SeaWorld Criticizes Ban on Orca Breeding

“Depriving these social animals of the natural and fundamental right to reproduce is inhumane and we do not support this condition”, Manby added in his statement. “But the commission’s action ensures that no more orcas will be condemned to a non-life of loneliness, deprivation and misery”.

The ruling also says the eleven orcas SeaWorld now has will be the last they ever get.

The vast majority of SeaWorld’s whales are born in captivity, so releasing them back into the wild is quite hard. The movie criticizes keeping orcas in captivity and focuses on the death of a SeaWorld trainer who died while interacting with a whale.

Animal rights activists were ecstatic over the outcome of the months-long process that ended with a unanimous vote by commissioners Thursday night.

The conditions of approval for the massive new tank expansion essentially twist the arms of San Diego’s SeaWorld facility. One of the charmingly idiosyncratic aspects of governance in California is that the Coastal Commission regulates all construction done within about 1000 yards of the coastline.

Loss of the killer whale shows would be a huge blow to SeaWorld, since it is the top attraction at the park.

“A lot would need to happen for SeaWorld’s business to be over”, said James Hardiman of Wedbush Securities.

“The Animal Legal Defense Fund is pleased that the Commission has acknowledged that captive breeding and the use of orcas for public entertainment has no relationship to legitimate orca conservation”. She said she was able to approve the project, but only with conditions. The left-wing organization has employed numerous coercive tactics to injure park perception including litigiously fought for anti-SeaWorld airport ads and praise for fame seeking celebrity acts of vandalism.

The new ruling could means that the park’s whales will grow old and die in SeaWorld without breeding new offspring, but because of the young age of a few of the park’s whales, SeaWorld’s killer whale program could continue to operate for decades to come. “We have nothing but the whales’ best interest at heart”.

This was once more something that SeaWorld refuted with veterinarian Hendrik Nollens calling the accusations outlandish.

Under the expansion, SeaWorld would demolish portions of a 1995 facility that included a 1.7-million gallon pool and replace it with a 5.2-million gallon tank and 450,000-gallon pool.