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Imagine, throwing a ball to an adorable, playful dolphin. The dolphin brings back your ball and then you harpoon it! 

Dreadfully, this is what is happening to the Boto dolphin or 'Amazon pink river dolphin' as it is fondly described because of its pink skin. Their tender dolphin flesh is used for baiting Piracatinga, an abundant species of scavenger catfish. This has to stop. By giving now you can help save the boto dolphins from being tortured and killed each year.

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During one of these brutal hunts, a single dolphin, or even an entire family of dolphins, are attracted with playful balls, caught with nets and pierced by harpoons to immobilize them. But instead of being killed right away, the fatally injured dolphin is tied by its tail to a submerged tree until the next fishing trip.

For hours, and even days, the wounded and terrified dolphin struggles to free itself from its tether before it gives up or is crudely butchered.

And the worst part? The demand for Piracatinga fish is growing, which puts boto dolphins at an even higher risk for torture. But your gift today can help save boto dolphins by giving World Animal Protection the necessary resources to be a #BotoRescuer.

With your help, we can gain support by revealing this cruelty to communities who consume Piracatinga and convince governments to stop its commercialization.

WAZA endorses its members, some of which are involved in the world's worst animal cruelty. The pain suffered by these animals is horrific, and so is WAZA's hypocrisy.

In addition to the Taiji dolphin hunts, there are WAZA members that chain and beat elephants. Some WAZA members buy wild beluga whales that have been captured in terrifying hunts. In WAZA facilities, distressed bears live in tiny cages, and tiger cubs that appear drugged lie lifelessly in tourists' laps for photos.

Help save animals from terrible suffering - Shame WAZA

Take action to stop the shameful hypocrisy of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA), and spare animals from unspeakable horror.

WAZA says it exists to promote animal welfare and conservation. But some of WAZA's members and affiliates - who pay WAZA membership fees - are doing the opposite. They're buying dolphins captured in the bloody Taiji dolphin hunts, and abusing scores of other defenceless animals. WAZA knows this - and yet takes no action against its members.

Publicly, WAZA says the Taiji dolphin hunts violate its Code of Ethics. But behind the scenes, WAZA actually agrees to the captures.

Add your name to the global outrage. Call on WAZA to help stop dolphin hunts and other appalling animal cruelty.

WAZA, which is the world's peak zoo body, accepts these facilities' money, and takes no action to stop their cruel exploitation of animals.

Please help put an end to these horrors. Australia for Dolphins is behind a global campaign to shame WAZA into doing the right thing by animals: stopping cruelty and defending their welfare.

Please sign and share this important petition.

When we reach 100,000 signatures, Australia for Dolphins will hand deliver the petition to WAZA headquarters in Switzerland.

We'll invite media and, with your voice, call the world's attention to WAZA's hypocrisy.

If there's one thing a member-based organisation like WAZA doesn't like, it's bad press and negative attention. Help blow the whistle on WAZA's hypocritical behaviour.

Send a clear message to WAZA and its global members that cruelty to animals must stop now.

And, after four days of intensive searching, the body of José Luis Barbero has been found in the Palma airport car park.

Civl Guard troops have found the body and have given notice to the National Police in charge of this district.

Cetacean News Network first reported this video surfacing weeks ago, with a followup video with improved picture quality; reported HERE. The actions taken to expose the video to the world was a joint effort of transcontinental scope.

According to a local reporter, around noon on Saturday, members of the Homicide Judicial Police Institute Armed found the body of José Luis Barbero inside his car, a Peugeot 407 black, which was parked on the fourth floor of the parking Son Sant Joan. Immediately notice was given to the National Police in charge of this district. Effective Group Homicide urgently moved there, where they work right now to try to clarify the circumstances surrounding the death of ex-instructor Marineland.

The first hypothesis suggests that Barbero, 59, had voluntarily ended his life. It is believed the exhaust fumes of the car is the cause of death and no evidence of outside intervention was found.

José Luis Barbero left home on Tuesday towards nine o'clock and his car, a Peugeot 407 was black with tuition 7429GDX. He had a meeting at El Toro where he never showed up. Barbero was technical director and instructor Marineland dolphin and a few weeks ago a video that allegedly mistreated animals spread. He was set to be the next Senior Vice President of Georgia Aquarium in the USA.

THIS BREAKING NEWS WAS FIRST POSTED IN THE LOCAL PAPER .