Response To Bill Daly's Essay: Marine Parks

Within the essay written by Bill Daly called “Marine Parks” the writer is trying to provide information to his readers about marine parks. Daly takes the stands and conclusion on that the parks should be closed or at the very least they shouldn’t capture anymore animals. In the essay he discusses that the information that they take from the dolphins isn’t credible information. Due to the fact they are only studying captive animals not the one in the wild. He goes on to tell about how they have different diets and in captivity and that they have lower life spans.
Along with all of this people say that foreign tourist come to Australia for the marine park. Due to the fact they believe that it’s the only place they can see those type of marine life. Daly states that in fact there are many places for tourist to go and see marine life along the coast without having to go to the marine life park. Daly

also states towards the end about how the dolphin parks are unnecessary and cruel. By having them in small cramp spaces and these animals need large areas to roam like they have in the wild. However, the marine parks does bring in tourist to Australia, which helps increase business for other companies within Australia. Also, Dr. Alison Lane the director of the Marine Science Institute says the knowledge that we learn about the mammals helps protect them. The only way that we can learn this information is by having them protected in places like the Marine Park.

Rebuttal
According to Daly’s article the Marine Park attracts a lot of foreign tourist to Australia which helps increase revenue into the country.

Daly’s claim is that we don’t need places like these to attract foreign tourist when we have the natural environment already for them to see. Natural environments has the mammals in it dolphin’s and whale’s along the coast, for them to see in their own natural habitat without them being in a concrete pools of water.
However, what Daly forgot to add the increase of education for many people besides foreigners that the Marine Park provides. Some people don’t have the opportunity to go natural environment. Due to the fact they either they can’t afford it or they don’t live near somewhere that has those types of animals. According to the NAPA (National Australian Population Association) nearly 45% of people either can’t afford to drive to a natural environment that contains these animals. Along with many people live with in the rural areas of Australia, which can also lead to them not being about to see those types of

animals.
Marine Parks also provide the opportunity for schools to bring students to have up close learning experience. Studies have come out that state that students who have real world learning outside of the classroom tend to score better on test. This is also a great way for students to have a hands on experience with animals, while also being able to apply what they learn in the classroom. Having schools come and visit the parks help increase revenue with the park which helps to provide better environments for the animals. Without money the Marine Parks cant increase better living environments for the animals because they can afford to.
Although, Daly does have some point in that dolphin and whale change their biology while living in the Marine Park. Without, these marine parks and having scientist study these animals someday they could be put on the en-danger species list. This isn’t good for animals, because it means that they are close to not existing anymore. By having these places for scientist to study these animals, the animal is less likely to end up on that list. While yes, Daly is correct in that these animals like in these small environments for sometime and that they need to have large spaces for them to roam. The goal of the Marine Park is to try and study these animals as fast a possible, so that they can get those animals back into the wild.
Marine Park, was created to help protect and learn about these animals while providing a fun atmosphere for the visitors. There intend is not to hurt any animal while sometimes the animals yes to die in captivity it’s not the intent of the facility for the animals to die. Overall, I found Daly’s points to be correct on some parts on that there are natural environments for these animals to live in. Along with the part that the animals live in small environments during their time at the Marine Park. Majority of the time within Daly’s article he forgot the many apart’s that Marine Park does provide for the animals. Such as having a place for scientist to study and learn from them, so they know how to protect these animals. All of this is important in considering which side you take on this argument.