Hays Travel, Delta, and Virgin Atlantic have officially agreed to end their promotion of captive dolphin experiences. This win belongs to every one of you who kept the pressure on these companies. Please email their customer service teams to thank them for choosing to do the right thing for these …
June 26, 2017
Final supporters
Hays Travel, Delta and Virgin Atlantic regularly promote "swim with dolphin experiences. I love dolphins - they are beautiful creatures so it’s no surprise that people would love the opportunity to swim with them. It’s seemingly harmless but it is actually cruel and inhumane.
Dolphins are often stolen from the wild in order to supply the demand for such experiences. The process of capturing and transporting dolphins to marine parks is excruciating and many animals die during transit. Those that survive are condemned to live a stressful and miserable life.
In the wild, dolphins are highly intelligent social beings who live in large family groups and can travel up to 100 miles a day. In captivity, they are forced to live in confined, artificial conditions and they suffer immense mental and physical stress as a result. A life in a tank is no life at all.
The emotional and physical distress that captive dolphins experience can weaken their immune systems and make them prone to disease.
I’m certain that if more holiday makers knew this, they would never support this exploitation. This practice must stop. That is why I’m calling on Thomas Cook to stop promoting and selling trips to swim with dolphins in captivity.
Let’s make sure dolphins stay wild, free and happy!
Please help to stop dolphin exploitation by signing and sharing my petition today!
Dolphins have evolved over millions of years, adapting perfectly to life in the ocean. They are intelligent, social and self-aware, exhibiting evidence of a highly developed emotional sense. Here are just a few of the issues with captivity:Captures of dolphins are traumatic and stressful and can result in injury and death of dolphins. The number of dolphins that die during capture operations or shortly thereafter are never revealed in dolphinariums or swim-with-dolphins programs. Some facilities even claim their dolphins were "rescued" from the ocean and cannot be released. This claim is almost invariably false.
Training of dolphins is often deliberately misrepresented by the captive dolphin industry to make it look as if dolphins perform because they like it. This isn't the case. They are performing because they have been deprived of food.
Most captive dolphins are confined in minuscule tanks containing chemically treated artificial seawater. Dolphins in a tank are severely restricted in using their highly developed sonar, which is one of the most damaging aspects of captivity. It is much like forcing a person to live in a hall of mirrors for the rest of their life - their image always bouncing back with no clear direction in sight.
Updates
April 16, 2017
We just hit the 250 signature mark for the dolphins. Now call the customer service lines for Hays Travel and demand they drop these cruel programs.
Reached 250 supporters
April 15, 2017
April 13, 2017
We are approaching the 250 signature mark and need a final push to hit our goal before I present this to the companies. Post this petition on your Facebook page right now. Text three people today and urge them to add their names to this fight.
Reached 100 supporters
February 10, 2017
44 Comments
This needs to stop it is cruel and barbaric ! These poor creatures are treated so cruelly behind the scenes I have witnessed a mother seal kicked when crying to go back to her pups when I was on holiday in Spain and when I reported my concerns nothing was done! That poor seal was suffering separation anxiety being forced to leave her pups behind to entertain tourists !
With so much more knowledge about these animals intelligence and family units please stop supporting their captivity...
Dolphins belong in the wild. Please stop promoting abuse of captive animals. This only encourages Japan to capture and kill more wild dolphins.
Keeping dolphins confined and forcing them to do tricks all day for people is cruel. It is also cruel to keep them in a chlorinated pool. They should be swimming free in the wild. They deserve their freedom as much as you do. Please do not promote swimming with dolphins. Thank you
If you knew how cruel this industry was, you would not sell tickets to see captive dolphins and whales. Sell tickets that preserve them in their natural habitat instead.
Stop.
This needs to end.
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Hays Travel, Delta, and Virgin Atlantic have officially agreed to end their promotion of captive dolphin experiences. This win belongs to every one of you who kept the pressure on these companies. Please email their customer service teams to thank them for choosing to do the right thing for these …
June 26, 2017
Final supporters
Hays Travel, Delta and Virgin Atlantic regularly promote "swim with dolphin experiences. I love dolphins - they are beautiful creatures so it’s no surprise that people would love the opportunity to swim with them. It’s seemingly harmless but it is actually cruel and inhumane.
Dolphins are often stolen from the wild in order to supply the demand for such experiences. The process of capturing and transporting dolphins to marine parks is excruciating and many animals die during transit. Those that survive are condemned to live a stressful and miserable life.
In the wild, dolphins are highly intelligent social beings who live in large family groups and can travel up to 100 miles a day. In captivity, they are forced to live in confined, artificial conditions and they suffer immense mental and physical stress as a result. A life in a tank is no life at all.
The emotional and physical distress that captive dolphins experience can weaken their immune systems and make them prone to disease.
I’m certain that if more holiday makers knew this, they would never support this exploitation. This practice must stop. That is why I’m calling on Thomas Cook to stop promoting and selling trips to swim with dolphins in captivity.
Let’s make sure dolphins stay wild, free and happy!
Please help to stop dolphin exploitation by signing and sharing my petition today!
Dolphins have evolved over millions of years, adapting perfectly to life in the ocean. They are intelligent, social and self-aware, exhibiting evidence of a highly developed emotional sense. Here are just a few of the issues with captivity:Captures of dolphins are traumatic and stressful and can result in injury and death of dolphins. The number of dolphins that die during capture operations or shortly thereafter are never revealed in dolphinariums or swim-with-dolphins programs. Some facilities even claim their dolphins were "rescued" from the ocean and cannot be released. This claim is almost invariably false.
Training of dolphins is often deliberately misrepresented by the captive dolphin industry to make it look as if dolphins perform because they like it. This isn't the case. They are performing because they have been deprived of food.
Most captive dolphins are confined in minuscule tanks containing chemically treated artificial seawater. Dolphins in a tank are severely restricted in using their highly developed sonar, which is one of the most damaging aspects of captivity. It is much like forcing a person to live in a hall of mirrors for the rest of their life - their image always bouncing back with no clear direction in sight.
Updates
April 16, 2017
We just hit the 250 signature mark for the dolphins. Now call the customer service lines for Hays Travel and demand they drop these cruel programs.
Reached 250 supporters
April 15, 2017
April 13, 2017
We are approaching the 250 signature mark and need a final push to hit our goal before I present this to the companies. Post this petition on your Facebook page right now. Text three people today and urge them to add their names to this fight.
Reached 100 supporters
February 10, 2017
44 Comments
A gimmick to sell more tickets when sales are not money makers. A selfish cruel method, when dolphins are stolen and held in small pens.
This needs to stop it is cruel and barbaric ! These poor creatures are treated so cruelly behind the scenes I have witnessed a mother seal kicked when crying to go back to her pups when I was on holiday in Spain and when I reported my concerns nothing was done! That poor seal was suffering separation anxiety being forced to leave her pups behind to entertain tourists !
With so much more knowledge about these animals intelligence and family units please stop supporting their captivity...
Dolphins belong in the wild. Please stop promoting abuse of captive animals. This only encourages Japan to capture and kill more wild dolphins.
Keeping dolphins confined and forcing them to do tricks all day for people is cruel. It is also cruel to keep them in a chlorinated pool. They should be swimming free in the wild. They deserve their freedom as much as you do. Please do not promote swimming with dolphins. Thank you
If you knew how cruel this industry was, you would not sell tickets to see captive dolphins and whales. Sell tickets that preserve them in their natural habitat instead.
Stop.
This needs to end.
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A gimmick to sell more tickets when sales are not money makers. A selfish cruel method, when dolphins are stolen and held in small pens.