Even if a law soon to be voted on should ban the captivity of dolphins within 5 years, the association That's enough!
maintains the pressure.
As of Tuesday, October 26, and for the third time in four years, several hundred posters are displayed in the Paris metro.
Showing an orca and a dolphin both holding in a tiny pool, the latter are crossed out with the slogan "
confined for life
".
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This awareness campaign, which will last until November 1, is intended to denounce the living conditions of captive cetaceans.
Perfectly unsuitable conditions, according to the association, which generate, she says, "
real animal suffering
".
However, this campaign comes at a time when a law described as historic, according to defenders of the animal cause, will be voted by the National Assembly on November 15.
In a joint committee last week, deputies and senators indeed agreed on a common text to prohibit within 5 years, after the promulgation of the law, the detention of cetaceans in dolphinariums.
But for Christine Grandjean, the president of the association C'est enough !, this text, which constitutes real progress, is open to criticism on one point.
The latter does not prohibit reproduction until the closing of establishments, "
and there will therefore be births
", fears the person in charge.
Through this campaign, the association wants to dissuade the public from going to the two dolphinariums existing today in France.
Marineland, in Antibes (Alpes-Maritimes), and Planète sauvage, in Port-Saint-Père in (Loire-Atlantique), share 25 dolphins and orcas.
Last January, the third establishment of this type, Parc Astérix in the Oise, put a stop to its shows with its cetaceans all then sent to other European parks.
In addition, if the law puts an end to the detention of dolphins in five years, the association fears that the dolphinariums seize a means of keeping them anyway, as provided by the law.
"
If they obtain approval to become a research center, they could then keep dolphins and killer whales, which we do not want
", indicates Christine Grandjean, who wants the State to think now about the future of these marine mammals.
Unable to regain full freedom after living in a pool, they must be able to live to end their days in marine enclosures.
This is the wish of the association.
