The Choshi City Japanese Aquarium is about to close because visitors no longer want to see animals forced to live in captivity. After 63 years of activity, a great victory for fish and dolphins.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himThe Japanese aquarium of Choshi City is about to close because visitors no longer want to see animals forced to live in captivity. After 63 years of activity, a great victory for fish and dolphins.
In the last seven years, visitors have gone from 300 thousand visitors to 50 thousand a year, the reason? Greater awareness on the part of citizens who are tired of attending shows in which animals are considered as gods fun attractions.
No more, therefore, dolphins playing with balls and fish swimming in small pools. The structure says that given the collapse in ticket sales, there is not enough money to keep the structure open and to make the park earthquake-proof.
We are starting to have a different sensitivity, perhaps because finally after years of complaints something is changing. Each of us can make a difference: zoos, circuses and other structures where animals live in captivity remain open because there is obviously someone who still enjoys seeing sedated lions jumping over the circle of fire.
Fortunately, there are those who think differently and there silent protest of visitors to the Japanese aquarium is a first confirmation of this. By choosing not to go there anymore, they implicitly forced the structure to close.
In short, we are no longer willing to see animals treated as freaks and demonstrating this there is also the prohibition in many cities of the world of the circus with animals. Then there are the unforgettable images of “Blackfish” and “The Cove”, two documentaries that shed light on the life and treatment of captured dolphins, taken from their family and their natural habitat.
Unfortunately, they are not the only animals to suffer:
- Sea World must close. Jane Goodall alongside dolphins, killer whales and whales (VIDEO)
- Sochi 2014: let's save the killer whales captured for the Winter Olympics (petition)
- Horror in Sea World: that dolphin beached outside the tub (video)
- Two zoos in Sardinia seized: shocking images of animals (PHOTO)
We hope that the closure of this marine park will be the first of a long series and that the animals will once again become one and only an integral part of a natural heritage to be preserved and not to be used at will.
Dominella Trunfio
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