Orca rights, a YouTube interview with Mark Leiren-Young about Skaana & the Latest in Ocean Eco-News from Canada
Coming soon - more orcas, shark stories & yes, octopus adventures!
“God’s very proud of the whale”
- Job in Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens season 2, episode 2
Great Interview About Skaana
This was big fun… An international Zoom interview with Orca Journals and their hosts in Ireland and America
Mark Leiren-Young - stories that aren’t related to oceans…
A few weeks ago I was invited to give a talk at my local synagogue, Congregation Emanu-El I billed as Moses from Krypton: The Not-So Secret Jewish Origins of Superheroes. Sam Margolis wrote a super piece about it for The Jewish Independent: https://www.jewishindependent.ca/jews-and-superheroes/ Yeah, I should probably at least turn this into an article since it turned into a 75-minute lecture…
I talk about this and more on my personal substack. This week… my adventures with The X-Files…
How do you feel about orca rights?
Skaana is a supporter of Legal Rights for the Salish Sea - an organization advocating for orca rights. How do you feel about orca rights?
Here’s the latest on the ongoing campaign: Arcata First City in California to Support: Southern Resident Orca Rights Proclamation
Our Mission: We are a community group educating people to recognize the inherent rights of the Southern Resident Orcas. Under our current legal system humans and corporations have legal standing but animals and ecosystems don’t. We believe that animals and ecosystems should also have legal rights, not just protections that can be changed by different administrations.
If you’re into oceans, orcas, octopus - and all sorts of vital issues and animals that don’t begin with the letter O, please support our work at Patreon.
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For more on Sharks from a Skaana perspective, please check out Skaana host, Mark Leiren-Young reading from his newest book: Sharks Forever; The Mystery and History of the Planet’s Perfect Predator available everywhere on iTunes, Spotify or our Skaana site.
And speaking of Killer Whales getting feisty…
Meanwhile, in Ocean News…
If you’re not in Canada, you may not realize that you may no longer be seeing Canadian news online… Google and Facebook are at war with the Canadian government and vice versa, so our news sites are being blocked, so we are sharing links to Canadian stories/sites.
I hope you’ll also share our stories and episodes because our stories are also being disappeared from search engines and social media.
On the Oceans & Eco Politics
A couple of great stories from The Hakai:
Our Deepest Dreams: Why Do We Prioritize Space Over the Mysteries of the Ocean?
Southern resident orcas
From the Vancouver Sun: B.C. study links killer whale decline to lack of energy-rich fatty salmon
From The Walrus: Save the herring Are Herring Making a Comeback in BC?
From the Victoria News: new method helping scientists gauge age of Southern Resident killer whales
Orcas being awesome
And a famous east coast (of Canada) orca - from the CBC: Old Thom: The killer whale that everyone knows but few have seen: Beloved orca makes rare return to Bay of Fundy
From CTV: Killer whales have been teaching each other to steal fish from humans, study finds
Octopus Gardens?
Another great story from the Victoria Times Colonist: Deep-sea octopus nursery discovered off Vancouver Island
Sciencing the oceans
From the Times Colonist: Could AI be used to protect whales from underwater noise pollution? The ships will be able to "think" like a whale, researchers say.
From Canadian Geographic: For the safety of the whales: keeping ship traffic under control in Canada’s Arctic Ocean
The humpback comeback
Whale-watchers horrified after humpback nearly struck by speeding boat - from the Victoria Times Colonist
