Orca Conservancy is working on behalf of Orcinus orca, the killer whale, and protecting the wild places on which it depends.Orca Conservancy collaborates with some of the worlds top research institutions and environmental groups to address the most critical issues now facing wild orcas.The organizations urgent attention is on the endangered Southern Resident orcas of Puget Sound. These three pods, J-Pod, K-Pod and L-Pod, were decimated by the depletion of prey resources, the accumulation of marine toxins, and the destruction of salmon spawning and nearshore habitats, the nurseries of the Salish Sea.