Now who "LOVES" Marineland - Cruelty Exposed by Trainers

Marineland Inventory as per ZooCheck

The cruelty within the past 6 (1951) decades has been hidden very well but local activists have been fighting to expose it almost as long as Marineland has been standing. Many wild animals have been captured, orcas, dolphins, sea lions, belugas, bears, deers, etc just for exploitation not education. As the song says on every radio station and television channel commercial is that "EVERYONE Loves Marineland"! Well if you have been reading the Toronto Star this week you will definitely know now that the animals do not love Marineland as well as former trainers.

Below are the three newspapers that came out this week in a row! Please follow the links on the titles to read the entire story from Toronto Star:

Front Page Toronto Star "INSIDE MARINELAND" August 15th, 2012

Front Page Toronto Star "SHE FINALLY DIED IN OUR ARMS" August 16th, 2012

Front Page Toronto Star "MARINELAND FACES SPCA INSPECTION" August 17th, 2012

There is a massive demonstration tomorrow, August 18th at 12:00pm infront of Marineland to help educate anyone deciding to enter the business where the animals are truly suffering. The Toronto Star has also tweeted that they will be supplying the Demonstrators tomorrow with the Newspapers of Marineland.

According to the Toronto Star articles Phil Demers was working at Marineland for 12 years and recently quit due to deteriation of the animals health. The water quality was bad due to equipment failures and no one getting them fixed. This had extreme issues to the Sea Lions eyes causeing blindness and horrific issues to the mammals that had to stay in the stagnant water like the dolphins and orcas which said their skin was flaking off in chunks. Most of this initial news was in the past year and off-season.

The evidence has been ongoing through Zoocheck Canada over a decade of information documenting the deaths, capture, and suffering. Still no laws have been implemented in Ontario to protect these animals.

If you watch this movie "A Fall From Freedom" that is free on Youtube you will see the brutal violence on capturing these animals for the water cages. This  movie also exposes an orca that was named "Junior" by activists after a lady exposed the evidence of him being housed in a warehouse pool within Marineland's property since he could not get along with other captive orcas. He was alone for a long while then a lone dolphin became his friend prior to him passing on without seeing family, sunlight, and even touched for almost 5 years. His death was never exposed to the public since there are no laws in place to do so!

FULL DOCUMENTARY OF "A FALL FROM FREEDOM" FREE TO WATCH AND SHARE!

ACTION TO TAKE

Laws need to be made regarding the protection of animals in Zoos and Aquariums for Ontario and in order to do this we need support from Canadians. Pressure is needed now more than ever to create these laws and I have found some information to help below. Please share far and wide!

 First please share and attend the Marineland Massive Demonstration tomorrow at Noon!
https://www.facebook.com/events/287942164646336/290581207715765/?ref=notif&notif_t=plan_mall_activity  

Join MAD - Marineland Animal Defense here: https://www.facebook.com/marinelandanimaldefense

Contact Dalton McGuinty to put pressure on the Provincial Government to create a Provincial Law to protect the wellbeing of the animals within these establishments, stop the import of animals, and stop the breeding of these wild animals. Tell him you are very concerned about the lack of Rules, Regulations and oversights of Zoos, Menageries, and Aquariums in Ontario.

Contact your Ontario MPPs and get them involved to create LAW(s) as mentioned above.


Contact the OSPCA for your complaints regarding Marineland and demand regular surprise visits on the said Marineland property. Please email complaints to OSPCA info@ospca.on.ca  and Niagara Falls Humane Society humane@nfhs.ca and "CC" Zoocheck Zoocheck@zoocheck.com

OSPCA Website: http://ontariospca.ca/contact-us/provincial-office.html
 OSPCA Affiliate - Niagara Falls Humane Society email humane@nfhs.ca

Contact CAZA - The Canadian Association of Zoos & Aquariums
National director Bill Petersoronto

1888-822-2907

http://www.caza.ca/en/about_caza/contact_us/

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Also a future Captive Industry is being built in Toronto for Summer of 2013 named "Ripley's Aquarium of Canada" and I would like you to sign and share the following petition that will be presented to the Toronto City Council to not permit the wild caught protected Sand Tiger Sharks from South Carolina.

Shark petition
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/525/111/437/stop-delivery-of-sand-sharks-to-torontos-ripley-aquarium-2013/


Join TARA - Toronto Aquarium Resistance Alliance to follow action: https://www.facebook.com/TorontoAquariumResistance

Suffering Seagull, Newfoundland MP says use a Hakapik

It all started only a few days ago at the St. Patrick's Church in St. John's, Newfoundland. A seagull somehow landed and impaled one wing onto a sharp spike like bar and was not able to free him/herself. The severity of the wound is unknown since the seagull is still on the roof and has had no personal contact.

The story of this seagull hit the CBS News after a preist of the church was left with no one to help. He had called the local SPCA, Fire Department, Wildlife Centre, and Local Government which they all stated it was a Federal Issue. The preist had no choice but to go to the media for help.

Local concerned citizens wanted to use a regular ladder but if you see the video it is a very steep and high roof that the preist had to decline due to someone getting hurt and suing the church.

A cry for help from a Facebook user, Melanie Blake, to her friend Lisa Chansky of Durham, N. Carolina got the ball rolling. Lisa notified  me and others of the situation and I gathered my information to post for global help and help I did receive! Many people from across Canada and the world for that matter got on board and started to phone the church, the Wildlife Centre, the SPCA, and the Fire Department. Only the Fire Department answered stating they were waiting on the SPCA and the Wildlife Centre to help.

Scott Andrews tweeted this reply "gulls are like seals.. no one would miss one.. get a hakapik and put it out of his misery."

Further to the support we came upon Twitter and a local Politician named Scott Andrews, a local Liberal MP. A concerned Canadian from P.E.I tweeted him asking for his help regarding a suffering seagull. His reply was nothing but appropriate for this sensitive matter. Scott Andrews tweeted this reply "gulls are like seals.. no one would miss one.. get a hakapik and put it out of his misery." Another concerned Canadian from Montreal replied "I would miss them. You need to learn compassion. "MP".

After I received word regarding the MP Andrews Tweet I decided to go further and question Bob Rae the Liberal Party leader what he thought about this public statement and how it fit with the Liberal Values. I am learing fast how powerful twitter is and how many upstanding public figures forget that when words are put out they cannot take them back.

The morning of August 5th many individuals posted to the SPCA St.John's page and a reply was given "The SPCA has not been involved in this situation but I am making inquiries into this and we'll post when we have more info." The Church preist phoned them on Thursday August 2nd making this the 3rd day the seagull has been suffering and possibly bleeding to death. With extreme heat temperatures this week and on a metal roof this must be intolerable for any living being.

Now we wait for news from the SPCA's move on this matter. Please check my Facebook page for any updates at Artist for the Ocean

by Bob Timmons

Action you can do:

NEW INFORMATION:
Injured wildlife in NFLD are supposed to be reported to the NFLD Department of Environment and Conservation. The Minister is Terry French. terryfrench@gov.nl.ca (709) 729-2577.

Regarding MP Scott Andrews' Tweet:

Contact the Canadian MP - Scott Andrews
on Twitter @ScottAndrewsMP
by Email: andrews.s@parl.gc.ca
By Phone Toll Free: 1-866-883-3424

Contact the Liberal Party's Leader - Bob Rae
On Twitter: @BobRaeMP
By Email: info@bobrae.ca
Phone: 1-416-954-2222
Fax: 1-416-954-9649

Regarding incompetence of saving the Seagull:

Contact the City's Mayor - Dennis O'Keefe
by Email: dokeefe@stjohns.ca

Speak to the local SPCA: (1) 709-726-0301
Facebook Page: http://www.Facebook.com/SPCAStJohns

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST

Thank the Church for doing their best to help and moving forward to alerting CBS News: (1) 709-754-1195