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Southwest Airlines end Seaworld partnership
August 1st, 2014
Southwest Airlines and Seaworld have decided to end their long-term partnership following the release of Dogwoof documentary Blackfish about Seaworld's mistreatment of orca whales. Following a petition on Change.org with more than 30,000 signatures calling for Southwest to end their relationship with SeaWorld, the news has arrived that the partnership has ended, and the Southwest Airlines airplanes that were painted with a Seaworld theme will be repainted.
Blackfish tells the story of Tilikum, a performing killer whale that killed several people while in captivity. Along the way, director-producer Gabriela Cowperthwaite compiles shocking footage and emotional interviews to explore the creature’s extraordinary nature, the species’ cruel treatment in captivity, the lives and losses of the trainers and the pressures brought to bear by the multi-billion dollar sea-park industry. This emotionally wrenching, tautly structured story challenges us to consider our relationship to nature and reveals how little we humans have learned from these highly intelligent and enormously sentient fellow mammals.
Blackfish is available now on DVD and Blu-ray:
Download on iTunes
(UK/Ireland only)
