With the stroke of a pen, the senators and governor of the United States approved the construction of a dolphinarium on the island of St. Thomas, which sentenced up to ten dolphins to a lifetime in confinement. I a letter to our local newspaper, The Virgin Island Daily News to with my opinion, but it was never published.
The final approval is now up to the Corps of Engineers, but this just a formality.
It is now a given fact that dolphins, whales, elephants, monkeys, dogs, cats, pigs etc have a much higher intelligence and are highly socialized within their packs/pods. And it is wrong to keep them captive in unnatural pens. Blackfish really made that very clear. When you think how wrong society was for for having slaves because they thought they were animals with no brains or feelings - that was just a little over a 100 years ago. Now that it is proven about animals how smart they are - we have the moral obligation not to hold them captive or do unnecessary operations or experiments on them.
Pleas help us in our fight for the dolphins - one against the holding pens and one asking people to pledge not to come to see them. The other petitions people have started went out to thousands and thousands and thousands of people who signed and they won. Japan, Spain and other places stopped building the holding tanks.
