happens? For now in Miami, Ramos Local10, it’s been a long thanks a lot to Roy. It’s taken decades
, but will finally be freed and
returned to her home waters in
the Pacific Northwest. But it’s
going to take some time. It
could take up to two years
before Tokyo. She’s also known,
can be moved to a sea sanctuary
and there is so much preparation
work that needs to be done
before local, says Louie.
Aguirre has been a forefront of
the fight to free and is live
with the details of the plan.
Louis Yes, that’s true. Let’s be
clear. This is just the first
step, but momentous because for
the first time ever, the new
owners of the Miami Seaquarium,
the Dolphin, have entered into
binding agreement with a
nonprofit friends of, a friends
of to send the 56 year old orca
back home as the rain came down
. Tokyo, the orca living in
captive city at the Miami
Seaquarium for 53 years. Big
news about her future was being
at a ballroom in downtown Miami.
But I think we’re up to the task
. I think we can do. Official
confirmation that formal and
binding agreement has now been
signed between the
non-for-profit of Toki and the
owner of Miami Seaquarium, the
Dolphin Company, to begin the
process of returning the 56 year
old orca back to her native
waters in, the Pacific
Northwest. Now it Ms. I promise
I. It means that we can show
world that we were together. We
can make it happen. Toki One of
seven baby orcas violently
captured by hunters in 1970,
then sold various marine parks.
And the only one to have
survived living here, the Miami
Seaquarium, ever since in the
smallest whale tank the world,
80 by 35 feet wide and only 20
feet deep, where she once
performed two shows a day, seven
days a week, and went the stage
name until her retirement only a
year ago. The most important
thing is Tokyo’s long term
well-being and together, guided
by the expert, will continue to
do what is best for. Toki
deathly ill this time last year
with a severe respiratory
infection. But according her
caregivers, has now rebounded to
where she’s strong enough to
make the 3000 mile journey, to
Washington State. Yes, the vets
have given us assurances that.
Even today she’s healthy enough.
Friends of Toki say, a number of
sites for a natural sea pen that
will become tokyo’s new home.
Have been identified like this.
I visited in the Salish Sea in
waters. Her family, the L Pod,
still swims through today. Her
five year old mother is still
alive. But the opportunity for
her to acoustically connect her
family without a doubt. So
acoustically. Yes and
potentially physically. Over
time there will be challenge.
The Endangered Species Act comes
into and federal regulatory like
Noah and the USDA will have the
final say on whether or not this
will happen a few weeks we’re
actually going Washington to
have meetings with them we’re
full steam ahead right now.
Morse is optimistic. She’s a
member of Lamination, the
indigenous of the Salish Sea,
who consider toki a relative and
who’ve been fighting for this to
finally happened. I believe it
was broken when they took her.
And when we bring her home and
reunite her with her mother, her
family, her relatives, all
repair that web of life. So that
how they see this, this is about
restore balance to our natural
world. Making a right. But I
need to underscore. The plan has
never been to just free and drop
her in the ocean and have her
fend for herself. Should Be
taken to his natural c pen or
she will receive the same care,
if not better care than she
receives now. At the Seaquarium
with vets and people to feed her
and trainers to or all the while
through. At first about two
lengths of a football field.
Then when she feels comfortable
and she’s that will be opened up
to about a ten, 15 acres sea
pen. Again netted it so she
can’t you know, go into the open
ocean but with the possibility
of finally day reuniting with
the L pod. But again, the
enrichment has not yet begun.
They had to train how to swim
onto whistling, and then that
sling will then take her out of
her tank in the Seaquarium into
a smaller tank that will fit in
the back of a semi that’ll take
her to a C-17 or 747 or she will
make that final 3000 mile
journey back home. But all that
is still years in the making and
nothing will happen unless Noah
and other and federal regulatory
agencies is sign off on this. So
not a done deal yet, but a big
step forward. Calvin Cole, back
to you. A step in the right