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| Morgan at Loro Parque in Tenerife. Photo copyright Loro Parque |
Introduction
In June 2010, a young female killer whale was spotted alone and emaciated in the Dutch Wadden Sea - a rare sighting, given that the last orca stranding in Dutch waters occurred in 1963. This animal, later named Morgan, would become the center of one of the most complex and contested marine mammal welfare cases in recent history. Her story spans urgent rescue, contested rehabilitation outcomes, legal challenges, behavioral scrutiny, and eventual integration into a captive social group at Loro Parque in Tenerife.
