Learn it
Every meeting we take one animal apart — how it breathes, hunts, talks and raises its babies. No boring textbook voice allowed.
A student-run club · Founded 2026
The ocean's
biggest hearts
need us.
Club Foca is a kids' club for whales, seals, sea lions and walruses. We learn everything there is to know about them — then we go and do something about it.
- 52
- species profiled
- 10
- family groups
- 5
- members and counting
- 2
- very determined kids
What the club does
Three things, over
and over again.
No committees, no paperwork. Learn something real, tell everybody about it, then go change something.
Share it
We turn what we learn into posters, talks and this website, so the rest of the school knows why these animals matter.
Protect it
Beach clean-ups, less single-use plastic, and telling grown-ups what we found out. Small hands, real results.
The club mascot
Why an orca club is called Club Foca
Foca is Spanish for seal. That's where the club started — with the round, whiskered ones. Then we met the orca, and there was simply no going back. The name stayed, and the club got bigger.
It's the world's biggest dolphin
Orcas belong to Delphinidae, the dolphin family. The name killer whale came from Spanish sailors who called them asesina de ballenas — whale killer. Someone flipped the words around and it stuck.
Grandma is in charge
Orca pods are matrilineal: the oldest female leads. Sons often stay with their mother their entire lives, and a male whose mother dies is far more likely to die himself within a year.
Every pod has its own accent
Each family uses a unique set of calls. Researchers can hear a recording and tell you which pod made it — the same way you'd recognise a friend's voice through a wall.
Start here
Six animals worth knowing
Every profile has the numbers, the weird facts, the sounds they make and what's putting them in trouble.
Ocean Explorer
Your ocean adventure starts here.
Read about an animal, show what you learned, and find out how to help it. No account needed: your progress stays on your own device.
Why it matters
The numbers are not great.
We're not going to pretend otherwise. But knowing the number is the first step to changing it.
- 1 in 4
- marine mammal species is threatened with extinction
- 11M
- metric tons of plastic enter the ocean every year
- 300,000
- whales, dolphins & porpoises lost to fishing gear yearly
- 90%
- of large predatory fish already gone from the ocean
Open to every student
You don't need to know anything yet.
That's the whole point of a club. Bring curiosity — we'll bring the whales.
Join Club Foca