When it comes to threatening Lolita, the government is even more villainous than the Miami Seaquarium.
Her well-being should be ultimately ensured by the government; instead it effectively ignores her legal rights to special protection as a Southern Resident Killer Whale, ignores scientific evidence of captivity's harmful effect on cetaceans, and thereby further endangers Lolita and her entire family.
Through its inaction the government has accomplished just the opposite of the intent of the Endangered Species Act, which was signed into law by President Nixon on this day 37 years ago.
To mark this occasion, contact your elected officials in the U.S. and Canada and insist the government be held accountable for failing to provide Lolita legal protection to which she has been entitled under the ESA for more than five years.
The Southern Residents are true international residents as their Salish Sea home waters are not bound by the U.S./Canadian border.
There are also provisions for private citizens to take legal action against the government to make sure the act is enforced.
If politicians and bureaucrats won't take appropriate action, then the citizens must!
Her well-being should be ultimately ensured by the government; instead it effectively ignores her legal rights to special protection as a Southern Resident Killer Whale, ignores scientific evidence of captivity's harmful effect on cetaceans, and thereby further endangers Lolita and her entire family.
Through its inaction the government has accomplished just the opposite of the intent of the Endangered Species Act, which was signed into law by President Nixon on this day 37 years ago.
To mark this occasion, contact your elected officials in the U.S. and Canada and insist the government be held accountable for failing to provide Lolita legal protection to which she has been entitled under the ESA for more than five years.
The Southern Residents are true international residents as their Salish Sea home waters are not bound by the U.S./Canadian border.
There are also provisions for private citizens to take legal action against the government to make sure the act is enforced.
If politicians and bureaucrats won't take appropriate action, then the citizens must!
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