Sea Life Park's new Native Hawaiian owners are refusing animal-rights demands to move the park's dolphins out, a setback for activists but a relief for the park's tourist business.

• The Hawaiian Council bought the Oahu park last month, and PETA wrote days later demanding it move the dolphins to seaside sanctuaries and stop breeding them.
• A seaside sanctuary is a fenced-off cove where the animals live in open water — not a full release, since dolphins raised in captivity can't survive in the wild.
• PETA calls the current concrete pens cruel, comparing them to prison and calling the tourist shows pointless tricks.
• The council said flatly it has no interest or intention of doing either, and that it will chart its own course.
• There are no such sanctuaries in Hawaii; the nearest are in Iceland and one about to open in Italy.

Outlook: The council says it will spend the coming months reimagining the park, so the fight over its dolphins is likely to keep going.