Dolphin Outlook, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Thomas Cooke, Jerome Flynn and the Humble Bundle, Video Footage from 'The Sea' by Richtaste is featured, BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Someone Shot and Killed a Dolphin and Her Unborn Calf. When most people see a dolphin their hearts fill with joy. But not some thug in Mississippi. Instead, according to officials, he pulled out a gun and shot it.

If that wasn't bad enough, when authorities performed a necropsy on the dead cetaecian, they found that it was pregnant. Neither the mother or unborn calf had a chance of surviving. Now animal welfare organizations are offering a combined reward of up to $11,000 for information that leads to the killer's arrest.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) — one of the organizations charged with implementing the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) — if caught, the culprit could face up to one year in prison and $100,000 in fines.

Since 2002 — in the Northern Gulf region which includes Mississippi — 24 dolphins have been found dead from human-inflicted injuries including guns, arrows or being impaled.

For some reason, more and more people are finding it "fun" to abuse our protected marine life.

This killer must be caught and brought to justice so our government can make an example out of them. We must make sure animal abusers are held responsible for their crimes.

Sign the petition and tell NOAA support them in their search for the killer of the Mississippi dolphin.
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Unfathomable Risk for Dolphins! Every day commercial aquariums and dolphin exhibits such as SeaWorld make obscene amounts of money through the exploitation of dolphins and other marine mammals. Countless dollars continue to pour into their corporate pockets while 6 in 10 U.S. dolphins born into captivity die before their first birthday. Now seventeen million dollars of payout money from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill has been allocated by the governor of Mississippi to build yet another aquarium, including plans to open a captive dolphin exhibit at a time when other facilities are closing these killing chambers down. HELP OUT TODAY

SEVENTEEN MILLION DOLLARS in payout money from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill has been allocated by the governor of Mississippi to build the aquarium, including plans to open a captive dolphin exhibit at a time when other facilities are closing these killing chambers down.

Another dolphin deadpool. It's unfathomable!

If we do nothing, the four dolphins will be forced to work for tourists and visitors every day, until the day they sicken and die. They won't get to make a meaningful choice about their lives.

Their lives could be cut dramatically shorter than what they could hope to live in the wild. It is heartbreak beyond compare. And it is preventable.

Please help IDA's Cetacean Project and help fight for these dolphins, and against the unfathomable cruelty of captive exhibits.

We have submitted legislation that would outlaw the use of dolphins in Gulfport for any reason and have contacted lawyers to see what other legal avenues are available.

Plans are in motion to host events on the ground to truly educate people, and to grow a nationwide coalition of concerned citizens who oppose these cruel, concrete tanks.
It is worthwhile, effective, and lifesaving work with a real chance to shut down the proposal. But it requires resources we don't currently have.
So I turn to you.

These beautiful, intelligent dolphins face certain hell in the Mississippi Aquarium's proposed exhibit. They need you and me, and they need us now.
In Defense of Animals

They need us to care not only about them, but for all the dolphins in captivity, shutting down impossibly tiny tanks of torture worldwide and preventing new ones from opening.

Every day aquariums make an obscene amount of money off the dolphin's much-exploited "smile." Many people don't realize that this isn't a facial expression. The frozen design of a dolphin's jaw lets their teeth function like amazing echolocation antennae and helps them pinpoint objects in the wild, where they belong. As many as 6 in 10 U.S. dolphins born into captivity die before their first birthday. Only together can we give dolphins their day.