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Primorye: DiCaprio asks to release the wands and beluga from the "whale prison"
The famous Hollywood actor and zoo defender Leonardo DiCaprio posted a petition for the liberation of the killer whales and Belukh from the "whale prison" in the Middle Bay in Primorye. The actor published posts with links to the collective treatment of activists on his pages on social networks .
Prlease Sign this Petition and Join Me in Speaking Out AGainst the Inhumane Capture of Orcas and Belugas in Russia. https://t.co/oed9zj9fnz
- Leonardo dicaprio (@leodicaprio) February 26, 2019
“Please sign the petition below and join me, opposing the inhuman capture of the braids and Belukh in Russia,” the actor commented on a reference to the petition on Change.org in defense of Belukh and Killed from the Middle Bay.
Under the petition, almost a million signatures have now been left.
SR in mobile SR on Instagram Wed FacebookThis week, the actress and zoo defender of the advisory council of the International Animal Fund (IFAW) Pamela Anderson appealed to the Russian government and President Vladimir Putin with an open letter, in which she asked to attract Russian and foreign environmentalists to the process of liberation of marine mammals from Kitov Prison to Primorye. In mid -December, the actress already turned to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to prohibit the catch of wild marine mammals and free the already caught beluga and wands from the “whale prison” in the Primorsky Bay of the Middle.
- On February 21, it became known that one killer whale disappeared from a whale prison in Primorye. This was reported to the Siberia. Reali correspondent by one of the leaders of the "Ecological Watch of Sakhalin" Dmitry Lisitsyn. According to him, the owners of the so -called "whale prison" wrote a statement to the police about the loss of a mammal. They stated that the warehouse herself damaged the aviary and sailed into the open sea at night. Ecologists exclude this opportunity. “This is impossible for the warehouse to quit the fence itself, there are no such cases yet. If the storm, it could be lifted and carried away to the sea, but this is also incredible. It disappeared from the aviary No. 1, this is the only one where you can fit the lifting crane from the pier. Therefore, we do not exclude that it was simply exported by smuggling at night,” Lisitsyn said.
- In early February, the coastal zoo defenders applied to the court demanding to free the wandations and Beluh from the "whale prison". The lawsuit was filed by activists of three regional public organizations to the South Sakhalin City Court. They demand the defendants to recognize Rosprirodnadzor, as well as the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia and Rosrybolovstvo. For interested persons, zoo defenders are demanding that four commercial companies that have caught animals for sale to foreign oceanariums: Afalin, Oceanarium DV, White Kit and Sochi Dolphinarium. The materials also appear in the seaside border control of the FSB of Russia, which organized an independent comprehensive expert assessment of the state of the killer whales and beluga in January of this year.
- On January 18, in the "Center for Adaptation", known among ecologists as a "whale prison", a check organized by the Primorsky Department of the Border Service of the FSB of Russia was held . Independent ecologists were first allowed to participate in the audit. Dmitry Lisitsyn, one of the leaders of the "Ecological Watch of Sakhalin", later told Siberia. Reali that the state of animals is worsening. These marine mammals are extremely difficult to endure the closed space and separation from relatives. At the same time, experts do not have the right to disclose information on verification, this is the requirement of employees of the Investigative Committee.
- At the end of December, Lisitsyn said that due to low temperature and strong winds in Primorye in animals that are contained in the average bay, the backs and fins freeze.
- On December 24, the Primorsky Regional Court canceled the court order in Vladivostok on the arrest as part of the criminal case of braids and Beluh. After that, the zoo defenders began to be afraid that the traps could try to send animals to foreign oceanariums, although by law their sale was prohibited.
- On December 21, investigators reported that three belugas were gone from Kitov Prison, and referred to damaged networks. Environmentalists told the editorial office of Siberia. Real that the weakest and most exhausted cubs Beluh simply died due to the conditions of detention in the “whale prison”.
- According to Russian Greenpeace, the Kitolovs wanted to sell the wanders and belugs to the Chinese oceanariums. In Russia, dolphins cannot be obtained for commercial purposes, but animals were caught by cultural and educational quota. The cost of one killer whale in dolphinaries and oceanariums in China is from 1 to 15 million dollars.