Orca Aware is featuring on the Ian Somerhalder Foundation website, with photos and a link to a video version of the article!
http://www.isfoundation.com/news/orca-aware
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Great news about the orcas who stranded in Australia, it looks as though the pod has left the area and may have headed out to open water (update via Australian Orca Database, also visit Orca Research Trust for more information). Today we have no news of any sightings in the Hervey Bay area, so it seems that the previously stranded pod of orca have made it out to open ocean and have left the area. Our apologies for the terrible spelling and grammar in yesterday's post...we have been attempting to get information out as efficiently as possible whilst on the run using an iPhone. Here is an image of some animals that were successfully re-floated after the incredible efforts of the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service and local Fisheries officers. Keiko (Willy) was for many of us the first orca we fell in love with and the orca who inspired many of us to care for all other orca -- 20 years on he is still making a splash!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennie-lew-tugend/free-willy-makes-a-splash_1_b_3586710.html This NY Post article takes a look at 'The Lost Whale', 'Blackfish' and 'Death at SeaWorld'.
http://www.nypost.com/f/print/news/opinion/books/wild_things_PHntcVPe1YcUfaMt8UUxCK#axzz2YMu60guW ORCA SPRINGER UPDATE: Great news via Orca Network andOrcaLab from veteran orca researchers John Ford and Graeme Ellis: Northern resident orca Springer (A73) has had a baby. In Winter 2001/2002, female calf Springer was found swimming in the Puget Sound area, separated from her mother who was believed to have passed away. She was captured, rehabilitated and relocated back to her home waters where she was released near Johnstone Strait (Canada) in July 2002. Eleven years later, Springer is still being resighted yearly, successfully reintegrated with family members from A clan pods. WOW! Amazing, wonderful news from up north! Reports suggest a juvenile orca is stalling the pod from leaving the area in a bid to find its dead mother.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/juvenile-killer-whale-stalls-orca-pod-near-fraser-island-while-looking-for-dead-mother/story-fnihsrf2-1226675625707 An update on the orca found stranded in the Great Sandy Strait in Queensland, Australia. Sadly, a third orca has been found deceased. Read the article for more information, with comment from Orca Research Trust expert Dr. Ingrid Visser.
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/national/orca-expert-dr-ingrid-visser-says-the-killer-whales-stranded-near-fraser-island-could-return-to-the-area-for-decades/story-fnii5v6y-1226674982218 NARNIA UPDATE from Russian Orcas -- 7 year old orca Narnia will be one of two orcas to be held captive at one of the biggest marine display entertainment parks in Europe, to be built in the centre of Moscow by Spring 2014. They will also keep other marine mammals in captivity. Some news about Narnia.. |
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