Elora Malama is a homeschooled teenage activist. She is currently attending community college with plans to eventually transfer and pursue a degree in Environmental Journalism and Photography. In the fall of 2010 at age 16, Elora accompanied her father, Scott West, to Taiji, Japan for the first Cove Guardian campaign. They spent three months on the ground reporting everyday about the plight of the dolphins. While there Elora began a blog, A Teenage Activist: This Girl's Soapbox (eloramalama.wordpress.com) and encouraged thousands of people to call the Japanese embassies in their area to protest the dolphin slaughter.

Elora participated in the first ever meeting between the mayor of Taiji and the activists protesting the town's annual slaughter. She hopes to send a message to her generation that you are never to young to stand up for what you believe in. Elora wants to inspire kids to stand against cetacean captivity and protest swim with dolphin programs, and other institutions that exploit marine mammals. She believes that if you love dolphins and whales, you want to work to protect them.

Please support me in reaching my goal! I'd love to help raise enough money for a second SSCS cove guardian campaign. After seeing first hand what happens in Taiji, it would mean the world to me if I could help raise enough to put people back on the ground documenting the killing and telling the world what is happening everyday to the dolphins.