Try telling that to some of the world's best-known conservationists who supported SeaWorld: Julie Scardina, Jack Hanna, Guy Harvey, Bindi Irwin...

3 of those encourage actual conservation in sea pens, not tanks - one of which actively swims with them.

More importantly, the orcas taken didn't need conservation they were fine before

1. Then that should provide credence to their stances in your book. And yet they still supported SeaWorld?

2. That’s a statement that would hold true for any species and for conservation as a whole. In essence, denying the need for conservation in the first place. Ignorant of the daily catastrophe that’s happening in the wild.

Allowing injured or rejected juveniles to explore is not the same as a tank.

Taking a calf from the wild that would otherwise be fine for 60 years is not conservation.

At this point I'm not sure if you're stupid or just evil.

The ocean is rapidly becoming uninhabitable for all kinds of life, orcas included. While we would previously expect a calf to live 60 years, that number is slowly dwindling and may accelerate in a downward direction. Contaminants like BPAs and BFRs are a big deal and already starting to have an effect in New Zealand on the orca population’s food supply.

I don’t know how you expect injured and rejected juveniles to survive outside of an artificial environment. Orcas are social animals, and they need a pod.

As far as stupid/evil, well believe what you like but I just believe in resilience. The same way we should have an arctic seed vault backing up seeds we should have a backup for different kinds of sea life.