Demo Event for Lolita Saturday May 30, 2009 at Miami Seaquarium
demo event for Lolita this Saturday from 12-2PM.
LET’S HIT THE SQ HARD EVERYONE!
This is going to be a very important one and we need MORE people! I know everyone is busy but I am personally postponing my trip to Pittsburgh (for a family emergency) to host this demo, because no one can take over for me, so PLEASE try to find the time to come out for a little bit (it doesn’t even have to be the whole time!). Lolita needs us more than ever right now, at a time where the SQ is preparing to replace her with 6 Pacific White-Sided dolphins, so they can fill the void when she’s gone (hopefully retired not deceased). She seems to be losing weight and we need to tell the Miami Seaquarium that they need to let her retire, the stress of captivity is wearing her down and she now deserves to be with her family in a natural environment. I encourage you to read a copy of “The Case Against Marine Mammals in Captivity” presented by the Humane Society of the United States and the World Society for the Protection of Animals. You can find this on a PDF file at:
http://www.hsus.org/web-files/PDF/MarMamCptvtyBklt.pdf
After reading please contact the HSUS and WSPA asking them to support our efforts to retire Lolita to a bay pen off the coast of Washington State where she was captured in 1970.
The Humane Society of the United States
2100 L Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
202-452-1100
(we’ve tried email before that is too easy to ignore try writing to them or even better calling in to voice your opinion!)
WSPA USA
Lincoln Plaza
89 South Street, Suite 201
Boston, MA 02111 USA
Phone (Toll Free): 800-883-9772
Fax: 617-737-4404
(again they give a generic message to email call them and fax them instead!)
-Let these 2 organizations know that you read the publication that they published and you want them to do something to help Lolita. Tell them she would be a great candidate for release because they (The Center for Whale Research) know where her pod is and she would be cared for in a bay pen prior to release and she could choose the stay there and be taken care of if she wishes. Either way she would live in a much larger (than her illegal sized tank) natural habitat and be in contact with other orcas.
