About today’s campaign:
Whales and dolphins have not been held captive in the UK for more than 30 years. But UK tourists still flock to these cruel facilities when they are on holiday. Keeping whales and dolphins in tanks for human entertainment is wrong. They are too intelligent, too emotionally complex, too social, too mobile and just too big to be confined like this.
We want the OMBLES to spread this important message: #DontGoToTheShow
One Minute Brief of the Day:
Create posters for digital ad spaces in UK airport departure lounges that convince UK holidaymakers not to visit captive whale and dolphin attractions while they are abroad.
#DontGoToTheShow.
Help @whalesorg #EndCaptivityForever
Just make sure you tweet to @OneMinuteBriefs and @whalesorg with the hashtags #DontGoToTheShow and #EndCaptivtyForever.
Don’t forget to include your twitter handle in the top-left corner of your submissions.
Winner Prize:
£200 cash & a year’s adoption of a wild, free UK dolphin!
The winning poster will be simple, challenging, and impossible to ignore.
Be creative and include eye-catching headlines. You can enter as many times as you like.
Today’s entries need to grab the attention of holidaymakers waiting for their flight to the sun and make them think twice about going to a dolphin or orca show if the opportunity arises while they are on their holiday. We can get swept up in the holiday spirit and follow along with what holiday reps suggest. This poster needs to challenge UK tourists not to support cruelty by visiting captive whale and dolphin attractions. The winning entry/ies from today’s OMB will be displayed in departure lounges across UK airports for the whole of July, August and September, including a day on Manchester Airport’s impressive Wonderwall. Your poster could be seen by millions of people waiting to board their flights to destinations that host captive dolphin and orca attractions, including Tenerife and Florida.
About WDC:
WDC is the leading global NGO dedicated to protecting whales and dolphins.
We are lean, ambitious, impactful, and internationally respected.
We work across the whole spectrum of conservation threats, from climate breakdown to captivity. Why? Because whales and dolphins are awesome. They are thinking, feeling, emotional, social beings who are vital for the health of the ocean and therefore our planet. It’s time to stop taking them from their ocean homes and breeding them in tanks to exploit them for our ‘entertainment’. When we persuade tourists to stop going to the show, we’ll end the cruelty of captivity.
More info:
Why is it cruel to keep whales and dolphins in tanks or sea pens?
- They are highly intelligent, self-aware, social beings with complex emotional lives. Confinement in a tank can cause serious mental and physical health issues
- They are large and far-roaming and used to travelling huge distances, hunting, socialising and feeling the rhythms of the ocean
- For orcas in particular, family is everything. To deprive them of family deprives them of what it means to be an orca
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