In Kshamenk’s Honor, Help Orca Corky

Update (December 15, 2025): After more than 30 years of confinement in Argentina’s Mundo Marino, the lone orca Kshamenk has died at about 36 years old—far short of the 50–80 years orcas can live in nature. Without the company of another orca since 2000, he was forced to perform for crowds and was even used for artificial breeding with orcas imprisoned by SeaWorld. From the moment he was taken from his ocean family, his life was marked by isolation, exploitation, and suffering.

It’s too late for Kshamenk, but there’s still a chance for other orcas to get to seaside sanctuaries, including Corky, the world’s longest-held captive orca, who is currently imprisoned at SeaWorld. Please join us in urging SeaWorld to send her to a seaside sanctuary before she suffers the same fate.

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For more than three decades, the orca Kshamenk has been confined in a tiny tank at Mundo Marino in Argentina, deprived of everything that makes life meaningful to his species.

Orcas are intelligent, social, and far-ranging animals who naturally swim vast distances with their family pods—but Kshamenk has been confined since 1992 and without the companionship of another orca since 2000, circling endlessly under the hot sun.

PETA is urging the Secretariat of Tourism, Environment and Sports to intervene and transfer him to a seaside sanctuary, where he can finally experience the ocean and possibly even bond with other orcas.