Dr. Paul Spong and Helena Symonds, orca experts and directors
of ORCALAB which is the research institute co-funded and supported by
the WDCS orca adoption programme, have been studying Corkys true orca
family in the wild for more than three decades. Orcas live in
close-knit families and in that area hunt salmon and travel the waters
of Johnstone Strait, Blackfish Sound and the rest of the Inside Passage
in British Columbia, Canada.
Orcas, like
elephants, have long memories. Corky visibly shook and vocalised
poignantly when she was played a tape recording of her family pod, the
A5s, whose dialect she still uses. In the mid 1990ies hope to convince
her owners to return Corky to her natural environment arose when more
than 15,000 children from all over the world painted the worlds longest
banner to FREE CORKY. And yet still she lives on at Sea World.
Get engaged!
Join Dr. Paul
Spong, Helena Symonds and WDCS together with many other activists and
orca researchers around the world to help CORKY retire and to call for
an end to the captive display of whales and dolphins.
- Visit
our Facebook page and spread the word about Corky to your
Facebook friends.
- Dont go to see orcas or other whales and
dolphins in captivity, the money your ticket buys only helps to
continue the incarceration of these magnificent animals.
-
adopt an
orca and help Orcalab and WDCS continue its efforts to
protect these magnificent mammals.
Corky
deserves a chance to swim in her natural home waters and we owe that to
her. Please help make this dream a reality.