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From an original photograph by Katy Foster
While most orcas and beluga whales move and hunt freely in the wild, their captive counterparts - some 3000 worldwide - spend their lives confined to small concrete tanks. Thankfully a team of marine mammal experts has come together and committed to creating a model seaside sanctuary where these social and intelligent animals may retire with a sense of freedom and dignity.
After lives of exploitation, of performing, forced breeding, and unending display, formerly captive orcas and beluga whales will have a chance to live their remaining years in a natural environment - diving, breaching, foraging, hunting and socializing - at peace. At the very least, we owe them this.
To learn more about this incredible project, please see http://whalesanctuaryproject.org
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Painted from an original photograph by Cheryl Alexander
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Painted from an original photograph by Cheryl Alexander
A lone wild wolf once lived in a small group of islands near Victoria, B.C. No one knows why he split from his pack and chose to swim so far or why he remained for eight years, eking out a solitary life amidst the myriad wildlife of the Salish Sea. Dining on goose eggs and seal, ‘Takaya’ braved the currents between the islands, surviving through the seasons, his mournful howl a delight to passing kayakers. Conservationist Cheryl Alexander brought Takaya’s story to the world through film and photos, a treasury of behaviours and instincts unique to this one wild wolf. He has become a symbol of resiliency and strength, ingenuity and capability - taking from the land only what he needed to live a healthy and peaceful life.
Sadly, Takaya’s life was cut short when he was killed by a trophy hunter, one in roughly 1200 wolves legally killed annually in B.C.
To learn more about Takaya please see takayalonewolf.com
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Painted from an original photograph by Cheryl Alexander
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Painted from an original photograph by Cheryl Alexander
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Travelers and locals delight in the magic of seeing the Salish Sea’s killer whales. Two ecotypes – Residents and Transients – co-exist in these waters. While Southern Residents prefer to eat salmon and travel in large matrilineal groups, Transients feed on marine mammals and mostly travel in groups of 2-6 individuals. Killer Whales, or Orcas, are often seen from Washington State’s Stuart Island, or more specifically the Turn Point Light, overlooking the Haro Straits.
To learn more about killer whales, please see www.whaleresearch.com
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Developing at roughly the same pace as humans, elephant calves require mother’s milk for the first 2 years of life, and reach adulthood at 20 years. Like us, elephants are family oriented and will not just show compassion toward others, but will celebrate birth, have lifelong friendships and will profoundly grieve when they lose one of their own.
While elephants share a lot of human traits, they have the distinct and enviable abilities of long-range infrasound communication (which human’s cannot hear) and excellent memory.
For more than 40 years, The Amboseli Trust for Elephants has worked to ensure long-term conservation and welfare of a population of over 1,500 elephants. To learn more, please visit www.elephanttrust.org.
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Elephants often spark our interest and compassion because they share so many human traits and emotions, as well as having their own distinct and enviable abilities, including communication by long-range infrasound (which human’s cannot hear), and excellent memory.
This painting is of gentle Ethan who is an independent and calm bull seen socializing with a calf in Amboseli National Park, Kenya.
For more than 40 years, The Amboseli Trust for Elephants has worked to ensure long-term conservation and welfare of a population of over 1,500 elephants. To learn more, please visit www.elephanttrust.org.
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In 2012, a three-month-old elephant calf fell into a manmade well while travelling with his mother and family near Amboseli National Park in Kenya. The cries of both the little bull and his desperate mother were heard by a local tribesman, Muterian, who discovered them at sunrise and remained by the well until help arrived from The Amboseli Elephant Trust. Sadly while Muterian waited with the mother and baby, a herd of cattle streamed in to drink from the enormous well and frightened the mother away.
After a long wait in the hot sun, the calf was airlifted to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT) nursery in Nairobi, where he eventually overcame the grief of losing his family, and began the important process of bonding with other orphans and their keepers.
Without the protection of their mothers and herd, all the young orphans at DSWT, like the little rescued calf named Lemoyian, are vulnerable to pneumonia and must wear a blanket to shield them from sun, wind and rain.
This painting is of Lemoyian re-uniting with Muterian.
To see photos of Lemoyian’s story, or to learn about the Orphan’s Project and Fostering Program, please visit www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org
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I painted this watercolour in honour of Dr. Jane Goodall’s 80th birthday. Gremlin (born 1970) is Goodall’s favourite chimpanzee due to her patience as a mother and her expertise in fishing for termites. In 1998 Gremlin gave birth to Golden (Goldie) and Glitter, the oldest twin chimpanzees known in the wild.
The Kasakela chimpanzee community was the subject of Dr. Goodall’s pioneering study, becoming the longest continuous study of any animals in their natural habitat, which included a previously unknown convention of naming her subjects. Infants were named by using the first letter of their mother’s name so the matriline could be traced.
To learn more about Jane Goodall’s work, please see janegoodall.ca
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Venice, Italy
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Original photo by Simon Maennling
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“To my mind, I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.”
- Mohandas Gandhi
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Meet Wallace!
He’s a poster pig for how lives are transformed through kindness. Once the victim of cruelty and neglect, Wallace was adopted by the Hockhockson Farm Foundation - the Stewart family’s 45 acre farm sanctuary in New Jersey - and blossomed into a social, loving, and curious pig.
To learn more about Wallace’s life story and of Hockhockson Farm Foundation, please click the following link: Hockhockson Farm
Hockhockson Farm
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Hockhockson Farm
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Fauna Foundation
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Dear Darla is a Rhesus Macaque Monkey, born in 1987. Used in research studies at Ontario’s Queen’s University, she retired to The Fauna Foundation, Quebec, early in 2005. Still nervous around humans, she’s warmed up to another Rhesus Macaque named Newton, as well as to the routine of regular fresh food, including her favourites – milk, sweet potatoes and cactus pears.
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Fauna Foundation
Fauna Foundation
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At roughly 38 years old, Toby is a large chimpanzee who grew up at The St. Felicien Zoo. After losing all his chimpanzee family in that facility, he arrived at Fauna in 2002, forming many chimpanzee and human friendships. Toby enjoys colouring, playing with toys and eating cooked vegetables.
The Fauna Foundation was created to protect and care for neglected, abused farm and domestic animals, and former biomedical research chimpanzees. Providing a safe and protected habitat in which to thrive, roughly 80 animals currently live in the Sanctuary. Each has a unique personality, and an often-deplorable background story involving institutionalized use for food, entertainment, research or training.
Fauna Foundation was awarded the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS) accreditation in February 2012, a first in Canada.
To learn more about The Fauna Foundation, please see faunafoundation.org.
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In 1994, Eeyore was born in Quebec’s Parc Safari Zoo. Shortly after, his mother died and he required bottle-feeding and other intensive care-giving. At that time, Eeyore was surrendered to The Fauna Foundation, where he was raised and enjoyed the companionship of a horse named McLeod.
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Rescue. Rehab. Repeat. This is the mantra of the Beagle Freedom Project, a non-profit animal rescue and advocacy organization and the world’s leading organization for rescuing and rehoming animals used in experimental research. BFP is dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of animals used in testing and research and subjected to other forms of unique cruelty, abuse and neglect. BFP strives to end this cruelty through its educational programs, campaign initiatives and lobbying efforts to make the world a better, safer and healthier place for both animals and people alike. To learn more about The Beagle Freedom Project please see bfp.org
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