Your Signature Is Needed: Alki the orca desperately clings to her newborn calf as she grieves untimely death

 

URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Grieving orcas like Alki and Tahlequah are losing their newborn calves while corporate overfishing is pushing them closer to starvation! Take action now! >> Just last month → A mother orca breaks the surface slowly with her dorsal fin… just beneath her, she carries the limp body of her newborn calf: motionless, lifeless, umbilical cord still trailing in the water. For at least THREE days, Alki refused to let go of her dead baby, visibly mourning as she helplessly nudged the body repeatedly as if trying to wake her. Alki is no stranger to grief either: this is her third calf in five years – none have survived. We’ve witnessed this kind of sorrow before. In 2018, another Southern Resident mother, Tahlequah, captured hearts around the world when she carried her dead calf for 17 days across hundreds of miles. But these tragic stories aren’t just about grief and loss – endangered Southern Resident orcas are facing a SURVIVAL CRISIS. Their only dependable food source, Chinook salmon, is disappearing: driven by corporate fishing giants who are stripping our oceans of their natural resources and leaving hungry orcas starving. When salmon vanish, orca pregnancies fail. It’s a statistical fact: MOST orca pregnancies end in miscarriage. And even when a calf is born, nearly HALF don’t survive their first year. Now, with just 73 of these beloved sea mammals remaining in the wild, replenishing Chinook salmon is vital to keeping orcas and their babies nourished and pushing their dwindling population on the path to recovery – before that number falls to ZERO. If greedy fishing corporations are not reined in with stricter industrial regulations by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), our precious orcas will be too weak, too underfed, and too vulnerable to survive. But NMFS won’t act without overwhelming public pressure from activists like YOU speaking up for voiceless orcas. Will you join us in the fight to help SAVE endangered orcas from EXTINCTION today? ADD YOUR NAME: Tell NMFS to step up and STOP corporate overfishing immediately! >>

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