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Advocates working to return the killer whale to her home waters are using lessons from the return two decades ago of the orca from "Free Willy" to Iceland.

A plan to return Lolita, a captive killer whale, to her home waters thrilled those who have advocated for her release, but not everyone’s on board.

By the early 1970s, at least 13 Northwest orcas had been killed and 45 delivered to theme parks around the world; Toki aka Tokitae or Lolita is the only one still alive.

By the early 1970s, at least 13 Northwest orcas had been killed and 45 delivered to theme parks around the world; Toki aka Tokitae or Lolita is the only one still alive.

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SEATTLE (AP) — An ambitious plan announced last week to return Lolita, a killer whale held captive for more than a half-century, to her home waters in Washington’s Puget Sound thrilled those who have long advocated for her to be freed from her tank at the Miami Seaquarium. But it also called to mind the […]

An ambitious plan announced last week to return Lolita, a killer whale held captive for more than a half-century, to her home waters in Washington’s Puget Sound thrilled those who have long advocated for her to be freed from her tank at the Miami Seaquarium

While they hope to bring Lolita to a whale sanctuary among the Pacific Northwest's islands, she might never again swim freely with her endangered family

Plans call for bringing Lolita to a netted whale sanctuary of about 15 acres (six hectares). She would be released into an enclosure the size of a couple football fields within that sanctuary, where she would be under round-the-clock care

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