For the young female orca known as Morgan, the brutal bullying by the other orcas at Loro Parque is the sad reality she faces for the rest of her life unless a court in the Netherlands intervenes.

Morgan's time in captivity doesn't preclude her from being retrained to live back in the wild, but as her court case lingers longer and longer, each day of delay condemns her to a life that is not life.

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We must roll up our sleeves and mop up the mess.

"People protect what they love," my father once said. My wish today, as we mark his 100th birthday, is that we redouble our efforts to cherish our planet and the seas that he championed.

"We stopped hunting on land and became farmers," said Cousteau. "We have to do the same thing as far as the ocean is concerned."