Bring our orca Lolita back home - 3 Events

July 16, 4:03 PMPuget Sound Marine Life ExaminerCarole May

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Where Lolita belongs!                   ©2009 Carole May

Monthly Protests at Miami Seaquarium

All are invited to protest Lolita's cramped and lonely captivity and support her retirement plan in front of the Miami Seaquarium, 12 Noon til 2 PM.  Every last Saturday of the month we'll have a protest, same time, same place.  Please pass the word on to friends and family. And check out the new Lolita website at SaveLolita.com.

Orca captured during the 1970 Penn Cove captures
Photo ©  Dr. Terry Newby - Used with permission.

Penn Cove Orca Capture Commemoration
Sunday August 9th, 2009, 4:00 - 7:00pm
Coupeville Rec Hall, 901 NW Alexander
Coupeville, Whidbey Island WA

In memory of the 45 Southern Resident orcas captured in Washington State, and the 13 orcas killed during the captures, and in honor of Lolita, the sole survivor.

 For more information, please read: Penn Cove Orca Capture Commemoration

Lolita's home is waiting for her return  
©2009 Carole May

Walk for Lolita 
August 8th, Key Biscayne

 39 years after Lolita's capture off the coast of Washington State a "Walk for Lolita" will be held to urge Seaquarium owner Arthur Hertz to retire his lone orca back to her natural waters. 30-50 body painted activists will walk from the first beach on Key Biscayne to the Seaquarium's parking lot entrance in barely anything more than paint, while handing out flyers on the beaches and attracting a large amount of onlookers.  The walk starts at the first beach on Key Biscayne at 12:00 PM and will end around 2:00 PM at a demonstration in front of the Miami Seaquarium.      

Shelby Proie in collaboration with Orca Network invites fellow Miami residents and media to come out and support this cause. We hope to see Lolita retired into a sea pen in her native Pacific North West waters where she will be taken care of for the rest of her life unless she chooses to rejoin her pod that lives there as well.