TAKE THE PLEDGE NOT TO BUY A TICKET TO A DOLPHIN SHOW
Dolphins have evolved over millions of years, adapting perfectly to life in the ocean. They are intelligent, social and self-aware, exhibiting evidence of a highly developed emotional sense. Here are just a few of the issues with captivity:
Captures of dolphins are traumatic and stressful and can result in injury and death of dolphins. The number of dolphins that die during capture operations or shortly thereafter are never revealed in dolphinariums or swim-with-dolphins programs. Some facilities even claim their dolphins were "rescued" from the ocean and cannot be released. This claim is almost invariably false.
Training of dolphins is often deliberately misrepresented by the captive dolphin industry to make it look as if dolphins perform because they like it. This isn't the case. They are performing because they have been deprived of food.
Most captive dolphins are confined in minuscule tanks containing chemically treated artificial seawater. Dolphins in a tank are severely restricted in using their highly developed sonar, which is one of the most damaging aspects of captivity. It is much like forcing a person to live in a hall of mirrors for the rest of their life - their image always bouncing back with no clear direction in sight.
Join us and pledge that you won't go to a dolphin show or swim-with-dolphins programs. Click Here to join the petition.
Click Here to check out the interview with Dr. Lori Marino on dolphin intelligence.
Click here to see a list of captive dolphin facilities that have been closed or never opened. These success stories were accomplished by people like you taking action and stopping all support of dolphin shows and all swim-with-dolphin facilities.
EMPTY THE TANKS – OCEAN PARK DOLPHINARIUM, HONG KONG
Terran Baylor, our Cove Monitor, reports on the Empty the Tanks demonstration in front of Hong Kong's Ocean Park last Saturday.
EMPTY THE TANKS: BIG VALLEJO SIX FLAGS DEMO
On Saturday, July 27th, about 70 activists gathered in front of Vallejo's Six Flags Discovery Park to call for the tanks to be emptied. Mark Palmer reports.
BACK TO TAIJI JAPAN – A SUMMER INSPECTION
Our Cove Monitor Terran Baylor was in Taiji this week investigating the summer swim-with-dolphins program held in the Cove; here is his report.
CAPTIVE KOREAN DOLPHINS RELEASED BACK INTO OCEAN
Three dolphins now swim freely in the ocean after years in captivity
ECOJOIA IS BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER!
Our store Ecojoia is back in business and better than ever!
NEW DOLPHIN PRISON IN THE BAHAMAS
A new "swim with dolphins" scheme is proposed for The Bahamas to hold eight captive dolphins -- you can help stop it!
NEW RULE WOULD RESOLVE WTO DECISION ON DOLPHIN SAFE LABEL
A new federal rule improves the protection for dolphins in global tuna fisheries.
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