A Whale of A Week, Icelandic millionaire caught rare whale (and wants to do it more), Trans Mountain Pipeline, Japan Pushes for Commercial Whaling, Center for Biological Diversity files Suit to Protect Endangered Orcas, Thomas Cook, WWF with JJ Julius Son from Icelandic rock band Kaleo


Victory! Travel Giant Thomas Cook Cuts Ties With SeaWorld. After a yearlong PETA campaign, Thomas Cook has announced that it'll stop selling tickets to SeaWorld, which forces orcas to spend their entire lives in tiny, concrete cells. In doing so, it has become a world-leading travel provider for animal welfare, and it's time others followed suit.

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These orcas are already endangered, now the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion could wipe them out for good...

Souther Resident Orcas in the Salish Sea Urge Govenor Inslee of Washington to protect orcas with a moratorium on new tanker traffic. 
Souther Resident Orcas in the Salish Sea
For more than ten days, the whole world has watched a grieving mother orca carry the body of her dead calf across the Salish Sea, the inland sea connecting Vancouver, Canada to Seattle, WA. The heartbreaking images of the mother holding up her calf — who died just a half hour after being born — have been hard to bear.

What’s worse, there are only 75 Southern resident orcas left in existence, and their future is increasingly at risk. But bold decisive action could eliminate one risk right now: stopping a tar sands tanker superhighway in this orca family’s waters.

Tell Washington State Governor Inslee that the whole nation is looking to him to protect these orcas — he must implement an emergency moratorium on new fossil fuel traffic in Washington State waters until the Southern Resident orcas are no longer at risk of extinction.

The Southern resident orcas have already been endangered by dwindling food supplies and increased marine traffic. Now they face another threat — the $4.5 billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion recently purchased by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. So what exactly does this massive new tar sands pipeline mean for the orcas?

If it goes ahead, the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion could send 400 new tar sands oil tankers through these orcas’ habitat every year. Scientists have told us that a tanker superhighway like this through the orcas’ home could be a death sentence because the orcas would not be able to hear to hunt for their food. A catastrophic oil spill would be the final nail in the coffin.

Washington’s Governor Inslee cares deeply about this. He’s asked all of us to get involved, and right now is forming his action plan to save these orcas. Unfortunately, the imminent threat of fossil fuel expansion could erase all of this progress.

We need to move quickly to stop the pipeline expansion and its oil tanker traffic. Send your message to Gov. Inslee right now.

This pipeline expansion is only going to make survival for these orcas more challenging by bringing more fossil fuel tankers through their homes, but their future doesn’t have to be so grim. A massive Indigenous-led movement is working to stop the pipeline — and the company behind the project even sold it to the Government of Canada because it was too risky an investment.

If leaders like Gov. Inslee take courageous action we can stop the pipeline and the hundreds of tankers that would carry its oil through the home of Endangered orcas. But he won’t do it unless he hears from you and thousands of others.
  

It's been heartbreaking to watch a mother orca push around her dead calf for more than a week off the West Coast. She's been trying to keep its head above water and, in her grief, is now falling behind her family.

Only 75 of these endangered West Coast orcas are left in existence — a 30-year low. We've launched a lawsuit in defense of these beautiful creatures.

Southern Resident killer whales are one of the most endangered species on the planet, but the Trump administration is dragging its feet in granting protection.

These orcas are exactly the kind of species the Endangered Species Act is meant for. They need immediate action to increase their food supply of chinook salmon. Our new lawsuit seeks a protected area for these whales so they have enough food and are spared from vessel noise, motor boat traffic and water pollution.

Now Trump and his right-wing anti-wildlife cronies in Congress are trying to weaken the Act as a gift to big business and industry, who will be able to develop, bulldoze and drill all over the habitat of species struggling to live.

Orcas will vanish. So too will polar bears in the Arctic, where oil and gas companies will pillage polar bear habitat.

Trump, Interior Secretary Zinke and Congress are doing all they can to undercut protections for wildlife. If Trump's new rules go into effect, and without immediate protection, West Coast orcas and other species will be lost forever.

This is all part of the most severe, dangerous threat to the Endangered Species Act we've ever seen. We can't let these attacks go through.

We need you with us to fight for wildlife, endangered species and the laws they depend on to survive.

Please help with our Trump Resistance Fund.
If you’d like to learn more about what these poor whales are up against and find out how you can help give them a fighting chance for survival, check out these helpful resources: