Preparations Underway for Rescue of Orphaned Killer Whale Calf

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A team of experts is getting ready to rescue an orphaned killer whale calf trapped in a remote tidal lagoon off northwest Vancouver Island. The calf has been alone for over two weeks after its mother died. The rescue operation is expected to take place soon.

A team of about two dozen people is preparing the planned landing area for the complex rescue of an orphaned killer whale calf trapped in a remote tidal lagoon off northwest Vancouver Island .

The federal Fisheries Department says in a statement many people are working tirelessly to develop and put finishing touches on the rescue of the two-year-old female calf, which has been alone in the lagoon for more than two weeks after its pregnant mother became beached at low tide and died. The department previously discussed initially holding the young orca in an ocean net pen until freeing it when members of its mother’s family were nearby, but now it says she will be released directly into open water where she is most likely to encounter the pod.

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