Nearly five decades after being captured and held in the Miami Seaquarium, Lolita the orca will finally be able to return to the Pacific to live out the rest of her days.
Officials announced Thursday plans to return Lolita — an orca that has lived in captivity at the Miami Seaquarium for more than 50 years — to its home waters in the Pacific Northwest. Here, trainer Marcia Hinton pets Lolita, a captive orca whale, during a performance at the Miami Seaquarium in Miami, March 9, 1995.
And after years of growing pressure from animal rights activists calling for Lolita’s release from the Miami aquarium, officials announced their plans for the “process of returning [Lolita] to her home waters.”and the philanthropist and owner of the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts, Jim Irsay. The Seaquarium signed a deal with Friends of Lolita to relocate the orca, in addition to receiving financial assistance from Irsay.
Irsay told reporters that the cost to relocate Lolita could be a “big number,” as officials haven’t disclosed a specific budget or number tied to her relocation. As of now, the plan for Lolita is to build her an ocean sanctuary with netting, where she will receive constant care from trainers.
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