We Belong to the Sea is a Canadian federally and provincially registered non-profit organizations based in West Vancouver, BC and is also a registered 501 in the United States.Our mission is to emancipate, rehabilitate, re-wild, and free captive and injured Orca whales home to the Sea by creating ocean-based Orca Sanctuaries of Healing--starting with the first in Haida Gwaii. We work to conserve, protect, and increase dwindling Orca populations by returning them to where they belong--in the sea. 

We are here to LOVE

We are here to CREATE 

We are here to HEAL 

We recognize the sacredness and inherent birthright of all sentient beings to live in FREEDOM and DIGNITY in their natural home environment. We do this work with thoughtful, respectful, and compassionate decolonial intention, partnering with Indigenous leadership, observing and respecting Indigenous protocols and laws as best we can as we learn and unlearn, braiding together Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples in a good way, through our shared love of our magnificent Orca relatives. We recognize the deep, sacred ancestral relationship between Orcas and Indigenous peoples dating back many thousands of years who consider Orcas as members of their family, equal to any human - 'our relatives under the sea'. So it only follows that First Nation Peoples see captive Orcas as abducted and imprisoned family members--held in slavery for financial profit by the 'animal entertainment' industry. We Belong to the Sea exists to abolish slavery, trafficking, and the exploitation and slave labor of Orcas for financial profiteering.