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Urge SeaWorld to Send Corky to a Seaside Sanctuary

While SeaWorld has ended its orca-breeding program, this does nothing to help animals like Corky who will continue to swim in circles inside tiny tanks for decades until they die. The company must empty its tanks and release these long-suffering animals into seaside sanctuaries, where they can have some semblance of a natural life.





In the wild, orcas have been documented swimming up to 140 miles a day in the open ocean, but captive orcas are confined to small tanks in which they go insane out of stress and loneliness. Some of these animals, like Corky, were violently captured and torn away from their homes in the wild, and many are forced to learn and perform circus-style tricks. According to whistleblower tips from trainers, withholding food from animals who refuse to perform is a common training method, and because of the intense frustration caused by captivity, orcas gnaw on the metal gates and concrete corners of the tanks and damage their teeth.





The only thing that people learn from visiting a SeaWorld theme park is how miserable life is for the animals confined there. Marine parks teach all the wrong lessons: that it’s acceptable to imprison animals, to deprive them of freedom of movement and choice, to forbid them the chance to establish their natural territory and explore, to breed and separate them at will, and to watch them go insane from loneliness and frustration.

SeaWorld has taken a step forward, but ending its sordid orca-breeding program does nothing to help animals like Corky who will continue to swim in circles inside tiny tanks for decades until they die. Help Corky today by taking a moment to ask the company to implement a firm and rapid plan to release her to a seaside sanctuary where she will be given some semblance of the natural life that she has been denied for so long.



