Appalling footage divulges veracity of brutal trade in Russian beluga whales



MOSCOW, Russia, February 24: The brutal business in Russian beluga whales (the white whale), seized in the wild for trade to aquaria as well as nomadic displays, has been censured by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) as appalling fresh footage divulges the real gravity of the animals' undergoing torment for human amusement.

The robust documentary, Born to be Free, trails 18 beluga whales seized from the wild in Russia in 2013 for exhibition at the Georgia Aquarium in the US, who are trapped in small holding tanks for years while their eventual destiny is determined. Public anger resulted in an import prohibition, which commenced extended judicial activities and left the belugas in indeterminate state. Nonetheless one of the whales featured died and the remaining whales were ultimately sold and moved to aquariums in China.

The film, highlighting the foremost study of its type in Russia, sheds a light on the secret and frequently shadowy worldwide business in marine mammals. Probing all features of the supply chain, it provides an enlightening and worrying vision into the actuality of a life in detention for the animal victims.

Masha Vorontsova, IFAW Russia Director, stated,"Beluga whales are highly intelligent animals with a very complex and social family structure. IFAW believes that belugas and all whale species are not suited to a life in captivity and belong in the wild."

"Sadly little thought is given to welfare in this trade driven by profit. A captured beluga, once it has been trained to eat dead fish instead of hunting live prey in the wild, can fetch up to US $1million. When I heard that three daring young Russian women wanted to document this issue I was very pleased that IFAW could help them tell the story and bring it to public attention. Anyone who doubts the suffering of these animals need only watch this film. IFAW urges the Russian government to ban all future wild capture of belugas and other cetaceans. We also ask members of the public not to support shows involving belugas or whales, which fuel this lucrative and unacceptably cruel trade."

IFAW has functioned for over 20 years to safeguard Russia's beluga whales from business misuse for the whale meat business, aquaria and destructive travel actions. Since 1995, IFAW as well as investigators from the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology have functioned a non-invasive investigation station observing belugas off the shoreline of the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea and evaluating dangers to the species. In 1999, IFAW effectively canvassed for a prohibition on the commercial hunting of Russian belugas to deliver whale meat to Japan.

For additional facts log on to www.ifaw.org.

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