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Loading...Las Vegas Casino Operates “Dolphin Death Pool”
Las Vegas is 300 miles from the nearest ocean, yet that hasn’t stopped a popular casino from importing and imprisoning dolphins on its property as a way of entertaining its guests.
The Mirage Hotel and Casino’s “Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat” is anything but natural–the intelligent marine mammals spend day after day trapped in a shallow concrete pool next to a highway doing tricks for tourists.
The location forces the dolphins to breathe in fumes and smog without protection desert heat or the winter snow. As a result, seventy-five percent of these captive creatures die prematurely from respiratory infections.
One would think that dead dolphins would be bad for business, but the Mirage just keeps on restocking the “Death Pools” with more innocent animals.
ACT NOW: Put An End To Dolphin Death Pools In Las Vegas
Despite multiple appeals to the National Marine Fisheries Service and USDA to revoke the Mirage’s permits, this cycle of abuse and death has been allowed to continue for decades, leading to the deaths of 14 different dolphins since the exhibit opened in 1990. Five of the dolphins were stillborns or died shortly after birth.
Jacques Cousteau, world famous marine biologist, once said “No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.”
If you believe that dolphins like those at the Mirage deserve a life of freedom in the sea, please TAKE ACTION by signing these other petitions:
STOP dolphin captivity in Egypt
Stop the Dolphin Slaughter in Taiji, Japan
Save the Honiara Dolphins!
Read more: abuse, animal welfare, captive dolphins, casino, dead dolphins, entertainment, habitat, las vegas, mirage
Image: A captive dolphin waits in a side pool at Siegfried & Roy's "Secret Garden" wildlife habitat in the Mirage Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, NV
Credit: Flickr - Dan4th
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I have been to Vegas 10 years, I love this place but animals should not be involved in this visit.
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This should not be allowed. Leave the dolphins in the ocean where the can enjoy their lives in peace. The ocean is where they belong, not in a concrete pool. They are not entertainers -don't they have enough entertainers in Las Vegas? Why use dolphins to entertain. I guess it's just for money - greed, greed, greed. Please leave the dolphins alone in the ocean.
Please visit Justice & Compassion for Animals FB page for an
upcoming Rally (March 2011) for the Mirage Captive Dolphins.
http://www.facebook.com/update_security_info.php?wizard=1#!/pages/Justice-Compassion-for-Animals/127385063997513
Some people are pure black hearted and greedy. Those poor dolphins deserve to be left alone. They belong in the ocean.
This people who voted yes... I 'm wondering what interest do they have? Are these the owners maybe?? Crazy people, they should be encaged themselves to make them understand....
it is so awful. How can people enjoy this suffering?
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