We’re fighting with everything we can to protect the last Southern Resident orcas and the planet. Help fund our work with a $50 World Whale Day donation now.
Three young orca calves tragically perished over the last year. The last time researchers saw calf L128, the poor baby was severely emaciated. An adult orca, Moonlight, was jiggling the calf’s body in attempts to revive them. And deceased calf J61 and her mother, Tahlequah, have captured the world’s attention – Tahlequah carried her daughter’s body for 11 days in a heartbreaking display of grief.
While orcas are left mourning these horrific losses, Donald Trump is already enabling Big Oil to “drill, baby, drill.” Big Oil has big plans to develop even more deadly projects that would bring more oil to orca habitat – threatening to wipe them out forever.
A massive new shipping terminal is already in the works. The Roberts Bank T2 Terminal would dramatically increase ship traffic throughout orca habitat, migration routes and critical feeding areas. That means an unbearable burden of underwater noise pollution. The noise would drown out orcas’ sonar signals and disrupt their ability to hunt and communicate with one another. Families and tourists who used to love watching orcas and marine life thrive could instead see emaciated sea creatures floating in the water. Fishers who rely on clean waters to make a living could be seeing fewer and fewer healthy fish in the ocean and entire livelihoods would be destroyed.
That’s why Friends of the Earth set an urgent goal to raise $45,000 in honor of World Whale Day. We’re fighting to achieve real progress even with oil “dictator” Donald Trump in the White House. That means increasing local protections for Southern Resident orcas and stopping these projects before the damage to oceans and communities is irreversible. But we rely on membership support from activists like you to power our fight to protect orcas, people, and our planet.
Please, orcas are counting on you to be their voice. Donate $50 now in honor of World Whale Day to help save the last Southern Resident orcas and protect our planet from Big Polluters!
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