"Sos dolphins" European campaign against the captivity - RaiNews24

Rome, 04/07/2013

Into LAV Marevivo launch in Italy and the European campaign Sos Dolphins with the dedicated website www.sosdelfini.org, on the occasion of the World Day against the captivity of marine mammals that is celebrated today: “In Italy, the dolphins have no function educational or scientific or conservation of the species, which do not respect these characteristics required by law, and instead show: a deception that potential visitors should know and which we must put an end to the protection of animals imprisoned in this unacceptable, forced captivity, “say LAV and Marevivo.

Into the side of LAV and Marevivo the actor Giorgio Panariello and Licia Colo presenter who made a brief commercial for www.sosdelfini.org, in support of the European campaign promoted by the Spanish Faada and realized in collaboration with Born Free Foundation: “For every dolphin that survives in a dolphinarium, most die in the attempt to adapt – explain Giorgio Panariello and Licia Colo – Life in captivity is a source of stress and depression, so much so that sometimes you have to give them tranquilizers and drugs . the public visiting the dolphins, where the animals are subjected to training and forced to do shows, to swim with people, to suffer noise, can not continue to ignore this suffering. ”

Survey Lav on the observation of the law in dolphins
” In Italy, the dolphins have no educational function it ‘scientific characteristics required by law, and instead show ” explain the two animal welfare o rganizations. 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 dolphin”” are widely disregarded.
For this reason, and Lav announce Marevivo,” will deliver the investigation to the Minister of the Environment Andrea Orlando, urging him to take note of the violations documented, so clear inevitable to make the closing of dolphinaria in Italy”. The investigation, carried out last summer, involved the dolphins active in Italy, that is, the Dolphinarium Fasanolandia (Fasano, Brindisi), Zoomarine (Torvajanica, Rome), the Dolphinarium Overseas (Riccione), the Rimini Dolphinarium, Gardaland ( Verona) whose dolphinarium but was subsequently closed at the end of 2012, after several deaths of dol phins and at the Aquarium of Genoa, which already holds a few dolphins but they are not facts but show where he planned to build a large dolphinarium.

Ipsos Poll
To 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 dolphins to be exhibited in dolphins and in amusement parks is prohibited or strictly regulated. The sample involved four European countries: Italy, France, Spain and Germany. 81% of Italian respondents admitted that dolphins are happier in nature and 73% were opposed to the capture of dolphins in the wild to allocate them to a life in captivity in or dolphins in amusement parks, up to the 96% of Italians who hopes that in the future the capture of dolphins to be exhibited in dolphins and in amusement parks is prohibited or strictly regulated. According to 66% of Italian respondents also increases the rate of the captive dolphin mortality and 71% of Italians think that the dolphins do not allow us to understand how animals live in the wild. The majority of respondents, finally, visited a dolphin or attended a performance of dolphins in a theme park (65% in Italy), 58% of which in the last 5 years.

countries that have already adopted measures in favor of cetaceans
In some European and non-European paesei have already been taken for the protection of cetaceans. Austria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Luxembourg, Poland, Ireland, Slovakia, Slovenia, the United Kingdom does not hold cetaceans in captivity. Cyprus, Hungary and Croatia have national legislation which prohibits the detention of cetaceans in captivity. Switzerland in 2012 has introduced legislation to prohibit the cetaceans in captivity. And in mond, India, Chile, Costa Rica and Israel despite not having introduced specific legislation on the abolition of dolphins, in fact for many years have not authorized the importation of cetaceans for exhibition purposes.