DOLPHIN DEALER STARRING RENE VARELA
October 31, 2009MOVIE SCREENING- THE DOLPHIN DEALER STARRING RENE VARELA
October 30, 2009
MOVIE SCREENING THIS SUNDAY STARRING RENE VARELA
RENE VARELA ABUSES DOLPHINS
October 30, 2009THIS IS A QUOTE FROM TAFFY WILLIAMS FROM the NY Whales and Dolphin Institute WHO HAS BEEN FIGHTING RENE VARELA, PORTER, AND OCEAN EMBASSY FOR YEARS:
“Here’s the bottom line. Rene Varela is an accomplice to a wildlife trafficker. Varela and his partners are no better than the poachers who ravage the Amazon Rainforest to sell exotic birds, reptiles or mammals. Varela could NEVER get away with assisting wild dolphin traffickers, if he were doing this in the US.
No wild dolphins have been caught in US waters since 1989. It’s a federal offense to harass, capture or even approach wild dolphins, and Varela and his wildlife traffiking partners at Ocean Embassy know this. That’s why they are working in a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY, a politically tumultuous, semi-anarchic nation (the Solomon Islands) that pretty much dismisses environmental law.
This is ALL ABOUT MONEY. What is Varela’s cut in all this? Hmm, he’s not talking, I wonder why. Because he has a lot of unethical behavior to HIDE. By the way, the Solomon Islands’ people do not benefit from Ocean Embassy’s wild dolphin captures. It’s Rene Varela and his partners that are cashing in big from selling wild dolphins.
What city would entrust its political leadership to a character that essentially thinks he’s ABOVE THE LAW, or one who prefers to go where the laws DON”T APPLY TO HIM? What will happen to Lake Worth if he becomes mayor? VARELA is BAD for the environment, BAD for equitable commerce, and BAD for LAKE WORTH.”
Sorry Rene Varela You can’t Swim With These Dolphina
October 30, 2009
Rene Varelas work with Ocean Embassy
Stop International
Dolphin Trafficking
Coalition Sponsors Ad in
International Herald Tribune
(see attached pdf copy)
The Save Japan Dolphins Coalition and the Humane Society International are sponsoring a new advertisement in the International Herald Tribune today alerting the public that tourist shows with dolphins and swim-with-dolphins programs result in the killing of thousands of dolphins annually around the world.
In several areas of the world, including the Solomon Islands and the town of Taiji in Japan, fishermen hunt and kill dolphins for meat and/or teeth. Dolphin traffickers, working with aquariums and swim-with-dolphins representatives, use these massive hunts to pick out the “best” show-quality dolphins.
The ad notes that prices for wild-caught dolphins can reach $200,000 per dolphin, subsidizing the brutal slaughter of the rest of the dolphin pod left behind.
“The dirty secret of popular tourist shows with dolphins is that many dolphins die in the process of capturing a few for the dolphin market,” stated David Phillips, Director of the International Marine Mammal Project of Earth Island Institute. “Tourists, when they swim with dolphins or watch a dolphin show in a tank, are unwittingly supporting the slaughter of dolphins in places like Japan and the Solomon Islands.”
The ad features a photograph of dead dolphins, tossed into a garbage dump in the Solomon Islands after they died in captivity, awaiting sale to an aquarium.
The ad calls upon governments to take responsibility and stop the cruel trafficking in live wild dolphins.
The ad is also running in the Solomon Star, Solomon Islands, and La Prensa, Panama.
The Save Japan Dolphins Coalition consists of Earth Island Institute, Elsa Nature Conservancy of Japan, In Defense of Animals and the Animal Welfare Institute. In addition to the Coalition member groups and Humane Society International, endorsers of the ad include Born Free USA, Cetacean Society International, Marine Connection, and World Society for the Protection of Animals.
For further information on dolphin trafficking and the dolphin slaughter, go to:
Rene Varela involved in stealing wild dolphins
October 30, 2009Palm Beach County is the largest supporter in the state of Florida for supporting wild dolphins. 80,000 people in Palm beach county have purchased the ‘Protect the Dolphin” license plates.
Rene Varela has a serious involvement/partnership with Ocean Embassy, a corporation that supplies marine life to parks around the world The captures are horrific and the fate they face in their small pins is just a long slow death.
Dolphins in the wild live up to 45 years, in captivity most of them die in 2 years. Five years if they are lucky.
Nothing says Florida like a Protect Wild Dolphins license plate, arguably the iconic plate of Florida since 1999.1
Palm Beach County residents were the #1 purchaser of the “Protect Wild Dolphins” Florida license plate in 2008.2 Furthermore, the Protect Wild Dolphins license plate was the #1 environmental license plate purchased by 80,797 Florida residents in 2008.2 These specialty plate purchases generated $1.6 million dollars to study, research and protect wild dolphins.3
Florida does care about what happens beyond the water’s edge and clearly Rene Varela’s role in working for Ocean Embassy, a company involved in capturing dolphins for public display oversees conflicts with Florida’s efforts to protect wild dolphins.
Do not vote for Varela for Mayor of Lake Worth. As a candidate, Varela has attempted to side-step the issue and if he is not willing to be upfront about his role with Ocean Embassy, how can we expect him to be upfront, open and transparent about governmental issues in a county that is already rocked by multiple political scandals?
RENE VARELA WANTS US TO SWIM WITH DOLPHINS
October 30, 2009Ocean Embassy and Rene Varela profit when we swim with dolphins. Swimming with Dolphins is not goood for the dolphins and the horror from the capture is nothing compared to the slow painful death they face their two years in captivity…dolphins in the wild live up to 45 years.
EVERY WONDER WHERE THE DOLPHINS COME FROM WHEN YOU SWIM WITH DOLPHINS
Rene Varela, Ocean Embassy, Dolphin Stealer, Mayor Lake worth
October 30, 2009FACTS ABOUT OCEAN EMBASSY and RENE VARELA!!!!!
What is wrong with Ocean Embassy? How involved is Rene Varela in Ocean Embeassy? Why is it so bad to capture wild dolphins for swim with dolphin programs…read below
• Dr. René Varela is one of the 11 “partners” of Ocean Embassy (only one with veterinarian credentials) ; Varela joined (or was a founding member) in 2005.
• Dr. Varela’s veterinarian and scientific credentials are not in question; Varela is fully informed, role in the capture, sale, transport and display of wild dolphins is the issue.
• Dolphins captured from the wild can be sold for about $100,000 each.
• Ocean Embassy, Inc. is focused on capture, sale and captive display of (formerly) wild dolphins.
• Ocean Embassy is closely affiliated with Wildlife International Network, Inc. (Robin Friday is CEO of both).
• Wildlife International Network, Inc. does not have a website.
• The activities of Ocean Embassy, specifically the capture and transport of wild dolphins and the establishment of “swim-with-dolphins” dolphinariums are legal activities. Legality is not the issue. The morality of confining marine mammals is at issue, as are the appropriate procedures for capturing.
• The Humane Society of the U.S. and Humane Society International have documented the scientific basis for their opposition to the capture of wild dolphins and to “swim-with-dolphins” programs since 1995. Dr. Rene Varela and Ocean Embassy are well aware of this opposition.
• Moral issues of dolphin captivity aside, sustainability guidelines have been established for identifying how many dolphins can safely be removed from coastal populations. Naturally, safe capture requires (1) determining the reproductive rate of the coastal population; (2) the size of the coastal population; and (3) ensuring that the proposed number to be captured is small relative to the population.
• Ocean Embassy and Dr. Rene Varela were involved in the highly controversial capture of wild dolphins in the Solomon Islands. These dolphins were shipped to Dubai. A portion of the outrage surrounding this effort was due to lack of careful, scientific assessment of the size of the wild population, making impossible to ensure that the harvest would not damage the remaining wild population.
• Beginning around 2005, the year Dr. Rene Varela joined Ocean Embassy, Ocean Embassy Panamá (OEP) began a multi-million dollar project to start a “swim-with-dolphins” dolphinarium in San Carlos, Panamá.
• The Ocean Embassy proposal for this project to the Panamanian government requested permission to initially capture 28 wild bottlenose dolphins in Panamanian waters, and eventually a total of 80.
• This Ocean Embassy proposal drew widespread opposition both within and outside of Panama in the spring of 2007. Panamanian opposition came largely from faith-based animal protection groups
• Popular opposition stemmed from (a) simply the concept of keeping the 28 wild dolphins in captivity and (b) from the assumption that since the proposed facility could accomodate only about 28 dolphin, the difference between the 80 dolphin to be captured in Panamanian waters and 28 kept, i.e., 50+ dolphins, would be sold on the world market.
• Strong opposition from the marine mammal scientific community (e.g., IUCN) arose from Ocean Embassy’s proposal to capture 28 dolphin first, prior to completing an accurate assessment of the size of the Panamanian coastal populations. This would have been a repeat of dolphin capture mistakes in the Solomon Islands.
• According to Panamanian news reports, Ocean Embassy apparently manipulated the press to increase support for their proposal in the May 6, 2007 News article: “Dolphin capture supporters’ claims of support questioned”
• Ocean Embassy even went so far as to file a lawsuit against one of the Panamanian protestors, Dr. Celma Moncada of the animal welfare group Fundacion Humanitas. Reported in a May 6, 2007 News article: “Ocean Embassy files charge, dolphin capture foes won’t back down.”
• The present status of the Ocean Embassy Panamá project is unclear, but the Ocean Embassy website suggests continued interest.
RENE VARELA MAYOR LAKE WORTH- DOLPHIN SLAYER
October 29, 2009
RENE VARELAS SIDE JOB
Rene Varela for Mayor of Lake Worth- selling wild dolphins
October 29, 2009RENE VARELA HELPS ENSLAVE WILD DOLPHINS FOR MARINE THEME PARKS IN THE NAME OF CONSERVATION!
Rene Varela is running for Mayor of Lake Worth (Election Nov 3rd.) Rene Varela is featured in “The Dolphin Dealer,” a documentary that features Varela as an essential part of a controversial corporation, Ocean Embassy, that supplies marine theme parks with marine life for exhibits including dolphins, and other sea mammals.
Rene Varela is featured in the documentary as the hired veterinarian that oversees and approves the health of the wild dolphins and deems them acceptable for exportation, or breeding.
“The Dolphin Dealer” also features Varela traveling on the controversial airplane ride that carried 28 captured dolphins for 30 hours and exported them to Dubai- there is still no known proof if the dolphins made it alive to the “Swim with Dolphins” exhibit in Dubai.
Although in an article by the Palm Beach Post Varela said, “the 28 dolphins featured in the documentary wound up in Dubai captivity.”
This may or may not be true- Rene Varela is one of the only ones who knows if these animals made it to Dubai alive- or if they are alive today.
Ocean Embassy is not doing any of this secretly. Chris Porter and Ocean Embassy are a partnership which created a horrifying business of capturing wild dolphins for captivity in the name of conservation- from the Solomon Islands.
Capitalizing from the hunting customs of the native people of the Solomon Islands- Ocean Embassy and Porter have interfered with the 3,000 year old tradition of hunting wild dolphins and has convinced the natives to join them in an effort to profit from the commercial export of the bottle-nose dolphins at the price of $30,000 a dolphin.
In one instance Ocean Embassy was stopped by thousands of Panama protesters, and Humane Society International (who wrote a letter to the president on behalf of 9.5 million people) who refused to allow the Panama dolphinarium to be built.
Varela was a key element in this project as well. Rene Varela helped design the “research program” that was intended for the Panama dolphinarium here Varela explains in the official Ocean Embassy press release.
“Swim with Dolphin” exhibits have done more harm than good for these animals. Most of the exhibits around the world include wild dolphins, and the animals suffer a great deal in these conditions. Animal Protection groups such as WSPA and The Humane Society International are adamant that what you see is a facade and these exhibits are detrimental to the animals health.
Do not vote for Rene Varela for mayor of Lake Worth for his involvement with this horrendous group, Ocean Embassy. Profiting off of marine wildlife is not what we need for a mayor for lake worth. Rene Varela is clearly an essential partner with Ocean Embassy and profits dearly from the business they have created, as he is on their website as an essential part of their team, as the Ocean Embassy Director of Veterinary Services.
For More information on the horrors of these dolphin captures please visit these websites:
http://www.dolphinproject.org/
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/5/stop-dolphin-captivity
http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/07/7/dolphincaptures7_07.html
http://www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_13/issue_09/opinion_02.html
RENE VARELA RUNNING FOR MAYOR OF LAKE WORTH INVOLVED IN DOLPHIN SCANDAL
October 29, 2009RENE VARELA HELPS ENSLAVE WILD DOLPHINS FOR MARINE THEME PARKS IN THE NAME OF CONSERVATION!
Rene Varela is running for Mayor of Lake Worth (Election Nov 3rd.) Rene Varela is featured in “The Dolphin Dealer,” a documentary that features Varela as an essential part of a controversial corporation, Ocean Embassy, that supplies marine theme parks with marine life for exhibits including dolphins, and other sea mammals.
Rene Varela is featured in the documentary as the hired veterinarian that oversees and approves the health of the wild dolphins and deems them acceptable for exportation, or breeding.
“The Dolphin Dealer” also features Varela traveling on the controversial airplane ride that carried 28 captured dolphins for 30 hours and exported them to Dubai- there is still no known proof if the dolphins made it alive to the “Swim with Dolphins” exhibit in Dubai.
Although in an article by the Palm Beach Post Varela said, “the 28 dolphins featured in the documentary wound up in Dubai captivity.”
This may or may not be true- Rene Varela is one of the only ones who knows if these animals made it to Dubai alive- or if they are alive today.
Ocean Embassy is not doing any of this secretly. Chris Porter and Ocean Embassy are a partnership which created a horrifying business of capturing wild dolphins for captivity in the name of conservation- from the Solomon Islands.
Capitalizing from the hunting customs of the native people of the Solomon Islands- Ocean Embassy and Porter have interfered with the 3,000 year old tradition of hunting wild dolphins and has convinced the natives to join them in an effort to profit from the commercial export of the bottle-nose dolphins at the price of $30,000 a dolphin.
In one instance Ocean Embassy was stopped by thousands of Panama protesters, and Humane Society International (who wrote a letter to the president on behalf of 9.5 million people) who refused to allow the Panama dolphinarium to be built.
Varela was a key element in this project as well. Rene Varela helped design the “research program” that was intended for the Panama dolphinarium here Varela explains in the official Ocean Embassy press release.
“Swim with Dolphin” exhibits have done more harm than good for these animals. Most of the exhibits around the world include wild dolphins, and the animals suffer a great deal in these conditions. Animal Protection groups such as WSPA and The Humane Society International are adamant that what you see is a facade and these exhibits are detrimental to the animals health.
Do not vote for Rene Varela for mayor of Lake Worth for his involvement with this horrendous group, Ocean Embassy. Profiting off of marine wildlife is not what we need for a mayor for lake worth. Rene Varela is clearly an essential partner with Ocean Embassy and profits dearly from the business they have created, as he is on their website as an essential part of their team, as the Ocean Embassy Director of Veterinary Services.
For More information on the horrors of these dolphin captures please visit these websites:
http://www.dolphinproject.org/
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/5/stop-dolphin-captivity
http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/07/7/dolphincaptures7_07.html
http://www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_13/issue_09/opinion_02.html
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