Dozens of dolphins are captured every year and sold onto trainers working for theme parks. Once they have been dragged from their natural environment, the dolphins are condemned to survive in captivity in unsuitable environments where death rates are high and births are very rare.

Immoral profiteering
One Voice is opposed to all forms of money-making activities offered by dolphinariums: shows, swimming with dolphins, contact pools or other “dolphin therapies” which are dangerous to both dolphins and humans are have no scientific basis.

An educational role?
The association cannot accept any case made as to the educational role of these parks, given the conditions under which the animals are held. These conditions do not enable the dolphins to have the natural behaviour of their species and do not enable the complexity of their social network and their communication, which is so specific, to be enhanced.

The key points in the association’s fight are denouncing the suffering endured by the animals when captured, the life of deprivation they endure in an artificial environment and the cruelty of training to force these animals, which have a rare intelligence, to perform in ways that are completely against their nature. One Voice stands against the creation of new dolphinariums and takes up a position in favour of the liberation of all cetaceans used for entertainment in the parks that currently exist.

Stop the massacres
During its field investigations, One Voice has observed that the dolphins that are captured to supply theme parks are often taken during the massacres that take place every year in Japan. Much more lucrative than dolphin meat, these bloody practices are justified by this trade.
Every year tens of thousands of dolphins and other cetaceans are killed every year as part of a tradition. Once Voice’s role is to inform the public of the particularly barbaric methods used and every year carries out actions on site to convince the Japanese government to stop these massacres.