After a years-long PETA marketing campaign that incorporated complaints, superstar commercials, letters to county officers, and full of life rallies, together with this month on the Miami-Dade County Mayor’s Workplace—together with a decade of weekly protests via native activists—the county has in the end introduced that it’s shifting to revoke the Miami Seaquarium’s rent, marking the start of the top for this animal jail. Government will have to now transfer briefly to close down this infamous facility.
PETA has champagne on ice and is getting ready to have a good time the day the animals are in the end free of the dilapidated concrete tanks the place the long-suffering orca Lolita and such a lot of others lived and died in distress.
Compassionate folks in Miami and world wide have joined with PETA and celebrities together with Paulina Rubio, Kate del Castillo, Natasha Araos, Alicia Machado, Dr. Ana María Polo, Alan Cumming, and the past due Bob Barker to boost consciousness of the issues on the Seaquarium.
The Seaquarium just lately won a Realize of Intent to Confiscate from the U.S. Division of Agriculture (USDA) referring to 4 marine mammals recently housed there—marking the primary time the company has taken such an motion in 30 years. In keeping with studies, county officers will paintings with the USDA to “chart essentially the most suitable direction ahead, all the time prioritizing the most productive pursuits of the animals” final on the marine park.
You’ll be able to sign up for PETA in thanking Mayor Daniella Levine Cava for this thrilling development. However our paintings isn’t over but. We will have to proceed to induce the mayor and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners to rapidly close down the Seaquarium.