Dolphins, Lav and Marevivo ask for closure of dolphins in Italy - Gaianews.it

The Anti-Vivisection League (Lav) and the association Marevivo have started during the World Day against the captivity of marine mammals, the European campaign Sos Dolphins (website www.sosdelfini.org) to protect dolphins from captivity in dolphins, which according to the associations would be a cruel practice to which we subject unnecessarily intelligent marine mammals.

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Into The initiative would lead to greater awareness of the population on the phenomenon, with the participation of well-known personalities from the entertainment world, to try to close the facilities that house the dolphins and showing them to the public for entertainment.

Into According to an Ipsos survey, less than 2 out of 3 Italians would prohibit the exhibition of animals in dolphins.

Into “In Italy, the dolphins have no role in education or scientific characteristics required by law, instead of doing the show,” explain the two animal welfare organizations. To confirm the violations to the Ministerial Decree 469 of 2001, which regulates the conditions for the maintenance of captive dolphins Bottlenose dolphins used in dolphins, is an investigation conducted last summer by the Italian Lav in all structures, where the welfare rules animals and to the purposes of the dolphins “are widely disregarded.”

For this reason, and Lav Into Marevivo have announced that they will deliver the results of the investigation to the Minister of the Environment Andrea Orlando, urging him to take note of the violations documented that the associations found them “so clear as to make the inevitable closure of dolphins in Italy.”

want the closure of dolphins, according to an Ipsos survey, it is also 68% of Italians, while 96% expect that in the future the capture of dolphins to be exhibited in dolphins and in amusement parks is prohibited or strictly regulated . (Source: USA Today)