A pair of shackled and chained 'dolphins' have been protesting outside Jet2holidays' Leeds office today.
On Tuesday morning, two protestors wearing dolphin masks stood outside of the Holiday House office to take action against the travel prover. The aim was to stop Jet2 using marine parks that keep dolphins and other sea creatures in captivity in a new campaign with PETA.
This month, PETA UK also held a day of action, overwhelming Jet2holidays’ social media and phone lines and prompting over 26,000 people to write to the company urging it to join other travel providers to refuse to sell tickets to marine parks.
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PETA Senior Campaigns Manager Kate Werner said: "PETA is calling on Jet2holidays to catch up with the rest of the industry and stop profiting from marine mammals’ misery. Today’s holidaymakers object to seeing frustrated orcas and dolphins swim listlessly in tanks, and the travel industry has caught on."
PETA added: "In the open ocean, bottlenose dolphins swim up to 60 miles a day alongside their families and can reach depths of over 450 metres. In marine parks, they’re confined to cramped concrete tanks filled with chemically treated water. Females are commonly sexually abused via artificial insemination, sometimes after being drugged, so their babies can be exploited for further profit in marine parks.
"Some are kept in water less than two metres deep and used as photo props for holiday experiences, handled by an unending stream of members of the public. Held in captivity for decades and forced to perform confusing tricks for tourists, the majority die far short of their natural life expectancy."
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