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[[link removed]]A weak and hungry pregnant orca swims through the blue Pacific Northwest waters.
She’s looking for life-sustaining salmon, but there’s no food in sight. She’s
running out of time -- if she doesn’t find food soon, she could lose her baby. But planned increases in container ship and oil tanker traffic will drive away
her chances at survival. Friend, don’t let corporate greed drive vulnerable orcas
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Southern Resident orcas are sensitive creatures that exist in tight-knit
communities known as pods. As their food sources dwindle, these emotional
animals can suffer devastating miscarriages -- and they grieve deeply when they
lose a family member, pushing them further into starvation and toward the brink
of extinction. In the last two years alone, they’ve already suffered the deaths of Marina,
Cappuccino, and most recently, young Ripple -- and with every loss, their chances of survival decrease.
To make matters worse, Big Oil tanker and container ship traffic are already
driving away the main food source for Southern Resident orcas -- Chinook salmon.
With less salmon in the waters and reeling from grief, recovery has become a
daunting task for these precious endangered whales. Now more than ever, they
need your help!
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[[link removed]]Southern Resident killer whales are the only endangered species of killer whale
in the United States -- with only 73 left in the remaining pods. Once thriving
in the waters of Washington and British Columbia, this precious species has been
on the decline for years. With their main food source, Chinook salmon, being
driven away by ship and oil tanker traffic -- along with many other stressors, these whales are being driven to starvation and growing weaker each day.
And yet, massive corporations are looking to build the Roberts Bank T2 container
shipping terminal and expand the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline, which would
massively increase direct threats to the pods’ survival.
The Roberts Bank T2 project is a massive, proposed container shipping facility
that developers want to build at the mouth of British Columbia’s Fraser River.
Scientists agree that Roberts Bank will disrupt the migration patterns of
Chinook salmon, the main food source for the endangered orcas. It will force
young salmon into open ocean waters before they are strong enough -- creating a chronic lack of food for the 73 Southern Resident orcas that remain,
including vulnerable new calves.
The Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion would do more of the same, pumping an
additional 590,000 barrels per day of toxic tar sands oil -- the dirtiest kind
-- and exponentially increasing oil tanker shipping in Southern Resident orca
critical habitat from 60 to 400 tankers per year -- from one oil tanker a week
to more than one per day! This would be a ticking time bomb of toxic pollution,
just waiting to spill.
The increased noise from shipping traffic resulting from both these projects
would also disrupt the orcas’ sonar, their primary tool for hunting. Between the
chronic lack of salmon and the disruption of their hunting methods, orcas will
starve to death and be driven to extinction.
We could be the last generation to share the earth with Southern Resident orcas.
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[[link removed]]The possible loss of Southern Resident orcas is a tragedy in and of itself, but
did you know that these aquatic mammals are incredibly important to our
ecosystem? That’s right -- orcas release vital nutrients for phytoplankton into
our oceans, which in turn provide half of the oxygen we breathe while absorbing
hundreds of thousands of tons of carbon each year!
As you can see, Southern Resident orcas are crucial to a thriving ocean habitat
and our own health. But the shipping and oil industries are more interested in
profit than protecting these important creatures. If the trends we’re seeing
continue and we allow Big Oil to push orcas further toward the brink of
extinction, you and I could be part of the last generation to share the earth with these
sensitive, amazing animals.
Friends of the Earth is working with the Biden administration to increase
protections for Southern Resident killer whales, but we need your help to step
up our fight. Your membership donation of $27 or more will help protect these
orcas from going extinct within our lifetimes, save other vulnerable species,
and protect our planet. Please rush your $27 contribution today before the clock
strikes midnight and we lose any more of these majestic creatures.
Fight for Southern Resident orcas today and help save them from extinction. Rush
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[[link removed]]Standing with you,
Marcie Keever
Oceans & vessels program director,
Friends of the Earth
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