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Every year a kind of a passage rite is carried out in the Faroe Islands: children entering puberty "must kill a dolphin". Teens annually come to the coast to "grow up" and kill dolphins. After this bloody ceremony, they stop being children and become adults. Their parents and friends are watching them with a great sense of pride. Such practice dyes of blood the coastal waters and it can be visible even from the satellite. And we are not talking about a third world country, this tradition takes place in Denmark, Europe. To "grow up," you need to kill an innocent animal.

Since dolphins are friendly species and trust humans, the people of Faroe kill hundreds of them, even females with their babies. We want to gather thousands of signatures to put an end to these acts of barbarism, in the protection of the ecological balance and defense of life in all its forms. Traditions advocating animal killing must be banned!

Furthermore, dolphins help sick children. Dolphin therapy is a psychotherapy method, which is built on communication between humans and dolphins. Held in the form of communication, games and simple joint exercises under the supervision of a specialist. Often used in the treatment of children diseases such as cerebral palsy, early infantile autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and many others.

After all, in the modern world there exist so many ways to entertain teenagers such as online games www.friv2online.com, where they can throw out their negative emotions. Nowadays there are so many professional programmers who are working on computer games development who can create animal-friendly games for children of all ages. Our planet is our home; let us take care of it.