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Park Eun-bin from Netflix Series, Extraordinary Attorney Woo, Elephants Beaten and Chained for Shrine Circuses & Sustainable Action Now Highlights Recent Protests!

Check out the highlights from some of our recent actions:

We hope you’ll join us at the next protest near you!

If you are you someone who is passionate about fighting for animal rights and if you want to make a difference to create change in the world, look for a protest near you.

Whether you are a seasoned activist who has been protesting for years or someone who is just starting out and has never attended a protest, we want to extend a warm invitation to you to join us in the fight for animal rights.

We believe that everyone has a role to play in creating a better world, and that no matter where you come from or what your background is, you can make a difference.

Our movement is inclusive and welcoming, and we strive to create a space for people of all walks of life to come together and work towards a common goal. So whether you are a student, a parent, a professional, or anything in between, we hope that you will join us and be a part of this important work.

Let’s stand together and fight for a better future for all beings.

Here are some highlights from some of the more recents protests:

The new hit series on Netflix from South Korea, Extraordinary Attorney Woo, is attracting international attention. For those of you who are not familiar with the show, it features a young woman, Park Eun-bin, who is an attorney starting her first job in South Korea and who happens to be autistic. Rotten Tomatoes rates the show 100% for critics’ endorsement.

But the big surprise of the show is that Attorney Woo is a passionate lover of whales and dolphins. While the show is not expressly about whales and dolphins, they appear here and there in every episode as her psychic muses. Attorney Woo herself is a passionate opponent of captivity and the killing of dolphins and whales.

Capitalizing on the stunning popularity of the series, the International Marine Mammal Project’s (IMMP’s) office in the Philippines came up with the ingenious idea to feature a look-alike Attorney Woo as part of their demonstration against the Taiji dolphin hunts on September 1st. The demonstration garnered wide media attention in the Philippines, and appeared in news stories in Japan Today and the Global Mirror.

PETA supporters with heavy chains blocked the entrance to the Yaarab Shrine Circus, which continues to exploit elephants and other animals, on its opening day. Padlocked together to the chains, activists prevented anyone from entering the circus grounds. PETA is asking Shrine circuses to end all animal acts.

The world’s largest Starbucks location closed temporarily after several PETA supporters wearing cow masks sat down and demanded that the coffee chain stop charging extra for vegan milks. Would-be customers were offered a free vegan latte instead.

Just before Easter, PETA’s thought-provoking baby barbecues in Charleston, South Carolina; Savannah, Georgia; and Jacksonville, Florida, reminded everyone that animals are just babies when they’re slaughtered and that there’s no real difference between them and human babies. We asked everyone to keep all babies off the grill this Easter holiday and every day by going vegan.

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PETA continued to push forward with its campaign against Budweiser, the King of Tears, to urge the beer company to stop mutilating Clydesdales by cutting off their tailbones. PETA supporters crashed Budweiser’s 90th anniversary party in St. Louis and protested at other Clydesdale appearances throughout the U.S.

PETA supporters continue to pressure Whole Foods to stop enabling the rampant abuse of the Thai coconut milk industry, which uses cruel forced monkey labor. PETA “monkeys” have been seen dumping hundreds of humanely picked coconuts and smashing them in protest outside Whole Foods stores in Austin, Texas; Denver, Colorado; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; and Washington, D.C.

Whole Foods closed its D.C. location for several hours after protesters entered the store and held a sit-in on top of the checkout counters.

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Ohio and the Death Penalty, Dolphin Hunting, Capturing & Killing Season Begins, Harvard University, EGYPTAIR, Running with the Bulls!

If It's September, it is the start of the Dolphin Hunting, Killing & Captivity Season in Taiji, Japan!

It stirs up a feeling of sadness and empathy within me to think about how Angel, the albino dolphin, was taken away from the peaceful waters of the cove in Taiji, Japan so many years ago. The thought of Angel living in a tank for all these years, with limited space to swim and explore, breaks my heart. I can only imagine the toll that such confinement can take on a creature that was meant to roam free in the vast expanses of the ocean. It’s a sobering reminder of the consequences that human actions can have on the natural world. I can only hope that Angel is being well-cared for, receiving the best possible treatment and care, and that someday, maybe, she will be able to return to the ocean and be reunited with her pod.

On the first day of September every year, the Taiji dolphin slaughter begins. For six months, dolphin-hunting vessels sail out of Taiji, Japan; hunt down pods of wild dolphins; surround them; and drive them back toward land to the infamous killing cove.

Taiji Dolphin Slaughter and Capture

Once in the cove, dolphin hunters snare the animals with nets and drag them to shore for the selection process. Dolphin trainers work with the hunters to choose the youngest and most attractive—the ones who will be sold to marine parks and “swim with dolphins” encounters. Pod members try to fight them off and protect one another, but their efforts are in vain. The mother was unable to save her baby.

Those who aren’t chosen also face a cruel fate. Hunters—and sometimes even trainers—kill them by hammering metal rods into their spinal cords just below the blowhole. They then remove the rods and replace them with corks to keep the water in the killing cove from turning bright red. Dolphins die slowly and painfully of hemorrhaging or suffocation while watching their family members and podmates die around them. Their flesh is then sold as meat.

Taiji Dolphin Slaughter and Capture

This deadly spectacle takes place only because tourists want to pet dolphins and take pictures with them.

The captive-dolphin industry directly funds the Taiji dolphin slaughter. A single dolphin can sell for as much as $152,000. Even in countries that no longer allow the importation of dolphins caught during the gruesome slaughter, marine parks and “swim with dolphins” facilities can still display animals purchased before the ban. Animals can also be moved through other countries to disguise their origin. And exhibitors that claim not to purchase from Taiji often still have hidden connections to the slaughter.

When humans stop paying to see suffering dolphins performing stupid tricks, swimming in circles in cramped tanks, or hauling tourists around on their dorsal fins, the slaughter will no longer be profitable.

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Dolphins deserve better.

Dolphins’ brains are much larger than those of humans. (Many would argue their hearts are, too.) These brilliant animals use complex echolocation to navigate the vast ocean, swimming up to 60 miles a day. They have highly developed communication skills, and it’s believed that individuals respond to the sound of a signature whistle the same way humans respond to the sound of their names. Forcing these emotionally complex animals to live in tanks for our entertainment is morally bankrupt.

Let’s end the dolphin slaughter.

What You Can Do

Ohio just moved one step closer to ending the death penalty!

Last Wednesday, Demetrius Minor, the National Manager of CCATDP,  had the opportunity to join the #NoDeathPenaltyOH campaign at the Ohio Statehouse for a press conference announcing the introduction of the House bill to end the death penalty!

The House bill will serve as a companion to SB 101, which is already moving in the Senate. This bill is yet another sign that momentum is on our side, but we still have more work to do to cross the finish line.
Thank the Bill Sponsors

As Ohio reckons with other life issues this fall, Republican leaders recognize that the death penalty is part of that conversation. It’s time to end this costly government program that fails to protect families, puts innocent lives at risk, and only causes more anguish.

Please join the Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty in thanking our 15 legislative champions, using this easy action on our website.

Many thanks for all the support you’ve shown during this endeavor. We couldn’t have made it this far without you!

Learn More about the Death Penalty.

EGYPTAIR Is Again Shipping Monkeys to Their Deaths

EGYPTAIR has apparently gone back on its word and has resumed shipping monkeys to their deaths in laboratories, risking the spread of disease and depleting the world of an endangered species, all to make a few quick bucks. We need your help to stop it.

PETA has learned that the airline appears to have recently shipped approximately 500 long-tailed macaques—listed as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature—from the island nation of Mauritius to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, all bound for torment in laboratories. Moreover, they were reportedly shipped from a monkey-breeding company that has been in the midst of an outbreak of tuberculosis, a highly infectious disease that monkeys have transmitted to humans.

This shipment is a blatant violation of EGYPTAIR’s pledge last year announcing that in view of its support of “the vision and mission” of animal protection organizations, it would no longer transport monkeys to laboratories.

Shamefully, that promise ended up proving worthless.

PETA, Action for Primates, One Voice, and Abolición Vivisección have urged EGYPTAIR Holding Company CEO Yehia Zakaria to honor the company’s promise.

But we urgently need you to speak up for monkeys, too.

PETA entities coordinated dozens of actions, and supporters flooded EGYPTAIR with more than 100,000 e-mails and hundreds of telephone calls asking it to stop shipping monkeys to laboratories. It worked until the company’s greed overcame integrity and empathy.

It’s time we did it again. Please TAKE ACTION below!

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Thanks to the efforts of PETA, other animal protection organizations, and caring people around the globe, nearly every major airline in the world has stopped transporting monkeys to laboratories. Now, it’s time for us to use our collective voices again to let EGYPTAIR know that it has made a very bad business decision by getting involved in the cruel trade in primates for experimentation. We recently received information that 720 long-tailed macaques who’d been torn away from their families in Cambodia were transported to John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York on April 30, 2022.

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Last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited EGYPTAIR for poor handling and inadequate ventilation and enclosures after a kitten being transported as checked baggage from Cairo to JFK arrived dead. The crate holding the kitten had been covered in solid plastic wrap, preventing airflow. She had not been given any food or water for the 11-hour flight, and her legs, chest, and muzzle were covered with urine. Since March 2022, EGYPTAIR has transported as many as 5,000 macaques to the U.S.—we don’t know whether they all survived and can only imagine the conditions they endured.

Every year, tens of thousands of monkeys are transported to the U.S. to be imprisoned in laboratories and tormented in experiments that consistently fail to lead to meaningful scientific advances. These highly social and sensitive individuals are either captured in nature or bred in captivity on squalid factory farms, where many die from injury and disease even before they’re crammed into small wooden crates and confined to dark, terrifying cargo holds of planes for shipment around the globe.

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The EGYPTAIR flight landed at JFK in the wee hours of the morning. The monkeys would have been traveling on planes for more than 30 hours. The torturous and deadly journey didn’t stop in New York—the no doubt terrified animals were apparently loaded into trucks and driven to quarantine facilities in Texas.

The incentive for airlines to stop shipping monkeys to laboratories is even clearer now, after a truck transporting 100 long-tailed macaques—who had been flown by Kenya Airways from Mauritius to JFK—collided with another vehicle earlier this year. Dozens of wooden crates holding the cold and scared monkeys were thrown from the truck onto a Pennsylvania highway. Several escaped, and authorities confirmed that three were shot dead. Several people who stopped to survey the scene of the accident interacted with the monkeys, and at least one reported symptoms of illness afterward. Given the panoply of pathogens carried by macaques that can be transmitted to humans, it’s clear that the international transport of monkeys is not only a serious ethical issue but also a grave threat to public health and safety—including for passengers and crewmembers on these flights. After PETA contacted Kenya Airways with this information, it committed to stop shipping monkeys from Mauritius to the U.S.

We privately urged EGYPTAIR to follow Kenya Airways’ lead by ending this practice, but so far, the airline has failed to respond to us. We need your help!

Please send polite e-mails to the EGYPTAIR staff below, asking them not to transport monkeys to laboratories or be involved in this cruel industry in any other way. EGYPTAIR should join other airline industry leaders in prohibiting the shipment of primates destined for laboratories.

Ahmed Shaheen
Chair
EGYPTAIR Cargo
cgo.chairman@egyptair.com

Tarek Adawy
Chief Executive, U.S. and Canada
EGYPTAIR
t.adawy@EGYPTAIRnyc.com

EGYPTAIR Cargo Manager, JFK
newyork_ff@egyptair.com

You’re welcome to use the template letter you’ll see when you click on the above e-mail addresses, but putting your subject line and message into your own words will help draw attention to your e-mail.

Please feel free to use our sample letter, but remember that using your own words is always more effective.

Harvard Still Funding Fraudulent Colombian Operation—Even After NIH Defunded It

The fallout from PETA’s 18-month investigation into the Caucaseco Scientific Research Center, the fraudulent Colombian organization that ran hellholes funded by U.S. taxpayer money, has been sweeping. Its monkey facility was shuttered, and the animals were rescued. They’re now recovering under the care of environmental authorities. What’s more, Colombian officials found Caucaseco’s human trials to be fraudulent. Legislation aimed at preventing this sort of disaster is currently being debated in the U.S., and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has finally yanked the Colombian operation’s funding.

But the more we dig, the more we find.

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PETA discovered that Harvard University is among Caucaseco’s financial backers. The university has had every opportunity to distance itself publicly from the sham operation, but it has declined to respond—even after NIH pulled Caucaseco’s funding.

Here’s What We Know

Caucaseco is a recipient of Harvard grant money.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a national charitable organization, awarded a grant to the university’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, which then turned over part of that money to Caucaseco. Gates Foundation officials have confirmed to PETA that as of May 31, the Colombian operation was a recipient of money awarded to Harvard.

There’s More

In August 2022, while monkeys were dying at the Primate Center Foundation—Caucaseco’s affiliated monkey facility—a Harvard professor attended a seminar there, just a few feet from the suffering caged animals.

PETA has kept officials at the T.H. Chan School informed of the latest Caucaseco developments and the investigations by Colombian authorities against Sócrates Herrera Valencia and Myriam Arévalo Ramírez, the married couple at the helm of the organization.

We’ve asked Harvard officials to distance the university from this sham organization, but they’ve remained silent.

Harvard Parallels Caucaseco’s Animal Abuse

Interestingly, Harvard is also home to another monkey experimenter on PETA’s radar: Margaret Livingstone, who has sewn baby monkeys’ eyelids shut and left the animals in complete darkness for up to a year in gruesome sensory deprivation experiments.

Harvard is also silent about her.

What You Can Do

Please TAKE ACTION today and urge your U.S. representative to support the Cease Animal Research Grants Overseas (CARGO) Act, which aims to end public funding of all foreign animal laboratories so that no U.S. taxpayer dollars are ever again sent overseas for pointless animal experiments.

Then URGE HARVARD to finally cancel Livingstone’s abominable cruelty. 

Take Action against all forms of cruelty to animals and wildlife and learn more about alternatives to testing on animals and wildlife. Learn more about the reasons why testing on animals and wildlife is not needed!

Tell Travel Companies to Cut the Bullsh*t and Stop Promoting Bull Torture!

The Running of the Bulls is held every July at the annual festival of San Fermín in Pamplona, Spain. It’s a horrific bloodbath in which at least 48 bulls are tortured and killed, and it must end. But travel companies Iberian Traveler, TGW Travel Group, Bucket List Events, Fanatics, and Palace Tours seem to think it’s OK to promote this barbaric event by selling tickets to it.

During this event, bulls are deliberately terrified and chased down cobblestone streets. They’re hit by people, they fall, they smash into walls, and later they’re forced into the bullfighting ring and violently killed.

Bulls have unique personalities and form complex social bonds with each other. The Running of the Bulls causes them extreme suffering, and they never make it out alive.

Please take these important steps to politely urge these travel companies to stop selling tickets for and otherwise promoting the Running of the Bulls.

Text BULL to 73822 to tell travel companies to stop promoting bull torture. Then post this image on social media to encourage your friends and family to text, too:

Text BULL to 73822 to tell travel companies to stop promoting The Running of the Bulls.

Contact Iberian Traveler using its contact form.

CONTACT IBERIAN TRAVELER
Comment on TGW Travel Group’s Facebook and Instagram pages.

COMMENT ON TGW’S INSTAGRAM PAGE

Chat with Bucket List Events using the chatbot in the lower right corner of its website

CHAT WITH BUCKET LIST EVENTS
Comment on Fanatics’ Facebook and Instagram pages.

COMMENT ON FANATICS’ INSTAGRAM PAGE
Call Palace Tours at 1-800-724-5120. Here are some talking points you can use:

Please stop selling tickets to the Running of the Bulls. At least 48 bulls are tormented and killed during the event every year. It’s a barbaric bloodbath that must end.

Bulls are sentient beings with unique personalities who form complex social bonds, just like dogs. The Running of the Bulls causes them extreme suffering, and they never make it out alive. If you wouldn’t promote an event that kills at least 48 dogs every year, why do you promote an event that kills bulls?

CALL PALACE TOURS
Take Action against all forms of cruelty to animals and wildlife!

Once her former owners agreed to relinquish her, we wasted no time spiriting Ada away to our headquarters and gave her a nice long bath and a brand-new haircut. She quickly found the perfect home with PETA staffer Hollie Wood.

As the video shows, Ada quickly formed an unbreakable bond with Hollie’s daughter, Eliot, and now the two best friends are inseparable. Ada’s always first in the car when it’s time to pick her human sister up from school—she can’t wait to see her again—and while she may technically count as a senior dog, she happily matches Eliot’s youthful energy. Now, Ada’s much too preoccupied with school runs, play time, walks, and cuddles to give a thought to her decade of deprivation—and Eliot wouldn’t have it any other way.

Dogs Like Ada Suffer Every Day—Here’s How You Can Help Them

For 10 years, PETA fieldworkers showed up for Ada to make her life spent chained in a backyard as good and safe as we possibly could. And while Ada is now finally inside a home with people who love and respect her, thousands of dogs are still stuck outside all year round, forced to suffer through scorching heat in the summer and devastating cold in the winter.

You can help “backyard dogs” by sponsoring a PETA doghouse today. Another effective way to help them all year long is to work with elected representatives to pass ordinances that ban or restrict chaining. To get started, see what current legislation on tethering dogs your community has.

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Dogs should never be left outside unattended, but when they’re outside and deprived of access to water or shelter, the situation is an emergency and local authorities should be contacted immediately. If they’re unresponsive, contact PETA for help. Their well-being, if not their life, could depend on your taking action.

If you see a chained dog in your area whose situation is not an emergency, read PETA’s tips to help chained dogs

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Dolphin research team returns from latest mission

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RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — Dolphins are typically thought of as friendly, smart, and interesting mammals, but WPTV is learning from a locally-based research team there is much more to gain from studying dolphins.

The research team with the Wild Dolphin Project recently returned from their latest mission in the Bahamas. They, in part, studied how migrant dolphins are mixing with resident pods.

“Because you can see under the water in the Bahamas, we look at their communication and try to crack their code to see if they have a language,” said Dr. Denise Herzing, who founded the Wild Dolphin Project in the 80s in the West Palm Beach area.

As Herzing explained, the team observed typical social behaviors for dolphins, possibly indicating migrant dolphins are having continued success in co-existing with resident pods.

Florida Atlantic University student Hayley Knapp had several eye-opening moments during the mission.

“We were motoring around looking for dolphins and I was like – hey, there’s a piece of trash, and there. It was everywhere, like something had dumped a bunch of trash in the ocean,” Knapp said.

“Dolphins are top predators, and they’re a really good indication of the health of oceans,” said Cindy Elliser, founder of Pacific Mammal Research. “So, if we know the pod of dolphins in South Florida isn’t doing well, there might be something happening in the environment we need to take care of.”

“It matters that we learn to re-love things in the ocean and find strategies to mitigate what we’ve done,” Herzing said.



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Rare footage captured of dolphin leaping from the water off

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Participants on a guided nature walk in the Boston area have been treated to the ‘incredible and special’ sighting of a dolphin.

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A still image of the dolphin leaping out of the water.

In a rare spectacle from the coastline of RSPB Frampton Marsh – the dolphin repeatedly leapt from the water to a mixture of delight and disbelief from the group.

Warden Toby Collett said: “In 10 years of doing these walks, this is the first time we’ve seen dolphins.

“Myself and my father Keith co-lead the walks and we had five members of the public join us on Sunday morning.

“We felt shock and surprise at first, as it hit us just how special this sighting was.”

The dolphin was spotted out at sea opposite the mouth of the River Haven at a time when the tide was high.

Mr Collett said the group witnessed the animal leaping out of the water around 14 times.

“After the initial ‘It can’t be!’ questions had subsided, it was all about the enjoyment. Allowing ourselves to marvel and be in that moment that we may never experience again.

A still from a video of the dolphin leaping out the water off the coast near RSPB Frampton Marsh.A still from a video of the dolphin leaping out the water off the coast near RSPB Frampton Marsh.
A still from a video of the dolphin leaping out the water off the coast near RSPB Frampton Marsh.

“The clip was more filmed for record and identification purposes as I wanted to spend that time watching them. The sporadic ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ from the group reminded me of a fireworks display as the leaping dolphin exploded from the water to land with a splash.”

A cockle fleet in the distance gave the group a handy reference point to locate the dolphin in the open water.

“We are so used to seeing amazing wildlife moments on television that we can sometimes forget that the natural world is out there and accessible to experience in real life,” Mr Collett added. “While we may not have expected it, by being out in the right habitat at the right time, you always have a chance of seeing something unique and amazing.

“With the area having a huge tidal range, you have only a small window to be able to have the tide high enough for dolphins to come close enough to the shore to be seen.

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The area where the dolphin was spotted

“What an incredible and special place The Wash is and how lucky we are to have it on our doorstep.”

Mr Collett said its unknown if there are so few records of dolphins in the area “because they are hard to see, or because they are not there”.

“With several populations in the North Sea, they may have just followed fish in or just been eased in with the high tides,” he comments. “The Wash is only as incredible as it is because of that linkage to the sea and allowing the tides to ebb and flow, to flush and rejuvenate the mud flats and waterways. Porpoises have been seen more frequently but hopefully with this record it may get more people out looking to find their own.”

“The next big tides, and biggest of the year, are over the first weekend of October,” he added. “I’m sure a few of us will enjoy that wonderful walk down the Haven and see if we can get lucky.”

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Car engulfed in flames on Dolphin Expressway in NW

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NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) – A car caught on fire on the side of a Florida highway in Northwest Miami-Dade, Friday morning.

The blaze was spotted on the Dolphin Expressway, near Northwest 87th Avenue, around 7:30 a.m.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews battled the intense flames and heavy smoke that enveloped the vehicle.

It remains unclear if anyone was injured as a result of the blaze.

The Florida Highway Patrol has been contacted for more information about the incident.

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Emmanuel Ogbah has a $65 million Miami Dolphins contract,

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MIAMI GARDENS — Emmanuel Ogbah was asked to recall the last quarterback he sacked.

“Was it Herbert?” Ogbah said Thursday, during a quiet moment in the Dolphins locker room.

No, it was not this week’s opponent, Justin Herbert.

It was Mac Jones. In the season opener last year.

Does that feel like a long time?

“Hell, yeah,” Ogbah said. “It’s been a whole year.”

Ogbah was rewarded with a four-year, $65 million contract after he posted back-to-back nine-sack seasons for Miami in 2020 and 2021.



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Viral YouTube Short | Heroic family rescues stranded

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YouTube Short: Heroic family rescues stranded Dolphin in off-shore

A family rescues a stranded Dolphin in the off-shore.

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5 things to do in 48 hours when visiting the Dolphin Coast

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With the long-weekend approaching, a little getaway should be on the cards. If you’re in KwaZulu-Natal, taking a quick dash to the Dolphin Coast might just be what the doctor ordered.

Plus, if you need an excuse to travel, it’s spring, Travel Month and Heritage Month.

The general manager at ANEW Hotel Ocean Reef Zinkwazi, Vanitha Moodley, said the Dolphin Coast on the KwaZulu-Natal shoreline beckoned with its serene beauty and laid-back atmosphere.

Here are five experiences to add to your itinerary if you want to explore the Dolphin Coast and Zinkwazi in 48 hours, according to Moodley.

Proud’s Pizza

If you want to indulge your taste buds with a slice of heaven, then Proud’s Pizza,a hidden gem on Zinkwazi beach, is waiting to be explored.

“This local delight has garnered a stellar reputation, boasting a 4.5-star rating on TripAdvisor.

“Vegetarian-friendly and conveniently located within walking distance from the hotel, Proud’s Pizza promises a laid-back experience that perfectly captures the essence of beachside bliss,” said Moodley.

Harold Johnson Nature Reserve

For nature enthusiasts looking for tranquillity, Harold Johnson Nature Reserve is the perfect destination.

Moodley said visitors would enjoy the beauty of the reserve which is set out on scenic hiking trails that wind through lush landscapes.

The reserve offers opportunities to spot a diverse array of birdlife on the south bank of the Tugela River, about 6km from the river mouth on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast.

King Shaka Memorial

Since it’s also Heritage Month, Moodley said don’t forget to pay homage to the legendary Zulu king, King Shaka, at the King Shaka Memorial.

“Discover the history and legacy of this influential leader, who played a pivotal role in shaping the Zulu kingdom. The memorial is located at 96 King Shaka Street, Stanger Central, KwaDukuza,” she said.

Sugar Rush Park Ballito

The general manager said that for an exhilarating dose of family-friendly adventure, head a bit further afield to Sugar Rush Park in Ballito.

She said excitement knew no bounds there as kids could revel in the thrill of jumping on trampolines, take part in laser tag battles, explore the snake park or indulge in crafting sessions, creating their own unicorn slime.

Adults could browse the outdoor stores before savouring a delectable meal at Food Fundi or Seventeen87. For more details go to: https://www.sugarrush.co.za/.

Collecting seashells

And finally, if you’re financially overstretched, Moodley recommended that you take your family to one of the scenic beaches along the Dolphin Coast, such as Zinkwazi Beach or Ballito Beach.

“Armed with buckets or bags, explore the shoreline during low tide and discover a treasure trove of seashells, colourful stones, and interesting marine life like crabs and small fish in the tide pools.

“It’s an engaging and educational activity for kids, allowing them to learn about the coastal ecosystem while having loads of fun. Plus, you’ll have beautiful souvenirs to take home as a reminder of your time on the Dolphin Coast,” said Moodley.



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