{"id":248156,"date":"2005-11-14T04:29:30","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T09:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/11\/fears-live-dolphins-to-be-exported"},"modified":"2005-11-14T04:29:30","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T09:29:30","slug":"fears-live-dolphins-to-be-exported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/11\/fears-live-dolphins-to-be-exported","title":{"rendered":"Fears Live Dolphins To Be Exported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Animal rights campaigners have fears for a pod of live dolphins, which they believe is due to be exported from the Solomon Islands.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><img src=https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/images\/articles\/bottlenosedolphin.jpg border=0 width=232 height=129 hspace-5 align=right>The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) says sources have told them 40 dolphins will be flown to the Bahamas this week, via Fiji, Tahiti and Mexico.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>WSPA believes the exportation goes against an international convention, to which the Bahamas is a signatory and flies in the face of a Solomon Islands ban on dolphin exports.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The organisation&#8217;s New Zealand spokesperson Kim Muncaster says dolphins are wanted for shows and the global trade is lucrative, but inherently cruel.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>WSPA wants the Solomon Islands to enforce its ban and is lobbying Fiji, Tahiti and Mexico to reject the cargo.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SMALL>Source: RNZ<\/SMALL><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) says sources have told them 40 dolphins will be flown to the Bahamas this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}