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[sunny]

Turkish and foreign animal rights supporters plan to carry out demonstrations next week to protest a dolphinarium in Antalya's Kaş district to which four bottlenose dolphins were moved in December 2011 by the operator of a facility near Bodrum to be exploited in commercial dolphin shows and to provide controversial dolphin therapy.

The German dolphin and whale protection organization ProWal is leading the protest, shaming and calling the facility in Kaş the "worst dolphinarium in the world." Protestors seek the immediate closure of the Kaş dolphin park.


http://www.todayszam...in-antalya.html

[Cukurbagli]

Good for them. I'll be there.

[Abi]

Wonderful news, glad to hear you're going Cukur, Sadly I will only be there in spirit as it's too far for me to go. I heard there is a "Dolphin Park" near Guvercinlik nearBodrum. It's supposed to have been closed down but someone said they saw dolphins there a couple of weeks ago,

[sunny]

The trouble is when one closes another one pops up somewhere else.

[HobbitTR]

Someone started a TripAdvisor posting called Do we want captive Dolphins in Kas
Here is the Facebook site: Free the Kas Dolphins
Here are some anti-dolphinarium logos you can print and pass about.
Here is the petition site: Free the Captive Dolphins in Turkey
Kas Explorers seems to be one of the big organisers of the protest, you might contact them or go by to see wazzup.
This article, Dolphin Protest, gives some details and links about the very real and very expensive problems that arise out of dolphin captivity.

Now you know as much, if not more than I do. (Lucky you...)

[sunny]

Thanks for all those useful links Hobbit. Let's hope they are successful.