END DOLPHIN CAPTIVITY ! (EKO).

 

TUI, one of the world’s leading tourism groups, still sells captive dolphin shows to its clients. The pressure on TUI is massive as Expedia and other industry leaders already stopped selling these cruel shows.

Let’s use this summer vacation season to force TUI to follow suit !

 Sign the petition 

Dolphins are highly intelligent, social mammals who belong in the  vast ocean, swimming free with their pods. Held in tanks, they  literally waste away – depressed and often alone. This is exactly why many travel agencies stopped selling trips to  captive dolphin shows. But German travel giant TUI continues to  offer multiple “dolphin experiences” across the globe – and  enables corporations like SeaWorld to profit off the cruel whale and  dolphin captivity. It’s peak travel season in the Northern hemisphere – let’s use this  momentum and take our message directly to TUI’s doorsteps : we  want vacations without animal torture ! Tell TUI: Cut dolphin shows from your programme – for good! There are more than 3,000 captive dolphins worldwide and marine  mammal entertainment is a multibillion-dollar industry – which is  fuelled by big travel operators like TUI who like to promote the  shows as fun, educational and family-friendly. But the truth is: even a generous tank is like a tiny jail cell for  dolphins – 200,000 times (!!) smaller than their natural range.  Locked in, these highly intelligent and social mammals suffer from  depression, obsessive behaviour like swimming in circles, and stress- induced diseases. And more than half of bottlenose dolphins born  in captivity don’t survive past one year – a higher mortality rate  than in the wild ! Many travel agencies and operators have scrapped trips to dolphin  shows from their programme – and some governments have even  prohibited dolphin captivity altogether ! TUI is one of the last  major companies that’s still helping the cruel industry profiting  off animals that belong into the sea, wild and free. Tell TUI: No more trips to dolphin shows – vacation without  animal torture! In the past, we have succeeded in our biggest petition ever, with  1.7 million signers, moving SeaWorld to end its Orca Captivity  program. Today, we can help end dolphin and whale captivity  altogether, by pushing a key player to stop promoting it.  Sign the petition  Thanks for all that you do, Rosa, Ildem, Fatah and the team at Ekō . More information : Swimming with dolphins: Thousands call on TUI to stop  selling ‘cruel’ trips. Euronews. 10 June, 2022. Your questions and our answers on dolphin captivity and entertainment. World Animal Protection. 14 August, 2023.

 

 

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