PETA Inspired: SeaWorld SeaSide Sanctuaries
Seaside sanctuaries are an idea of PETA to remove Orca whales and other aquatic animals from SeaWorld parks and move them into these designated sanctuaries.
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Seaside sanctuaries are oceanic preserves that specialize in providing the optimal care for specific aquatic animals, like orcas, by providing them continued human care they received in captivity, while providing them with amble natural space of the ocean.
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The seaside and coast allows for the habitats of orcas to be made in a more natural manner and provides a larger space; as it compares to past concrete tanks orcas were housed in.
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PETA posed for SeaWorld to move all their orcas to these sanctuaries, but did not talk about opening them up to park guests of SeaWorld.
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If PETA could be comfortable with allowing SeaWorld to open the seaside sanctuaries to paid attendance of the public. It would provide SeaWorld with the resources required to continue to have the funding needed for its animal conservation programs, but also funding to sustain the seaside sanctuaries themselves.
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It is estimated in a Hein academic journal that expected costs to build a seaside sanctuary is 5 million dollars and 500,000 dollars yearly to maintain one.
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SeaWorld would also be able to continue to educate park guests on animal appreciation, by showing them beautiful aquatic wildlife; animals that cannot be seen anywhere else.
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Bellow is a PETA website on seaside sanctuaries for more information.
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SeaWorld has also tried to make strides to move orcas in captivity by providing their response to an organization called the Whale Sanctuary Project. Whale Sanctuary Project is a nonprofit organization, located in Washington D.C, that works to find areas of open ocean, like islands and coves that can be sectioned off for a orca sanctuary.
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SeaWorld, along with countless other anti-captivity animal advocate groups, may not be comfortable moving whales that have depended on their synthetic environment their whole life. But they do believe
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“something between a tank and the deep blue sea”
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would provide the optimal choice for orcas to live out the rest of their lives. Something more like PETA's proposed seaside sanctuaries.
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For more information on this project, check out their website in the link bellow.