Meldungen: Archiv

Conference Year of the dolphin in Europe 2007

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Brensing, Karsten

Cetaceans in captivity

The ex situ bottlenose dolphin population is so far not self-sustaining in Europe. Any expansion of the population has been dependent on imports into the European Union, of which 95% of animals were captured from wild. This fact and the ongoing discussion about sufficient housing conditions for bottle-nose dolphin and other cetaceans result in the following recommendation:

• housing conditions for Cetaceans need to be scientifically evaluated
• recommendations for housing conditions, especially in Germany, but also else-where need to be renewed to meet the requirements of the European Zoo Direc-tive
• all related data (such as the studbook and relevant expert statements) needs to be accessible by the public

Presentation: 16-Karsten_Brensing.pdf