No Whales In Captivity, is a non-profit society registered in British
Columbia and based in Vancouver. We have been monitoring the Vancouver Aquarium and the international commercial trade in whales and dolphins since 1992. We successfully lobbied for legislation that prompted the Aquarium to close the orca whale tank in 2001. Now we are asking the
Aquarium to close the dolphin tank.
If you have not had a chance to see the new documentary film The Cove (http://www.thecovemovie.com/), we highly recommend that you do.
The film tells the tragic story of how every year more than 20,000
dolphins are slaughtered in Japan in bloody dolphin drives after the
aquarium industry picks out the dolphins they want to purchase. The rest of the dolphins are killed and their highly contaiminated meat sold to
unsuspecting Japanese consumers. The "rescued" dolphins as the aquarium industry likes to call them, will be forced to learn tricks, perform for food and live out the rest of their lives in barren concrete tanks.
Spinnaker, Helen and Hanna, the three dolphins currently performing at
the Vancouver Aquarium, were all wild caught in Japanese waters. We are asking the Vancouver Aquarium to make a statement against the dolphin drives by refusing to purchase more dolphins caught in Japanese waters, returning Spinnaker, Helen and Hanna to Japan and closing the dolphin tank for good.
Unfortunately, there are not sanctuaries for Pacific white-sided
dolphins so there is no other place for them to go. Besides, we believe that Spinnaker would be happier back with his pod since they are still
performing in the Osaka Aquarium.
Helen and Hana should go back to the Enoshida Aquarium where their pod is performing. When Hana was shipped to Vancouver, she was pregnant but nobody knew. Hana gave birth to a full term stillborn shortly after she got to Vancouver. That means her male partner is still waiting for her back in the Japanese aquarium.
Please help us shut down the dolphin tanks in Vancouver and sign our petition.
http://www.nowhalesincaptivity.org/
