Deborah Clarke

Named ‘Surfacing’, more than 10,000 individual plants made up this orca mother and calf floral display near Victoria harbour, British Columbia. It stands over 13 feet  tall and is 19 feet long - beautiful! Photo: Ben Fenlon/Victoria News

More than 40,000 Australian humpback whales will soon be migrating along Australia's New South Wales coastline - these magnificent whales swim from Antarctica to North Queensland each season and the first whales of the season have already been spotted passing Byron Bay!

🫍 6️⃣5️⃣5️⃣3️⃣days 😢💔😡😖😔😞😤😡 in Captivity @LoroParque Thanks to @seaworldisevil #FreeMorgan #Blackfish Her 2nd baby TENO is born in captivity. It’s a boy that will NEVER know FREEDOM #CaptivityKills

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#freeLucy Visiting Lucy does not help Lucy. It helps the zoo keep her trapped, isolated,and displayed as entertainment. Compassion is not standing at the glass and feeling sad compassion is refusing to support her suffering and demanding a sanctuary, not a cage. #yegzoo #Edmonton

🫍 6️⃣5️⃣5️⃣2️⃣days 😢💔😡😖😔😞😤😡 in Captivity @LoroParque Thanks to @seaworldisevil #FreeMorgan #Blackfish Her 2nd baby TENO is born in captivity. It’s a boy that will NEVER know FREEDOM #CaptivityKills

@OrcaSOS I would if I could but I'm in the UK 😞

IT'S NOW OR NEVER 4 THE SOUTHERN RESIDENTS Demand Canada rescind proposal to fast-track pipelines & major projects that severely weaken at-risk species protections. This gravely undermines the risk that SRKWs are under & puts Salish Sea under further peril georgiastrait.org/work/species-a…

The Hawaiʻi Supreme Court is currently deciding whether Mari & Vaigai at the #HonoluluZoo can have their day in court. It would be the 3rd time a state’s highest court hears arguments on behalf of a nonhuman animal's right to liberty. Help make history: bit.ly/4uxHIbG

The Guga hunt is shameful. Gannet chicks are taken from their nests and killed for a local delicacy - and NatureScot gives licences for it.

Whales are worth far more alive than dead. They store carbon, support ecosystems and inspire millions. Protecting whales means protecting our planet. #CaptainPaulWatson

I’m absolutely disgusted to introduce one of today’s admissions, as he has been attacked by kids 😡 In the park at Greenhill Community Hub (Skelmerdale) three girls around 10-12 years old were observed throwing the hedgehog down the slide and also throwing him up in the air dropping to the floor, before deciding to bury him alive! 😠 What breaks my heart even more is that judging by his body temperature and the fact he has flystrike near his tail, it indicates to me that Hedgy was out during the day because he was feeling unwell. And instead of finding kind humans to help him, he was instead thrown around like a toy. What’s even worse is that if he was very unwell, he would not have been able to curl into a ball to defend himself. Spines also work as shock absorbers when they curl up, and without this protection who knows what damage these girls have caused. A young boy saw some of this cruelty and told his friend as he knew his friends mum would help. They walked to the park immediately and saw the girls walking/running away as they tended to the hoggie who they could see was still breathing under the soil in a plant pot. I’m beyond outraged, heartbroken, and disgusted by the actions of those girls. This will be a police matter; I will be filing a report tomorrow morning and I WILL push this as far as I can to find justice. Hedgy is on some nice painkillers, being warmed up in an incubator. I’m awake every two hours for the hoglet, so I will be keeping a very close eye on him and if he seems in pain (he’s out cold right now) I will take him to the emergency vet. Otherwise I’ll try and stabilise him overnight and take him for x-rays tomorrow at the Rescue’s normal vet surgery. I’m extremely grateful to the boys involved in getting Hedgy to safety and help 💜 PLEASE SHARE THIS POST so that hopefully any witnesses can contact me with further information. I will be contacting the Greenville Community Hub tomorrow to check for CCTV. It is not fair that an animal has been treated this way 💔

@EmmanuelMacron intervene. Wikie and Keijo were promised a sanctuary no more aquariums. Yet your minister now wants to send them to Loro Parque. You have the power to stop this. Honor France’s promise: send them to a sanctuary, not another concrete‑tank prison. #Endcaptivity

Twelve black bears at Marineland are on the move to their new home at a sanctuary in the United States more than 2,000 kilometres away as the park slowly winds down its operations. chch.com/chch-news/mari…

Much of life underwater is shaped by sound. Humpback whales are among the ocean’s most renowned singers, producing long and complex vocalisations that many human listeners experience as haunting, ethereal or even mournful. Sound helps whales communicate across vast distances, navigate, find food and locate one another underwater. Yet we are still uncovering just how sophisticated these acoustic systems may be. Earlier this year, researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announced the discovery of what is believed to be the oldest known recording of a whale song, captured near Bermuda in 1949 during sonar experiments. The recording predates the famous discovery of whale song in the 1960s by almost twenty years. The discovery also highlighted how dramatically the ocean’s acoustic environment has changed in recent decades. Underwater noise levels have increased sharply, driven largely by shipping traffic, industrial activity, seismic surveys and other human-generated sound. For whales, that matters. Research has shown that underwater noise can interfere with whale communication, increase stress levels and make it harder for marine animals to navigate or detect danger. Some species appear to compensate by calling louder in noisy conditions. At the same time, our understanding of whale communication continues to evolve. Decades of research have revealed extraordinary complexity in how whales use sound, but many aspects of that acoustic world remain only partially understood. The ocean is not silent. And for many marine species, sound is fundamental to how they communicate, navigate and survive. 📸 Toby Matthews / Ocean Image Bank @WHOI #whales #whalesong #oceans

Nailed it. Thank you @AbiluTangwa W

Official: MarineLand’s bears have been removed from their old, decrepit pit and are now en route to their new home at Colorado’s Wild Animal Sanctuary . Much respect to the dedicated animal welfare orgs and activists that made this happen.

Official: 2 large trailers containing MarineLand’s captive bears have left the park and are en route to their new home/sanctuary in Colorado. For the first time in over 60 years, MarineLand no longer has any captive bears. Rejoice!

We have a once in a generation chance to finally end fox hunting for good. See comments.

The House of Bruar is selling a range of fur products from foxes, raccoons and more. Fur farming is illegal in Britain and selling it shouldn't be allowed, but the Government refuse to ban fur imports despite huge public support to do so