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Ingrid Visser

Ingrid N. Visser is the Founder and Principal Scientist of the New Zealand-based Orca Research Trust, which works to protect orca and their habitat through conservation, education and scientific research.

Since 1992, she has worked with orcas not only around New Zealand, but also in the waters of Antarctica, Argentina and Papua New Guinea, and has also contributed to orca research projects in the Kamchatka region of Russia, off the North American coasts of Washington, Alaska and British Colombia, and in the waters of Iceland, where she worked with the Keiko project.

Ingrid’s work has appeared in various magazines and on numerous TV documentaries. she is also the author of two children’s books and an autobiography, Swimming with Orca .

She is also a co-founder of the Free Morgan Foundation , working to raise awareness of the plight of the killer whale Morgan, who is currently being held captive and used commercially at the entertainment theme park Loro Parque, in Spain.

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Ingrid has attended numerous mass and individual strandings.  She is experienced in sampling and data collection at these events, and in the use of refloatation Rescue Pontoons and other rescue equipment.  She has served on the Board and was a trainer for another stranding rescue group.

Ingrid began studying NZ orca in 1992, going on to complete the first and only PhD dissertation on this population.  Since then, Ingrid has become an internationally-acclaimed authority on orca, having established research projects and studied orca in Argentina, Papua New Guinea, Iceland, Antarctica, Russia, North America and, not least of all, NZ.  Ingrid founded and to this day still runs the Orca Research Trust, Adopt-an-Orca, AKWIC (Antarctica Killer Whale Identification Catalogue), Punta Norte Orca Research, and Papua New Guinea Orca Research.

She is an accomplished wildlife photographer, as her many awards attest to, a PADI Dive Instructor, and a commercial skipper.  Ingrid has been instrumental in introducing the public to wild orca and their lives through her countless TV appearances, starring roles in documentaries, and popular articles in magazines, not to mention her two children’s books and autobiography.  She has published a multitude of scientific manuscripts in peer reviewed journals, along with presenting talks and posters at marine mammal conferences throughout the world.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Dr. ingrid visser – president (chair).

Dr Ingrid Visser (New Zealand) is a co-founder of Global Orca Charity, Dolphinaria-Free Europe, Orca Research Trust and the Free Morgan Foundation. She has researched wild cetaceans for 30 years. Her work has featured in documentaries with Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, BBC, National Geographic and others. She has observed captive cetaceans in facilities around the world and she noted welfare concerns at each location. Governments (e.g., Argentina, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United States of America) and large tourism corporations (such as TripAdvisor and Expedia) have requested Dr Visser’s input on captive cetacean issues. The actions taken by these entities have included implementation of legislation as well as the phasing out of promoting and selling tickets to captive cetacean facilities.

Terry Hardie - Treasurer

Terry Hardie (USA) is a trustee and field researcher for the New Zealand-based Orca Research Trust. He is also a co-founder of the Global Orca Charity and the Free Morgan Foundation. Terry assisted with the Keiko project and is passionate about orca.  He has also helped to expose wrong doings at a dolphinarium in Europe, which resulted in the enactment of a law in Switzerland, banning the keeping of cetaceans in captivity. With his background in computer sciences, Terry was the founder of one of the first publicly accessible email companies in New Zealand. His skills in the electronic/IT arena make him a valuable asset to a number of orca research projects.

Matthew Spiegl - Secretary

Matthew Spiegl (USA) is an environmental attorney in California. His legal practice focuses on International and EU wildlife trade regulations involving captive orcas. He is a co-founder of the Global Orca Charity and presently serves as legal counsel & policy advisor and board member for the Free Morgan Foundation. Matthew’s professional credentials include publication in Review of European Comparative and International Environmental Law (RECIEL), and membership in the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) with appointments to the WCEL’s Ocean Law and Climate Change Law Specialist Groups for the 2021-2025 quadrennial session.

Daniel Azarian

Daniel Azarian (USA) is an award-winning director, producer, and creative director of branded content and entertainment based in New York. As a director, Daniel has helmed national television spots for blue-chip brands and branding for clients such as 3M, Horizon Organic, Netflix, and The Drew Barrymore Show. He produced the “Save Lolita” PSA and the documentary short “A Day in the Life of Lolita, the Performing Orca,” featuring Dr. Ingrid Visser. As a creative director, Daniel is committed to utilizing his skills and expertise to positively impact the lives of animals in need, namely killer whales. He aims to raise awareness and advocate for animal welfare among a mainstream audience.

Natalie Barefoot

Natalie Barefoot (USA) is an international oceans attorney based in California who believes that legal protections should be earth-oriented, community-inspired, and respect all living beings. By focusing legal strategies through the lens of keystone species, such as sharks and cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), Natalie advances protections for wildlife and their ocean habitats. She currently tackles international ocean issues as a senior attorney with Earthjustice and she is the founder and Executive Director of Cet Law. Natalie is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL), and she has been a trusted advisor to the Free Morgan Foundation. Her previous work has taken her to five continents as an attorney with the United Nations Environment Program, University of Miami School of Law, and Hogan Lovells.

Alfonso Carrillo

Alfonso Carrillo (Spain) is an attorney based in Madrid. His legal practice focuses on dispute resolution. Among other cases, he has advised NGOs on animal welfare dispute cases, in particular captive marine cetaceans, also defending NGOs against court claims for damages for infringement of the right to honor.

Jorge Cazenave

Jorge Cazenave (Argentina) abandoned his law practice and has been a researcher for Punta Norte Orca Research for 15 years and is now its president. He has collaborated with Conservation Land Trust, Fundacion Vida Silvestre among other NGOs. He is currently a board member of Aves Argentinas and President of Fundación We Are Wildlife, both institutions involved in wildlife conservation. Jorge is a co-author of several scientific publications about orca, including “Contributions to the global management and conservation of marine mammals,” and he has also helped in translation of critical documents in sensitive orca captivity issues.

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Joe Kennedy

Joe Kennedy (Canada) is a natural history documentary filmmaker, with an interest in conservation, environment and animal behavior films. His company, TMF Media, is based in Vancouver. He has worked in this field since 1988, first for the BBC Natural History Unit, then in the independent filmmaking sector. Broadcasters have commissioned his productions worldwide. He works as a researcher, producer, director, writer and cameraman. His interests are broad and cover both marine and terrestrial subjects. Marine-based film credits include Killer Whale Special (BBC); Killer Whales: The Mega Hunt (Animal Planet); Sharkman (Discovery); Ocean Voyagers (Animal Planet); Great White Shark: A Living Legend (BBC); Squid vs. Whale (National Geographic); Shark Kill Zone (National Geographic); Secret Shark Pits (National Geographic)

Kaarina Makowski

Kaarina Makowski (USA) is based in the State of Washington and has been a long-time volunteer videographer for cetacean-related events held in western Washington. She recently started working for Orca Network. She is an artist, photographer, writer, video editor, plus web & graphic designer who has done numerous advocacy illustrations. She worked extensively on the new ‘Corky’ documentary and is also responsible for the recent revamp of Dr. Visser’s Orca Research Trust website.

Haze Sommer

Haze Sommer (USA) calls the Pacific Northwest home. She is a lifelong domestic animal and wildlife advocate and rescuer. She is co-founder of Tilikum Co. Since 2014, she has led multiple successful educational outreach campaigns via social media to combat marine park disinformation (most notably “Ask SeaWorld”). Haze is passionate about orca and ever vigilant in her focus to help Southern Resident orca and salmon recovery in the Pacific Northwest. She is also a skilled archivist, digital research assistant, and has assisted with several peer-reviewed studies on wild and captive orca.

Orca in Whangārei Harbour give onlookers once-in-a-lifetime experience

Orca in Whangārei Harbour this week have delighted both experts and nature-lovers alike, putting on a display as they hunt down their favourite food: stingrays.

Whangārei resident Kurt Coetzee said he was still buzzing after a close encounter with a pod of orca on Sunday.

He and fiancee Megan were at McLeod Bay, Whangārei Heads, on Sunday and were just about to dip their feet in the water when they noticed people pointing out orca in the water .

In order to get a better view, they and three other families drove over to Reotahi , where they could see the orca follow the coast out of the harbour.

Coetzee said they then drove down to Little Munroe Bay where a man was just bringing in his boat. On hearing about the orca, the man decided to go back out on the water and offered the on-lookers a ride.

The boat stayed well away from the orca but, near Taurikura, the orca started chasing stingrays and suddenly ended up swimming underneath and around the stopped boat, Coetzee said.

He ended up capturing amazing footage of the orca catching the stingrays and eating their liver.

The orca encounter was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, Coetzee said.

“I’ve seen them off a boat before but never this close to a boat. The first thing I said when we got back to the car was ‘that’s never going to happen again’.”

Coetzee shared his footage on social media and was disappointed some people misunderstood how the boat ended up so close to the orca.

“People were thinking that we moved that close to them but they [the orca] moved closer to us - we just appreciated the blessing of that.”

Given the orca appear to be hanging around, he encouraged people to be respectful and stay their distance.

Orca Research Trust principal scientist Dr Ingrid Visser was also pleased to see a pod of about six orca in Whangārei Harbour on Tuesday.

Visser was able to identify a number of the animals as Whangārei Harbour regulars, including Funky Monkey and his younger sister Pickle.

Funky Monkey is well-known for his zig-zag shaped dorsal fin, likely caused by a boat strike.

Visser also knows him well after he stranded on a sandbank in October 2020 . She was able to keep him safe and hydrated for the 30-minute stranding, until the tide came in enough to refloat him.

“It’s so nice to see him and, after all these years, to know that he’s doing okay. He’s been in the harbour a few times so they’re obviously a regular.”

Visser kept an eye on the orca during the outgoing tide to ensure they did not strand again.

She encourages anyone who sees orca to let the trust know by phoning 0800 SEE ORCA and said people can download a free identification guide from orcaresearch.org to help pick out individuals.

Orca were also spotted in Whangārei Harbour on Wednesday, near the entrance to Parua Bay.

Denise Piper is a news reporter for the Northern Advocate , focusing on health and business. She has more than 20 years in journalism and is passionate about covering stories that make a difference.

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A new documentary series from James Cameron on whales has captured never-before-filmed whale behaviour across the world including in the waters of New Zealand.

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The team caught never-before filmed orca hunting techniques in Northland waters – and a very special encounter where an orca appeared to offer a stingray it caught to an underwater photographer.

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The first New Zealander to research orcas exclusively, Ingrid Visser began her study for a PhD in 1992. However, it was two months before she actually saw one of the impressive sea mammals. Since then she has spotted some individuals dozens of times, taking thousands of photographs.

Named the ‘Princess of Whales’ by a women’s magazine, she acknowledges the fierce nature of orcas but regards them fondly.

Visser, who is based at Tutukākā in Northland, takes every opportunity to view the animals. When a message comes through to the Orca Research Trust , which she set up, she ties her inflatable boat to her car and heads off to follow up the sighting.

Some orcas have become attached to her, especially after traumatic events such as strandings. The orca shown here, named Miracle, was stranded and then rescued in 1993. Ever since, Miracle has approached Visser’s boat to be petted.

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Punta Norte Orca Research

Founded in 2004 at Península Valdés

Punta Norte Orca Research  is an international non-profit organization established in 2004 and based on the Peninsula Valdés, Chubut, Argentina. We are a wildlife conservation and science organisation.

Our mission is; To scientifically study and better understand the unique population of orca in this area, including their distribution and foraging techniques. We seek to educate the public about these animals and their delicate environment and to create a legacy of increased protection.

In 2019, PNOR had a restructuring and as part of that our logo was revised in 2020 to show the key elements of the research we conduct; i.e, the orca who intentionally strand at Punta Norte and the sealions who are so often their prey. We chose a ‘line’ style in order to allow the logo to blend in with the ‘environment’ of the background as a way to reflect our commitment to research that has respect for the animals and the unique coastal habitat of Punta Norte.

CO-DIRECTOR: Dr. Ingrid N. Visser | New Zealand

Co-Founder of PNOR. Cetacean Researcher, Marine Biologist and Photographer. Ingrid conducts research on orca in the South Pacific (especially New Zealand), Antarctica, and Papua New Guinea as well as at Punta Norte.

She has created photo identification catalogues for New Zealand, Antarctica, and Papua New Guinea and has published various scientific articles on orca and other marine megafauna. Her research specialises in foraging behaviour. She has been instrumental in rescuing stranded orca around the world and is a strong advocate against the keeping of cetaceans in captivity. Visit Website

PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER: Juan Copello | Argentina

Co-Founder PNOR. Juan is the Principal Researcher for our project. Not only is he a photographer, but he has lived for over 40 years at Punta Norte and observed more than 2,000 orca attacks on various prey. He has observed orca in a wide range of locations around the world, including in the waters of Antarctica, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa and the USA in order to compare foraging behaviour.

He is the owner of the boutique accomodation available at Estancia La Ernestina, Punta Norte, which hosts PNOR. You can join him during his field research season by staying at this unique wildlife experience where a range of Patagonian landscapes and animals can be observed. The two key seasons for wildlife are February-May and October-November (see our Frequently Asked Questions for more details). Visit Website

RESEARCHER: Jorge Cazenave | Argentina

Jorge joined PNOR in 2008. He is an avid wildlife photographer and as a naturalist and tourism businessman he guides guests to view and photograph wildlife around the world, specialising in top-predators such as puma, jaguar and orca. He has worked on several documentary productions, for BBC, ZED and National Geographic. Jorge has been visiting Punta Norte since 2001 and has documented the orca exhibiting a range of behaviours including attacks. His work with conservation extends to include collaboration with several projects in different regions of Argentina. Jorge also administers the PNOR social media accounts and is our main coordinator for visiting film & documentary crews. Visit Website

RESEARCHER: Dr. Joe Gaydos | United States of America

Joe joined PNOR in 2019 and is a scientist and wildlife veterinarian. He has worked with, advised on and researched orca in both the northern and southern hemispheres.  He is the Science Director for the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine, Wildlife Health Center’s SeaDoc Society Program in Washington State, USA and has been working on wildlife and ecosystem health issues in the Pacific Northwest for almost two decades. Joe has published numerous scientific papers on diseases that impact wildlife such as harbor seals, river otters, porpoises and orca. Joe also hosts Salish Sea Wild – and has an episode specifically on the research he is doing on orca. Visit  Website .

RESEARCHER & EDUCATIONAL COORDINATOR: Gabriela (Gaby) Bellazzi | Argentina

Gaby has been involved with PNOR as our Educational Coordinator since the inception of the project in 2004. She facilitates the naming of the orca by the local school children and keeps them informed about the progress of the orca’s lives. Gaby lives in Puerto Pirámides, the only village on Península Valdés, where she is the President of the Wild Earth Foundation (Fundación Tierra Salvaje). She was instrumental in changing the laws surrounding the keeping of orca in captivity in Argentina and remains a strong voice against cetacean captivity. Gaby is the coordinator for the cetacean stranding and disentanglement rescue teams for the Chubut area and has published about this and other aspects of cetacean management. Visit Website

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Spend ten minutes talking with Dr Ingrid Visser and you’ll want to save every orca in the ocean. Story by Lindsay Wright.

Since completing her doctorate on orca (the first scientific study of the mammals in New Zealand) in 2000, she’s been hard at work doing just that.

“We’ve got fewer than 200 New Zealand orca – a South Island population, North Island population and one that travels around both islands. And then there are the pelagic orca which are typically found way offshore, but which visit every so often,” she says, “to hunt for dolphins near our coastline. The more I learn about them – and the more time I spend with them – makes me realise just how little we know.

“But we’ve got to stop using the ocean as a great toilet and get rid of the belief that you can dump everything into it and it just disappears. Some New Zealand towns still flush raw sewage straight into the sea.

“New Zealand orca carry the highest concentrations of chemical pollutants among marine mammals in the Southern Hemisphere. DDT, PCBs, flame retardants, agricultural chemicals – you name it – and as orca are at the top of the food chain, they get it all.”

One probable reason, she says, is that their preferred diet is rays, particularly the liver. “Rays are shallow water feeders. Their diet is filter feeders like pipis and cockles which are prone to ingesting pollution. That, in turn, becomes concentrated in the rays’ liver.”

New Zealand orca also have the highest recorded numbers of boat strike injuries. “There’s a huge number of Kiwis out on the water at this time of year, and many of them aren’t too familiar with the law about the conduct of vessels around marine mammals.” (see sidebar page 35) Visser’s parents immigrated to New Zealand from the Netherlands in the 1950s and she was born in Lower Hutt in 1966. “Dad decided my sister Monique and I should visit the Netherlands to have a look and meet relatives,” she recalls. “He decided it was crazy expensive to fly the whole family there – so he bought a yacht and we sailed.”

That yacht was the 17m steel ketch Wai-O-Tira and the trip back to Europe developed into a 50,000 nautical mile, four-year cruise that touched on 40 countries around the world.

“I’m really grateful to Mum and Dad for doing that trip,” she says. “It taught me independence and how to shoulder responsibility. When you’re on watch on your own at night in the middle of the ocean, you’re aware that you have the lives of your family in your hands.

“At sea, nothing comes easy – you have to work for it. You have to strive towards a goal and just keep going. Many people grow up now without seeing the horizon – just acres of buildings – but at sea all you have is the horizon – it trains you to be open-minded.”

Her early hero was Dian Fossey, the American zoologist who studied gorillas in Rwanda for many years and Visser’s father gifted her a book by teenage solo sailor Robin Lee Graham which was also inspirational. “It reinforced the idea that you could shape your own destiny.” But most of all she gained a deepseated passion for the ocean and the creatures within it.

Back in New Zealand, she worked in an aquarium and began studying marine biology. At the New Zealand launch of the David Attenborough book Trials of Life, she was entranced by the cover photo of orca launching themselves on to an Argentinian beach to grab sea lions.

“How do I get there?” the would-be biologist asked Attenborough. “Why don’t you look at doing it here?” the venerable author replied, and the die was cast. She began spending time with New Zealand’s own orca – painstakingly cataloguing individuals and their behaviour.

“We began with zero in the database,” she laughs, “and I must admit I struggled with some pompous, paternalistic academics who scorned our public-citizen-science sightings.”

She found that orca often stayed in the family pod in which they were born, had highly individual personalities and their own distinctive culture. The big mammals were distinguishable by marks and scars on their dorsal fin and the shape of the grey saddle marking on their backs.

In 1997 she obtained a 5.8m Naiad RIB to get closer to her subjects and it’s powered by a 90hp four-stroke Yamaha outboard. How fast does it go? “I don’t really know,” she laughs, “I’m more interested in going slow around the animals. It’s very quiet – I can idle alongside them and you’d hardly know it was running.” But the orca have come to know the boat and will swim by to say ‘hello.’

Many of the local orca have names, some chosen by school children – Pickle is missing the tip of her dorsal fin, while Funky Monkey has a kink in his dorsal fin. “They favour shallow waters like Whangarei Harbour,” she explains, “and as with all the dolphins, are born tail first and protruding so that they learn how to use their tail even before they leave the womb. Once born the young lie alongside the mother to suckle – which is difficult if there’s a lot of wave action, so they often seek sheltered waters to give birth.

“The loss of one female can have catastrophic consequences for a pod – the offspring stay with them for life. Young males typically don’t survive without their mothers and upon her death their whole social network becomes unstable.”

When a call comes in the small hours from the Orca Research Trust help line (0800 SEEORCA), Visser will leap out of bed, load the Naiad and head off to relaunch a beached orca.

The orca feed in shallow water so the odd stranding is an occupational hazard. “It’s a tremendous thrill getting one back in the water – the whole pod will typically be waiting offshore and they have a big reunion when the stranded animal rejoins them – lots of splashing and socialising. And you get a buzz out of seeing them swimming around years later.”

If there are no reported sightings of a particular animal for five years or so, she considers it a concern. If they still haven’t been seen for 10 years, they’re probably dead.

She urges crayfishermen to keep their pot lines as short as possible. “Many orca are lost by becoming entangled in pot lines and drowning.”

It’s not only the local orca that come under her aegis. She’s also helping the effort to free Morgan (www.freemorgan. org), a female orca being held at an aquarium in Europe. “It’s heart-breaking,” she says. “Captive orca are kept in tiny concrete tanks, too shallow for diving. They wear their teeth out chewing at the concrete in frustration. The dorsal fins on captive adult male orca just flop over – it’s awful. They end up in captivity because of money, so the simple way to help them is not buying tickets to any aquarium that keeps marine mammals in captivity.”

Wherever there’s orca – there’s Ingrid. She’s an internationally-recognised advocate for protecting orca against boat strike, marine pollution, habitat destruction and keeping the animals in captivity. She also lectures on small cruise ships, mostly in Antarctic waters, and advises on film projects – notably Jean Michel Cousteau’s award-winning Call of the Killer Whale. Her own autobiography is Swimming with Orca.

With her plaited blonde pony-tail and irrepressible grin she’s on site at many of the country’s whale strandings, urging teams of volunteers to greater efforts.

She has the easy manner and approachability of someone who has spent a career doing something they love. “It’s the orca,” she says. “They still amaze me every time I see them.”

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Sir Peter Blake Torbay Regatta , 30 Nov - 1 Dec 2024 at Torbay Sailing Club

Rolex Sydney to Hobart , 26 Dec 2024 starts in Sydney, Australia

Waka Ama - 2025 National Sprint Championships , 12 - 18 Jan 2025 at Lake Karapiro, Cambridge

The New Zealand Sailing Trust 5 Day Sail , 13 - 17 Jan 2025 starting in Auckland

New Zealand Sail Grand Prix , 18 & 19 Jan 2025 in Auckland

UIM World Jetsprint Championships , 25 Jan -2 Feb 2025 at Wanaka (25 & 26 Jan) and Wanganui (1 & 2 Feb)

NZ Millenium Cup , 1 - 4 Feb 2025 at Waitemata Harbour

Toyota Youth International Match Racing Cup , 26 Feb - 4 Mar 2025 in Auckland

Waka Ama - 2025 Secondary School Nationals , 24 - 28 Mar 2025 at Lake Tikitapu, Rotorua

Auckland Boat Show , 6 - 9 March 2025 at Viaduct Events Centre and Jellicoe Harbour, Auckland

The Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show , 15 - 18 May 2025 at Auckland Showgrounds, Auckland

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