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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.

Connexion journalist
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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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