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A Quezon City court postponed on Monday the hearing on the motion for reconsideration to ban the export of 25 show dolphins to Singapore.
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Environmental activist and Filipino artist AG Sano led the mural painting of endangered species in Katipunan Road, Balara, Quezon City.
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I think the pictures above say it all! CLEANING POOLS WITH CHEMICALS WHILE DOLPHINS LAY IN WAIT????
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While Russia continues to capture more beluga whales, the U.S. aquarium industry may be considering its next chess move: beluga whale factory farming.
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Researchers in the US are shocked to hear a whale making vocalisations similar to human speech in frequency and cadence.
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SINGAPORE - The Animal Concerns Research & Education Society (ACRES) yesterday launched a new video about the capture of wild dolphins as it continued its campaign against Resorts World Sentosa’s (RWS) acquisition of 25 dolphins for its Marine Life Park - an effort the park dismissed as “online antics”.
The initiative comes as the society’s counterparts in the Philippines filed an appeal against a court’s decision to lift an order on the export of the wild-caught dolphins to RWS.
ACRES, which also launched a portal yesterday - www.saddestdolphins.com - hopes to use public pressure to push RWS into releasing the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins so that they can be rehabilitated and eventually released to their natural habitat in the Solomon Islands.
“Ultimately, Resorts World Sentosa relies on public support and public dollars in order to carry on its business. We feel that if the public starts to speak up on this issue and take direct action, Resorts World will eventually realise that this is not something that is profitable,” ACRES Chief Executive Louis Ng said at a media conference yesterday.
In response, a Marine Life Park spokesperson said: “We have already spent considerable time educating ACRES on facts about our facility, animal care and intent, and we want to move on to the matters in hand … We urge ACRES to focus on areas where it can constructively contribute to marine conservation, rather than engage in online antics to encourage netizens to harass or heckle us and our Facebook fans.”
The spokesperson also reiterated: “The import of all CITES protected wildlife into Singapore has to comply with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and standard international regulations … Bringing dolphins into the Marine Life Park is no exception.”
ACRES said a motion for reconsideration was filed yesterday in the Philippines courts by the Earth Island Institute and the Philippine Animal Welfare Society, both from the Philippines. The parties also requested that the judge who lifted the temporary environment protection order be recused over her comments that “dolphins are pets”.
Twenty-seven dolphins were captured from the Solomon Islands between 2008 and 2009 and sent to Malaysia and the Philippines for training while the Marine Life Park was under construction. Two of the dolphins died in 2010 from a bacterial infection.
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Environmental and animal rights groups in the Philippines are refusing to concede defeat in their fight to prevent 25 Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins from being re-exported to the Marine Life Park at Resorts World Sentosa (RWS).
19 October 2012
MEDIA RELEASE
Believing that they will be deprived of due process, Philippine groups led by Earth Island Institute (EII), the Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) and the Compassion and Responsibility for Animals (CARA) filed today a Motion for Reconsideration, urging a Philippine court to grant an Environmental Protection Order preventing the re-export of 25 dolphins owned by Resorts World Singapore (RWS).
“If the dolphins will be allowed to be re-exported to Singapore, this will render our case moot and academic, hence depriving us our right to be heard in court,” says Anna Cabrera, Executive Director of PAWS, and co-complainant in the case, “So even if we win this case, it will just be an exercise in futility as the dolphins are already in Singapore.”
According to Trixie Concepcion of EII, “If the dolphins get re-exported to Singapore, this will set a dangerous precedent not only for dolphins but for all other species. This would mean that the Philippines has legitimized the import/export and trade of threatened species which will only be used for amusement.”
The 25 dolphins owned by RWS was caught in the wild from the Solomon Islands and latest scientific study has shown that the sustainable rate of capture is only 1 animal in 5 years.
The groups claim that it is unacceptable that a species of dolphins may go extinct so corporations such as Resorts World Singapore can make profits by using these animals for their dolphin shows.
The Motion for Reconsideration is scheduled to be heard on 25 October, Thursday, 9am before the sala of the Executive Judge of the Quezon City Regional Trial Courts.#########
