Orca hunting its prey from the bottom. The carnivorous mammal, freak water parks, SeaWorld could sink. The American group has seen its sales dip by 5% over the first six months of 2014, he announced Wednesday, August 13.
the fall could be more precipitous still this summer peak attendance at amusement parks. . The group listed on the New York Stock Exchange amounted to 7% of the decrease in activity throughout 2014
A perspective that has greatly upset Wall Street; Title Seaworld has lost 30% of its value Wednesday, Aug. 13, reaching a record low since its IPO in April 2013 Spectacular, the “bubble” is not entirely unexpected since no American was ignorant problems of society.
TRAGIC DEATH OF STRAIGHTENING
The group that stands orcas and dolphins twirl in pools is heart of a media storm since the documentary Blackfish. Gabriela Cowperthwaite, its director, returns to the tragic death of trainer Dawn Brancheau.
February 24 2010, full show, the young woman was grabbed by a killer whale male Tilikum. From this tragedy, M me Cowperthwaite stands a blackboard the lives of marine mammals in aquatic parks Seaworld. And she shows how these cattle from August to September tons develop psychosis and become more aggressive than life when they are in captivity.
In passing, it reveals that the orca Tilikum had killed Two other people, a trainer in Canada and a spectator in 1999
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It did not take less to glaze Americans big fans of these family outings, and move defenders of marine wildlife. The documentary was a resounding success in the United States: 21 million people were in front of CNN when it aired in October 2013
The emotion is so strong that voices were raised to prohibit fishing. orcs and their captive breeding in California. On February 20, the elected Democrat Richard Bloom introduced a bill called the welfare and safety of the killer whale (Orca The Welfare and Safety Act). Two months later, the committee studying the text pushed to 2015.
Pinned by all the media and social networks for its decision nearly a year, SeaWorld defends as best evil. First denouncing the content “dishonest” documentary. Then the group, including 26 million people visit amusement parks each year, has promoted its ethics, its methods, campaigns at sea, it depends.
while denying that this case was it a publicity against damaging. Untenable denial. The group has just admit the commercial consequences in a statement.
Marineland “CLOSELY FOLLOWS THE MATTER”
The case Blackfish cross Does the Atlantic? In France, management of Marineland, Seaworld the French Open in Antibes (Alpes-Maritimes) in 1970, “closely following the case” be its CEO, Bernard Giampaolo.
For the documentary also had a big hit with audiences in France. Almost a million viewers were glued to their screens on June 27 when it aired on Arte. A record for the Franco-German channel.
Since then, the subsidiary of the Spanish group Parques Reunidos monitors social media and responds to all who challenge him on his Facebook account. “For practices denounced the documentary Blackfish are no longer relevant for a long time in our wildlife parks,” argues Giampaolo.
So far, attendance at this amusement park, which attracts 1.3 million visitors, including 800,000 for the only wildlife park, has not been affected. Only the crisis and poor weather in July did flinch counters, judge Giampaolo. And Wednesday, August 13, the day of publication of figures from SeaWorld, Marineland recorded a “attendance record”
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