imagine a lone killer whale weighing about 4,000 pounds floating in a giant pool at a water park. His name is Kiska and he is the only orca to have survived in captivity at Marineland in Ontario, in Niagara Falls (Canada).

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“New video taken on January 14, 2023 over MarineLand and its last surviving orca, Kiska. His conditions continue to deteriorate as he floats in solitude.” posted on his Twitter account Phil Dremers, former head of the killer whale trainers of the said complex and now one of the main defenders of the release of these cetaceans.

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The video, captured with a drone, has thousands of views. According to the Spanish newspaper the vanguard, Kisha was captured in Iceland in 1979. She would have been around three years old. And it has been taken to Ontario (Canada) since 1982.

Her It is known that in the last 40 years she has been a mother five times, although her puppies died a few days after birth or when they were very young. And in those four decades he had about 20 companions, typical of his species (Orcinus orca), but all died or were transferred due to adaptation problems. And she’s been living alone for 11 years, in the same pool, with little contact with humans.

Animal Justice, a Canadian animal rights organization, has been collecting signatures and advocating for the orca’s release for several years. “In Ontario, it is not only illegal to cause physical distress or suffering to an animal, but it is also illegal to cause psychological distress.said the environmental group, recalling a video posted by Phil Demers himself in which the orca appears hitting the glass of the swimming pool, as a sign of the despair in which it must survive due to its captivity in solitude.

On the famous Change.org portal, you can complete the petition to free the animal, through the #FreeKiska campaign.

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According the vanguardAnimal Justice hopes that Canadian authorities will confirm the allegations and find that Kiska is being abused.

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