Indonesia is the last country with a traveling dolphin show. This clearly is nothing to be proud of: traveling dolphin shows are forbidden worldwide for good reasons. As “Doubledealing sabotages dolphin rehab & release project in Indonesia” recounts (http://www.animals24-7.org/2013/03/22/doubledealing-…t-in-indonesia/ ), Indonesian forestry minister Zulkifli Hasan on February 5, 2013 stated on the @america live television program that […]
Georgia Aquarium appeals NOAA ruling against proposed first beluga whale imports since 1992
Wants to import whales from Russia ATLANTA––The Georgia Aquarium on September 30, 2013 appealed an August 6, 2013 ruling by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration that it had not satisfied the requirements to import 18 beluga whales from Russia. The appeal put the future of beluga whale exhibition before the U.S. District Court in […]
Pat Derby founded the Performing Animal Welfare Society & ARK 2000 sanctuary
Performer turned sanctuarian Pat Derby, 69, founder of the Performing Animal Welfare Society, died from throat cancer on February 15, 2013 at her home on the ARK 2000 sanctuary she built near San Andreas, California. “Ed Stewart, her partner of 37 years, was by her side,” said the PAWS death announcement. Best seller Derby’s 1976 […]
Doubledealing sabotages dolphin rehab & release project in Indonesia
Double-crossed twice in two months JAKARTA, UBUD––Double-crossed in January 2013 by Solomon Islands dolphin hunters, Dolphin Project founder Ric O’Barry was double-crossed again a few weeks later in Indonesia. Speaking on the @america live television program, hosted by the U.S. Embassy, Indonesian forestry minister Zulkifli Hasan on February 5, 2013 told O’Barry and Jakarta Animal […]
Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the SeaWorld Experience
by Susan G. Davis University of California Press (Berkeley, CA 94720), 1997. 313 pages, paperback; $18.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Spectacular Nature author Susan G. Davis spent eight years studying SeaWorld San Diego, 1987-1995. I spent under eight hours at SeaWorld San Diego, on May 7, 1999 but it was time enough to confirm her […]
Moral relativism & Marine World
by Merritt Clifton March 1995 VALLEJO, California––Any day now the fishing crews of Iki, Japan, may string nets between their boats and, banging metal objects together to make a noise that carries underwater, herd scores of Dall’s porpoises and pseudorcas into an inlet to be harpooned and hacked apart with machetes. Spring […]
Dirty Pool, part 3: Keiko
by Merritt Clifton January/February 1995 I had not planned to write a third part of my “Dirty Pool” series on propaganda interfering with marine mammal protection, but as the second part went to press on November 22, 1994, Warner Brothers and New Regency Productions donated $2 million to a new Free Willy/Keiko Foundation formed by Earth […]
Dirty Pool, part 2
by Merritt Clifton December 1994 VANCOUVER, KANSAS CITY, CHICAGO––Propaganda wins converts to causes by reducing issues to good against evil, forcing observers to take sides. Propaganda is among the most effective tools of warfare; but like warfare itself, it exacts a high price from those who use it. Much as the dead from either side […]
Dirty Pool, part 1
by Merritt Clifton November 1994 ORLANDO, NEW YORK CITY, MYSTIC––Activists don’t believe anything they hear from the “aquaprison industry.” Oceanarium people don’t trust activists to know truth when they see it. And small wonder on either side, given the pitch of the propaganda for and against keeping marine mammals in captivity. This debate differs from […]
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