Since being taken from the wild and her real family on 8 August 1970, Tokitae (aka Lolita) remains half a century later, confined to the smallest orca tank in the USA at Miami Seaquarium – we find that reprehensible.
Marine Connection has long supported the call for this orca to be retired to a sanctuary where she can live with dignity for the remainder of her natural life, in her native waters. Tokitae has given so much to the public display industry – she has made vast profits for those who, over the years, have held her in captivity in the name of entertainment – enduring an endless cycle of performance and isolation, while her extended family continues to live freely in the wild.
Tokitae deserves freedom – not die in a tiny tank at Miami Seaquarium like the male orca Hugo.
She deserves better, she deserves to go home.
