12 Worldwide Venues that Promote Demeaning Animal Performances

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A list of 12 venues across the globe that still promote and engage in demeaning wild animal performances has been made available listing Sea World in San Antonio, Zoo Marine in Portugal, and two locations in Canada among others. They found themselves on this list if they were found to continue to be using animals for performances that were unnatural to them, cruel, and exploitative for the sake of profits.

Sea World was found to be one of the most exploitative with several instances of cruelty including dolphins being used as surfboards or jumping on to land beaching themselves for photographs, belugas acting out scenes from motion pictures and waving at audiences, and seals holding light sabres and performing for the audience. In all of these cases, these marine animals would have been trained submissively to perform these tricks which is why Sea World lands on this list.

It isn't only marine animals that landed on this list. There were instances of chimps wearing clothes riding bicycles, tigers performing gladiator style shows, and elephants doing tricks or being forced to be ridden for tourists, all of which would have required cruel training techniques. Animals like bears, elephants, and tigers are forced into being submissive through training which one can imagine would have to be extremely cruel for a tiger to be afraid of humans. In the wild, none of these wild animals would be necessarily frightened by us let alone to the point of being submissive.

In 2019, it's deplorable that we are still witnessing zoos, aquariums, and circus' using animals in such an exploitative manner. It's wholly unnatural to have animals performing in this manner especially when it's simply for the profit of these organizations. Sickeningly, many of these organizations are tied to the word "conservation" which we all know is a way to hide behind something good but in all actuality, there is nothing that demonstrates conservation. One cannot argue riding elephants or forcing tigers or dolphins to perform tricks while living in tanks or small cages in between shows is anything short of cruelty. The term conservation is thrown around by these organizations but it couldn't be further from the truth.

It's time for us to turn our backs entirely on animals in entertainment. With all of the options we have at our disposal in this day and age for entertainment, there is simply no place for cruel animal performances any longer.

Here are the 12 organizations that were found to be engaging in demeaning animal shows.

• Dolphin Island (Resort World Sentosa) – Singapore
• Zoo D’Amneville – France
• Jungle Cat World – Canada
• African Lion Safari – Canada
• Cango Wildlife Ranch – South Africa
• Sea World – Australia
• SeaWorld – San Antonio, USA
• Zoo Marine – Portugal
• Puy du Fou – France
• Avilon Zoo – Philippines
• Mystic Monkeys & Feather Wildlife Park – South Africa
• Ichicara Elephant Kingdom – Japan

Want to help? Contact World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) and let them know that they should be more strongly enforcing their rules of no animals in entertainment and monitoring these establishments more closely. They pride themselves on being good for animals but allow these operations to continue to promote and utilize animals in this demeaning and cruel manner.
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