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Anguilla - Dolphin Prison and Blogspot

Reports and emails have come to us here about plans to move the captive dolphin facility, operating as Dolphin Discoveries in Meads Bay, to Sandy Ground. Work apparently started in preparing new cages at Sandy Ground, but it was stopped and removed.

I've never heard anything good about Dolphin Discoveries, there are so many things wrong with their facilites and how they keep their captive dolphins that it is difficult to know where to start. Below you will find a few photos of the work in Sandy Ground which were emailed to us along with some observations.

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The photos below show the construction of what appear to be pens in Sandy Ground. Some questions were asked in the email about who these workers were, some appeared to be Mexican and it was asked if they had work permits.

The construction was halted and removed on order of the Chief Minister Osbourne who promised that the facility would not be placed there. Clearly there is a problem in Anguilla with these dolphins, this facility being built looks so ridiculously primative and flimsy it's a bad joke. A bad joke on the people of Anguilla and those who approved having it there in the first place, ultimately the fate of those dolphins rests upon their shoulders.

Here's an idea. Anguilla should find someway of seizing those dolphins and then set them free off the coast, tourists could go dolphin watching and feed them from time to time to keep them friendly, declare them nationals and give them protection. That would do so much more for Anguilla's image than the shameful situation they have right now.

Hopefully we will hear more from Anguilla soon. Also included with the photos was a link to a very interesting and impressive site called Corruption Free Anguilla, please go check it out.

Letter sent by the Anguilla National Trust to the Planning Department - 15th December 2006

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