RENE 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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