Nanjing -
Doctors at a Jiangsu Province aquarium in Nanjing, issued an emergency plea yesterday for someone with long arms to retrieve a ball swallowed by a performing dolphin. The ball has now been successfully removed, but at what cost?
Boudewijn Seapark in Bruges is the last captive dolphinarium in Belgium.
Yvon Godefroid/Dolphin Libre
Dolphins are loaded into the back of trucks and placed in very small tanks with little water, said JAAN, then transported from village to village to perform. Many do not survive.
JAAN
The Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra, India, has been selected for the development of a new dolphinarium.
Elroy Serrao
Boudewijn Seapark opened at Bruges in 1963, getting its first dolphins in 1972. The facility burned down in 1988. At least 3 dolphins were burned alive in the structure. It was rebuilt and now hosts 6 dolphins.
