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Gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) Baja California. Mexico.

Wir wandern für Wale, um die Welt zu retten

Wenn es um den Kampf gegen den Klimawandel geht, stecken wir uns ambitionierte Ziele. Zwei...
© Peter Linforth

Walschutz aus dem Weltraum

Die Satellitentechnologie ist ein Schlüssel zum Walschutz von morgen. Deshalb forschen wir an einer einzigartigen...
© Aishling Heffernan

Coral − ein Buckelwal, der sich nie unterkriegen lässt

An der einzigartigen Musterung auf Corals Schwanzflosse können wir ihn immer gut erkennen. © Anna...
© Hans Peter Roth

Eine weitere Saison in Taiji geht zu Ende

Die vergangene Jagdsaison in Taiji hat Tierschützer:innen weltweit mit schockierenden Bildern bewegt. Von September 2022...

Appeal filed against decision to renew Miami Seaquarium’s license

Despite the fact that the tank of Lolita, the lone orca kept at Miami Seaquarium, fails to meet even the minimum requirements of the United States’ Animal Welfare Act (AWA), a lawsuit filed by PETA, the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), the Orca Network and concerned individuals in 2012 was dismissed by the court. Now the plaintiffs have filed an appeal against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for automatically renewing the Seaquarium’s Animal Welfare Act license.

Lolita has no orca companion in her tank, no shelter from the sun and other weather conditions – two more factors, apart from the size of the tank, that violate the AWA. As license renewals weren’t addressed when Congress adopted the AWA, the USDA is, according to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, allowed to renew the license for the Seaquarium, even though it is no secret the company is violating the AWA.

Captured in the infamous 1970 Penn Cove roundup, Lolita belongs to the Southern Resident orca population, which has been listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act since 2005. However, captive members of the population were excluded from this listing! WDC supported a petition seeking to remove this exclusion. National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) found the petition was warranted and are now reviewing further information. The decision is expected in January 2015.

Furthermore we submitted comments regarding the NMFS 90-Day Finding on a Petition to Revise the Critical Habitat Designation for the Southern Resident Killer Whales. The final determination is expected later in 2015.

Über Ulla Ludewig

Projektreferentin - Ulla Christina Ludewig setzt sich im deutschen und internationalen WDC-Team für die Schließung von Delfinarien und verantwortungsbewusste Wal- und Delfinbeobachtung ein.