A Whale of A Week & your Dolphin Outlook, Canadian Bill to End Cetacean Captivity, NSW marine park & 46 Dolphins were brutally killed last week off the coast in Taiji, Japan and 6 were captured to be sold to perform for humans!

2018-19 Taiji Weekly Updates - Week #21
In Defense of Animals
Canadian Bill to End Cetacean Captivity Heads to the Commons. Canada is one step closer to eliminating cetacean captivity after the Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act cleared the Senate in October. Now, thanks to politicians, scientists, and supporters like you, this bill is headed to the House of Commons, where it must be passed to become law. 

Bill S-203 is designed to phase out captivity over time by banning breeding and prohibiting the importation of cetaceans, including their sperm, tissue cultures, and embryos. The harmful proposed Conservative amendments to exclude the Vancouver Aquarium and Marineland, which are the only two facilities holding captive cetaceans in Canada, were defeated.

Unlike the Vancouver Aquarium, which announced its phase-out of captive marine mammals, Marineland holds over 55 marine mammals captive, with no plans to slow its exploitative business. It is therefore unsurprising that Marineland has urged the House of Commons to kill the bill.

Green Party leader Elizabeth May, who sponsors this Act in the House of Commons, states, “Keeping these highly evolved creatures in captivity is cruel, as is the entertainment value of watching whales and dolphins swim circles in concrete tanks. The sooner the House of Commons passes this bill, the better.”


We have been keeping you in the loop about this bill for over a year. Stay tuned for more updates from In Defense of Animals’ Cetacean Project.
A NSW marine park has announced it will consider releasing 5 beautiful dolphins in swimming pools to a sea pen sanctuary. 

But only if we prove it can be done!

Your support will make it possible to conduct site surveys, perform a full health check on the dolphins, and, if they can be moved, design a world-class sea pen sanctuary for them to live in.

These dolphins have been in captivity so long, they couldn’t survive on their own in the wild. We have a responsibility to do everything we can to give them a better life. 

And they desperately need your support to make that happen!
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