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    UKRAINIAN ECOLOGISTS TO PROTEST OPENING OF DOLPHINARIUM IN YEREVAN

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    December 24, 2010 - 17:09 AMT 13:09 GMT

    Ukrainian ecologists will gather at the Ministry for Environmental
    Protection in Kyiv to protest opening of dolphinarium in Yerevan,
    where dolphins from Odessa were delivered.

    "Our Ukrainian colleagues will organize a protest action on December
    27," chairperson of Eco Dashink NGO Silva Adamyan told journalists
    in Yerevan.

    According to Pro Paws NGO chairperson Elsik Azizyan, dolphins swim
    about 100 km a day, with the essential depth of the pool to be
    20 meters.

    "The pool in which the dolphins will be kept in Yerevan is 18 meters
    in diameter and is 5 meters deep. Moreover, the water in the pool
    where these cleverest mammals will live is filled with chlorine,
    which will make them blind in six months," she said.

    For his part, director of the Foundation for the Preservation of
    Wildlife and Cultural Assets Ruben Khachatryan said that dolphins
    can choose to stop breathing, thus committing suicide.

    Dolphinariums are forbidden in Croatia. Some were closed in UK and
    a number of U.S. states.

    The construction of Yerevan dolphinarium is implemented by Nerum
    Ukrainian company. Four dolphins, two sea bears and a sea lion were
    brought to Yerevan from Odessa.




    From: A. Papazian
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