Dubai Buys 30 Dolphins
October 13, 2007 @ 08:39 AM (EST)
Source: Iol.co.za
Up to 30 live dolphins will be exported from the tiny Pacific nation of the Solomon Islands to the Middle East next week, four years after the last such shipment to Mexico caused international outrage.
The Solomon Islands Marine Mammal Education Centre and Exporters Limited said on Friday that the dolphins would be collected from the company's pens on the island of Gavutu and flown to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
"They will be flown on two DC-10s that are scheduled to arrive on Tuesday," said company director Robert Satu.
Several international conservation groups including the San Francisco-based Earth Islands Institute have decried the decision by the government in Honiara to allow the resumption of the live dolphin trade...
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