The fact that Arizona has not comprehensively analyzed the performance of its private prisons is significant—there are no data to measure recidivism rates or quality of rehabilitation programs, and little knowledge of safety issues. For their part, the prison corporations are accountable to their shareholders, not to the public, even though their funding comes from taxpayers, she pointed out.
Caroline authored the AFSC report that filled this gap in analysis where data were available, identifying serious problems stemming from staffing and security practices.
What the state has analyzed itself are costs—and what it found is that private prisons cost more to operate than state-run prisons.
“The bottom line is we were losing money,” Caroline says. In three years covered by the state’s own analysis, Arizona overpaid more than $10 million to the private prison companies.
“Caroline Isaacs was right on target,” says Peg Fargo of the League of Women Voters, who organized a presentation at a Concord retirement community. “Having facts about the current situation in Arizona clarifies the issues we face in New Hampshire.”
MGT of America, the consulting firm helping New Hampshire review the private prison bids, is expected to submit a report to the Department of Administrative Services by Oct. 5. By mid-November, the department will produce another report, which would become the basis for public discussion. Any contract with a private prison company would have to be approved by the governor and the Executive Council.

Friday, October 19, 2012

ALDF Applauds Initiative To Create Registry For Convicted Animal Abusers In New York

September 12th, 2012
Council Member Peter F. Vallone Jr.’s Bill Would Protect City Pets, Residents from Repeat Crimes

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Lisa Franzetta, ALDF
Megan Backus, ALDF
NEW YORK – The national non-profit Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) is applauding City Council Member Peter F. Vallone Jr.’s introduction today of a bill that will create a mandatory registry for convicted animal abusers. If passed, New York will become the largest jurisdiction in the country to protect its animals and citizens by creating a database of convicted abusers, who often go on to repeat their crimes. New York State already leads the way in abuser registry legislation—since 2010, Suffolk, Albany, and Rockland Counties have passed the nation’s first abuser registry laws.
ALDF has campaigned across the country to promote registry legislation, including working closely with Legislator Jon Cooper’s office in support of the Suffolk County bill, which when passed became the nation’s first abuser registry law. The ALDF website ExposeAnimalAbusers.org provides extensive information about registry bills and allows concerned citizens to contact their own legislators in support of abuser registries. Such registries would help protect animals, pet guardians, and communities by preventing repeat offenses from anyone with an established history of abusing animals. Registry bills have been introduced in nine states in 2012.
“New York City residents have good reason to be concerned about the activities of animal abusers, who often go on to repeat their crimes” says ALDF Executive Director Stephen Wells. “Council Member Vallone’s proposed do-not-adopt database will provide animal shelters and law enforcement with a critical tool to protect the city’s animals from becoming the next victims of a convicted abuser.”
“I want to thank the Animal Legal Defense Fund for supporting my bill and for leading the charge for an animal abuse registry in Suffolk County and promoting registry bills across the country,” said Council Member Vallone. “The ALDF has set an example for New York City on this issue, and I look forward to working with them to improve animal rights in the future.”

Monday, October 15, 2012

Adoptable Dogs at Wayside Waifs

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Species	Dog
Breed	Spaniel, Cavalier King Charles/Purebred
Age	9 months 2 days
Sex	Female
Size	Medium
Color	Red/White
Spayed/Neutered
Declawed	No
Intake Date	10/12/2012
Adoption Price	$275.00

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October 1, 2012

Compassion Without Borders

HSI combats factory farming in Mexico

Humane Society International

The stench from a massive pig farm in the Perote Valley of Mexico has upended the lives of Fausto Limón and his family. Watch how HSI is helping. Video in Spanish with English subtitles.

by Julie Falconer
What awakens Fausto Limón in the middle of the night isn’t a sound but a smell. Since 1994, the Perote Valley, Mexico, resident’s closest neighbor has been a massive pig farm co-owned by U.S.-based Smithfield Foods. When the stench is unbearable, Limón and his family get out of bed and drive in search of cleaner air. On those nights, the rural farmer, his wife, and their three teenagers sleep in the car.
Mexico has no laws limiting factory farms’ size, location, or proximity to human populations, so people like Limón have little recourse when industrial-size pig or chicken operations move in. “It’s land that his family has had for several generations,” says Humane Society International’s Sergio Moncada. “He plants crops and sells dairy products from the two cows that he has. He knows no other way of life, so leaving the valley, leaving what he has, is nearly impossible.”

The plight of the communities

Limón’s is one of many stories Moncada has uncovered since he began documenting how industrial pig factories a ffect communities in the Perote Valley, where factory-raised pigs outnumber human residents by more than 5 to 1. Along with noxious air pollution, residents are contending with contaminated groundwater, depleted aquifers, and even the loss of their livelihoods, as small- and medium-size pork producers are forced out of business.
Moncada’s work is “critical to fighting the misperception that factory farming provides economic opportunities for poor communities,” says HSI director of farm animal issues Chetana Mirle.

Working for a change

At the heart of HSI’s campaign are gestation crates that allow each factory farm to confine thousands of breeding pigs, and that are so small the animals can’t even turn around. HSI is pressuring Smithfield to phase out the crates in its Mexican facilities, as it has pledged to do in the U.S. Campaigners are also enlisting support from environmental and social justice advocates and encouraging retailers to require higher welfare standards from their suppliers.
The Mexico campaign is still young, but Moncada is optimistic that it will have an impact for animals and for people like the Limóns. “They’re facing a government that’s not listening. And an industry that does not want any reforms,” he says. “They are very, very thankful to have the presence of international organizations here.”

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Friday, October 12, 2012

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Friday, October 12, 2012 11:45am PDT

Bizarre-looking oarfish washes ashore on Cabo San Lucas beach

By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com

In Florida, scientists have their hands on a large and mysterious eyeball, which washed ashore Wednesday, and are trying to determine what kind of sea creature it belonged to. That could take a few days.

But in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, another bizarre find was made Friday: that of an oarfish, which washed ashore on bustling Medano Beach, which features a view of the end of the Baja California peninsula.

Oarfish are deep-water denizens that are rarely seen. But because of their long, slender appearance, and their bright-orange dorsal fins and manes, they helped spawn myths of sea serpents and sea monsters among ancient mariners.

They've been known to reach lengths of 30-plus feet.

Pisces Sportfishing reports that an employee from Pisces Real Estate helped discover an estimated 15-foot specimen that washed up in the gentle breakers.

Gonzalez "was working very hard, sitting under an umbrella on the main beach of Cabo-El Medano at an open house we are hosting today at Hacienda," states the Pisces blog. "He was right in front of Villa 2 when he saw a commotion on the beach and a small crowd gathered at the water's edge. His first thought was, 'There's been an accident.'

"Then he saw three locals supporting what appeared to him as a monster from the deep. He ran down to get a closer look and saw three locals assisting the strange creature, which appeared to be in distress as it struggled for air."

Unsuccessful attempts were made to revive the oarfish and return it to the Sea of Cortez, and ultimately it was collected for scientific study.

Oarfish inhabit the world's oceans but are found in the dark depths between about 600 and 3,000 feet. On the rare occasions one is seen on or near a beach--this happens very rarely and sporadically--it's either sick or injured, dying or already dead.

Their silver bodies have no scales and the fish swim with undulating motions, serpent-like.

Tracy Ehrenberg, who runs Pisces Sportfishing, said this is the first known oarfish to have washed up on Cabo's main beach. She discussed the discovery Friday morning on the "Baja Now" Internet radio show with Phil Friedman.

--Images are courtesy of Pisces Sportfishing

DO NOT GO TO SEAWORLD ANYWHERE! ABUSE OF ANIMALS GONE UNCHECKED

It's been just a few days since PETA shared disturbing photos of a serious injury sustained by Nakai, an 11-year-old male orca held in captivity at SeaWorld San Diego. The photograph of the gaping wound, first documented by a whistleblower and showing a dinner platesize chunk of the whale's lower jaw missing, is the latest evidence of the suffering that animals like Nakai endure while in captivity at SeaWorld and other marine parks.

Will you stand up to SeaWorld and others that exploit, abuse, or mistreat animals by making an urgently needed gift online right now?

According to a marine-mammal expert who visited SeaWorld shortly after we learned of Nakai's gruesome injury, the massive wound appears to be "a clear indication that an altercation between the orcas was involved." The huge chunk ripped from his lower mandible exposed underlying tissue and bone and was large and intact enough that SeaWorld workers were able to scoop it up from the bottom of the small pool prison in which the orcas live. The expert notes that "puncture marks that match orca teeth spacing" are visible in the photos and lend credibility to the conclusion that Nakai's disturbing wound was the result of a bite from another of the young male orcas he is forced to swim with in that tiny tank. Why are these three males kept together? The Animal Welfare Act (AWA) makes it clear that "marine mammals that are not compatible must not be housed in the same enclosure." Yet SeaWorld continues housing incompatible orcas from widely divergent groups together in enclosures far smaller than whales' natural ocean environment. This has resulted—as likely demonstrated by Nakai's wound—in stress, aggressive and bloody raking, serious injury, and even death.
PETA is asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to take action against SeaWorld immediately for its disregard for the AWA by housing these seemingly incompatible orcas together. But even if the federal government decides to act in behalf of Nakai, the miserable, psychosis-inducing captive conditions for orcas and other marine animals at SeaWorld's parks will continue.
Please strengthen our work so that no animal suffers as the orcas at SeaWorld have by giving today. Your donation, whatever the amount, will be put to work immediately and allow us to keep the pressure on SeaWorld—and others that exploit animals—long after pictures of Nakai's injuries have dropped from the headlines.
Captive orcas like Nakai are forced to perform repetitious and unnatural tricks for screaming audiences and can swim only in endless circles around small barren tanks between shows. In nature, these social and intelligent animals swim hundreds of miles across the oceans, work cooperatively with other animals in their pod, and engage in complex relationships and communication. But in captivity, orcas are denied the opportunity to engage in nearly all this natural behavior, causing some orcas in facilities like SeaWorld to die decades before they would in the wild.
Yesterday, dozens of demonstrators joined us in pouring onto the streets in front of SeaWorld San Diego to show their outrage at Nakai's injury and SeaWorld's continued cruel imprisonment of orcas and other marine animals. Many thousands more have taken action through our online alerts demanding that SeaWorld release the orcas held at its locations into transitional coastal sanctuaries. SeaWorld is huge and has a lot of money, but it's clear that the tide of public opinion is turning against such tawdry shows, and we need your support today to help marine animals during our expanding campaign to keep the pressure on.
Your gift right now can provide PETA's campaign for Nakai and other animals with the resources that we need in order to stand up to the companies that can outspend us by millions of dollars to promote activities that perpetuate animals' abuse and exploitation.
Thank you for everything you do to help orcas and all captive animals.
Very truly yours,
Ingrid Newkirk

Ingrid E. Newkirk
President

P.S. Nakai's horrifying injury is a graphic reminder of the sometimes deadly conditions for animals held captive by SeaWorld and other marine "abusement" parks. By giving online today, you'll immediately be helping us to do even more for orcas and other animals and to stand up to those who deny them all that is natural and important to them.

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