Monthly Archives: November 2024

Lucky, a confiscated endangered green sea turtle is released after six months of intensive rehabilitation and medical care, Umah Lumba Center, West Bali, Indonesia.

25Nov

Blog, Campaigns, Indonesia | Posts by : Cara Sands

Successful Release for Lucky the Sea Turtle

Posts by : Cara Sands

Dolphin Project is pleased to report that after six months of intensive rehabilitation and medical care at our Turtle Hospital, Lucky the

Keto was the largest of the orcas at Loro Parque, but he looks so small here as he leans up against the concrete platform of his dreary enclosure. He was used in theatrical shows at Loro Parque for 18 years before his death.

22Nov

Blog, Campaigns, Captivity Industry | Posts by : Helene O'Barry

Keto the Orca Has Died

Posts by : Helene O'Barry

Keto, who has been used as a “must-see” tourist attraction at Loro Parque in Tenerife for the last 18 years, has died.

A young resident killer whale chases a chinook salmon in the Salish Sea near San Juan Island, Washington, September, 2017. Credits: John Durban (NOAA Fisheries/Southwest Fisheries Science Center), Holly Fearnbach (SR3: SeaLife Response, Rehabilitation and Research) and Lance Barrett-Lennard (Vancouver Aquarium’s Coastal Ocean Research Institute). Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.

21Nov

Blog, Campaigns, Captivity Industry | Posts by : Cara Sands

Is Sound Pollution Threatening Orcas’ Survival?

Posts by : Cara Sands

According to a study published by Global Change Biology in September, 2024, noise from both commercial and recreational vessels could be impacting

19Nov

Blog, Campaigns, Japan | Posts by : Dolphin Project Team

Taiji Dolphin Sales are Being Revealed

Posts by : Dolphin Project Team

Over the past several months, Japanese organization Life Investigation Agency (LIA) has been sorting through and translating 1000s of documents acquired from

Captive dolphin show at Boudewijn Seapark, Belgium. Credit: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license, user: Paul Hermans

18Nov

Blog, Campaigns, Captivity Industry | Posts by : Helene O'Barry

Exploitation of Dolphins to be Banned in Belgium

Posts by : Helene O'Barry

Persistence pays off! Belgium’s last dolphinarium, located in Bruges, which is the capital of West Flanders in northwest Belgium, is due to

The German travel and tourism company TUI continues to support the commercial exploitation of orcas and other dolphins, even though these complex marine mammals clearly don’t thrive in concrete stadiums. On one of its websites, TUI promotes the orca show at Loro Parque as an "Orca Ocean spectacle," thereby admitting that the role of the performing orcas is to provide superficial holiday fun.

11Nov

Blog, Campaigns, Captivity Industry | Posts by : Helene O'Barry

Help Stop the Use of Orcas for Entertainment

Posts by : Helene O'Barry

Loro Parque in Tenerife, Spain, currently displays four orcas at its concrete orca theater, which has the rather misleading name “Orca Ocean.”