An Ignoble Experiment: This orca family is on the brink of starvation. Please help.

Friend, this is urgent.

There are only 75 southern resident orcas left in the world, and they're slowly starving to death. This is all because Big Oil and the shipping industry are prioritizing short-term profits rather than protecting these precious animals. Even right now, two industrial megaprojects could spell THE END for the last remaining orcas – spewing deadly pollution and disrupting their scarce food supply.

We're running out of time to act, which is why a generous group of donors is matching all donations up to $87,000 through June 30 (the end of our fiscal year) to fight Big Polluters and protect orcas, our oceans and our only Earth. Will you donate $27 or more now and have your membership gift MATCHED to stand up to corporate greed, save endangered orcas, and protect our planet before it's too late?

Friend, these southern resident orcas are a struggling family, who have already suffered devastating blows in the last year. Two beloved members of their pod, Cappuccino and Marina, already died from starvation. Losing Cappuccino's playfulness and Marina's wisdom has plunged their surviving family members deep into grief and stress, worsening the impact of persistent starvation on all of the southern resident pods. In this state, these precious creatures are even more vulnerable to the destructive impact of commercial megaprojects.

That's why we urgently need to step up our fight to protect them, and why we're counting on your support before our major July 1 deadline. Please, donate $27 or more now to help us reach our all-important matching gift goal before our fiscal year ends and continue the fight to save orcas, our oceans and our only Earth.

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Orcas rely on migratory Chinook salmon for their food. But the salmon population is already dwindling due to massive overfishing, pollution, and river dams. Even worse, the proposed Roberts Bank T2 shipping terminal would increase cargo ship traffic and disrupt Chinook salmon migration patterns – driving them further away from the orcas' habitat. The resulting noise from all the new ships will also disrupt the killer whales' sonar hunting methods, preventing them from finding the few salmon left in the region.

Big Oil's expanded Trans Mountain Pipeline would also add exponential threats to the southern resident orcas' survival. We know that with oil transportation projects, oil spills are not a matter of "if" but rather of "when." But this pipeline will have a SEVENFOLD increase in oil tanker traffic in the southern resident critical habitat, transporting up to 890,000 barrels per day of the world's dirtiest oil in tar sands oil tankers through this already delicate orca habitat.

Friends of the Earth is fighting to protect the southern resident orca pods and the ocean ecosystems they depend on. But we need to raise $87,000 before our fiscal year ends in order to meet our matching gift challenge.

Unfortunately, right now we're falling short of our End of Fiscal Year goal, and we need your help to get back on track before our midnight deadline on June 30. Will you donate $27 or more to help us fight back against destructive corporate greed and protect the last remaining orcas before it's too late?

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$27 donation + $27 match = $54 impact