12/05/2026
Empty The Tanks Day 🌊🐋
Wednesday May 13th 2026
Today is about drawing a line between conservation and exploitation.
Around the world, highly intelligent, socially complex marine mammals are still being confined to concrete tanks for human entertainment — separated from family groups, deprived of natural behaviours, and reduced to performing tricks for applause.
If we genuinely care about oceans, wildlife and conservation, we have to stop normalising this industry.
This campaign is not about attacking ordinary people who simply have not thought deeply about what these parks represent. It is about changing culture. Real change happens when enough people decide they will no longer financially support exploitation disguised as “education” or “family fun”.
This needs to become the year that momentum truly shifts:
🐬 No more buying tickets
🐬 No more promoting marine mammal captivity as entertainment
🐬 No more treating sentient wild animals as performers
Vote with your feet.
Spread the word.
Challenge the narrative.
And on September 1st — the date upon which the annual dolphin hunts in Taiji begin, as documented in The Cove — we will release Blackfish:
A musical parody of Blackbird by the Beatles, featuring singer-songwriters from Frome, Somerset and surrounding areas.
The aim is simple: use music, art and culture to keep these issues visible and impossible to ignore.
If you know musicians, artists or public figures who care about marine conservation and would like to get involved or amplify the project, please share this post widely.
The ocean does not have a voice of its own.
We do.
Check this website for events near you
https://www.emptythetanks.org/upcomingevents/
Wednesday May 13th 2026
