Tentative plans by an American theme-park company to reportedly resurrect shelved plans to open a SeaWorld adventure park in Dubai are meeting mounting opposition over alleged animal rights abuses which the firm categorically denies.
Orlando-based SeaWorld confirmed in May that it has inked a tentative deal to explore building a new park in the Middle East, a venture that would be its first international deal outside the United States.
Proprietor of 11 parks across the US, SeaWorld in a May conference call with analysts confirmed that it signed a deal with an unnamed partner in the region to ?assess the viability of a multi-park development in the Middle East? but Dubai has not been confirmed publicly as the future host.
According to US media reports, SeaWorld President and Chief Executive Jim Atchison told analysts he had high confidence in its new Middle East partner that he described as a firm with ?an established track record of opening and operating world-class attractions?.
A SeaWorld adventure park was once on the table in Dubai in conjunction with a larger World of Discovery theme park to open by 2012 but the plan never materialised in the fallout of the global economic crisis sparked in 2008.
An online petition, meanwhile, hosted by social media group Care 2 is taking aim at a possible Dubai-based SeaWorld citing alleged problems with the company.
The petition has collected 32,663 signatures from points across the globe, from Singapore and Austria to the UAE and Argentina.
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Welcome Everyone :)
Posted 28-07-2015 00:53
Use of animal for sole purpose of human entertainment is inhumane act and this need to be stopped ASAP. Let wilds enjoy the freedom they are bestowed with.
What if we are enslaved like poor animals and used as entertainment purpose, how bad it hurst. Such sentiment needs to be understoods by everyone.
Elated to see so many good hearted people are there and crossed the benchmark of 32k+
Congrats.
Thanks for sharing Abhinav.
Wow Arushi, i couldnt agree more :) kudos to your thoughts and deeper understanding.
Posted 25-07-2015 23:46
Thanks for sharing about this online petition Abhinav!!! I shall do it. Keep it up!!! =)
Posted 25-07-2015 06:26
Yes , this Seaworld branded aquatic theme park is receiving lot of backlash. It's extremely sad what they do to animals! A 30 minutes of entertainment is NOT worth a life of a whale! I agree and have also signed the petition which says: “Dubai has a great reputation as a popular tourist destination for beautiful architecture, beautiful nature and kind hearted people, thus you should not tarnish your great reputation by allowing SeaWorld to open a SeaWorld park in Dubai. SeaWorld is already one of the worst cases of wild animal abuse in the history of the United States and SeaWorld should not be allowed to exist in Dubai as well. SeaWorld is absolutely barbaric in terms of what they are doing to these poor marine animals they have in captivity at their theme parks. In the wild, killer whales are the king of the ocean and they swim 100 miles per day. In confinement, they are living in a tiny swimming pool that is the equivalent to a human living in a bathtub. They feed the whales and dolphins drugged fish to keep them docile and brain dead and they starve them as a tool to force them to perform tricks??”
Posted 24-07-2015 18:00