FILM (Tweet from Orca S※O※S (@OrcaSOS)

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#OpCaptivity, Beluga Whales, captivitykills, Cruelty, documentary, love Belugas, Russia, wild capture

#BornToBeFree can be seen on #Netflix in the US & Canada:

netflix.com/title/80131414

This is such an important, eye-opening film exposing the reprehensible cruelty happening in #Russia during and after the wild capture of #blackfish, #dolphins and whales

#BornToBeFree can be seen on #Netflix in the US & Canada:https://t.co/ZHz1xpNAq5

This is such an important, eye-opening film exposing the reprehensible cruelty happening in #Russia during and after the wild capture of #blackfish, #dolphins and whales

— Orca S※O※S (@OrcaSOS) December 7, 2017

A huge Thank You goes out to all the people who contributed to the making of this important documentary.

so much love

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Greedy Humans & Value

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1ocean, 4fish, 4money, And while I'm at it, animalrights, BeOcean, boatcaptains, boycott, buyless, care2, caremore, China and Japan, China Robs Our Oceans, ChinaVessels, corruption – to say nothing of cruelty., criminals, despicable, empathy, endangered, extinction, Fanta-Sea, feeltheThunder, fightthem, greed, money, PoachersBoats, Sharks, tourism

Currently, shark ecotourism brings in $314 million annually worldwide, and this sector is expected to continue growing. Surges in shark tourism are particularly evident in the Caribbean and Australia, the researchers said.

“That figure is projected to double to over $700 million per year within the next 20 years,” Cisneros-Montemayor told LiveScience.

In comparison, the landed market value (which refers to the market value of goods on the day they are offloaded from a vessel) of shark fisheries around the globe is $630 million per year, but has been in decline over the past 10 to 15 years, the researchers said. [On the Brink: A Gallery of Wild Sharks]

Approximately 38 million sharks are killed each year to meet the demands of the controversial shark fin industry, which uses the fins to make shark fin soup, a dish that is considered a delicacy in some Asian countries. Sharks are often thrown back into the ocean to die after their fins have been removed.

But, there are other important reasons to promote shark conservation beyond economics, Cisneros-Montemayor said. For one, sharks play a vital role in the ecosystem of the oceans.

“Studies have found that if you remove top predators, like sharks, you change the structure of the ecosystem itself,” he explained. “This significantly changes the ecosystem, and it puts you in danger of all kinds of bad things happening.”

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fuckasianrestaurantowners, SharkFinGreed, soupmyass

Sharks Fin Soup Bans Don’t Stop Strong Demand

Strong demand for Shark Fin Soup is pissing people off and if Asian restaurant owners don’t wake up to why,THE WORLD WILL REFUSE TO EAT in their restaurants..period.

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heck out @Anon4dolphin’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/Anon4dolphin/status/1110908609146339331?s=09

Operation Dolphin ByCatch: France’s Atlantic Coast

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Bay of Biscay, dolphinDefense, France, vesselsstrikedolphins

Operation Dolphin ByCatch: France’s Atlantic Coast

Launched in February with Sea Shepherd France and the M/Y Sam Simon, our dolphin defense campaign exposes the thousands of dolphins killed by commercial fishing vessels each year in the Bay of Biscay. Our goal is to put pressure on the French government to require fisheries observers on all commercial fishing vessels, enforce the accurate reporting of bycatch, and ban fishing practices that contribute to these needless bycatch casualties threatening the very existence of dolphins on France’s Atlantic Coast.

Canada: End Captivity for Whales and Dolphins

SIGN & SHARE PLEASE
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-ca/536/687/943/canada-end-captivity-for-whales-and-dolphins/

PUBLIC MEDIA DEMANDS OCEAN LAWS BE STRICTER

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International ocean governance, PUBLIC MEDIA POLLS DEMAND OCEAN LAW ENFORCED THRU INCREASE OF PATROL VESSELS

International ocean governance NOW

http://freerussianwhales.org/en/

We need political leaders who will assume responsibility for ensuring law enforcement agencies have the resources and authority to carry out their responsibilities. Those agencies must ensure they are doing what the law was intended to do.

Read more: https://www.ammoland.com/2019/02/no-new-laws-enforcing-ones-we-have/#ixzz5gwpAlSXB 
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution 
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Implementation is the Hard Part

That process, accomplished out of the public spotlight, is a whole lot harder than holding press conferences and passing new laws. Successful implementation of laws and continuing oversight does not make news. Lax, inadequate, misfocused or neglected enforcement does make news in the form of tragic incidents.

Implementation is the Hard Part

That process, accomplished out of the public spotlight, is a whole lot harder than holding press conferences and passing new laws. Successful implementation of laws and continuing oversight does not make news. Lax, inadequate, misfocused or neglected enforcement does make news in the form of tragic incidents.

“this is not tradition!”

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japan, this is not custom

“The chaos amongst the pod was unimaginable. Divers swam through the terror-stricken dolphins, rolling them over to check their gender, then forcefully pushing the undesirable ones out of their way. A calf attempted to surface for air, then disappeared for several seconds underneath the surface, this process repeating over and over. One dolphin likely expelled its stomach contents, swimming with what looked to be a cephalopod hanging out of its mouth.” ~ Heather Hill

The global captive dolphin industry is responsible for this barbaric cruelty. Dolphinariums that do not purchase dolphins from Taiji’s drive hunts are also guilty of inexcusable betrayal against the mammals for not speaking out and for doing absolutely nothing to stop it

<link href=’https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css&#8217; rel=’stylesheet’ type=’text/css’ />https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v3/petition/captivitykills-dont-buy-a-ticket-to-a-dolphin-show?format=js&source=widget&referrer=%5Bobject%20Object%5D

Tragedy struck again in Taiji on February 14 when the hunters captured a nursery pod of 10 Risso’s dolphins. Four of them were small calves. The mothers in a nursery pod will guide their calves to inshore waters to forage, play, and nurse their young, but above all, to protect dependent offspring from predators. According to their previous experiences, the inshore, shallow waters provide much-needed protection for their vulnerable calves. But not so in Taiji. There, swimming and foraging close to shore puts dolphins at great risk, and when the hunters spread across the ocean at daybreak, they quickly found the pod. With their fleet of motorized boats, they effortlessly chased the nursery pod down and forced it into the Cove. The hunters quickly netted off the dolphins’ escape, and their fate was sealed.

Science has established that cetaceans are highly complex, empathetic, and intelligent beings that share strong social ties. Mothers that have lost their offspring have been seen carrying their dead calves for days, refusing to let them go. It is evident that dolphins experience grief and that they mourn the loss of an offspring.

Check out @Dolphin_Project’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/Dolphin_Project/status/1100032926253805569?s=09

Senate passes bill that would ban whale, dolphin captivity in Canada | CBC News

After a multi-year legislative battle, a bill to outlaw keeping cetaceans like whales and dolphins in captivity has cleared the Senate — all but ensuring the end of a once-popular theme park attraction in Canada.

S-203 — first introduced by now-retired Liberal senator Willie Moore in December 2015, with the backing of Green Party Leader Elizabeth May — would ban keeping and breeding these marine mammals in captivity through amendments to the Criminal Code.

Fines of up to $200,000 could be imposed on parks flouting the law — a sum set deliberately high as a deterrent.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tasker-whale-dolphin-captivity-canada-senate-bill-1.4876136