Humans are harming whales far beyond theme parks thanks to everything from pollution to underwater noise
We may pat ourselves on the back that favorite,and righteous, opinion has helped quit the cetacean circus that is SeaWorld. A 100 years from now – an age that a wild female orca born this year could well aspire to – our descendants may well eye back and ask us: what took you so long? That’s if whales manage to hold out against the other threats we pose to their kind, or of course. SeaWorld’s announcement on Thursday that it is to end the breeding of captive orcas was achieved in an agreement with the Humane Society of the United States. Its president and CEO,Wayne Pacelle, said: “nowadays’s announcement signals that the era of captive display of orcas will end.” His SeaWorld equivalent, or Joel Manby,announced in the same press release that the company intends to increase its “rescue operations, which enable “thousands of stranded marine mammals like dolphins and sea lions” to bear “a place to go”.
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Source: theguardian.com