IMMP goes to Spain.In mid-February, as a representative of Asociacion Para la Defensa de los Derechos del Animal (ADDA), Spain's oldest animal welfare organization, I had the pleasure el accompanying Mark Berman Mark Berman is a New York City pianist, writer, producer, conductor and music director. He has performed with Aretha Franklin, Blood Sweat & Tears, Carole King, Gladys Knight, Hugh Jackman, Illinois Jacquette, Ben E King, Jackie McLean, Cornelius Bumpus, Buster Poindexter, and Paolo Bray, coordinators of IMMP's Dolphin-Safe program, on their visit to tuna canneries in Spain. More than 90 percent of the world's tuna industry participates in IMMP's Dolphin-Safe program. Most of Spain's tuna canning is located in the northern region of Galicia. During our visit to this area, we met with representatives from several of the Spanish companies involved in the Dolphin-Safe program. They were all very proud of their participation. There is only one Spanish tuna canning company that does not fulfill IMMP's requirements for the Dolphin-Safe Program, and sets nets on dolphins. We hope that collaboration between ADDA, a locally and nationally known organization, and IMMP IMMP Information Management Master Plan IMMP Integrated Maintenance Management Program IMMP Information Mission Management Plan IMMP International Mountaineering Memorial Park (Nepal) IMMP Integrated Maintenance and Modernization Planning will encourage it to adopt more humane practices. During IMMP's visit to Spain, ADDA helped organize a conference in the city of Barcelona to talk about the problems of cetacean cetacean Any of the exclusively aquatic placental mammals constituting the order Cetacea. They are found in oceans worldwide and in some freshwater environments. Modern cetaceans are grouped in two suborders: about 70 species of toothed whales (Odontoceti) and 13 species of captivity, dolphin swim programs, and dolphin-assisted therapies. These are particularly urgent issues in Spain due to the number of dolphinaria being set up there. Many issues affecting captive cetaceans were discussed, including capture methods and negative effects on wild populations. This conference also served to launch the Spanish version of IMMP's "A Fall from Freedom" video, which will be offered to schools around the country. Flaws of dolphin-assisted therapy (DAT (1) (Dynamic Address Translator) A hardware circuit that converts a virtual memory address into a real address. See also DAT file. (2) (Digital Audio Tape) A magnetic tape technology used for backing up data. ) were discussed at the conference as well, parents of disabled children pay great amounts of money believing that swimming with dolphins will cure their children. There is no evidence that DAT is more effective than any other method, and other methods of therapy don't involve the suffering of wild animals WILD ANIMALS. Animals in a state of nature; animals ferae naturae. Vide Animals; Ferae naturae. . DAT and swim-with-dolphins programs are risky to humans because dolphins are unpredictable in the artificial, stressful, and frustrating frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: conditions that accompany captivity. Many human swimmers have been injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. during these programs. |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion