Swedish Selkie

Never before released photos of J and K pod near Active Pass from July 17th 2014! 

Just went through my photos again and found all these gems that I had missed the first time. There are lots more coming too!

The president of the United States is seeking to slash 4000 jobs from the Environmental Protection Agency, and we’ve officially lost all fucking $28million worth of funding for Puget Sound’s restoration.

Puget Sound is one of the most polluted bodies of water in the United States, and the toxic waste that saturates our waterways puts environmental and human health alike in serious danger, especially low income and minority groups.

Not to mention, the increased tanker traffic will gravely impact the Southern Resident Orcas, which could soon face imminent extinction.

And because the EPA is an executive organization, he doesn’t need congress approval to do any of this.

give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime you destroy the oceans. in fact, according to a recent study published in the journal science, ocean life faces mass extinction.  

a team of scientists, in a groundbreaking analysis of data from hundreds of sources, have concluded that humans are on the verge of causing unprecedented damage to the oceans and the animals living in them.

“we may be sitting on a precipice of a major extinction event,” said douglas j. mccauley, an ecologist at the university of california, santa barbara, and an author of the new research. 

the study notes, for example, that bottom trawlers scraping large nets across the sea floor have already affected 20 million square miles of ocean, turning parts of the continental shelf to rubble.

Just saw someone mention that there wasn’t enough of L25 Ocean Sun on their feed - So here she is!

After more than a year of waiting, the final orca to be born at a SeaWorld park made its arrival. At 3:30 p.m. EDT on April 19th, the calf was delivered to 25 year old Takara in front of a waiting staff at SeaWorld San Antonio. The baby appears to be doing well and is swimming with and nursing from their mother. Hopes are certainly high that the calf will survive this critical time in its life.

The mother, Takara, is certainly not new to raising calves. She has previously had six calves (counting the most recent), but only three of them are with her today. One of the babies was a miscarriage, and the other two, Trua and Kohana, were separated from her and sent to different parts of the globe.

Although the birth of a baby is certainly a wondrous thing, this moment is also bittersweet. On one hand this is the last killer whale to be born at a SeaWorld park, but on the other all this calf was brought into a life of captivity, something that has been proven time and time again to be tortuous to such intelligent animals. Even still, we must remain hopeful that one day captive orcas from across the globe will once again feel the ocean on their backs in a seaside sanctuary, a place where cetaceans can experience their natural habitat whilst still being under the care of humans. It’ll take a lot of advocacy, hard work, and dedication, but we will not give up. Let’s get to work!