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Animal liberation activists storm dolphin display at Spanish marine theme park

Travel operator Thomas Cook announced it would stop selling trips to animal parks that kept killer whales. As such, it planned to cut ties with Loro Parque.

JESSICA GREEN: ‘Members of the Vegan Strike Group, an international organisation who claims to fight animal enslavement, disrupted the daily show at Loro Parque, Tenerife. Photographs showed the activists swimming into the pool waving around posters calling for the closure of the animal park… Writing on Facebook after the display, the Vegan Strike Group said: ‘For the fourth time our Vegan Strike Group activists have disrupted a dolphin show on Spanish soil.

Security officers could be seen jumping into the pool and escorting the campaigners from the premises… Last month, travel operator Thomas Cook announced it would stop selling trips to animal parks that kept killer whales. As such, it planned to cut ties with Loro Parque from next summer after ‘customer feedback and consultation with animal rights experts’. SOURCE…

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