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Orca and beluga whales continue to suffer in Russia’s Far East after 10 months of being held prisoners in the now infamous “The Whale Jail” 

Eleven orcas and 90 beluga whales have been kept for sale to China in the facility in Srednyaya Bay. However, three beluga whales went missing, and one orca reportedly disappeared. Police are carrying out an investigation. A criminal case has been launched into illegal hunting of these mammals.

The Russian Federation has banned the export of these mammals & have ordered their release back into the wild. 

Jean Michel Cousteau and a team of experts have assessed the whales and formed a plan for their rehabilitation and release to their place of capture this summer. 

Russian authorities have begun seriously discussing the release of orcas right in the Bay of Srednyaya instead of where they were captured from. 

Release in Srednyaya is an attempt to compromise the return of orcas to the wild, which can end deadly 

The Pacific NAVY Fleet offered assistance in transporting orcas to their places of capture - this is the only right and humane way for release, but this proposal is completely ignored by the authorities!  Why? 

This is an attempt to compromise the release and find the reasons why orcas will have to be sold to China

The Minister of Natural Resources, Kobylkin, has stated many times that animal welfare guidelines have always been in place, but these are just words. In fact, no preparation for release has yet been started, and now a ridiculous version of the fast release in Srednyaya is being considered, which is guaranteed to fail.

Please sign and share our petition to ask the Russian Federation to ban all wild captures of cetaceans for research, sale and public display, and to release all animals in the “Whale Jail” to where they were captured from  in the Sea of Okhotsk immediately!

Thank you!

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