All in Antibes for Inouk !
To raise awareness about Inouk's life, worrying in every respect, One Voice will be at 5.00 pm in front of the town hall of Antibes on May 7th.
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.
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 !