It has been five long years since Merlin Entertainment bought Changfeng Ocean World in Shanghai. Five long years of daily ‘shows’ where Jun Jun and her two friends would perform unnatural tricks to entertain crowds at the ‘White Whale Theatre’. Back in 2014 we launched our campaign to encourage Merlin, parent company of SEA LIFE aquariums, to release the belugas to a sanctuary.

You may have heard about Jun Jun, the beluga whale who we have connected with through her life story. We have watched Jun Jun …

The AquaDom is located inside the Sea Life Center inside of a Radisson Blu hotel in Berlin, Germany…

Here, SEA LIFE continue to exploit and consumerise animal life, turning beauty into a commodity to be gawped at and pointed at under blazing artificial light. In the SEA LIFE reality, animal lives are used as hotel window dressing, as spectacle, whose value is to decorate like living wallpaper. It is an out-dated and grotesque feature of their commercial ambition: to turn every aquatic being into a living …

Cetacean protector Richard O’Barry went to the SEA LIFE/ Merlin Entertainments owned aquarium in Shanghai today, which holds three beluga whales captive. See Freedom for Animals Facebook entry. When he tried to ask what Merlin’s plans were for the belugas and their retirement, he was asked to leave the building. See the Video with the belugas in the background!

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Merlin Entertainment in Shanghai, China. If I ask questions about the promise to retire these three beluga whales in a sanctuary I am escorted out of …

It’s always encouraging when experts and celebrities get involved in grassroots campaigns like SEA LIES, so we were very encouraged to receive support and good quotes pertaining to the plight of the belugas in Shanghai from Emma Milne aka ‘Emma the Vet’, a TV Vet and Author and from Thomas I. White, Ph.D. He is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animals Ethics and Author of In Defense of Dolphins: The New Moral Frontier. 

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Merlin Entertainments continue to delay on ending the cruel shows and retiring these three beluga whales. As compassionate anti-captivity activists we must continue to take action until the daily circus-style shows stop. Are YOU free to help us raise awareness about the awful shows the 3 imprisoned belugas are still forced to endure? 

Empty the Tanks annual international protest in June was a great success which saw Freedom for Animals protesters take to London, Manchester and Birmingham to highlight the plight of the belugas. September the 19th …

The recent natural history shark series by the BBC, SHARK was beautiful, spectacular and inspiring. All three episodes were a fascinating entry into their underwater world. The sheer variety of species, including the incredible ‘master of disguise’ the tasselled wobbegong, were striking, majestic and curiously beautiful. It’s a breath-taking tour around the world of the shark and the stingray. These animals are closely related and it’s not entirely wrong to think of stingrays as flattened sharks. SEA LIFE exploits both species.

This stunning and marvellous film of their …

Activists in London are not resting on their laurels after last Saturday’s astounding EMPTY the TANKS success and another SEA LIFE demonstration is already planned and prepared. If you live or are visiting the South East on August 29th then please contact them and join in this wonderful celebration of animal liberation principles that SEA LIFE clearly don’t quite understand yet! For details see:  https://m.facebook.com/events/1385453548439976/

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If you couldn’t attend the ‪#‎EmptyTheTanks‬ march for captive cetaceans in London last Saturday, you NEED to see this speech by Dominic Dyer from Born Free Foundation. Also take at look at Freedom for Animals’ photostream from an excellent day of protest against cetacean captivity! https://www.facebook.com/captiveanimals/photos_stream

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SEA LIFE claim circus-style tricks are ‘effectively natural behaviour’ for whales

Easter weekend 2015 marks one year on since the release of the SEA LIES campaign, the result of a six month investigation into the workings of SEA LIFE and the well-being of the animals they keep. What was unearthed were troubling revelations that this worldwide brand were taking animals from the wild to stock their tanks, misleading the public on their so called ‘rescue’ work, ‘educating’ visitors with incorrect zoological information, and most of all, …