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Travel Giant Cuts Ties With SeaWorld Over Killer Whale Captivity

Travel Giant Cuts Ties With SeaWorld Over Killer Whale Captivity

British travel giant Thomas Cook announced over the weekend it will stop offering tickets to animal attractions that keep killer whales in captivity. The new policy means that SeaWorld in Florida and Loro Parque in Tenerife will be removed from the company’s website and brochures, the Telegraph reported. “This was not a decision we took […]

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    Pro Race Car Driver Banned From SeaWorld for ‘Mourning Loss’ of Tilikum

    Pro Race Car Driver Banned From SeaWorld for ‘Mourning Loss’ of Tilikum

    On the morning of Jan. 6, one of SeaWorld’s most well-known orcas, Tilikum, passed away surrounded by trainers, care staff and veterinarians at the Orlando, Florida ocean theme park where the famous killer whale lived most of his life. Coincidentally on that same weekend, professional race car driver and environmental advocate Leilani Münter was in […]

    Protesters Demand SeaWorld ‘Send Corky Home’

    Protesters Demand SeaWorld ‘Send Corky Home’

    By Ashley Palmer Led by an “orca,” People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) members descended on SeaWorld San Diego with signs urging, “SeaWorld: Send Corky Home!” The action was the first protest in PETA’s new “Free Corky” campaign, which calls for the longest-held captive orca in the world to be released into a […]