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Sam Lipman, 32, & Ken Balcomb, 82, devoted their lives to whales

December 18, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Balcomb spent more than 50 years in the cause,  Lipman just 15,  but both left a mark             FRIDAY HARBOR, Washington; CRAWLEY, West Sussex, U.K.––Self-described “orcaholics” Samantha “Sam” Lipman,  32,  and Ken Balcomb,  82,  half a world and 50 years apart,  died on November 29,  2022 and December 15,  2022,  […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Marine life, Marine mammals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, USA, Whales & dolphins Tagged With: Free Morgan!, Free Willy!, Howard Garrett, Keiko, Loro Parque, Merritt Clifton, Miami Seaquarium, SeaWorld

About Tilikum: an open letter to Sea World

March 14, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

by Russ Rector To:  SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment (9205 Southpark Center Loop #400,  Orlando,  FL  32819) Necropsy of wild animals is essential in conservation.  Sea mammals of key interest include the orca or ‘killer whale’.  Tilikum,  a famous captive orca presented to the public as education for over 31 years,  is regularly described as an […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Top, Laws & politics, Letters, Marine life, Marine mammals, Opinions & Letters, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Blackfish, Dawn Brancheau, Keltie Byrne, Russ Rector, SeaWorld, Tillikum

Could SeaWorld survive if founded today?

November 16, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

In quest of aquatic novelty          SAN DIEGO,  ORLANDO,  SAN ANTONIO––A false alarm that SeaWorld San Diego might phase out orca exhibitions in early November 2015 upstaged word that would-be aquarium magnate Ammon Covino had been arrested––again––for wildlife trafficking. Even in San Antonio,  Texas,  where Ammon’s brother Vince Covino operates an aquarium almost in the […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Top, Fish, Laws & politics, Marine life, Marine mammals, Seals, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Ammon Covino, Depoe Bay Aquarium, Keiko, Sea Lion Caves, SeaWorld, Vincent Covino

Sinking SeaWorld shoves 311 staff overboard

December 13, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

SeaWorld stock continues Titanic plunge ORLANDO, Florida––SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. reportedly threw 311 staff to the sharks of unemployment on December 12, 2014, less than 24 hours after president and chief executive officer Jim Atchison walked the plank, in the wake of a 28% dive in third-quarter profits. SeaWorld stock continued a Titanic plunge from more […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Middle Right, Marine life, Marine mammals, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, SeaWorld, Tilikum

Spectacular Nature:   Corporate Culture and the SeaWorld Experience

June 28, 1999 By Merritt Clifton

 by Susan G. Davis University of California Press (Berkeley,  CA  94720),  1997.  313 pages,  paperback;  $18.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton        Spectacular Nature author Susan G. Davis spent eight years studying SeaWorld  San Diego,  1987-1995.  I spent under eight hours at SeaWorld San Diego,  on May 7,  1999  but it was time enough to confirm her […]

Filed Under: Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Marine mammals Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, SeaWorld, Shamu, Susan G. Davis

Dirty Pool, part 3: Keiko

January 28, 1995 By Merritt Clifton

by Merritt Clifton January/February 1995 I had not planned to write a third part of my “Dirty Pool” series on propaganda interfering with marine mammal protection,  but as the second part went to press on November 22,  1994,  Warner Brothers and New Regency Productions donated $2 million to a new Free Willy/Keiko Foundation formed by Earth […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Marine mammals Tagged With: Center for Whale Research, Keiko, Merritt Clifton, Reino Aventura, SeaWorld

Dirty Pool, part 1

November 28, 1994 By Merritt Clifton

by Merritt Clifton November 1994 ORLANDO,  NEW YORK CITY,  MYSTIC––Activists don’t believe anything they hear from the “aquaprison industry.”  Oceanarium people don’t trust activists to know truth when they see it.  And small wonder on either side,  given the pitch of the propaganda for and against keeping marine mammals in captivity. This debate differs from […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Marine mammals Tagged With: Brian Joseph, Jerye Mooney, Merritt Clifton, Ric O'Barry, SeaWorld

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