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SCIENTISTS OFFER DECLARATION ON RIGHTS OF DOLPHINS
news.am
February 21, 2012 | 17:45
Scientists and animal rights groups have developed a special
declaration on the rights of dolphins and want it to be approved at
the legislative level.
If the bill on dolphins is passed, then attacks of fishermen, as well
as keeping dolphins in zoos will be a criminal offense.
The bill says representative of cetaceans - whales, dolphins and
belugas - has the right to life and nobody has the right to own these
creatures or do something that infringes their rights, liberty or
the rules, NEWSru.com reports.
Last year Armenian environmentalists filed a lawsuit against the
Armenian Ministry of Nature Protection demanding that court should
order the ministry to conduct an inquiry into construction project
of the Yerevan dolphinarium.
The Nemo dolphinarium was opened in 2010 December in the territory
of one of the Yerevan parks. Environmentalists objected to the idea,
saying the dolphins would not survive in Armenia.
news.am
February 21, 2012 | 17:45
Scientists and animal rights groups have developed a special
declaration on the rights of dolphins and want it to be approved at
the legislative level.
If the bill on dolphins is passed, then attacks of fishermen, as well
as keeping dolphins in zoos will be a criminal offense.
The bill says representative of cetaceans - whales, dolphins and
belugas - has the right to life and nobody has the right to own these
creatures or do something that infringes their rights, liberty or
the rules, NEWSru.com reports.
Last year Armenian environmentalists filed a lawsuit against the
Armenian Ministry of Nature Protection demanding that court should
order the ministry to conduct an inquiry into construction project
of the Yerevan dolphinarium.
The Nemo dolphinarium was opened in 2010 December in the territory
of one of the Yerevan parks. Environmentalists objected to the idea,
saying the dolphins would not survive in Armenia.