{"id":14875,"date":"2016-04-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/04\/09\/india-declares-dolphins-to-be-non-human-persons-bans-dolphin-shows\/"},"modified":"2016-04-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T12:00:00","slug":"india-declares-dolphins-to-be-non-human-persons-bans-dolphin-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/04\/09\/india-declares-dolphins-to-be-non-human-persons-bans-dolphin-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"India Declares Dolphins to Be &#8220;Non-Human Persons,&#8221; Bans Dolphin Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewao.com\/a\/india-declares-dolphins-to-be-non-human-persons-dolphin-shows-banned\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIA, November 2, 2016 (Earth We Are One): India&#8217;s Ministry of Environment and Forests have made a groundbreaking decision to completely forbid the keeping of captive dolphins for public entertainment in the entire country. A statement about their new policy was released Friday, the ministry advised the state governments to deny any proposals that requested the establishment of a dolphinarium &#8220;by any person\/persons, organizations, government agencies, private or public enterprises that involve import, the capture of cetacean species to establish for commercial entertainment, private or public exhibition and interaction purposes whatsoever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ministry elaborated their first statement with these words, &#8220;Whereas cetaceans, in general, are highly intelligent and sensitive, and various scientists who have researched dolphin behavior have suggested that the unusually high intelligence; as compared to other animals means that dolphins should be seen as non-human persons and as such should have their own specific rights and is morally unacceptable to keep them captive for entertainment purpose,&#8221; the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>More at &#8220;source&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source INDIA, November 2, 2016 (Earth We Are One): India&#8217;s Ministry of Environment and Forests have made a groundbreaking decision,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}