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Bathtub posters call for whales to go back in sea
Rights groups have launched poster campaigns across the country to stop aquarium attractions using whales and dolphins.
The C’est Assez protests, on Paris Métro and buses in Nantes and Nice, show a dolphin and a whale in a bathtub.
They target dolphinariums in Port-Saint-Père near Nantes and Antibes near Nice demanding the mammals be freed and that reproduction in captivity be banned.
The ecology ministry started a rethink on zoos, circuses, mink farms and dolphinariums last year. Rights groups want the mammals released back into the sea in special sanctuaries.
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