When in 2014 the Labour government amended the Animal Welfare Act to ban circuses, the Mediterraneo Marine Park in Baħar iċ-ċagħaq, continued to operate in violation of the law. It still operates until this day with the delusional pretensions of being an educational and conservation centre.
The Mediterraneo Marine Park is, in fact, a place of extreme and cruel captivity, concealed from the general public, where animals are tortured and conditioned to appear as if they are smiling and performing for human audiences. The Mediterraneo Marine Park at least three dolphins in captivity which spend their days in very confined spaces. The place is just a gross centre of animal torture and captivity. See and judge for yourself whether the captivity of these dolphins can truly be considered “animal conservation”.
This place is in violation of the law, but the Labour government also made a turn in animal-welfare policy by eventually legalising zoos, making the legal situation on animal circuses more complicated. Surely, the Mediterraneo Marine Park is a very disturbing site because it is promoting animal torture as some sort of of fun and acceptable human activity that can also be described as “animal conservation”. This is just outright cruelty.
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