Debt Consolidation And Credit Keiko, the killer whale that won children's hearts in the 1993 hit-movie Free Willy and was later moved to Iceland aboard an Air Force cargo plane, is losing his biggest financial patron.
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Check Credit Rating Seattle telecommunications billionaire Craig McCaw is phasing out his financial support of Keiko after having spent more than $10 million to try to return the killer whale to the wilds. McCaw says that he hopes that others will take up Keiko's cause.
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Improve Credit Rating ''That's our goal,'' McCaw spokesman Bob Ratliffe says. ''Our hope is that other animal-oriented groups will step in for the long-term. . . . Craig's expended a fair amount of time, money and energy on this and continues to support it. Now it's time to turn it over to a new generation.''
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Credit Online Rating Report Keiko still needs support of humans. More than three years after the 5-ton orca was taken to a remote island in hopes of setting him free, Keiko has not bonded well with nearby North Atlantic whales.
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Credit Score Rating Scale Expectations for an immediate release have faded. Charles Vinick, executive vice president of Ocean Futures, a non-profit group in Santa Barbara, Calif., says Keiko's release is not at hand.
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Bad Card Credit Credit People ''I no longer expect to say that in 2002, he's automatically going to be with the whales,'' he says. Ocean Futures is headed by Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of late explorer Jacques Cousteau.
Free Credit Rating Report Keiko has been the focus of one of the most watched -- and expensive -- animal rescues ever. If the attempt ultimately achieves its goal, Keiko, 25, would be the first killer whale successfully returned to the wild after living in captivity. Keiko was captured near Iceland at about age 2.
Credit Rating Scale The cost of maintaining Keiko in Iceland was about $1.8 million last year. At the project's peak, there were 25 people working there. This year, the budget is about $500,000 with 14 staffers, Vinick says.
Bad Credit Rating ''We'll still take him out for ocean walks'' to swim freely in the ocean and interact with wild whales, he says. ''We also look to extend the amount of independence he can attain.
Credit Rating Agency ''We anticipate being in Iceland as long as we need to be. This could be years and years of work.''
Credit Rating Canada Scientists have not been able to locate the original family group, or pod, of orcas that Keiko came from. And he has not been accepted by any other pod.
Bad Credit Mortgage Rating ''He can't just bond with any pod,'' Vinick says. ''The acceptance of him by a pod is critical.''
Good Credit Rating McCaw's withdrawal of support ''isn't about money,'' Ratliffe says, although McCaw has experienced a major financial setback in the last year. ''It's about doing what's prudent based on what we've learned.''
Credit Score Rating Chart McCaw provided much of the money to rescue Keiko from an amusement park in Mexico City, build an aquarium in Oregon and charter the cargo plane.
Credit Mortgage Rating Poor Ratliffe estimates that McCaw provided about $10 million of the $15 million spent on Keiko so far. ''Craig stepped in and became the godfather of the project,'' he said. ''I have zero doubt that Keiko would be dead if we left him there in Mexico.''
Good Credit Rating Score ''This may be the greatest animal rescue story of all time,'' says McCaw biographer Casey Corr. ''Keiko is certainly the most famous Hollywood animal since Rin Tin Tin.''
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USA Today - 3/28/2002
Topic: Whales
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