Kreeg afgelopen vrijdag een bericht van het Care2 team, waarin de dood van alweer een orka in een bassin van SeaWorld werd gemeld…….
Volgens SeaWorld San Diego werd Kasatka geëuthanaseerd, daar ze ‘de laatste tijd’ haar eetlust was verloren en haar gezondheid te wensen overliet…… Echter mensen die de situatie van Kasatka kenden, stellen dat het dier al lange tijd ziek was, waar ze zelfs het woord ‘chronisch’ bij gebruiken……..
Walvissen horen niet in bassins, zo reizen orka’s vele duizenden kilometers tijdens hun leven, alleen dit feit zou genoeg moeten zijn, om nooit weer een walvis op te sluiten, zelfs de kleinsten niet!! Walvisachtigen worden ziek in deze bassins en dit alles om de mens te vertieren………..
Lees het relaas van Care2, teken daarna ajb de petitie! (en geeft het door!)
Another
Suffering Orca Has Died at SeaWorld
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By: Alicia
Graef -
August
18, 2017
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Follow
Alicia at @care2
The death
toll at
SeaWorld continues to grow with
the loss of another orca who battled chronic health issues. But it
isn’t the whale’s death that’s the real tragedy — it’s
the life she was forced to live.
SeaWorld
made the announcement that Kasatka, the park’s matriarch, was
euthanized in San Diego this week. According to SeaWorld,
her health and appetite had declined over the past several days.
Despite
treatment, the veterinary team decided to end her life to
prevent further suffering.
Sadly,
Kasatka’s death doesn’t
come as a surprise to
those who have been monitoring her over the years.
Jeffrey Ventre @jeffrey_ventre
We wrote this 1 month before #Blackfish #Kasatka was euthanized. Sadly it played out just as predicted –
Pneumonia? voiceoftheorcas.blogspot.com/2017/07/kasatk…
SeaWorld
acknowledged that the orca had been battling a respiratory
infection that she was diagnosed with in 2008. but many
wildlife advocates believe her situation was far worse than the
park has admitted.
Kasatka at SeaWorld of California is DEAD. I tried to get the media to expose it, I tried to have ANYONE force them to take pics of her.
Former
SeaWorld trainers now running Voice
of the Orcas stated,
“The reality is that Kasatka is being eaten away, possibly by a
bacteria, fungus or photo-toxicity due to antibiotic overuse.”
SHAME ON U SEAWORLD; calling Kasataka’s pathogen “skin discolouration”. Yet another duplicitous statement by U. Will U ever tell the truth?
Few
images released show the toll her illness took on her body.
While SeaWorld maintains that Kasatka’s illness is a common
cause of death for both wild and captive orcas, that claim is also
being rejected by experts.
Voice of the Orcas @Voice_OT_Orcas
Typical that major news media took @SeaWorld‘s PR blindly & reported her death as “pneumonia.” No mention of dramatic skin lesions#Kasatka
Whale
and Dolphin Conservation also points to research
that contradicts that statement,
adding that there is “little evidence to suggest that pneumonia is
the leading cause of death of wild orcas.”
Jeffrey Ventre @jeffrey_ventre
#Blackfish Kasatka Euthanized? They made 3 vids 2 show everyone how well she was. Her skin condition must have been a PR problem 4 #SeaWorld
Still,
the disease that ultimately took Kasatka’s life — and
the misinformation SeaWorld
continues to spread about orcas — is only a part of the story.
While
SeaWorld called the whale the “beloved matriarch of our orca
family,” the reality is that she was stolen, confined for more
than four decades, forced to perform and bred multiple times.
Kasatka
was taken from her native waters in Iceland in 1978, and she spent
the rest of her life imprisoned. She had four children in
captivity, Takara, Nakai, Kalia and Makani; six grandchildren,
Kohana, Trua, Sakari, Kamea and Kyara; and two great grandchildren
Adan and Victoria, who have all been split up at various parks in
California, Texas, Florida and Spain.
Meanwhile,
SeaWorld conveniently fails to mention that her
granddaughter Kyara and
great granddaughter Victoria are
both dead too — neither of them even reached their first
birthdays.
Had
Kasatka been left in the wild, she would only be middle-aged now
and may have enjoyed life as a true matriarch, nurturing lifelong
bonds with her family members. But, sadly, she was denied that
opportunity.
In
addition to suffering from health problems, Kasatka also
displayed the emotional toll confinement took on her. Unsurprisingly,
she was involved in multiple aggressive
incidents with
trainer Ken Peters, who is lucky to be alive.
Voice of the Orcas @Voice_OT_Orcas
#Kasatka, reduced 2A slave @SeaWorld. In death she swims with #Blackfish Tilikum. They changed the world from a tank
Kasatka’s
story is ultimately a tragic waste of a beautiful life —
and for nothing more than our fleeting amusement and financial
gain. Her death now leaves 22 orcas captive in the U.S., including 21
at SeaWorld parks, and Lolita at
the Miami Seaquarium.
One
by one, these whales will continue to pass. And while we can’t
undo the injustices they’ve endured in the past, we can ensure no
other marine mammals suffer in the future.
Even
though SeaWorld has made a corporate promise to stop breeding, many
animal activists are working to make sure the company can’t
go back on its word. Whale and dolphin advocates are pushing for
lawmakers to pass the Florida
Orca Protection Act and urging
Congress to pass the Orca
Responsibility
and Care Advancement (ORCA) Act –
landmark legislation that would permanently ban
keeping
orcas in captivity in the U.S.
Hopefully
theses efforts will be successful, and we will have a future where
orcas receive protection in the wild — where they belong.
Photo
credit: Thinkstock
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Zie ook:
‘VS marine mag 12 miljoen zeezoogdieren vermoorden voor onderwaterproeven……. ‘
‘The truth about the peer-reviewed science produced by Japan’s whaling‘
‘Japan vermoordde dit jaar o.a. 134 bedreigde Noordse vinvissen, stop dit barbaarse geweld!‘
‘Sea World infiltreerde in dierenactivisme…….. Sluit de dolfinaria circussen!!‘
‘Stop de barbaarse Japanse slachting van walvissen >> boycot Japan!‘
‘Faeröer Eilanden: jaarlijkse barbaarse slachting van dolfijnen >> Boycot Denemarken en de Faeröer Eilanden!!‘ (een aantal foto’s zijn verwijderd door Google…..)