Family Mad After Dolphin Bites Girl at SeaWorld, But 8-year-old broke the rules (video)

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And they will just become images on the TV. Unreal and unimportant.

For too long the environmental movement has allowed itself to be about "Saving the pretty animals." We've lost ground and Americans have lost touch with nature. I work with wild animals on a weekly basis. I'm glad to say that the ones I work with are rehabilitation cases meant for release but I have seen the difference that contact with the animals makes on people.

I don't like zoos and I don't like Seaworld but we have to do something to reconnect people to nature and if that means physical contact in experiences like this to inspire the next generation of zoologist, biologists and environmentalists then so be it. People don't know where their food comes from much less how they are connected to other species or that they are connected at all.

Widening the gap between people and nature will only make that worse.