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Mourners gather to remember the last captive southern resident orca


Mourners gather to remember the last captive southern resident orca

She died at the Miami Seaquarium on Friday afternoon, as the last surviving southern resident killer whale still in captivity. She was believed ...

Mourners gather to pay tribute to the life of Tokitae the orca on San ...

She was the last of the southern resident orcas still alive in captivity until Aug. ... remember a whale whose death marked the end of the ...

Editorial: Honoring the memory of the last captive orca - Everett Herald

... mourning the death last month of Tokitae, the last orca held in captivity. Tokitae, more famously known as Lolita, was a Southern Resident orca ...

Washington's Lummi people mourn the death of the last captive ...

An Orca whale known as Lolita — the last southern resident killer whale surviving in captivity — died recently. She was captured in 1970 in Penn ...

Tokitae's final song: A celebration of life for the last captive southern ...

undreds of mourners gathered at San Juan Island's Jackson Beach Park on Sunday to celebrate the life of Tokitae, a southern resident orca ...

The call of Tokitae - The Washington Post

The last endangered whale in captivity. A beloved orca died on the eve of her planned release, and a moment of reckoning began.

Rescue team optimistic orphan whale can survive and thrive once ...

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Lolita's death turns focus to captive killer whales, Southern Residents

From 'Toki's law' to extinction: Mourning activists carry on after celebrity orca's death ... Last year, Sandstrom said the Southern Residents ...

Remembering Tokitae: The last southern resident orca in captivity

As the sun set on Aug. 17, all three communities of the southern resident orcas gathered in the waters off the San Juan Islands. Their 95-year- ...

Tokitae, also known as Lolita, passed away yesterday afternoon at the

She was the last remaining Southern Resident killer whale in captivity. ... gather to remember her at Kensington Palace #kensington ...

Southern resident orcas - Wikipedia

The southern resident orcas, also known as the southern resident killer whales (SRKW), are the smallest of four communities of the exclusively fish-eating ...

KURT RUSSO on a Prayer of Mourning /357 - FOR THE WILD

... Southern Resident Orca held captive in the Miami Seaquarium for decades. As he mourns Tokitae's recent death, Kurt reflects on the ways ...

Sad Farewell to Tokitae After Life in Captivity - Underscore News

Tokitae was the last surviving Southern Resident orca in captivity. However, orcas from other populations remain in amusement parks. Among ...

Captive orca Lolita mourners leave flowers - YouTube

The Miami Seaquarium announced on Friday that the captive orca whale Lolita had died at 4 p.m. Mourners have been gathering in front of the ...

Why the Southern Resident Killer Whales are Dying - Capital Daily

Starting in 1964, whales faced a new threat: Live capture. In that year, the world's first captive killer whale, a Southern Resident named Moby Doll was ...

Lummi Nation prepares for Sk'aliCh'elh'tenaut's return home

The remains of captive Southern Resident orca whale Sk'aliCh'elh'tenaut (Tokitae / Lolita) will be laid to rest in the waters where her orca ...

Famed Southern Resident orca Tokitae dies in captivity

The orca, also known as Lolita or Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut, was the subject of significant controversy in recent years as Indigenous communities and ...

Angry at plight of southern-resident orcas, speakers rebuke NOAA in ...

NOAA never intended to put J50 in captivity, and its efforts were only intended to get the animal back to health and into the wild, Barre said.