Long committed against the captivity of cetaceans, One Voice has just shared a video again implicating Marineland, while the Antibes Marine Park has announced its reopening for June 11.
In these aerial images that the association says it has received from a "whistleblower", the bottom of the basins of orcas and dolphins appears covered with algae, whose "growth patterns" testify to "poor filtration. "And" poor water circulation ".
The Marineland d'Antibes basins as you have never seen them ... Algae everywhere, dolphins and killer whales as if in slow motion, Inouk sluggish ... It is high time to offer another life, a "real life" »To captive animals in dolphinariums.
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- One Voice (@onevoiceanimal) May 27, 2021
The association thus wonders about the origin of the “nutrients” that the algae would use here to develop: “Dead fish?
Dolphins, orcas, their droppings?
In the images, she also believes to see cetaceans "in slow motion", and even Inouk, one of the orcas, "sluggish".
"It is high time to offer another life, a" real life "to the captive animals of dolphinariums", reaffirms One Voice.
Algae are "a very positive sign", according to Marineland
A new assault that annoys the park. “Each year, One Voice attacks on opening and closing. Either the water is too blue or not enough. Marineland has the high-level technical installations necessary to guarantee the highest possible quality of water ”and it is“ of very good quality ”, replies the management requested by
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. It also recalls "that no scientist is able to assess remotely, without sampling or analysis, the water quality of a basin".
Marineland ensures for its part that "these appearances of algae" are "a very positive sign".
"Our water is pumped from the sea, and naturally contains algae spores, which develop when the water heats up under the rays of the sun," develops the dolphinarium.
This shows that the water is of very good quality and that the level of chlorine present in the water is very low and safe for animals.
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Our file on dolphins
At the end of January, the deputies voted almost unanimously for a text to combat animal abuse which notably provides for the prohibition of the detention and reproduction of cetaceans in captivity, as well as their participation in shows.
This bill is still awaiting its passage before the Senate.
But if it were adopted, it would in any case force Marineland to change the formula.
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