ACTION ALERT - Monday, September 15, 2002
The other lost orca should go home, too.
The Coalition For No Whales In Captivity is asking the public to
contact the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) to urge the Canadian
government to help Luna go home to his mom.
Luna (or L-98) is a 3-year old male orca who belongs to a pod of
resident whales that spend summers swimming in the waters that border the
US and Canada. Last summer, Luna swam away from his mother, got lost and
ended up about 250 km (or 150 miles) North of where his family is right
now.
Like the orphaned orca whale called Springer (A-73), who got lost in
Puget Sound and was returned to her family pod in July, it is time to
return Luna to his family as well.
The Coalition For No Whales In Captivity joins the Humane Society of
the United States and others in asking the public to help Luna and phone
or write letters to:
Marilyn Joyce, Marine Mammal Co-ordinator Department of Fisheries and
Oceans Canada (DFO) #460--555 W. Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6B
5G3 Tel: (604) 666-9965 Fax: (604) 666-3341 E-mail <joycem@pac.dfo-mpo.
gc.ca>
For more information, please read the editorial that follows below.
Thanks.
Annelise Sorg, Director
Coalition For No Whales In Captivity
Vancouver, BC Canada
Tel: (604) 736-9514
E-mail <annelise@direct.ca>
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