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Dear Friends of Lolita,
The campaign to bring Lolita home marches on, literally. The University of
Miami organization Humans Helping Animals is continuing the once-a-month
demonstrations at the Seaquarium. The next one will be on Sunday, December
5, at 12 Noon. Anyone who can be in the Miami area at that time is
encouraged to participate. New leaflets are now being readied for
distribution at the demo and elsewhere. Just email to
[email protected] for more information.
The demonstrations let the Seaquarium management and staff, as well as the
media and the public, know that the campaign for Lolita goes on. The
demonstrations raise issues that have still not been talked about much in
Miami, like Lolita's continued use of the calls that only her family in the
wild use, and about the lifetime bonds within her extended family, about
her longevity and her ability to bring new healthy young orcas into her
family. When all the evidence is considered anyone with a heart must
conclude that Lolita needs the chance to return to home and family. At the
same time we are working with the Animal League Defense Fund to prepare a
legal argument that the tank is illegally small.
The powerful one-hour documentary "Lolita - Spirit in the Water" is once
again playing in cities across the country. We've received calls and emails
of support for the campaign from Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Albuquerque and Idaho in recent weeks.
Meanwhile, Lolita's family paid an extended visit to Puget Sound. For an
entire week orcas from all three pods were seen dining on chum salmon just
north of Seattle. J16, a 27-year-old mother of two young males, was seen
with her new calf born in just the past month. And L98, the new calf first
seen in September, was also seen and is doing well. In just the past 3 days
they've been back in Puget Sound.
Anyone doing their holiday shopping by the internet can find Free Lolita
T-shirts, casette tapes, bumper stickers and chocolate bars at
http://www.freelolita.net
with proceeds going toward the campaign effort.
Thanks for all your help and support.
Howard
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Howard Garrett
Tokitae Foundation
2403 So. Northbluff Rd.
Greenbank WA 98253
(360) 678-3451
[email protected]
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Hello All;
I'd like to share this letter with all of you, it was written by the young
lady who took all the pictures of MarineLand Niagara Falls for my website.
For The Whales and Mother Earth
Anita
Orcinus
Free the Whales and Dolphins
Support Marine Freedom
http://www.ndrsnet.com/marinefreedom
----Original Message Follows----
An article appeared in my local newspaper yesterday and here's my
(completely non-biased) interpretation of it:
Title: Holer has Nothing to Hide
Marineland has been under attack by animal activists since early this
week after John Holer imported three male beluga whales from the
Russian Academy. Holer says he has nothing to hide because he did
nothing wrong. (right, 'cause he's never done anything wrong...)
Toronto based Zoocheck Canada said Holer secretly brought the whales
from Russia with no government notification to escape public ridicule,
but Holer says these accusations are unfounded. According to him the
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species was notified in
advance of the import.
And so, three four-metre male belugas travelled 18 hrs by cargo
plane to Toronto on Sunday. They are in good heath, so says Holer, and
are being kept in Holding tanks while they adjust to their new
surroundings. And in about two weeks they could be on display in the
PARK'S (not zoo's) new exibit, Friendship Cove (sounds nice and cuddly,
eh?) Yes, i'll admit that Friendship Cove is the largest artificial
whale habitat in the world, and it set Holer back a pretty penny, but
really, this is Marineland. How well do you suppose they treat their
whales, or other animals for that matter?
Oh! and do you want some more great news from Marineland? Of
course you do! They have also applied to capture six beluga whales,
four female and two males from Churchill, Manitoba.
"We want to expand our species just like any zoo. At the same
time, we want to have better value in our educational program by having
more than just two marine mammal species. We have been planning to get
beluga whales for many years but we didn't bring them here until we had
facilities prepared."
So, what he's really saying is: "Yeah, the only reason we blew a
million or so dollars on new facilities for our whales was not to
accomodate the three whales we already have, to make them feel more
comfortable and take them out of the inhumaine tanks we had before that
we crammed them in to. No... see, i'm in it for the money. The only
reason we spent the money is because we expect to make money in return,
by importing more whales!! When we import the whales, the people will
come to see them, and then we'll import more whales, and more and more!
And soon we'll have whales coming out of our ears and our new
facilities will be worth nothing because we'll have to keep 10-15
whales in them."
Here's the best part - "Holer said he did not know the age of the
whales, how long they had been living in captivity in Russia, nor why
they were iinitially captured from the Black Sea. 'We only know that
they came from a military base and they had been there for a while,' he
said." See? isn't that great? I mean, those whales couldn't have
undergone horrible experiments by the Russian gov. and now they are
trying to get rid of them.... noooo... It's all on the up and up. Way
to do your homework, Holer.
kate
(from the ever happy Niagara Region...)
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