#freethesnake

[rapidpunches]

In a different world...

[snini-9]

Resting in Memory

As the moon rises, the border between dead ans alive grows thin. The exhales of the pod fill the air, the noise the only sound in the still night. The living are not alone though, traveling with them, the family they lost. Gone, but not forgotten. 8 living whales surface, bodies almost touching. 14 spirits follow, traveling once more with their earthbound family.

This is a project that has spanned almost two months. It started as a warm up sketch of J38 Cookie, but slowly, more whales started being added as my ideas became stronger. Then I had to buy some white gouache and figure out how to mix it with my watercolors to get the opacity, color, and vibrancy that I wanted. Today was a painting day once I got done with school and this painting just seemed to paint itself.

The southern residents need salmon to survive, but they’re starving to death, unable to find the salmon they so desperately need. Their dwindling numbers only remind us that their time is running out. We’re watching extinction happen right before our eyes.

[tapfineart-blog]

#75Orca are left in the Southern Resident population of the Pacific Northwest. I’m drawing one Orca a day for 75 days from April 1 - June 14 to raise awareness and funds. Each drawing is $20 and 50% goes to the Orca Conservancy. DM me for purchase or link in bio. . . #ecoart #artactivism #orca #savethewhales #artistsoninstagram #onedrawingaday #art #charity #environment #oceanminded_arts #whales #artist #ocean #southernresidentorca #freethesnake #lowerfoursnakeriverdams #endangeredspecies https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxq63INBNuC/?igshid=1trpoglelu8qt

[jmventre]

Jim Waddell - Why the Four Lower Snake River Dams Should Be Breached https://youtu.be/-vVFEwqxMRo via @YouTube

[oneoceandiving]

Similar to sharks, orcas play an important role in keeping the ocean and animal populations healthy & in balance. Sadly, the 74 remaining southern resident orcas in the Salish Sea are currently starving to death due to their prey, the chinook salmon, also being at an extremely low population number. There are 4 dams in the Snake River that are preventing the salmon from repopulating and thriving as they typically would. If these dams were breached, both the salmon and orcas could have a chance to recover! 💙 Please call Governor Inslee’s office 👉🏽(360) 902-4111👈🏽 and ask to please breach the Snake River dams as soon as possible to save the starving orcas. // Learn and act more over at @pnwprotectors. // Photo by @hysazu ・・・ This is J17 Princess Angeline. She’s 42 years old and the mother of J35 Tahlequah , J53 Kiki & J44 Moby as well as the grandmother of J46 Star & J47 Notch. She’s currently starving to death, confirmed by Dr. Ken Balcomb. . . Beautiful photograph of J17 Princess Angeline by our incredible friend @hysazu . . #weprotectwhatwelove #orcalove #southernresidentorcas #orcas #blackfish #salishsea #srkw #saveourorcas #saveoursalmon #eleventhhour #extinctionisforever #nofishnoblackfish #breachthedams #freethesnake #nowornever #wearetheorca #youmakeadifference #bringtokitaehome #freelolita #tahlequahstrong (at Seattle, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsRGuJtBmOx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1oqy2a0o1e76u

[keiko-conservation-blog]

SOS! Our amazing friends @swimming_in_moonlight and @hauntedluminous have teamed up with us to create @pnwprotectors! These two live on the shores of the Salish Sea and, alongside the community of whale lovers in the Pacific Northwest, have witnessed firsthand the brutal decline of the Southern Resident Orcas. The recent death of J-52 "Sonic," a two year old orca calf, has made this situation even more critical and these animals need you to be a voice for them before it's too late. "You and me. We hold the power to make changes, collectively, together. This organization’s principles are steeped in the hope that real, lasting change can be made at an individual level to help protect and save and better steward our animals and our oceans. Sonic’s (J52) death was the tipping point for PNWProtector’s launch when news surfaced of the two year old Orca’s untimely death to the heartbreaking fate of starvation. I was standing by, hoping some person behind some invisible curtain would do something about the dwindling numbers of Salmon and the disappearing Orcas, when suddenly it dawned on me that the only lasting change starts individually and collectively. Today is step one. J-52’s memorial flyer is going to be displayed everywhere that allows me to post it in their place of business. With mass awareness of the issues we face, I believe we can make giant strides to bringing the Snake River Dams down, thus resolving a huge facet of the PNW’s Salmon dilemma. If you would like a copy of this digital file to print, please DM me or I can send you however many flyers you would like. Have a PNWProtectors story? Please tag #pnwprotectors so we can feature it on our feed. Together we can do this friends!👊 Let’s Save our Salmon and our Orcas. Photograph by the talented naturalist PNWProtector @hysazu ~~~ #pnwprotectors #pnw #pacificnorthwest #conservation #oceanconservation #ocean #orca #orcas #memorial #j52 #sonic #salishsea #oursalishsea #action #politics #activism #environment #salmon #nofishnoblackfish #savewildsalmon #freethesnake"

[wooyukh]

I feel every bad for the snakes

They don’t deserve their names being attached with a*ery

The snakes did nothing wrong

A*ery one the other hand

#FREETHESNAKES

#AVERY_OUT 🐯

the snakes are innocent‼️‼️

[thessalonikecollection]

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TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to submit public comment on drafts for potential plans to save the endangered #SouthernResidentOrca population! Our friends at @pnwprotectors made it super easy for you! Click the link in their bio to take the survey and this video will walk you through recommended responses! Comments are due no later than midnight October 29th! (PST) 🖤 Ask Governor Inslee @govinslee to breach the lower fore snake river dams 2018⠀ #NoFishNoBlackfish⠀ #NowOrNever #SouthernResidentOrcas!⠀ #SaveTheSouthernResidentOrcas #FreeTheSnake #BreachTheDams #NoFishNoBlackfish #keikoconservation #pnwprotectors #searchingforchinook https://www.instagram.com/p/Bph-nvADNNy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=s87qt5dyaer9

[welcometotheclimatewars]

#FreeTheSnake (at Pacific Northwest)

[respectanimalrights]

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Credit © 🎬 🖋 The amazing ✔️ @salishseaorcasquad Today’s orca fix is brought to you by Kpod 😝. . 🎥 Active Pass | Dec 30 2019. . . . #kpod #k21 #srkw #srkws #ssos #salishsea #salishseaorcasquad #lostfrequency #activepass #southernresidentkillerwhales #southernresidentorcas #orca #orcas #orcavideo #killerwhales #killerwhale #endangeredspecies #breachthedams #freethesnake #nofishnoblackfish #boycottfarmedsalmon #southerngulfislands #galianoisland https://www.instagram.com/p/B7odi4Jh8aW/?igshid=1b9ouh5gq7bab

[marineclarity]

Tweeted

#FreeTheSnake #SalmonSeason CANCELED in #Alaska 1st time in #history 😯#SaveOurSalmon #FeedBlackfish = feeding ourselves bc we’ll have a #balanced #planet https://t.co/lHsnKnRRSW

— Dr. Di Chadwell,H.D.,A&P, Ret. (@ONELONEDOLPHIN) June 20, 2018

[tapfineart-blog]

Drip, drip, drip.... #75Orca are left in the Southern Resident population of the Pacific Northwest. I’m drawing one Orca a day for 75 days from April 1 - June 14 to raise awareness and funds. Each drawing is $20 and 50% goes to the Orca Conservancy. DM me for purchase or link in bio. . . #ecoart #artactivism #orca #savethewhales #artistsoninstagram #onedrawingaday #art #charity #environment #oceanminded_arts #whales #artist #ocean #southernresidentorca #freethesnake #lowerfoursnakeriverdams #endangeredspecies #watercolor https://www.instagram.com/p/ByXv2lFhxTv/?igshid=zd94d90xn0u8

[jmventre]

Informational post regarding #Superpod7. Please share with potential attendees. Thank you 

[keiko-conservation-blog]

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Message from our awesome friends at @pnwprotectors! Will you take less than a minute to speak up for the #SouthernResidentOrcas?⠀ "Hi Friends! We have a fun project & we need your help!⠀ As we all know, tomorrow the Orca task force will be submitting their Southern Resident Orca recovery recommendations to Governor Jay Inslee. But the most important facet that Governor Inslee is missing is the rest of the Orca Task Force’s Recovery Recommendations: And that’s Yours!✊🏽⠀ . •We need your voice & your recommendations for saving the last remaining 74 Southern Resident Orcas from extinction. Tag us, @searchingforchinook @coextinctionfilm in your 15 second story and we will share them in our stories all day Friday and then this weekend we’ll compile a video of everyone’s recommendations which we’ll share next week! .⠀ ⠀ Together #weprotectwhatwelove .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ ⠀ #weprotectwhatwelove⠀ #orcalove ⠀ #southernresidentorcas ⠀ #orcas⠀ #blackfish⠀ #salishsea⠀ #srkw⠀ #saveourorcas ⠀ #saveoursalmon ⠀ #eleventhhour ⠀ #extinctionisforever ⠀ #nofishnoblackfish ⠀ #breachthedams ⠀ #freethesnake ⠀ #nowornever⠀ #wearetheorca⠀ #youmakeadifference⠀ #bringtokitaehome⠀ #freelolita⠀ #tahlequahstrong" https://www.instagram.com/p/BqRF7JEhgJb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=p8sisd3a4gh7

[shutdownpalace]

This is very important! Lolita's family is in need of our help! The Southern Residents need Chinook salmon to survive. The Snake Damns are making so the salmon cant make it to them! Please make these calls each day and ask everyone you know to do the same. We need to be louder and even more determined not to let these incredible families to be wiped out by government inaction. Sign this petition https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-snake-river-dams-save-orcas Call POTUS at (202) 456-1111 Ask Him to Breach the Four Snake River Dams NOW Call Washington State Governor Jay Inslee (360) 902-4111 Ask him to Support breaching the 4 lower Snake River Dams NOW Call Senator Patty Murray (202) 224-2621 Ask her to Support breaching the 4 lower Snake River Dams NOW Call Senator Maria Cantwell (202) 224-3441 Ask her to Support breaching the 4 lower Snake River Dams NOW (text credit Haze)

[respectanimalrights]

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A 61 Surge again, a video I added music from Jamendo and resident calls. Credit ©🎬❤ @orcalabbc @exploreorg #breachthelowersnakeriverdams #FreeTheSnake #SaveTheSouthernResidents #BeTheChange #neverbesilent https://www.instagram.com/p/B3DUtnZDlmC/?igshid=1d29ymn917nz3