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Vancouver Aquarium Tries To Expand Again
posted on May 3, 2012
Dear Commissioners:
Very sad to hear that this aquatic circus continues plans to expand under the guise of "conservation". Legitimate research is conducted without the aquarium zoos. For example, the Vancouver Aquarium started the orca slave trade and that contributed to local populations becoming endangered. At least 38 dolphins and hundreds of other species have died there. Read more at: Vancouver Aquarium is SADquarium https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vancouver-Aquarium-is-SADquarium/125908617473141
Stanley Park has a diversity of wildlife living freely. It is truly an ecology classroom. Aquarium expansion plans even include imprisoning beaver that can be seen in the park at Beaver Lake and on a upcoming video cam. It also includes river otters who could be “nuisances” captured from the wild. Aquarium zoos cause psychological abuse of their prisoners.
Recently a mining company donated $12.5 million and the governments had put some money in too. It was reported as a 6 year expansion plan. The previous 2006 expansion failed to achieve their goal to open for the 2010 Olympics.
Teck certainly has a toxic legacy in the Trail area and have been criticized for violating environmental laws. According to Wikipedia: they contaminated the Columbia River in 2003 and 2008. Their Red Dog mine in Alaska has been ranked by the US Environmental Agency as one of the most polluting facilities in the US. They also operate in the controversial Alberta oil sands.
The recent photo in the Vancouver Sun of the circus act of beluga spitting water at people speaks volumes. Good bed fellows with one polluting habitats and the other capturing the inhabitants. A great tax write off and public relations ploy.
Vancouver said no more zoo in Stanley Park where a diversity of wildlife can be seen freely! Now the new 6 year expansion, with tax payer funds of a possible $100 million, will be a circus zoo. Plans include not only beaver, river otters and others but African penguins that the public had previously opposed the cruelty of captivity. IT IS TIME FOR ANOTHER PUBLIC ZOO VOTE TO STOP THE ABUSE AND EXPLOITATION. The 2006 expansion plan must be updated, reviewed and voted on.
Please advise what action you will take to protect animals and to provide true education of animals’ natural lives (not the neurotic, stereotypical behaviors of imprisoned animals).
For Freedom,
Peter Hamilton
Lifeforce Founding Director
(604)649-5258
lifeforcesociety@hotmail.com
www.lifeforcefoundation.org |
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