URGENT!!-IOC Stop Russian Winter Games Abuse of Endangered Dolphin and Orcas!!
- by: Rod Peasley
- recipient: President of the International Olympic Committee
Dear President
As I'm sure you must be aware, in light of the growing opposition to keeping whales and dolphins in captivity for our amusement, the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics plans to showcase two wild-caught orca whales and use an endangered dolphin as a torchbearer before the opening ceremony during this years games in Sochi, Russia. These will be the first orcas ever displayed in public in Russia and the dolphinarium will be hoping to make money during the Olympics by holding them captive. They will then remain in captivity until they die, well short of their natural lifespan, due to the stresses and mental anguish such intellegent creatures suffer in tortuous, restrictive environments, having been ripped away from their close families, causing such grief as is equal to that suffered by humans losing loved ones.
Taking the orcas for display was bad enough, but Russia has added insult to injury with its announcement in October that it would be using a wild-caught Black Sea bottlenose dolphin as a torchbearer before the opening ceremony. A trainer will reportedly hold the dolphin’s fin with one hand and the torch with the other while they swim across a small pool on February 4.
Not only do these animals have nothing to do with the games, but using them flies in the face of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Environmental Mandate, which makes conservation a top priority, and Agenda 21, which insists the games will be conducted, “with the preservation of the natural environment in mind,” and strongly suggests that “all upcoming Olympic developments will be carried out with a commitment to environmental consciousness and sustainability.”
This, obviously, Russia is blatantly ignoring, and which the IOC must please act on immediately, if it's credibility is to remain intact, and bring severe sanctioning actions to bear against them.
I respectfully petition you to act, in the name of all compassionate, humane society who abhor such an exploitative, reprehensible disregard of our threatened natural environment, as this will set such a dangerous precedent if left unchallenged.
Thank you.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/olympic-city-next-to-exploit-captive-orcas.html#ixzz2n7rcsQmW
Dear President
As I'm sure you must be aware, in light of the growing opposition to keeping whales and dolphins in captivity for our amusement, the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics plans to showcase two wild-caught orca whales and use an endangered dolphin as a torchbearer before the opening ceremony during this years games in Sochi, Russia. These will be the first orcas ever displayed in public in Russia and the dolphinarium will be hoping to make money during the Olympics by holding them captive. They will then remain in captivity until they die, well short of their natural lifespan, due to the stresses and mental anguish such intellegent creatures suffer in tortuous, restrictive environments, having been ripped away from their close families, causing such grief as is equal to that suffered by humans losing loved ones.
Taking the orcas for display was bad enough, but Russia has added insult to injury with its announcement in October that it would be using a wild-caught Black Sea bottlenose dolphin as a torchbearer before the opening ceremony. A trainer will reportedly hold the dolphin’s fin with one hand and the torch with the other while they swim across a small pool on February 4.
Not only do these animals have nothing to do with the games, but using them flies in the face of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Environmental Mandate, which makes conservation a top priority, and Agenda 21, which insists the games will be conducted, “with the preservation of the natural environment in mind,” and strongly suggests that “all upcoming Olympic developments will be carried out with a commitment to environmental consciousness and sustainability.”
This, obviously, Russia is blatantly ignoring, and which the IOC must please act on immediately, if it's credibility is to remain intact, and bring severe sanctioning actions to bear against them.
I respectfully petition you to act, in the name of all compassionate, humane society who abhor such an exploitative, reprehensible disregard of our threatened natural environment, as this will set such a dangerous precedent if left unchallenged.
Thank you.
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