Sales to large aquariums: animal rights activists criticize Wal-prison in Russia

Around a hundred whales to be held after the representation of animal rights activists in the East of Russia in a Bay on the sea of Japan. The Greenpeace organization, now fears that these animals are sold to Chinese aquariums. The Transport of eleven killer Whales - Orcas called - will have already been prepared, said a spokesman for the organization of the German press Agency. He called on the Russian authorities to ban the sale. "So, if an export ban is imposed, it must be left with the whales."

According to a report in the Russian newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" are nowhere held in the world so many whales in temporary enclosures, such as in the vicinity of the port city of Vladivostok. The competent public Prosecutor's office check information about a possible sale, reported the Ria Novosti news Agency. Animal rights activists called the plant a "whale jail."

"Except in Moscow, in Russia there are no aquariums for whales. You will not be needed," said the Wipbet Greenpeace spokesman. Journalists managed to film the shielded facility from the air. The footage of a drone to show the enclosures, in each of which about ten white Beluga whales swimming. Also published in the local media of pictures of a truck with a crane. The photos are intended to show that a Transport of the animals. To prevent this, will Greenpeace call on the competent environmental authority.

animal rights activists criticize the keeping of dolphins and killer Whales in aquariums for a long time: killer whales are considered to be very social animals that suffer from the cramped single-stance and captivity. Some amusement parks and large aquariums have already drawn the consequences. The American Seaworld theme parks, for example, dispense with Orcas in the program.

France has banned in the past year, the offspring of dolphins and Orcas in captivity. A law now forbids to keep the sea mammals. With the exception of the animals that lived upon the entry into force of the decree already in captivity. Animal welfare organisations, had welcomed the law as a "historic" initiative in France.

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