BREAKING NEWS: A team of orcas has been ATTACKING yachts! 

You heard that right, Friend. Orcas off the coast of Europe have been stealthily and strategically disabling boat rudders. According to one scientist, a female orca known as White Gladis may have had a past traumatizing experience with a ship and has since taught her pod how to fight back. 

While these orcas are far away from the endangered Southern Resident orcas in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, it makes one thing clear: orcas are intelligent and emotional creatures, and even small vessels can cause them great pain. 

Imagine what the titanic cruise ships charging through the home waters of Southern Resident orcas do to this endangered species. Cruise ships scare away the salmon orcas eat, dump pollution into the ocean, and can even strike and kill whales! Today, only 73 Southern Resident orcas remain! Please, Friend, tell the EPA to regulate the cruise industry by 11:59 pm TONIGHT and SAVE orcas from pollution and starvation!

We could be among the LAST generation to share the planet with these beautiful creatures. The decline in their favorite food -- Chinook salmon -- due in part to massive cruise ships and their pollution has led to increased stress, starvation, and miscarriages!

Orcas need your help, Friend. The EPA isn’t going to act unless we demand it. And until we do, greedy cruise companies will continue to pollute our oceans and hurt endangered orcas. If just 1 of every 18 people reading this email takes action, we can push the EPA to PROTECT endangered orcas from cruise ships! Act now! 

Standing with you, 
Marcie Keever 
Oceans and vessels program director, 
Friends of the Earth