Today, Giving Tuesday 2021, we’d like to share a short video tour from Charles Vinick, our Executive Director, of the Whale Sanctuary’s new Operations & Visitor Centre in Nova Scotia. The Operations Centre is our home base for directing the design, engineering and construction of the sanctuary. And it doubles as a welcome and information hub for the local communities of Nova Scotia and for the thousands of environmentally conscious tourists who visit the region every summer.
Check out the extraordinary, specially donated paintings and photos that depict the lives of whales in the wild, their plight in captivity, and the future they can have when retired to Sanctuary.
The urgency for completing the first whale sanctuary in North America grows with every day. That’s why, on this Giving Tuesday, we invite you to join with whale lovers everywhere in bringing this vision to reality:
A world where no whales are being kept in captivity for entertainment.
This year, our friends at the Animal Welfare Institute are dedicating their Giving Tuesday appeal to providing the Whale Sanctuary with a work boat that we will use to complete site development work and create and maintain the perimeter net.
This is the kind of work boat we’ll be using to complete site development, create and maintain the perimeter net and other structures, and serve the ongoing need for sanctuary monitoring and security.
Their goal is to raise $30,000. And your donation, large or small, can help match that amount and take us another step forward toward completing the sanctuary and welcoming the first whales.
In North America alone, about 100 orcas and beluga whales languish in concrete tanks. Worldwide, the number is estimated at more than 350. This sanctuary will be the first of its kind for captive whales, and a model for more sanctuaries to come in other countries.
Every donation, large and small, brings us a step further toward being able to give the whales a new home in an ocean environment.
Thank you again for being part of the Whale Sanctuary Project.