"A new industry has been born; they call themselves environmentalists, but they aren't." Wolfgang Kiessling, the German owner of the Siam Park project in southern Gran Canaria, which has been stalled in bureaucratic hurdles because officials refuse to provide free land in exchange for the project, and owner of Loro Parque and the Poema del Mar dolphinarium in Las Palmas, has lashed out against anything that sounds or smells like environmentalism from an activist perspective. For example: environmentalists, animal rights activists, and vegans. "They want us to stop wearing leather shoes and bags." The message came days before the April 20th demonstration in the Canary Islands by environmentalists against overcrowding in Tenerife . Kiessling addresses the challenges Loro Parque faces due to misleading campaigns against the care of orcas and dolphins. He provides information about what he calls "the actual conditions and dedicated efforts made toward animal welfare at our facilities."
Wolfgang Kiessling 
