My disagreement with Jean-Michael Cousteau comes with his views against aquariums and zoos displaying cetaceans. I know there are substandard facilities that shouldn't be displaying them, but the bulk of them do a really good job taking care of their animals. Also they have advanced the knowledge and science about cetaceans that we never knew about them. You do more good for an animal when you can expose it to a greater amount of people in an aquarium, then trying to bring the same amount of people to the animal's enviroment and risk being determental to animal and its enviroment. We just lost the Yantze River dolphin to extinction. The vaquita (gulf of california harbor porpoise) is next unless we take some major steps to save it. Even if it means bringing it into captivity for it to survive. Another thing that really irked me was the whole "Free-Willy/Keiko" issue. They spent 20 million dollars on one orca that was a poor canidate for release into the wild, and ended up dying next to a dock in Norway. They wanted that "hollywood ending" so bad, that they lost sight of the fact that could have put that money towards saving sharks, the yanzte river dolphin, the vaquita, or even the last 300 right whales that are left.
