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FREEDOM FOR DOLPHINS LOLA AND LULU;
DEMONSTRATION AT THE DOLHIN SHOW IN BEKASI
Date: SATURDAY, JULY 4, 2009
TIME: 09.00 at JAAN office / 11.00 untill 13.30 at the Dolphin Show in Bekasi (Lapangan Multi Guna Persikasi)
WHY: Two wild caught dolphins are used in this show to perform unnatural tricks to the public. Travelling dolphin shows are, compared to larger ocean parks, smaller and are actually temporary facilities where dolphins perform for a time after which they are moved to their next show location. The repeated transport of dolphins and other aquatic animals are particularly stressful as these animals have to be immobilized for the entire duration of the travel.
The dolphins used in this show are clearly kept under stressfull conditions; they are extremely skinny. The pond in which they stay is way too small and of bad water quality. Dolphins in captivity have a very short life span due to the stress full and unnatural conditions they are kept.
While dolphins can live as long as 50 years in the wild, more than half of all captive dolphins die within the first two years of captivity; the remaining dolphins live an average of only six years. Life in a tank is a death sentence for dolphins.
The dolphins are captured from the wild (Karimun Jawa, a National Marine Park) and therefore the travelling circus can be held directly responsible for the decreasing population of wild dolphins.
Dolphins are protected under Indonesia’s biodiversity law, NR 5, 1990.
 JAAN urges the public not to watch this show. Don’t support animal cruelty!
JAAN also urges the local government not to allow the circus to visit their area again to show that they are a compassionate about preserving Indonesia’s wildlife.
JAAN also demands that the forestry department will take a stand against this exploitation and end providing permits to operate the travelling circus and to capture wild dolphins.
In their ocean homes, dolphins may swim up to 100 miles a day, but in captivity, most are given only small  tanks. The chlorine, copper sulfate, and other harsh chemicals used to keep tanks clean cause some dolphins to go blind and make their skin peel off. Because dolphins navigate by echolocation—bouncing sonar waves off other objects to determine shape, density, distance, and location—the reverberations that occur when their own sonar waves bounce off the tank walls drive the dolphins insane. In the wild, dolphins swim together in family pods of three to 10 individuals or tribes of hundreds. Some researchers believe these mammals may be the most socially bonded beings on Earth. Imagine the trauma when these intelligent animals are torn away from their lifelong families and caged alone or with strangers in the artificial world and are exposed to severe stressfull conditions.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
How come the Forestry Department has allowed these two endangered dolphins, who JAAN has named Lola and Lulu, to be captured from Karimun Jawa, a protected marine park?
Please do write the Forestry Department today and ask them this question!
Ask them also to close down the traveling dolphin circus! Urge them to return Lulu and Lola back to the sea!
Departemen Kehutanan
Gedung Manggala Wanabakti Blok I Lt. 3
Jalan Gatot Subroto – Senayan – Jakarta – Indonesia – 10270
Telp. +62-21-5704501-04; +62-21-5730191
Email: indofor@dephut.go.id , indofor@dephut.go.id

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