Howard Garrett (Orca Network) remembering the southern resident orca Toki/Tokitae/Lolita/Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut and his nearly thirty year fight to bring Toki home to the Salish Sea‪.‬ Skaana with Mark Leiren-Young | Oceans, Eco-Ethics & The Environment

Howard Garrett (Orca Network) remembering the southern resident orca Toki/Tokitae/Lolita/Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut and his nearly thirty year fight to bring Toki home to the Salish Sea. "Toki's legacy is building, building, building by the day... She wasn't just a circus animal. She was a member of the southern residents."

Shownotes:



0:00 The voice of Toki.

4:57 How Howard started fighting to bring Toki home



7:50 "I really feel like she would have thrived and been thrilled and so relieved to be in her familiar waters."



14:16 A superpod wake for Toki?



15:55 The Lummi Nation's fight for Toki.



20:05  The origins of Toki's names and becoming Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut.



21:44 "Her tank violated the very dismal standard of the animal welfare act..."



30:15 Getting the news that she was gone.



34:00 Toki's legacy.



43:00 Toki speaks.

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Howard Garrett meeting Skaana host Mark Leiren-Young in happier times at a conference in 2017 in Vancouver. A story by Mark about Toki in The Times Colonist: Comment: Remembering Tokitae: The last southern resident orca in captivity







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