The beautiful orca, sometimes called "killer whale" is in fact amazingly gentle and peaceful among its own kind - as well as showing humans the same respect. These social, long-lived creatures live their entire lives in extended matriarchal families. The largest of the dolphins, they posess what may be the most complex brain on earth and communicate constantly; and yet we know very little of them. It is an EarthTrust priority to understand them and to save them.
A pioneer in the work to understand these peaceful but powerful
animals over the past 2 decades is Dr. Paul Spong who runs Orcalab
in British Columbia. Paul is the man who got Greenpeace into the
whale issue in 1975. Since the days of the Ohana Kai whale campaign
in the1977 which he co-directed, Paul has worked in cooperation
with Earthtrust, and in that time he has done amazing work in
documenting the lives of orca, and has been a strong voice for
whale conservation.
Earthtrust currently helps support Orcalab efforts through
granted funds from tax-deductible contributions to the Earthtrust
Orca Program. Historically, 100% of such funds have been granted
to Paul's work at Orcalab. Those wishing to contact Orcalab directly
can reach Paul via email at orcalab@island.net
