I have recently signed up to the newsletter of the blog “The Dolphin Connection” , and I got my first newsletter this morning! “10 good reasons not to go to a dolphinarium”. It’s a French article so I’ll just translate in English. 10 good reasons not to go to a dolphinarium… Or why becoming a dolphin trainer is not a career project.
LATEST NEWS: This morning, 19/12/12, 2 Bottlenose Dolphins were transported into small concrete tanks of Dolphin Resort. They will now reside in these tanks until they are sold within the captive trade, eating dead fish and entertaining humans for the rest of their lives. These same animals who just few days ago witnessed the slaughter of their own family and were brutally separated from them.
In March 2012, Richard O’Barry wrote a letter to Jersey Shore star Nicole Polizzi –aka Snookie- after a photograph surfaced of her swimming with captive dolphin that lived (was caged) in a Mexican swim-with program. Sadly, fellow reality star Kim Kardashian has followed in Snooki’s pro-captivity footsteps by visiting the Miami Seaquarium on December 7. Scope the picture of Kim fin-shaking with one of its captive dolphins lower. Cove star Richard O’Barry—the grandfather of the cetacean abolitionist movement—wasn’t pleased by Kardashian’s appearance.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ETGHPlZSBNA] Absolutely great documentary!! You definitely want to watch this! You’ll get to learn great things about New Zealand orcas through Dr Ingrid Visser’s knowledge.
“Shown many times in the documentary “The Cove” this film is more updated and concise. Everthing is now hidden, all their barbaric deeds are done under concealment but we managed to get cameras into places they (fishermen) wouldn’t look in. They say they kill dolphins humanly yet this film will show you that it is untrue. Dolphins die in the worst possible way and are tortured in front of their own families. Babies are allowed to swim in their mothers…