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World Love For Dolphins Day

February 13, 2015 Melissa Sehgal, www.ecowatch.com
Last year, people gathered in cities around the globe to participate in the first “World Love for Dolphins Day,” helping Sea Shepherd and Sea Shepherd’s Cove Guardians draw international attention to the annual drive hunt in Taiji, which claims the lives of as many as 2,000 dolphins and small whales each year, depending on the killers’ self-allocated quota. This year, Sea Shepherd’s event will be even larger, as Sea Shepherd USA chapters and volunteers across the world are holding 32 peaceful demonstrations across the U.S. and in countries including Australia, Denmark, Spain, New Zealand, Ireland, Brazil, Hungary, Canada and Chile. Celebrity Sea Shepherd supporters and special guests are helping to shine a bright, global spotlight on the atrocities committed against cetaceans in the cove.

The Latest Battleground In The Dolphin Debate

June 27, 2014 Adam May, www.america.aljazeera.com , ,
When John Racanelli arrived as CEO in 2011, the Baltimore’s National Aquarium was at a low point. The deaths of two dolphin calves, one from pneumonia and the other from internal bleeding, had created, in his words, “an incredibly depressed organization." And it brought Racanelli to a controversial revelation, one that the head of a zoo or aquarium has never reportedly, publicly said before: “Having calves in this setting may not be the best possible thing for their well-being and health in the long run.” For decades, bottlenose dolphins have entertained crowds across the country. The National Aquarium’s dolphin shows alone drew more than 1 million visitors a year. But after the calves’ passing, the aquarium shuttered the spectacle. Recent films “Blackfish” and “The Cove” have shifted public attitudes about captive sea mammals, and Racanelli is now making waves in the zoo industry by suggesting they close their dolphin exhibit entirely. “We’re asking some tough questions, we really are,” he said. “…I feel we’ve really only scratched the surface.”

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