Depuis la création de ce blog, je me suis concentrée à relater des faits mondiaux sur la captivité. J’ai essayé d’évoquer chaque sujet important (captures, Taiji, naissance en captivité, programme de reproduction, procès, etc.
Mais, j’ai avant tout voulu créer ce blog pour pouvoir étudier plus sérieusement les parcs français.
Ecume
Le récent décès du dauphin Écume au Marineland d’Antibes m’a semblé l’occasion de me lancer sur le sujet…
Hi everybody!
I thought I’d share that one! I got this in my email box this morning:
WDC (Whale and Dolphin Conservation) is the leading global charity society dedicated to the conservation and welfare of all whales and dolphins.
In short, they are the world voice for the protection of cetaceans.
They defend these remarkable creatures against the many treats that they face:
-Hunting
-Captivity
-Chemical and noise pollution
-Entanglement in fishing nets
-Climate change
Basically, they raise campaigns, funds. They support every political decision created to help protect whales and dolphins and their habitat. They fight to expose the truth to people and governments about abuses done to the animals.
Je me suis récemment abonnée à la newsletter du blog « The Dolphin Connection », et j’ai reçu ma première newsletter ce matin ! « 10 bonnes raisons de ne pas se rendre dans un delphinarium ».
Pour vous lecteurs français, voici le lien de l’article qui vaut vraiment le détour : 10 bonnes raisons de ne pas se rendre dans un delphinarium.
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.
« 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 blood. This film shows the proceedings in Taiji from Dawn to death. Filmed over 3 years. » Martyn Stewart, audio/naturalist specializing in location and field recordings, mostly for natural history documentaries.
Steel and wooden sticks used to kill the dolphins through their blowholes.
Bâtons d’acier et de bois utilisés pour tuer les dauphins à travers leurs évents.
One of the major phenomenon for the protection of dolphin is certainly the one related to THE COVE. It is a documentary movie led by Flipper’s former trainer, Ric O’Barry, who today is a cetacean activist. Taiji, Japan, is where he acts against the massacre of thousands of dolphins per year, operated in secret.
Keep Whales Wild, Cétacés Libres 