Resorts World in Singapore: More Action!

By Ric O’Barry

Campaign Director

Dolphin Project

Thanks to everyone who has taken action on The Saddest Dolphins Campaign, http://www.saddestdolphins.com .  Working with our partner, Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (ACRES), we have collected over half a million names protesting Resorts World Sentosa’s capture and continued confinement of 25 wild dolphins caught by the horrendous practice of herding dolphins onto the beach in the Solomon Islands!

Now it’s time to take it to the next level.  Please call or e-mail the Resorts World corporate offices and ask them to reconsider their plans and return these dolphins to the wild where they belong:

Be polite, but firm.  Encourage them to take their guests out on the open seas to watch dolphins and whales in the wild, rather than cruel captive-based swim-with-programs. They have an opportunity to do the right thing here and be a shining beacon of what’s possible.  I have to believe that they would be far more successful in their operations if they avoid the easy buck and show themselves to be responsible and green!

Next please call or e-mails their shareholders:

Genting Overseas Holdings Limited

Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay

Executive Director/Chairman

852 2317 7133

Tan Hee Teck

CEO of RWS / Genting Board

852 2317 7133

Justin Tan Wah Joo

Board Managing Director

852 2317 7133

Tjong Yik Min

Board of Directors

852 2317 7133

Peter Malcolm Brooks

UK Executive Deputy Chairman

44 207 518 0572

DMG & Partners Securities Pte Ltd

Terence Wong

Executive Director/Chairman

65 6533 1818  or 65 6438 8810

United Overseas Bank Nominees Pte Ltd 

Wee Cho Yaw

Executive Director/Chairman

65 6533 9898

HL Bank Nominees (S) Pte. Ltd.

YBhg Tan Sri Quek Leng Chan

Executive Director/Chairman

03-2164 8228

Bank of Singapore Nominees Pte. Ltd

Ambrose Law

Executive Director/Chairman

65 6223 9266

Here are some potential talking points:

I’m calling in regard to Resorts World Sentosa’s capture and confinement of 25 wild dolphins.  Resorts World claims to want the dolphins for therapeutic purposes.  There is no such thing.  There is absolutely no evidence that swim-with-dolphins programs work, yet there is overwhelming evidence that dolphins suffer greatly from a life in captivity.  Dolphins are highly intelligent, sensitive and socially aware mammals.  Capturing and keeping them confined in small tanks is the equivalent of torture.  Two dolphins have already died in the two-year process of getting them to the Resorts World facility.  Additionally the dolphins were taken from the Solomon Islands.  The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has stated that import and export of Bottlenose dolphins from the Solomon Islands should not take place, as it might be detrimental to the survival of this species in this part of the world.  Moreover, these particular dolphins were taken from the gruesome and barbaric drive fisheries, a particularly inhumane method of capturing wild dolphins.

Capturing dolphins from the wild for entertainment purposes is unacceptable.  Please consider pulling funding from Resorts World until they change their highly unethical business practices.

Thank you for your efforts on behalf of dolphins!  I am very grateful for your taking action.