AWI Launches Anti Dolphin
Swim-with Brochures
Several years ago, Ben White of AWI
co-founded the cetacean freedom network, an email-based assembly of
captivity-conscious individuals and groups.
Last year the group acknowledged the
increasing popularity of dolphin swim-with programs among dolphin lovers
who are unaware of the story behind the fun. In response, AWI has
produced what has proved to be an immensely popular brochure entitled “Dolphins
are dying to amuse you” which relates the truth behind many of the
dolphin swim-with programs that are springing up, particularly in the
Caribbean and Central America.
Our colleague, Pricilla Cubero Pardo, of
the Costa Rican group Fundación Promar, provided a Spanish translation for
the brochure and Isabelle Fenoll from the Netherlands Antilles provided
the French translation. If you know someone who is planning a dolphin
swim-with vacation, please contact us and we will send you one. We are
certain that those with a real love for dolphins would rather leave them
be, than contribute to this industry.
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