Below you will find links to a series of news alerts, press room articles, and informational resources relating to Keiko and his life!
News Alerts
- News Alert:
Trainer attacked by killer whale at Loro Parque theme park on Tenerife (Typically Spanish, October 7, 2007 - 10:16 p.m.) –
“The woman is in hospital after the orca dragged her down to the bottom of the pool.
A trainer at the Loro Parque theme park on Tenerife is in hospital after she was injured this weekend during a training session with one of the killer whales at the centre in Puerto de la Cruz.
The Canarias 7 newspaper says it happened at the pre-show warm up on Saturday, when the orca crashed into the trainer, injuring her right lung and breaking her forearm in two places.
She was rescued by two colleagues after the mammal dragged her down to the bottom of the pool.
She is now said to be stable after surgery on Saturday.”
- News Alert:
Iceland stops whale-hunting quotas after low demand (Reuters Friday August 24, 2007 12:17p.m. BST ) – Nearly a year after ending its ban on commercial whaling,
Iceland will not issue new whale-hunting quotas until market demand increases
and it gets an export license from Japan…
- News Alert:
Sealord Under Fire Over Whaling Link (Television New Zealand, Nov 27, 2005)
An American activist group is calling for a boycott of New Zealand's largest seafood company, Sealord. (Plus related video)
- News Alert:
Solomon Islands Tightens Ban on Dolphin Trafficking (Nov. 05)
- News Alert:
A Man With a Mission (Weekend Magazine, Nov. 05)
- News Alert: [PDF file]
A 13-Year-Old Works to Free Orca from Argentine Park (Tracy Press, Apr. 05)
"You woudn't want to be locked in a cage." -- Ariel Imperado (7th-grader)
- News Alert: Lights, camera, 'Maggie'
The Donner's Company is teaming up with the environmental group Earth Island Institute and trying to increase the pressure on the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage. (Mar. 05)
- News Alert: Marine World's Orca Angers Whale Lover (The San Francisco Chronicle, Apr 04)
- News Alert: Keiko's Memorial Raised (Jan. 04)
- News Alert: KEIKO DIES IN NORWAY (Dec 12, 2003)
- News Alert: Russian Capture of Orca Whale Slammed in San Francisco (Oct 2003)
- News Alert: New Book on Keiko Released: We Want to Return Keiko to the Ocean (Sep 2003)
- News Alert: ABC's "20/20" Segment on Keiko: What You Didn't See (HSUS, 1/28/03)
- News Alert: Latest News From Norway (Jan 2003)
- News Alert: News from Keiko's Veterinarian (Nov 2002)
- News Alert: Field Report on Keiko from Norway's Taknes Bay (HSUS, 11/7/02)
- News Alert: Keiko's Big Swim To Norway (Sep 2002)
- News Alert: Where's Willy? The New Yorker's recent article on 'everybody's favorite whale' Keiko (The New Yorker, Sep 2002)
Press Room
Off-site Keiko articles from various newspapers, magazines, journals, and other media.
- Press Release: Conservationists Hail Decision to Protect Orcas, Demand Bush Protect Endangered Species Act! (Dec. 04)
- Event: Pre-Memorial Event for Keiko on Feb. 20 (Feb. 04)
- Event: Keiko's Dream Memorial Event Planned (Date: TBA) (Dec. 03)
- Press Room: KEIKO, THE MOST FAMOUS WHALE IN THE WORLD, DIES IN NORWAY (Dec 12 2003)
- Press Room: Wild Orcas Could Soon Visit Keiko (Newport News-Times, 1/22/03)
- Press Room: Other Orcas Expected to Visit Keiko (The Oregonian, 1/18/03)
- Press Room: Everybody's Favorite Whale Tries To Make It On His Own (New Yorker Magazine, 9/16/02)
- Press Room: Keiko Awaits Friends (Iceland Naturally, 12/13/02)
FYI Resources
General informational materials and resources from the Free Willy Keiko Foundation.
- FYI: Frequently Asked Questions about Keiko
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