{"id":1588492,"date":"2024-04-03T17:04:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=b196394e487df09ccfad6bf33be2deec"},"modified":"2024-04-03T17:04:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T17:04:12","slug":"urge-resorts-to-end-cruel-swim-with-dolphins-encounters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/03\/urge-resorts-to-end-cruel-swim-with-dolphins-encounters\/","title":{"rendered":"Urge Resorts to End Cruel \u2018Swim With Dolphins\u2019 Encounters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three resorts in Florida and Hawaii have partnered with the abusive companies Dolphin Connection and Dolphin Quest to offer \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/support.peta.org\/page\/63257\/action\/1\"  rel=\"noopener\">swim with dolphins<\/a>\u201d experiences in tiny lagoons on their properties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"sms:73822?&amp;body=RESORTS\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1090366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IA-Swim-with-Dolphins-FaceBlur-VS.png\" alt=\"A photo of a girl swimming with dolphins. Text RESORTS to 73822 to tell Hawks Cay Resort, The Kahala Hotel &amp; Resort, and Hilton Waikoloa Village to end their cruel swim with dolphins encounters and not to permit the breeding or acquisition of more animals on their premises.\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IA-Swim-with-Dolphins-FaceBlur-VS.png 1400w, https:\/\/www.peta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IA-Swim-with-Dolphins-FaceBlur-VS-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/www.peta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IA-Swim-with-Dolphins-FaceBlur-VS-602x420.png 602w, https:\/\/www.peta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IA-Swim-with-Dolphins-FaceBlur-VS-768x536.png 768w, https:\/\/www.peta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IA-Swim-with-Dolphins-FaceBlur-VS-1536x1071.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.peta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IA-Swim-with-Dolphins-FaceBlur-VS-2048x1428.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.peta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IA-Swim-with-Dolphins-FaceBlur-VS-150x105.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2121px) 100vw, 2121px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/living\/entertainment\/how-to-see-dolphins-without-hurting-them\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">dolphins<\/a> used for these encounters were violently torn away from their families in the wild, whereas others were bred in captivity and have never experienced the joy of swimming in the open ocean.<\/strong> It\u2019s cruel to imprison them in small lagoons where they can\u2019t swim free with their families or escape attacks from other frustrated animals and to make them perform tricks for the purpose of entertaining humans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-player\">\n<div class=\"widescreen-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Love Dolphins? Never Pay to Swim With Them\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tbigjvfsYLo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tell Hawks Cay Resort, The Kahala Hotel &amp; Resort, and Hilton Waikoloa Village to end their cruel \u201cswim with dolphins\u201d encounters and not to permit the breeding or acquisition of more animals on their premises.<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Contact them on social media:<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hawks Cay Resort<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><p><a class=\"yellow text-button button small\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hawkscayresort\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<input class=\"fooboxshare_post_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"1090336\"\/><p><a class=\"facebook-blue text-button button small\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hawkscayresort\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-blue text-button button small\"  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawksCayResort\">X<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Kahala Hotel &amp; Resort<\/strong><br \/>\n<p><a class=\"yellow text-button button small\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kahala_resort\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"facebook-blue text-button button small\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KahalaHotelandResort\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hilton Waikoloa Village<\/strong><br \/>\n<p><a class=\"yellow text-button button small\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hiltonwaikoloavillage\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"facebook-blue text-button button small\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HiltonWaikoloaVillage\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-blue text-button button small\"  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hiltonwaikoloa\">X<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/action\/swim-with-dolphins\/\">Urge Resorts to End Cruel \u2018Swim With Dolphins\u2019 Encounters<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/\">PETA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/action\/swim-with-dolphins\/\">Animal Rights and Campaign News | PETA<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell Hawks Cay Resort, The Kahala Hotel &amp; Resort, and Hilton Waikoloa Village to end their cruel \u201cswim with dolphins\u201d encounters and not to permit the breeding or acquisition of more animals on their premises.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/action\/swim-with-dolphins\/\">Urge Resorts to End Cruel \u2018Swim With Dolphins\u2019 Encounters<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/\">PETA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3409,25526,7723,18381],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1590454,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588492\/revisions\/1590454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}