THE DIRECTOR OF AMUSEMENT PARK: It's just a hypothesis. IF YOU DECIDE IS FOR REASONS OF SENSITIVITY
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Gardaland and dolphins: ethical issues related to attraction
VERONA - The term of the schools and before the great escape to the sea, Ben is living in these days the moment of maximum flow. Every four people who enter the park, decided to spend five euro more and buy a ticket for the Palablu, where you can watch the historic show of dolphins, which at every performance is sold out for 35 years, with an average of 750 thousand spectators each season. Yet dall'annoprossimo loshow could jump and not for economic reasons, but for a choice that can be called "image."
"It's just one of the assumptions on the table - says Danilo Santi, director of Italy's largest amusement park - and I want to bet that will not happen. But among the various options we are considering in this period along with the owners of Britain's Merlin Entertainments, there is also close to the Dolphinarium and replace it with another attraction. " A decision would be against the immediate interests of the park. "I know it sounds strange - admits Saints - because Ben is a great company whose purpose is to make profits, but in this case the choice would be dictated by" ethical "or better, the desire to satisfy a certain kind of sensitivity '. In essence, it would lower the curtain on a show town, built on the work and passion of a group of highly qualified instructors, because the public is not keen to see the preservation of dolphins in captivity.
"I will not go into the matter - says the director - but you have to understand that Merlin is a large multinational company, which through its aquariums, including Gardaland Sea Life, is committed to protecting the marine species. Alivello international fight against whaling. Others see a contradiction between this environmental commitment and the presence of dolphins in amusement parks. " Even if the past few years controversies that have hit the park because of the disappearance of some specimens, the dolphin is an 'at risk'. "From time to time happen to be under attack. Alivello statistic that does not make sense, because at sea the dolphins have only one in four chance of surviving, while here our animals are in good health. However, we must put ourselves in the shoes of the property and understand what this means for their risk in terms of image. " Gardaland is the owner who takes care of the dolphins. Rent them from a multinational specialized in the rental of animals and the contract expired six months. In parallel, the Aquarium of Genoa is building a Dolphinarium. It is misleading to think of a transfer of animals from Lake Garda to the Ligurian Sea? "It's very premature assumption - Saints objects - because the little match time. If we decide to close the Palablu, what would happen in early 2011, reopening at the end of winter for the Christmas holidays. The Dolphinarium in Genoa I do not think it will be ready before 2012. However, it does not concern us, not being the property of our dolphins. What I can say, however, is that short-renew the lease. " "The real issue - he concludes - is but one of renewal: Big Ben to maintain the success it has to change and to pay for this when we imagine as the park will be in five years, we do not exclude any hypothesis. "
Source: David Pyriochos - Corriere della Sera
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