A higher court in Moscow has exonerated the original capture companies from any wrongdoing.
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Are you tired of social isolation? Honey the dolphin spent several years alone in an abandoned water park.
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After filing the lawsuit, "Anderson v SeaWorld"five years ago, two plaintiffs finally told their story in court earlier this month.
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The well-anticipated trial that's been in the making for 5 years finally goes to trial next week.
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The International Marine Mammal Project (IMMP) of Earth Island Institute is one of the lead organizations globally coordinating efforts on behalf of Russian whales and dolphins. We helped to return the Whale Jail whales of Russia to the ocean and are now working to permanently ban such wild captures of whales and dolphins in Russian waters.
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In his recent story, Joe Roman of the University of Vermont notes that “one of the most important global conservation events of the past year was something that didn’t happen.”
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Have you ever had the chance to observe bottlenose dolphins in the wild? Watching the highly social marine mammals traveling in pods of 10-15, playfully surfing waves, hunting, mating, and protecting each other is unforgettable. Dolphins have even rescued humans struggling in deep water. There’s no question that dolphins belong in the ocean living wild and free from confinement. The contrast is alarming.
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Russian conservationists organized a massive turn-out of more than 100,000 petition signers, asking the Russian government to end captures of orcas, beluga whales and dolphins (essentially, any cetaceans) in Russian waters for captivity.
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The International Marine Mammal Project (IMMP) of Earth Island Institute helped develop and is consulting on a lawsuit against SeaWorld (Anderson v SeaWorld), contending that the mega corporation has been deliberately lying to the public about the health and welfare of their orcas in captivity. SeaWorld is being called-out on these lies, as never before, because of the groundbreaking legal battle we’ve been waging on behalf of captive orcas for more than five years! Usually SeaWorld bullies their way through litigation. They’re a multi-billion dollar company and pay multiple aggressive hired-gun attorney teams to do their bidding. But this time, all five of SeaWorld’s attempts to have the case, Anderson v SeaWorld, dismissed have been denied. Their efforts to further delay and drag out the case and keep scientific expert witness reports sealed by the court and kept secret, are crumbling.
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As 2019 comes to a close, we’re writing to thank you for your ongoing generosity and to share some of IMMP’s key accomplishments this year. 2020 promises to be an especially busy and potentially productive year for whales and dolphins, as our SeaWorld lawsuit finally comes to trial and we organize Olympians and Paralympians to urge Japan to end the killing of dolphins and whales.
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