Dolphinariums: South Korea will release two captive dolphins !
South Korea will release two captive dolphins after 20 years. An excellent news for One Voice who is fighting for the conservation of the dolphinarium decree.
South Korea has decided to release two captive dolphins after 20 years in Seoul Grand Park! Excellent news for One Voice fighting in France for the maintenance of the decree, challenged by Marineland, which must put an end to the activity of dolphinariums.
Geundeung
and Daepo, two male humpback dolphins were captive in Seoul Grand
Park since 1997 and 1998. Born in the wild, they will now find
freedom on July 18th,
in the seas of Jeju Island within a local population of a hundred
cetaceans, South Korea have taken this just decision. This is not the
first time the Korean park has released dolphins caught “illegally”
although, with respect to animal rights, any capture is illegal. In
2013, three dolphins had already been released. Since then, two of
them, Sampal and Chunsam have been seen each with a calf … That
should close once and for all the fable that cetaceans would be
unable to reintegrate into the wild after a long captivity, one of
the arguments from misleading dolphinariums.
In
France, the release of captive dolphins is not yet acquired.
Proponents of the animal show industry, who reap profits at each
round of the pool, are putting their weight behind the cancellation of the decree prohibiting the reproduction of dolphins and their
transfer between dolphinariums. Last May, after several years of
fighting and working with the Ministry of the Environment, One Voice
had obtained the addition of this prohibition to the texts governing
the “operating rules of establishments holding cetaceans”.
Under
the sun of Antibes or elsewhere, the blue sky may be reflected on the
surface of the water of these aquatic arenas, but the dolphins are
still prisoners and unhappy. They suffer from the absence of family
and social links; their essential biological and psychological needs
being denied to them.
At the announcement of the
signing of this decree, a certain Mr. Nicolas Hulot had tweeted: “Our
civilization should no longer tolerate the captivity of dolphins.
It’s time to finish with the #delphinariums”, with the photo of Little
Galéo. Off the coast of South Korea, Geumdeung and Daepo, freed
dolphins, will be delighted to learn that their captive congeners on
our territory, can count on the support of the Minister Nicolas Hulot
…