We are a collective of activists originally working within the anti-dolphinarium circles, which decided to work within their own project through a common facebook group by the early 2010s. Following dissent with our own circles, and disagreeing with the condemnation of ex-captive cetaceans to a state of permanent captivity through so called "sanctuaries", as well as with a number of other practices, we decided to function as our own small research and debate group, seeking a better understanding of the issues at hand and to find an alternative solution for ex-captives worldwide. Gradually, and through years of efforts spearheaded by our respective personal histories and experiences, we reached the conclusion that linguistic first contact with cetaceans, as well as elephants, was to be a key feature of our work, an aspect rarely if never genuinely put forward by the figures and charities we deem today as competitors.
The (main) author of this website is a french philosophy graduate, currently attempting a linguistic exchange with a free, solitary Tursiops dolphin called Randy or Dony in western France. Our ongoing efforts toward genuine verbal exchanges with another sapient species is a cornerstone of our work, and we believe it to be necessary in order to give the possibility for cetaceans, free or captive, to speak for themselves and take the matters in their own hands (or rather fins !).
We discuss here both this project and its many technical aspects, as well as a number of alternative projects, facilities, and concepts, which we seek to investigate, interrogate and discuss.
The website functions as a compendium of articles, researches, and reflexions on various key and interlinked topics, and aim to fully explore a number of subjects, from specific facilities to a number of practical and theoretical problems passing by a number of figures and past cases. Nonetheless, because of the nature of what we're researching, we aim to have it function more like a continuous stream of research, susceptible to change in the future. Insight and feedback by others is considered to be a key part of said process. This means that there will probably be several articles following each others on a given topics, corrections on past articles, and changes in views depending on feedback and the discovery of new data.
Email us at : officialcetcontact@gmail.com, or join our respective facebook groups on the issue of captive sanctuaries and on our current first contact attempt.