For forty thousand generations, we’ve done what we believed we needed to do to ensure our own survival. It’s been said that a society has the ethics it can afford. That may be true in some sense, but we think that we need to be very careful about defining those things we deem as necessary,...
These shy, solitary creatures will suffer tremendously if people are allowed to farm them. Photo Credit: National Geographic Our world has an nearly endless supply of stuff we know we’d be better off without. We brand many of them as ‘necessary evils’, because they’ve long served some other purpose. Such as feeding people. If in...
The moment her freedom was stolen, over half a century agoPhoto Credit: One Green Planet – onegreenplanet.org The show is finally over. After more than a half century of forced performances, the Miami Seaquarium has announced that Lolita will no longer be required to take part in shows. She is known as Tokitae to the...
To the Lummi people, orcas are qwe'lhol'mechen, the 'people under the waves’.
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The 2020 Oscar-winning documentary My Octopus Teacher forever changed how many of us view these remarkable creatures.
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Public outage continues to grow over Marineland’s treatment of Kiska, the world’s only orca living in complete isolation from other marine mammals.
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Russian leader Vladimir Putin meets with Leonardo DiCaprio to discuss release of 97 whales held captive in at Russia’s infamous ‘whale jail’ in 2019
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In the South of France, some still consider this cruelty a sport
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A dolphin is beaten into submission prior to being killed or taken captive, Taiji, Japan
Photo credit: Ric O'Barry's Dolphin Project
Our historical perspective is tragically flawed, and certainly not what’s best for us.
