SOS! Our amazing friends @swimming_in_moonlight and @hauntedluminous have teamed up with us to create @pnwprotectors! These two live on the shores of the Salish Sea and, alongside the community of whale lovers in the Pacific Northwest, have witnessed firsthand the brutal decline of the Southern Resident Orcas. The recent death of J-52 "Sonic," a two year old orca calf, has made this situation even more critical and these animals need you to be a voice for them before it's too late. "You and me. We hold the power to make changes, collectively, together. This organization’s principles are steeped in the hope that real, lasting change can be made at an individual level to help protect and save and better steward our animals and our oceans. Sonic’s (J52) death was the tipping point for PNWProtector’s launch when news surfaced of the two year old Orca’s untimely death to the heartbreaking fate of starvation. I was standing by, hoping some person behind some invisible curtain would do something about the dwindling numbers of Salmon and the disappearing Orcas, when suddenly it dawned on me that the only lasting change starts individually and collectively. Today is step one. J-52’s memorial flyer is going to be displayed everywhere that allows me to post it in their place of business. With mass awareness of the issues we face, I believe we can make giant strides to bringing the Snake River Dams down, thus resolving a huge facet of the PNW’s Salmon dilemma. If you would like a copy of this digital file to print, please DM me or I can send you however many flyers you would like. Have a PNWProtectors story? Please tag #pnwprotectors so we can feature it on our feed. Together we can do this friends!👊 Let’s Save our Salmon and our Orcas. Photograph by the talented naturalist PNWProtector @hysazu ~~~ #pnwprotectors #pnw #pacificnorthwest #conservation #oceanconservation #ocean #orca #orcas #memorial #j52 #sonic #salishsea #oursalishsea #action #politics #activism #environment #salmon #nofishnoblackfish #savewildsalmon #freethesnake"