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Teeth Of Pregnant Orca Sawed Off For Illegal Trinkets?
posted on December 8, 2014
Updated News Release
Re: A Crime Against Nature > Teeth of Pregnant Orca Sawed Off for Illegal Trinkets?
During the evening of December 5th several teeth were sawed off from a dead, pregnant orca from the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whale families. Now they are only 77 left in J, K, and L pods. The 18 year old “J32”/Rhapsody”, who died with a full term baby, had been towed to a Comox, BC beach for a necropsy the next day.
This is desecration against a nonhuman person and a crime against nature. It is a criminal indignity against a body and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Orcas are highly intelligent sentient beings who live their entire lives in close cultural communities. The oldest in this J pod is “Granny” at approximately 100 years old. It is time to recognize the rights of these orcas and all other dolphins who are exploited by the aquarium industry and others.
In addition to possible violations of the Criminal Code of Canada it would be illegal to "harvest" teeth from an endangered species without a permit! The Canadian Species At Risk Act states that it is illegal to possess part of an endangered or threatened animal!
At the Vancouver Aquarium alone all 3 orca babies died, 4 out 5 beluga babies died, and a Pacific white side dolphin had 2 still births. Lifeforce has recently discovered that there are at least 6 more baby deaths fathered by their wild caught beluga Nanuq at the infamous Sea Worlds. This was between 2006 and 2012. Some of the births were by artificial insemination in which “manual stimulation with a glove hand” was used to get the beluga to ejaculate into an “artificial vagina”. The male had to be “trained” for 2 years. They took 42 semen samples and used 10 of them in 7 females. This makes the present total deaths resulting from the Vancouver Aquarium’s pro captivity agenda to at least 45 since 1964.
Everyone can take action to try to save the endangered orcas. We must immediately implement fishing moratoriums, enact strong legislation/enforcement of marine mammal protection laws, stop the commercial/private boats from interrupting orca lifestyles, halt pollution such as the dumping of raw sewage off Victoria, and end military weapon tests where orcas reside. Further, we must boycott cetacean captivity now because they always depend on wild captures and deplete populations under the guise of “conservation”. (More information at www.lifeforcefoundation.org)
For Further Information Contact lifeforcesociety@hotmail.com
Further Reading
http://www.theprovince.com/health/Dead+orca+Courtenay+teeth+stolen/10448812/story.html
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