Tell the Canadian Department of Fisheries & Oceans that it's time to act in rescuing Luna
Posted September 17, 2002 (updated October 3, 2003) -- International Marine Mammal Project
New Luna Update:
Luna, the whale in distress off of West Vancouver Island, Canada, will be helped with your donations that go directly to two organizations. They are The Whale Museum's Luna Stewardship Fund and the (Canadian) Veins of Life Watershed Society. If you are a US taxpayer and wish to cite your donation on your tax return, use the Whale Museum contact information.
For Luna Updates and donation information for both organizations, go to:
http://www.salishsea.ca/m3/luna/luna.html (scroll down page)
The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans thus far are content to let Luna's condition deteriorate. You can help Luna by making a contribution today (see below). Earth Island's Orca Recovery Campaign thanks you.
Donate Today!
Support the effort to reunite Luna with his pod -- make a contribution today! Your donation will used for Luna's reunion with L pod and for noncaptivity stewardship activities
- U.S. residents, please make a donation (tax-deductible) to:
The Whale Museum/Luna Stewardship Project
PO Box 945
Friday Harbor, WA 98250
Online: www.whalemuseum.org
[Click on "Adopt an Orca Now!" and select "Luna, L-98" on the following page.]
- Canadian residents, make a donation (not tax-deductible) to:
Veins of Life Watershed Society/Luna Stewardship Project
Box 36057
1153 Esquimalt Rd.
Victoria BC, V9A 7J5
NOTE: If possible, please let them know that you were referred by Earth Island's Orca Recovery Campaign!
LUNA THANKS YOU!
Further Background
Luna is a young (born in 1999) orca whale who became separated from his southern resident L pod during the winter of 2000/2001. At a time he should be with his pod in the southern end of Vancouver Island and further south, he is instead far away in Nootka Sound on the northern end.
So far, Luna has been successfully living alone, but socially starved. He is in near daily contact with boats seeking social contact despite efforts of whale patrol boats which are trying to prevent propeller injuries and a dependence on human interactions - a real problem if he lives to be a large adult. The other danger is that he may not be able to find food when the salmon runs diminish soon in his current location. His pod, with its collective knowledge and cooperative feeding efforts, will mean the difference between life and death for Luna.
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