Spearheading PETA's latest campaign for captive orcas, the 'Baywatch' actress sends a letter to the theme park's new CEO Gustavo Antorcha in which she begs him not to let the whale dies in a tank.
- July 2, 2019
AceShowbiz - Pamela Anderson is urging SeaWorld bosses at the park near her hometown to grant her a birthday wish and set an orca free.
Corky is the same age as the 52-year-old, who celebrates her big day on Monday (July 01), and the only gift she wants is the whale's freedom.
The orca was captured in 1969 off the British Columbia coast and has been a SeaWorld attraction ever since, and now Pamela is urging themepark bosses to do the right thing and let her live out her days at sea.
"Please don't let her die in a tank that, to her, is comparable to the size of a bathtub," Anderson writes in a letter to new SeaWorld CEO Gustavo Antorcha.
She also appears in a new PETA ad, posing in a tub in her birthday suit beneath the words "Could You Live in a Bathtub for Decades?"
Anderson adds, "Corky's brother and sister are still alive and flourishing in the wild, and a Canadian scientist who has been studying her family wants to bring her home. It's within your power to release this long-suffering orca to a seaside sanctuary in a protected bay of her home waters."
The tide is turning for all orcas in captivity.
A PETA spokesperson says, "There's global momentum for SeaWorld to create sea sanctuaries. The National Aquarium is retiring the dolphins it held captive, including one who was born at SeaWorld, to such a habitat, beluga whales are being moved from a Chinese marine park to a sanctuary in Iceland, and the Canadian Parliament just voted to ban dolphin and whale captivity outright."
