Russian Dolphinariums 101: Delfinia

General Info:

Delfinia (дельфиния) was opened in August of 2016 in Novosibirsk.

News and Mentionable Incidents:

•  Early 2016, dolphin calf born.

• June 2016, 2 beluga whales tr1ansferred from Sochi.

• June 2016, 4 female bottlenose dolphins, 1 male and 3 female, transferred from Sochi.

• January 2017, bottlenose dolphin purchased from Sevastopol Dolphinarium Arbuthe.

Any Taiji Affiliation? Yes, dolphins originally acquired from Taiji, transferred from Sochi.

What can you do? Knowledge is power and a lot of people would not be attending and purchasing tickets to these places if they knew what was going behind closed doors. It's our job to reach them. You can help by sharing a post about Delfinia via social media and tagging #дельфиния (you can copy and paste if you don't have a Russian keyboard).

Other tags you can copy/paste that are Delfinia tourism specific are: #delfiniya #дельфиния #дельфинарий_новосибирск.