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Editorial
I have stood at those gates in front of the Marineland amusement park on Stanley Avenue in Niagara Falls, on & off since the late 80’s; organizing demos, speaking to the media, talking and writing about it, brought in speakers and dealt with over-zealous police and city council.
I am tired and old and the outcome for the Marineland animals is a bitter pill. It was one of those cases where, whatever happened, it wasn’t going to be good.
Marineland threatened to kill all the remaining beluga whales and dolphins and now, other places in the US. & Spain only marginally better, had a hand in killing them with their supposed kindness or care.
The moral of the story is to stop keeping animals in captivity!
We can go on ad nauseum on how terrible the outcome was …but in truth, there was no way out for those animals. Not all, as I understand it, but some ‘facilities’ will go on to breed the living and so the next generation will be robbed of their ancestral rights. They’ll be revolving in endless circles in their pools, until the footsteps through’ the turnstiles stop. The folks that want a
distraction, a laugh, want to be in awe – they will leave an hour or two later and those animals will still be in those aquariums.
And the terrestrial animals – ohhhh, sweet Jesus; a few lucky ones I do know will have some semblance of a life – some bears from Marineland further north in a sanctuary and a few more further south. What of the others who have come and gone since that living curio cabinet opened way back in 1961 and those that remained at the demise of ‘Marineland’. The seals, sea lions, the buffalo, the penguins, the deer, the elk, guinea fowl. Weren’t there
peacocks too at one time? I suppose the only silver lining is that no more animals will suffer and die there – it is the only grace I cling to.