The keeping of whales and dolphins is banned in India, Cyprus, Slovenia, Croatia, Chile, and Costa Rica; a few other countries such as the UK have ended the practice but not banned it. Whale and dolphin captures no longer happen in the waters of Europe, Australia-New Zealand, and North and South America with the exception of Cuba and Honduras. The captures are mainly coming from Japan and Russia. The whales and dolphins are being sent to three main countries: Russia itself with 17 marine zoo facilities, Japan with 54 and China with about 50 and growing fast. uk.whales.org/blog/erichhoyt/2013/10/whale-and-dolphin-trafficking-heads-east. China and Japan have very little regard for animals, look at Taiji, rhino horn, tiger parts, ivory, whaling. Something has to be done to stop these countries. As an update Georgia aquariums request for a permit to import captured Beluga was denied and now according to Russian Orcas the permit for orca captures for 2014 has been cut to nil. There are many modern thinking people in the Eastern countries, we just need to reach them and get this trafficking stopped.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 15:25:28 +0000
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