Dog Fighting

Now considered a sport, dog fighting consists of dogs that are forced and bred to fight one another for the entertainment and profit of the spectators.

They are regularly conditioned for fighting through the use of drugs, including anabolic steroids to enhance muscle mass and encourage aggressiveness. 

Many dogs used in fighting have their ears cropped and tails docked close to their bodies. Not only do the dogs experience harmful things to their bodies but during the fights, their conditions become worse. 

These conditions include:

1. Puncture wounds

2. Lacerations

3. Blood Loss

4. Broken Bones

Dog Fighting." ASPCA. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2016.

Tilikum's Story

Tilikum 

Tilikum was captured near Iceland in November of 1983, over 30 years ago. At only 2 years old, when he was approximately 13 feet long, he was torn away from his family and ocean home.

 He was held captive against his will and just sum around in circles, as that was all he could do in the small tank. (**Orcas and their pods have been charted to swim over one-hundred miles a day in the wild.**)

Food was withheld from him as a training technique, and he regularly endured painful attacks by two dominant female orcas, Haida and Nootka. He was forced to perform every hour on the hour, eight times a day, seven days a week. The constant stress and exhaustion gave him stomach ulcers.

Over the course of 21 years at SeaWorld, where he is confined to a tank containing 0.0001 percent of the quantity of water that he would swim through in a single day in nature, Tilikum has been involved in multiple incidents of aggression.

This video is in Spanish so you won't understand it, but this is the actual footage of the the Sea World trainer, Dawn Brancheau, being drowned to death by Tilikum the orca at Sea World.

Tilikum scalped and dismembered Dawn as well as breaking bones throughout her body before drowning her.

This image is a view of where Tilikum is kept after his attacks. 
There are no recorded incidents of orca attacks in the wild. This aggressiveness is only shown in captivity.


"MOMENT OF DEAD Dawn BrancheauExclusivo Momento Q a Baleia Orca Mata Treinadora Dawn Brancheau Wmv." YouTube. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2016.
"Over 30 Years and Three Deaths: Tilikum's Tragic Story - SeaWorld of Hurt." SeaWorld of Hurt. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Mar. 2016.

SeaWorld of Hurt

SeaWorld is Not Entertainment 

Sea World has been viewed as a place to go for entertainment and fun for a family for many years since it opened in 1959. 

One of the main attractions at the theme park is the orca show.

Many viewers don't know what happens behind the scenes.

Here are some things that you didn't know about Sea World.
1. Sunburns on the animals are covered up with black zinc oxide. In the wild, orcas spend up to 95 percent of their time submerged and would find shade in the depths of the ocean, but at SeaWorld their tanks are far too shallow. The zinc is considered sunblock for the orcas, but it is usually absorbed. 

2. Some of the orcas at Sea World were kidnapped first and then sent to Sea World. One of the orcas, Tilikum wasn’t taken from his natural environment because he was injured—instead, he was torn away from his family against his will and confined to a small concrete tank for a hefty profit.

The First Orca:
In 1965, the first-ever orca show at SeaWorld was performed by a female orca named Shamu at SeaWorld San Diego. During Shamu’s capture, her mother was shot with a harpoon and killed before the young orca’s very eyes by a marine “cowboy” named Ted Griffin. Griffin’s partner, Don Goldsberry, later worked for SeaWorld and was assigned to bring orcas into the park. He continued kidnapping and slaughtering orcas, and at one point, he hired divers to slit open the bellies of four orcas, fill them with rocks, put anchors around their tails, and sink them to the bottom of the ocean so that their deaths would not be discovered. 

"10 Things You Didn't Know About SeaWorld - SeaWorld of Hurt." SeaWorld of Hurt. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2016.

Poaching

Poaching

Poaching is a deadly crime against wildlife. Wildlife officials say that legal hunters kill tens of millions of animals every year. For each of those animals, another is killed illegally, perhaps on closed land or out of season, leaving orphaned young to starve. Few poachers are caught or punished.

An Endangered (EN) species is a species which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List as likely to become extinct. "Endangered" is the second most severe conservation status for wild populations in the IUCN's schema after Critically Endangered (CR).

Linked below is the list of over 100 endangered species:

https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/directory?direction=desc&sort=extinction_status