Ultimately DFO left Luna alone in Nootka Sound. Despite our transboundary mediation efforts, the impending homecoming of Luna fell apart before the eyes of the world. But DFO and its partner Vancouver Aquarium didn't listen. At times, we were the only ones calling for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to help Luna, which stonewalled a response until the intense media attention we helped create - and Springer's triumphant family reunion - forced its hand.We also were the only ones urging DFO to respectfully engage the First Nations, as our group and OrcaLab had done so well with the Namgis First Nation during the Springer effort. We never stopped advocating for this other displaced orca - this time one of our Puget Sound orcas stuck in Canadian waters. But all along, we never took our eye off Luna. Her successful reintroduction made history.
But as the media reports here show, we always considered Luna part of that grand international effort.Our call to action to rescue Springer and return her to Canada captured the imagination of the world.
With little financial resources and against all odds - and in a remarkably short amount of time - we rallied the public and the U.S. "It was a daring, dangerous and highly publicized effort, NBC Nightly News would report about our Springer advocacy, and now it appears it worked. It's a tale with many turns, but in the end, an avoidable tragedy.In the spring of 2002, we launched the effort to rescue and return the orphaned and displaced orca A73, or Springer, from the waters off Seattle back to her natal Northern Resident Community in BC. The following is a chronicle of a juvie whale gone solo in Nootka Sound, BC, and Orca Conservancy's three-year battle to keep him safe and to engage the entire community to find a timely and respectful way to reconnect him with his endangered orca family in Puget Sound.
#FLYNNS COVE NOOTKA ISLAND ARCHIVE#
THE LUNA FILE is a chronological archive of media reports, updates, commentary and journal notes on the sad saga of the wrongway Southern Resident orca L98, also known as Luna - or Tsux'iit (soo-keet) to the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation.
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