Former premier supports
legislation, which has cross-party backing, as well as campaign by dolphin
advocacy group to end captivity at the state’s only dolphin park in Coffs
Harbour
Thursday 5 May 201604.24 BST
Last modified on Thursday 5 May 201605.35 BST
A legislative bid to abolish
dolphin captivity in New South
Wales, targeting the remaining park in the state in Coffs Harbour,
has gained cross-party support as well as that of the former premier Bob Carr.
More than 85,000 people have
already backed advocacy
group Australia for Dolphins’ appeal to premier Mike Baird to
end dolphin captivity in the state since it launched on 9 April.
Carr, Labor members Penny Sharpe
and Mick Veitch, Greens NSW MP Mehreen Faruqi, and Animal Justice party member
Mark Pearson threw their support behind the bid to “convince Coffs” on Thursday
morning.
“Those two words, dolphins and
captivity, don’t sit happily together,” said Carr, citing the “magnificent”
animals’ intelligence and abilities.
“To think of these creature being
confined in a pool, one-third of the size of an Olympic swimming pool, is to
know what this is all about. It’s plain cruel.”
It has five bottlenose dolphins
in its care, which perform tricks and swim with visitors.
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