Rebecca Pillsbury is a certified marine naturalist, award-winning memoirist, and lover of all animals from land and sea (but especially partial to those that weigh from 400 pounds to 200 tons). Through her publishing company, Duende Press, she helps business leaders, adventure travelers, celebrities, and others tell their transformational stories. Rebecca lives on an […]
It’s hard to find words when all you have are emotions. Sadness. Pain. Anger. Heartbreak. Some sort of bittersweet relief. Indignation. Tilikum was the catalyst behind the start of Blue Freedom. It was his plight that inspired our founder, Kate Emmons, to start a petition to release Tilikum to a sea pen that garnered more […]
When a group of people works together toward a common goal, amazing things can happen. I believe in community. I believe, as humans, we are made for it. Close-knit social groups are quite common among many species and humans are no exception to that. So, what happens when one creature designed for community comes together […]
This letter was courteously submitted to us by Haze, the founder of Tilikum&Co. Together, our petitions have garnered 100k signatures. Please visit the petitions here and here. Haze got her start as an animal advocate at an early age with her mother acting as the wildlife rescue in Florida where Haze grew up. Haze has continued […]
It’s been an unbelievable privilege to work on the Voiceless film project. It’s incredible to me, as a young adult, to see this go from an idea sparked by a handful of students, to a film project that hundreds of people are directly involved in, and that hundreds of thousands have supported. That blows my […]
November 14 is here again – the day we use to bring awareness to Tilikum, the captive orca whale. But it’s been about six years since the first “Free Tilikum Protest Day” and Tilikum is still living in a pool at SeaWorld. Are all our efforts and cries for justice futile? We don’t think so. […]
Dear Harry, My name is Katie, and this is just a note to say thank you. Because I thought it was freaking cool that you spoke out for dolphins at one of your recent concerts. Young adults and teenagers are the main demographic attending marine parks and swim-with-dolphins programs, we know this from statistics– WE […]
Hey everyone, I know this is a bit of a late new-year update, but I promise there is a good reason for that: thanks to you guys, we’ve been crazy busy with the production of our film Voiceless! This past year was loaded with surprises and progress for us. In late November we launched our […]
Lets make Black Friday ‘Blackfish Friday’! The Kickstarter project for our film Voiceless is off to an awesome start thanks to all of you. We just need to get this out there: YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME SAUCE. So let’s keep this momentum going! The film Blackfish shines a light on Tilikum and plight of captive […]
September is usually one of my favorite months. The scorching heat of a midwest summer is beginning to be relieved by cooler temperatures, if only for a few hours while the weather tries to decide whether it’s ready to shed its sunkissed soil and green leaves for a more barren landscape. It can be a […]