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All in Antibes for Inouk !

All in Antibes for Inouk !

Mis à jour le 14 May 2019

Inouk needs all of us. No orca should be in the pools of a dolphinaria, and the case of Inuk is worrying in every respect. At barely twenty years old, he already has no teeth, his dorsal fin almost always out of the water and flopped over on his back ... Marine mammal experts have never seen that before. We are determined to offer him another life, a real life. We will be at 5.00 pm in front of the town hall of Antibes Juan-les-Pins on Tuesday, May 7th for him with John Hargrove.

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How can you not feel moved for him and also at the mention of his name? Inouk has never known freedom but keeps going around and round in the Marineland pools. His extremely effective sonar is of no use to him in the jar where he survives. He should be able to dive deep, swim tens and tens of kilometers each day, stay away from the sun. His dorsal fin lies, collapsed on one side, a phenomenon rarely observed and a sign of serious trauma and poor health in wild orcas ... The members of his family have either lost their lives or been sent to another dolphinarium. If he had not been subjected to captivity since his birth, nothing would have pushed him to gnaw at the walls of his pool until the pulp of his teeth was exposed and it was necessary to devitalize them, even to tear them off. His freedom would have been unlimited, and his life, one so rich for an orca!

An orca without a future, that's what Inuk seems to have become. The park does not even try to justify that it contributes to the conservation of the species, or that the demonstration of the domination of an animal by a human has an educational interest ... We have filed a complaint against Marineland for acts of cruelty to Inouk at the court of Grasse early in April. The expertise of Ingrid Visser, John Jett and Jeffrey Ventre is documented, well-argued and structured. More than anything, it is without appeal: Inouk needs another life, far from pools empty of meaning, empty of interest, empty of choice, empty of all that an orca needs.

A rally is scheduled in front of the town hall of Antibes Juan-les-Pins at 5.00pm on Tuesday May 7, to make the voice of Inouk be heard, whose place is in a marine sanctuary. It sounds loud and clear in the ears of our leaders! We also call for the closure of dolphinariums and the adoption of a new decree.

Please sign our petition, let's all ask for a life for Inouk !

Julia Mothé
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In the subject

The court prohibit Marineland from relocating the orcas before the end of the independent assessment Moana has just died in the chlorinated Marineland prison, the only place he has seen in his twelve years of life. One Voice is going to court again

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Rico | Sunday 05 May 2019

Respectons le vivant.

Domingo | Sunday 05 May 2019

Je suis contre ..absolument contre l'emprisonnement de ces orques et dauphins..en CAPTIVITÉ

Gigi | Sunday 05 May 2019

Bonjour, si je pouvais venir le mardi 7 mai... mais hélas, j'habite Montpellier. Je suis tout à fait d'accord il faut boycotter Marineland. Bon courage.

Alexis | Saturday 04 May 2019

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