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Jessica Simpson Blasted For Attending SeaWorld Dolphin Show With Family

Jessica Simpson Blasted For Attending SeaWorld Dolphin Show With Family

Jessica Simpson is used to clapping back at strangers when she is heavily criticized online, but this time she attracted a whole different group of people to her social media pages: environmental activists. On Monday, the pregnant singer shared several photos of a family trip she took to a SeaWorld park on February 17, including […]

5y ago

CEO Of SeaWorld Steps Down As Attendance Continues To Drop After ‘Blackfish’ – Investigation Underway

CEO Of SeaWorld Steps Down As Attendance Continues To Drop After ‘Blackfish’ – Investigation Underway

The documentary Blackfish came out in 2013 and five years later, it is still causing a lot of havoc for the SeaWorld theme parks. With attendance continuing to decline and numerous other problems piling up, SeaWorld Entertainment CEO Joel Manby suddenly stepped down from his position on Tuesday. After coming into the company as an […]

6y ago

Lala Kent, Ariana Madix, And Scheana Marie Appear Together In New PETA Campaign To Take On Seaworld

Lala Kent, Ariana Madix, And Scheana Marie Appear Together In New PETA Campaign To Take On Seaworld

Lala Kent, Ariana Madix, and Scheana Marie are seen posing alongside one another in the latest PETA campaign against SeaWorld. According to a November 30 press release shared by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), the Vanderpump Rules cast members are taking on SeaWorld in an effort to demand relief for the suffering […]

6y ago

Walt Disney World, Other Orlando Theme Parks Reopen Post-Hurricane, Some Attractions Still Dark

Walt Disney World, Other Orlando Theme Parks Reopen Post-Hurricane, Some Attractions Still Dark

Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando, and other central Florida theme parks have re-opened after Hurricane Irma passed through, although some attractions are still dark, The Orlando Sentinel is reporting. The venerable Disney theme parks closed down on Saturday, as did most other attractions in the area in advance of the monster storm, which was expected […]

6y ago

SeaWorld’s Baby Orca, The Last Captive-Born Killer Whale, Dies

SeaWorld’s Baby Orca, The Last Captive-Born Killer Whale, Dies

SeaWorld’s last baby orca, bred in captivity under the amusement park’s orca breeding program, died on Monday in San Antonio. Three-month-old Kyara’s death is still being investigated and experts have yet to determine the exact cause of death. SeaWorld resident killer whale Takara gave birth to Kyara in April this year. Park officials believe that […]

6y ago

‘Babe’ Star James Cromwell Arrested At SeaWorld During PETA Protest

‘Babe’ Star James Cromwell Arrested At SeaWorld During PETA Protest

Oscar nominated actor James Cromwell, best known as the star of Babe, was arrested at SeaWorld in San Diego today where he was protesting the treatment of Orca whales with PETA, the animal rights organization. Cromwell and others from PETA crashed the “Orca Encounters” show clad in t-shirts that read “SeaWorld Sucks.” This is not […]

6y ago

SeaWorld Orlando Changes Up Popular Kraken Roller Coaster With Virtual Reality Upgrade

SeaWorld Orlando Changes Up Popular Kraken Roller Coaster With Virtual Reality Upgrade

SeaWorld Orlando has been working on a huge upgrade to their very popular Kraken roller coaster, and it just reopened today with a whole new look and style. The oldest coaster in the park’s history is now called “Kraken Unleashed” and it takes visitors on a brand new type of thrill ride with a virtual […]

6y ago

Theme Park Report Has Walt Disney World Attendance Down At All U.S. Parks In 2016, Universal’s Numbers Rise

Theme Park Report Has Walt Disney World Attendance Down At All U.S. Parks In 2016, Universal’s Numbers Rise

The theme park attendance report for 2016 has finally made its way out, and The Walt Disney Company can’t be overly thrilled with what they’re seeing. The Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) and AECOM published their attendance report for attractions around the world in 2016, which has numbers reflecting what Disney said last year. On the […]

6y ago

Last Baby Orca Born At SeaWorld, Captive Breeding Of Killer Whales Comes To An End

Last Baby Orca Born At SeaWorld, Captive Breeding Of Killer Whales Comes To An End

The last baby orca bred and born in captivity at SeaWorld made its first appearance at the San Antonio theme park yesterday. Protests by animal rights activists and a decline in ticket sales prompted the Florida-based company to nix its whale breeding program last year. The baby orca has not received a name because SeaWorld […]

7y ago

Bethenny Frankel Faces Criticism Over Encouraging Activities With Animals In Captivity

Bethenny Frankel Faces Criticism Over Encouraging Activities With Animals In Captivity

Bethenny Frankel enjoys the time she spends with her daughter, Bryn, when she’s in her care. Frankel shares custody of her daughter with her ex-husband, Jason Hoppy, and they have a set schedule in place where they split their time with Bryn. When Bethenny does have her daughter, they like to do things together, often […]

7y ago

Lala Kent Heartbroken: ‘My Mind Is In A Fog. My Heart Is Broken Into A Million Pieces’

Lala Kent Heartbroken: ‘My Mind Is In A Fog. My Heart Is Broken Into A Million Pieces’

Lala Kent made headlines last week because of her decision to leave Vanderpump Rules and SUR behind. It’s no secret that Lala hasn’t exactly been close with her co-stars for a while, and even during last night’s episode, she questioned whether staying on the show was indeed the right decision for her. But it sounds […]

7y ago

SeaWorld To Lay Off Hundreds Of Workers Amid Fall In Attendance

SeaWorld To Lay Off Hundreds Of Workers Amid Fall In Attendance

SeaWorld Entertainment, the company that operates 12 theme parks across the United States including the SeaWorlds in Orlando, San Antonio and San Diego, will be laying off a total of 320 workers. The company announced their decision on Tuesday, CNN reports. Workers from all 12 theme parks will be affected and the company announced that […]

7y ago

Captive Orca Breeding And Theatrical Shows Banned: California Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Bill Protecting Killer Whales

Captive Orca Breeding And Theatrical Shows Banned: California Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Bill Protecting Killer Whales

Breeding killer whales in captivity and using them for theatrical shows has been banned by the state of California. While the orcas currently in captivity won’t be released, they won’t perform for the public anymore. California Governor Jerry Brown signed the bill into law on Tuesday that protects the orcas and prevents their captive breeding. […]

7y ago

SeaWorld Returns Salty The Sea Turtle To The Ocean, Will They Do The Same Thing To Pregnant Orca’s Upcoming Calf?

SeaWorld Returns Salty The Sea Turtle To The Ocean, Will They Do The Same Thing To Pregnant Orca’s Upcoming Calf?

After more than a month of staying at SeaWorld San Diego, the facility finally returned an Eastern Pacific green sea turtle to his natural habitat. The sea turtle named “Salty” is estimated to be 40 to 50 years old. When SeaWorld rescued him from a pond last month, he displayed signs of severe dehydration. The […]

7y ago

‘Jessica Jones’ Star Krysten Ritter Takes On SeaWorld In New PETA Campaign

‘Jessica Jones’ Star Krysten Ritter Takes On SeaWorld In New PETA Campaign

Krysten Ritter has just joined a new fight, but this time Ritter won’t be battling evil on the Jessica Jones set. There has been a long struggle, launched primarily by PETA, to compel SeaWorld to free their captive orcas with evidence suggesting that captivity is detrimental to the orcas as a species and to the […]

7y ago

Animal Activists Rally For Dolphins At Japanese Embassy In DC

Animal Activists Rally For Dolphins At Japanese Embassy In DC

Animal activists rallied at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C., on Friday, calling for an end to the slaughter of dolphins and whales in Taiji, Japan. The Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue played host for three hours in the afternoon to a demonstration organized in protest of the annual killing of whales. The hunt and […]

7y ago

Santa Barbara Dolphin Biologist Creates List Of 10 Worst Tanks For Whales: SeaWorld Owns Top Three

Santa Barbara Dolphin Biologist Creates List Of 10 Worst Tanks For Whales: SeaWorld Owns Top Three

A Santa Barbara dolphin biologist has teamed up with international animal protection organization, In Defense of Animals, to create the first-ever 10 Worst Tanks for Dolphins & Whales list. The list was released for facilities in North America, with the SeaWorld as Number One for, “most disappointing”. Dolphin Biologist Creates 10 Worst Tanks 4 Dolphins […]

7y ago

Vaquita Porpoise On The Brink Of Extinction: Only 60 Left

Vaquita Porpoise On The Brink Of Extinction: Only 60 Left

The vaquita, a snub-nosed porpoise whose dark-circled eyes conjure an image of a friendly cetacean panda, is swimming into the extinction abyss. The vaquita has been ominously decreasing in numbers due to poachers’ use of gill nets in the upper Gulf of California. The vaquita, smallest of the porpoise family averaging around five feet in […]

8y ago

SeaWorld Says ‘No’ To Sanctuary For Tilikum, But Scientists Are Building One Anyway

SeaWorld Says ‘No’ To Sanctuary For Tilikum, But Scientists Are Building One Anyway

Scientists are building a sea sanctuary where orcas could retire, despite SeaWorld’s very public opposition on the matter. A new nonprofit group, called The Whale Sanctuary Project (WSP), includes Dr. Lori Marino, executive director of The Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy, Dr. Naomi Rose, marine mammal scientist for the Animal Welfare Institute, and David Phillips, […]

8y ago

Tilikum, SeaWorld Orca, Is Most Influential Living Animal Of 2016: See Top Five List

Tilikum, SeaWorld Orca, Is Most Influential Living Animal Of 2016: See Top Five List

Tilikum, the orca in the center of the SeaWorld controversy, is the world’s most influential living animal of 2016, according to a poll by Time Magazine. Tilikum was number two on the list of Top 100, nosing up right behind Cecil the Lion, who led the group. Tilikum is #2 on @TIME‘s 100 most influential […]

8y ago

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