In some of the world's most popular tourist destinations,
animals are being exploited for profit.
But British wildlife activists are fighting back.
The pool's tiny!
Using cameras and smartphones,
they're going undercover to explore and expose these practices.
I'm Sally Snow, and I'm here on Bali in the heart of Indonesia.
Almost four million people come through here every year.
But I'm not here on holiday.
I'm a zoologist and film-maker,
and I'm here to investigate the dolphin tourism.
I've heard that across the tourist island of Bali,
dolphins are held captive in hotel swimming pools
to perform for tourists.
I want to see for myself what's going on.
'I'm heading to the tourism office to see what they've got on offer.'
Hello. What are the different options on Bali?
Swimming with dolphins, like 30 minutes, but this is in the pool.
OK. It's hotel, yeah?
Dolphins like very friendly, so you will kiss them, touch.
Oh, really? Yeah.
So the guys at the tourism office pointed out
that Lovina is the place to go to swim with dolphins.
So I've booked into the Melka Resort Hotel in Lovina.
From here it's about three hours' drive north,
and it's a swim with dolphins.
Thank you. Thank you. Bye-bye.
Hello.
I've just arrived in the hotel,
and I'm just going to go and check out the pool
and see the dolphins there.
Let's see what's here.
It's a big place.
So many rooms. Yeah.
And the dolphins, they are in here?
Five of them? Yeah, five dolphins.
It's looking pretty grimy.
Urgh, it's pretty gross.
Yeah, just seeing the dolphin in the pool in this really rundown place,
It was just... It's just really sad.
At nine o'clock every morning, the hotel puts on a dolphin show.
And this morning, I've got a ticket.
DANCE MUSIC
Jesus!
Oh, my goodness.
'There are five dolphins here in three tiny pools.'
Just get an idea of the size of the pool these guys are jumping in.
'The pool was about 10 or 15 metres across.'
The dolphins are being trained to perform,
and they are fed each time they complete a command.
'After the show, I get the chance to ask a few questions.'
What's... What's the dolphin's name? Rocky. Rocky?
How do the dolphins come here?
Travelling circus? What's that?
Oh, wow.
So there's still a circus going on? Not any more?
At a hotel guest, I need to act like a tourist.
So after the show it's time for me to get in with the dolphins.
OK.
Now we'll come through.
Smile, please!
Closer! Kiss him back, on his lips.
Give him love. Oh, no. Come on! Please.
He doesn't want to stop it until you kiss him. Come on!
He wants more.
One more time. Come on, it's OK.
THEY SHOUT ENCOURAGINGLY
It's only after the kissing trick that the dolphin gets fed.
SHE SIGHS
This is possibly the worst thing that I've ever done.
I asked where the dolphins came from.
They said they're around 20 years old,
but they got them from a travelling circus.
Now, then, what the hell is a travelling circus?
Back in the room, I get a chance to examine the footage.
There's five dolphins here, OK? And there's three pools.
And the pool can't be more than about 10 or 15 metres.
It's tiny.
Just look at that eye.
That is not healthy.
This one is probably one of the most alarming.
Notice how flat the forehead of the dolphin is.
Usually, dolphins are more rounded, OK?
If I compare this to my chart,
to me, this most matches the emaciated dolphin.
If that's the case, that's huge.
That means that dolphin is... That's starving.
The dolphin pool shuts at four o'clock
and doesn't reopen until eight in the morning.
It's past four o'clock now.
See the dolphin between the two cloths?
He must be the loneliest dolphin.
I've been told that dolphins are being kept in terrible conditions
across Indonesia.
I want to go and meet a marine wildlife campaigner
to find out whether there is any truth in this.
First of all, I went to Melka Hotel.
So, I found that they've got the five dolphins there. Yeah.
They told me these dolphins had been rescued
from a travelling circus. Mm-hm.
Do you know much about that?
They come from a travelling dolphin show.
And that's a dolphin jumping through a flaming hoop? Yeah.
And there's very loud music in a tiny, highly chlorinated pool.
But these travelling circuses are not illegal, right? No.
We kicked them out of Bali with protest.
But now the travel show is in three other places,
in Java and in Sumatra.
And they don't love foreigners, right?
Because they're suspicious of foreigners. They hate foreigners.
12.20? Awesome, thank you.
'I want to track down this travelling dolphin circus
'and get inside. But I'm going to need help,
'so I'm meeting up with a group of local activists.
It's super nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Excellent.
'On the way to the hotel, we drive past a circus.
'It's in the car park of the local sports stadium.'
That one, that is the circus.
Wow, so it's just in that small tent? Yeah.
Just the small tent. Wow.
Before they had, like... Wow, it's really small.
'The circus is suspicious of tourists and has banned filming,
'so capturing the shows is going to be really difficult
'and potentially dangerous.'
Say we get into the circus, and then we get busted.
What are they likely to do? If they start touching you like this.
Yeah. It's not a good sign? Not good sigh. OK.
Like they move their hand, or you know if they're touching,
mention, "Don't touch".
The plan is we've got this little map here.
I'm actually going to arrive by bike with one of the guys.
The guys are going to park the car here for safety.
So this is our getaway.
We go in as a tourist.
I'm going to be wearing the secret camera.
It's proper undercover mission right now.
OK, so that's our car, right? Yeah.
Just travelling down now towards the place.
Before we try to buy tickets,
I head to the toilet to fit the secret camera.
I'm starting to feel really nervous.
KNOCKING AND SHOUTING
Oh, sorry, yes!
KNOCKING CONTINUES
You want... You want it? To go in? Yeah.
Where do we sit? I don't know! They said...
AUDIENCE CLAP ALONG TO MUSIC
Ooh, there's a dolphin.
HE GIVES INSTRUCTIONS
It's soon very clear I'm the only Westerner here.
To look less suspicious, I have to pretend to go along with the crowd
and seem like I'm enjoying the show.
SHE CHEERS
When they splash the crowd, you can literally taste the chlorine.
The dolphins spend a lot of time out of the pool.
They could be begging for food, or they might be trying to escape.
The show's over and I can't wait to get out of there.
It's incredibly difficult to film these circuses.
There's not that many foreign tourists that go in.
So for me to go in, we had to be incredibly careful.
Luckily, we got some of those images.
Those images prove that these travelling circuses
are still going on.
'It's unbelievably cruel. Yeah.
'What they do to these dolphins. Sickening.
'They're turning unique and special creatures of the ocean
'into clowns.
'Moneymaking machines.'