ORCA NETWORK
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2403 N Bluff Rd
% Howard Garrett
Greenbank
Washington 98253
% Howard Garrett
Greenbank
Washington 98253
TOP-RATED 2012
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Mission:
Orca Network is dedicated to raising awareness of the whales of the Pacific Northwest, and the importance of providing them healthy and safe habitats.
Results:
Over the past 10 years, Orca Network's Whale Sighting Network has grown from several hundred participants to 6,500 subscribers to our whale reports, and our Facebook page has grown to nearly 11,000 likes, with most of those active users. In 2001, we collected and shared 710 whale sightings reports; in 2010 it had grown to 2621 reports. These reports enable people to learn about the whales of the Pacific NW, and enable them to get to the shorelines to watch as they pass by. And most importantly, the sightings data is shared with researchers up and down the Pacific Coast, adding important data to studies being done to protect the Endangered Southern Resident orcas, humpbacks, Gray whales and other cetaceans.
Orca Network has also been actively engaged in efforts to keep orcas out of captivity, with our focus on Lolita, or Tokitae, the L pod/Southern Resident orca captured off Whidbey Island in 1970, living in the smallest tank in the country at the Miami Seaquarium ever since.
Orca Network also oversees the Central Puget Sound Marine Mammal Stranding Network, responding to hundreds of calls about stranded or dead marine mammals, conducting necropsies and testing to determine cause of death, which helps researchers understand the health of our marine mammals and ocean ecosystems. We also conduct countless hours of education at the Coupeville Wharf, events, and on the beach, especially during seal pup season.
Orca Network has also been actively engaged in efforts to keep orcas out of captivity, with our focus on Lolita, or Tokitae, the L pod/Southern Resident orca captured off Whidbey Island in 1970, living in the smallest tank in the country at the Miami Seaquarium ever since.
Orca Network also oversees the Central Puget Sound Marine Mammal Stranding Network, responding to hundreds of calls about stranded or dead marine mammals, conducting necropsies and testing to determine cause of death, which helps researchers understand the health of our marine mammals and ocean ecosystems. We also conduct countless hours of education at the Coupeville Wharf, events, and on the beach, especially during seal pup season.
jillhein
01/13/12
Orca Network provides excellent educational information on the whales that inhabit our immediate marine environment. We have endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales frequenting our waters, and Orca Network alerts us to their presence, and points us to amazing research work done by many ...
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sharon.harperpeck
01/12/12
Orca Network is an incredible non-profit organization run by an indefatigable couple who offer informative seminars and lectures about issues affecting local marine life to the public, sponsor fun and educational activities in their local community and maintain an internet presence for the purpose ...
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Alisa L.
01/12/12
Such a truly valuable resource and two treasures we have in Susan and Howard of Orca Network. I was born and raised in the Seattle area and have stayed closely connected to the environment and wildlife since I was a child. Over the years, periodically local media announce the arrival of orca in ...
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