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Help the World’s Loneliest Orca

Nearly half a century ago, Lolita was taken from her family in the wild. Now she lives here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmFB3_MDvCA  

Wild members of Lolita’s family are highly social, stay with their mothers for life, travel up to 100 miles per day, and dive hundreds of feet below the water’s surface, all while Lolita is imprisoned at the Miami Seaquarium in the smallest orca tank in North America.

And Lolita hasn’t seen another orca since her tankmate died after ramming his head into the side of the tank more than 35 years ago.

Lolita’s family members, who still swim in the area where she was captured, were listed as endangered, in part because dozens of orcas were stolen from the ocean around the same time as Lolita.

Following a petition by PETA and others, the National Marine Fisheries Service granted Lolita those same protections under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). We believe that confining Lolita to a small, shallow, and barren concrete tank—where she has been unable to swim any meaningful distance, dive, forage, or carry out virtually any natural behavior for more than 40 years and where she is without an orca companion or protection from the hot sun—violates the ESA.

PETA, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, Orca Network, and two concerned individuals have notified the Miami Seaquarium of their intent to sue, as required by the ESA, in behalf of Lolita and seeking her freedom from the facility.

Lolita could be released to a sea pen in her native waters for rehabilitation and to live out the remainder of her days near her family in as natural of a setting as possible.

Add your name to the list of people who want to see Lolita freed!

http://www.peta.org/action/action-alerts/endangered-species-act-orca-lolita/?utm_campaign=051515%20PETA%20E-News&utm_source=PETA%20E-Mail&utm_medium=E-News

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