The Orca Dilema: What To Do About Tilikum?
Yeah, right, SeaWorld. OSHA and all the other orca experts don't understand but YOU do. That's why your precautions have been so (un)successful... OSHA's probe "revealed that SeaWorld trainers had an...
View ArticleOcean Champions, Part One
there are many other champions of the oceans, people who have been working quietly outside of the limelight. These heroes have gone largely unsung. Protect The Ocean is pleased to bring some of them...
View ArticleA Plea For Vegetarianism
... if we were just to eat the grain ourselves instead, we'd have 5-8 times as much food, and no animals would suffer, no massive slaughterhouse processing would be necessary, that much less fertilizer...
View ArticleNeed Help with Safety Equipment
For years, Protect The Ocean survived by donating our time and effort. Often this meant putting off our jobs, the way we make a living, because the events in the world were simply too important to put...
View ArticleCall To End Use of FADs! Tuna Whistleblower Shows All!
Greenpeace provides this video footage from a commercial tuna operation’s helicopter pilot, calling it “The Video the Global Tuna Industry Doesn’t Want You To See.” (WARNING: The video shows violence!)...
View ArticleOh Impotent We!
Protect The Ocean began writing about (and campaigning against) the use of Corexit within 2 days of BP’s use of it. Corexit is the real culprit, you see, far more deadly than the oil itself, and the...
View ArticleWhere Have All The Whalers Gone?
Seriously. As late as the 1970’s, Australia and the United States were amongst the whaling nations. After even the International Whaling Commission (IWC), which is a pro-whaling organization, called...
View ArticleA Human Issue
The killing of dolphins and whales is not a matter of national sovereignty, any more than human rights are a state-by-state issue. This is a HUMAN behavior; humans are doing these killings, so it is up...
View ArticleOcean Armageddon
Perhaps this is Gaia's way of ridding herself of an annoyingly destructive parasite, a plague of vermin that she recognizes as a threat to her well-being. In the bigger picture, it is of no consequence...
View ArticleLionfish Light The Way
As some of you may know, the Lionfish is a warm-water species from the Indo-Pacific waters. Sporting venomous spines, they are a generalist, eating everything from fish nearly half their size, to...
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