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3 Pictures That Will Make You Think Twice Before Visiting a Marine Park

3 Pictures That Will Make You Think Twice Before Visiting a Marine Park

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society launched a series of images today illustrating the tragic fates met by real-life captive cetaceans. The images come just as the holiday season begins and families are making choices about how to spend their money on entertainment. The pictures are being published to educate and deter travelers around the world from […]

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    3 Pictures That Will Make You Think Twice Before Visiting a Marine Park

    3 Pictures That Will Make You Think Twice Before Visiting a Marine Park

    Sea Shepherd Conservation Society launched a series of images today illustrating the tragic fates met by real-life captive cetaceans. The images come just as the holiday season begins and families are making choices about how to spend their money on entertainment. The pictures are being published to educate and deter travelers around the world from […]

    Everglades Dolphins Have Highest Level of Mercury Ever

    Everglades Dolphins Have Highest Level of Mercury Ever

    Researchers have discovered that bottlenose dolphins residing off the Florida Everglades have higher concentrations of mercury contamination than any other population of the mammals in the world. Contamination levels of mercury (T-Hg) in Lower Florida Keys (LFK) and the Florida Coastal Everglades (FCE) dolphinsScience Direct The study, published in the journal Environmental Pollution, examined the […]

    30 Dolphins Illegally Captured Returned to Ocean Following Police Raid

    30 Dolphins Illegally Captured Returned to Ocean Following Police Raid

    Evidence recently uncovered by the nonprofit International Marine Mammal Project (IMMP) reveals two secret captures of more than 30 Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in the Solomon Islands. According to IMMP, the dolphins were driven to shore in the Western Provinces of the country in an inhumane capture process similar to the dolphin drives in Taiji, Japan. […]

    Dolphins Shipped From Hawaii to Arizona Desert for New Tourist Attraction

    Dolphins Shipped From Hawaii to Arizona Desert for New Tourist Attraction

    By Laura Goldman In the desert near Scottsdale, the new tourist attraction Dolphinaris Arizona opened for business on Oct. 15. Customers will pay hundreds of dollars for the opportunity to swim with its three captive dolphins. How did those dolphins get there? They were flown from Hawaii by FedEx. Two activists from the nonprofit advocacy […]

    U.S. Military-Trained Dolphins Forced to Fight Human Wars

    U.S. Military-Trained Dolphins Forced to Fight Human Wars

    Early last week, it was reported that the U.S. Navy was sending military-trained dolphins to the Black Sea as an additional layer of defense against the Russian Navy, which had reportedly recently taken control of Ukraine’s military-trained marine life, including dolphins. The U.S. Navy has used sea lions, dolphins and other marine mammals since the 1960s to […]