Madam Minister, two months before hosting the United Nations Ocean Conference, you are on the verge of betraying captive cetaceans, the spirit of the law and the profound will of French public opinion.
This is what you suggested in a recent video where you say you are considering the transfer of dolphins and killer whales from Marineland to Spain, on a “transitory” basis, I'm sure. The truth is that once animals are on Spanish territory, France will no longer have any control over their destiny. The sad precedent of the killer whale Morgan sent to Loro Parque by the Dutch government under certain conditions shows that the Spanish government has no intention of imposing anything on the captivity industry.
Despite years of lawsuits filed by the Free Morgan Foundation, Morgan remains exploited in undignified and illegal conditions.The tragic and absurd side of the situation is that in order to enforce animal welfare law, you are on the verge of subjecting these 14 cetaceans to conditions that are much worse than they have always experienced in Marineland.
Indeed, for the public to understand, you are considering authorizing the transfer of two female dolphins, Sharky and Malou to “Loro Parque” with the orcas Wikie and Keijo. Four killer whales and three dolphins have died in this dolphinarium in the last 4 years and the intense level of aggression between killer whales is very worrying. Morgan, for example, has dozens of bite marks and has been forced to jump for shows, even while pregnant. This place is a disgrace.
You are also considering sending the other 10 dolphins to Madrid, in a dolphinarium closed to the public because of the dilapidated nature of its pools, which are much smaller and shabby than those in Marineland. They would also be separated because the pools in Madrid cannot respect the current distribution of dolphins in Marineland. And above all, among these 10 dolphins, there are two babies, including Ollie, Malou's baby who will be shipped to Loro Parque while she is close to her daughter who is still nursing. Both will be brutally separated from one day to the next, never to meet again. How could the entry into force of the law on animal welfare lead to such cruelty, Madam Minister
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