Postcards for Kiska

This past year grade 4 students at Clairlea learned all about orcas in their Awesome Orcas Keep It Wild! workshop. Students spent a long time discussing the differences between the natural habitat of orcas and life in captivity. 

Here's a great message for Marineland from Iyanna:

I love your rides and all, but your whale shows concern me. I think you should make the whales happy. 

Picture by Avri

Kamal thoughtfully comments on the educational value of keeping whales in captivity:

A greeting! I would like to talk about orca whales. I think you shouldn't keep them in captivity because children aren't learning what whales are. In the wild they are the number 1 predator. 

Picture by Sankavis 

And Gowtham comments about the risk of keeping these highly social and intelligent animals in captivity:

Orca whales in captivity don't get enough space. They get no communication with other whales [when kept isolated, like Kiska]  and they don't get to hunt. The orca whales might go crazy and kill their trainers. 

Picture by Maddy 

Orcas - Keep Them Wild!