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Save The Orcas, Inc is a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation and preservation of marine mammals and their threatened habitats. We work to improve conditions for the endangered orcas of the Pacific Northwest, plus other wild and captive marine mammals, through campaigning actions, education, research, conservation efforts, and by providing tools and services to other like-minded organizations.
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An average adult orca can consume anywhere between 100 to 300 pounds of food a day. For many families - including the Southern Resident pods of the Pacific Northwest and Canada - this diet consists primarily of salmon. Sadly, the populations of Pacific salmon have been in decline for the last few decades. What will our orcas do if their food source disappears?
There's no gentle way to say it - Puget Sound, home to three struggling orca pods, would be more aptly named "Pungent" Sound for the overwhelming levels of toxins swirling through its waters. Factories, businesses, state/government agencies, and individual citizens are all guilty of contributing to the problem. Much of the waste dumped into Puget Sound is done so legally. Still, there are many violators of the rules and not enough resources to adequately enforce the Clean Water Act.
Oil spills have long been a danger to our world's environment and wildlife. The most well-known and publicly exposed oil spill - the crash of the Exxon Valdez - raised our nation's general awareness of the risks mankind take when transporting toxic materials through a delicate ecosystem. This 1989 tragedy ended the lives of thousands of animals in Alaska's Prince William Sound. Twenty-two of these were orca deaths.
