After more than 50 years in captivity, the Miami Seaquarium has announced a plan to return Lolita the orca to 'home waters' to live out the rest of her days.
Southern resident orcas, which spend several months of the summer and autumn every year in Washington state's Puget Sound, were added to the endangered species list in 2005, according to, the U.S. agency responsible for the stewardship of the country’s ocean resources and their habitats.
The population was 71 whales in 1974, the first year individual animals were counted, and peaked at 97 in 1996 before declining again to 79 in 2001, it says, noting that as of around August, the population numbered in the 70s.
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