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Dolphin Discovery, Socially Responsible Company

// May 7th, 2009 // View Comments // News

A Socially Responsible Company (SRC) maintains a balance between its organizational culture, ethics, moral, values and legal aspects. Besides achieving its commercial goals, it also benefits partners, suppliers and workers families. It is committed with citizenship and environment.

The community must have clearly defined the quality of life of the organization, its link with society, environment protection and commercial ethics, as part of standards compliance to obtain this certificate. Operation and vision values with social perspective must be included in its business plan.

In the year 1997, the Mexican Center for Philanthropy (CEMEFI: Centro Mexicano para la Filantropía) was pioneer in the introduction of the Socially Responsible Company concept, later, other organizations started to work under the same idea. Up to the year 2000, the concept SRC (ESR, Spanish acronym) was established to identify companies that fulfill the social responsibility standards.

From its creation, success was marked by the increasing number of companies and organizations that continuously made efforts to obtain it or maintain it. Dolphin Discovery has obtained this certificate 4 times during the last years, being a committed company towards environment and living beings.

Other Dolphin Discovery recognitions and certificates:

· All locations (Cancun- Isla Mujeres, Cozumel, Puerto Aventuras -Riviera Maya, Vallarta, Grand Cayman and Tortola) are members of the International Marine Animals Trainers Association. It has -world wide- the highest  number of trainers validated by this institution.

· Certificates in Cozumel, Isla Mujeres and Riviera Maya locations by the Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums (AMMPA); which is dedicated to the highest standards of conservation and care for marine mammals.

· Recognized by the “H” Distinctive by Tourism Ministry as the fulfillment of hygiene and quality standards of restaurants in the corresponding locations.

Dolphin Discovery, active member of IMATA

// May 5th, 2009 // View Comments // Locations, News

The International Marine Animal Trainers’ Association is dedicated to the handling and good care of marine animals by fostering communication and cooperation between professionals from nursing, conservation, research, education, to training of these species.

Trainers and staff working at dolphinariums, aquariums and labs must have a great interaction among them, with animals under their care, with the community where they live or work and with the public which they are responsible for. The encouragement strength and the sense of responsibility are both qualities that the association and its member must aspire to and demonstrate in any place, according to knowledge, logics and morality principles.

IMATA offers its members an exchange of knowledge resources as surveys, monthly news, articles, research results, training techniques and social and professional adjustments. It also organizes an Annual Symposium where these subjects are presented in different parts of the world.

The goal is to create a community that shares the Association aspirations based on the professional code of ethics, to achieve a better handle and care towards marine mammals in their habitat. Besides, it fosters staff training to make them act as ambassadors of the marine community at a national level.

· The code of ethics is based on the highest levels of respect from human beings towards animals.

· Proving professional integrity as members of the marine association as representatives of the facilities.

· Fostering respect, comprehension and cooperation among members of the association and other members of the marine communities.

· Enhancing interest from community and members of the association, accepting the requested obligations according to their own capacities.

Dolphin Discovery has a great number of IMATA certificated trainers and associates that have received public recognitions during international Annual Congresses.