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Visit to Anguilla, leaves majority of 75 Students opposed to Captive
Dolphins
 (January
11, 2007) - According an article published in the The Daily Herald on
January 11, 2007, some seventy five fifth grade students of the St.
Dominic Primary School in St. Maarten visited Anguilla on December
8, 2006 as a part of a study on plants and animals. In Anguilla the
youngsters visited a hydroponics project and
Dolphin Discovery. Last week, the students presented their
views at their School regarding dolphins in captivity versus freedom and
according to the article, the visit left the majority of the students
with the impression that Dolphins should not be kept in captivity.
A noted animal advocate and activist in St. Maarten, Mercedes de Windt,
was invited to the presentation and
had also made information
available to the students
about dolphins in captivity.
The views expressed by the students seem opposite to what she predicted
in November of 2006 in a
letter to
the daily herald opposed to the visit that stated:
"There is a lesson that impressionable young children could easily learn
by visiting a dolphin prison and that lesson is extremely negative.
They might end up thinking it is normal for dolphins to be locked up for
life, forced to do tricks for paying audiences." |
