Fish are disappearing and the orcas living in the South Pacific are starving: let’s reopen the dams!

In the past, orcas who swam in large numbers off the coast of Vancouver and Seattle could be seen playing and exploring the world around them for ages. Today, their daily life is an eternal search for silence, space, and food. Victims of pollution, fishing, heavy maritime traffic, and above all, imposing dams that decimate the fish populations that feed them, residents of the South Pacific die, among other things, from hunger.

Taking action on dams can wait no longer

Alongside our friends and partners from the Center for Whale Research, we are asking once again for the American government to guarantee the survival of orcas and fish who are evolving in the Snake River. For them to successfully spawn, four dams must be opened. An option considered by the Council on Environmental Quality, who is allowing citizens to give their views on this subject until 31 August. It is essential that measures are taken very quickly, otherwise orcas in the Salish Sea are at risk of disappearing.

Lolita’s family must outlive her

Captured in 1970 in a very violent way, the prisoner of Miami Seaquarium, also known as Tokitae or Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut, her Lummi name, passed away on 18 August without being able to see her mother again, who was still alive and the matriarch of pod L, or the vast expanses of water in which she had spent the first four years of her life. Those close to her were also captured to be sent to minuscule pools in four corners of the world; she was the last one surviving.

In her memory and for all of the members of her family, take action with us by calling on political representatives in the United States via social networks by combining #BidenBreachNow with your message and/or by commenting on the government project.

Translated from the French by Joely Justice