It breaks my heart!Dolphins in Japan (video) Please watch and help
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It breaks my heart!Outraged? Contact Officials in Japan.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-...o-for-japan-dolphin-slaughter/177473625627958
Contact the Dolphin Base where the Dolphins are inhumanely kept in pens, doomed for captivity at: [email protected] Please tell them to STOP KILLING DOLPHINS.
Mr. Yoshiki Kimura, Governor of Wakayama prefecture
(issues the drive fishery permit)
E-mail: [email protected]
Tourism Bureau, Wakayama at: [email protected] tell them why you will never consider visiting their country while the Dolphin Hunt continues.
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No update as yet on the 12 Risso's Dolphins trapped in The Killing Cove.
Update on the 12 Risso's Dolphins trapped in the killing cove - They've all been slaughtered.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-...o-for-japan-dolphin-slaughter/177473625627958
Contact the Dolphin Base where the Dolphins are inhumanely kept in pens, doomed for captivity at: [email protected] Please tell them to STOP KILLING DOLPHINS.
Mr. Yoshiki Kimura, Governor of Wakayama prefecture
(issues the drive fishery permit)
E-mail: [email protected]
Tourism Bureau, Wakayama at: [email protected] tell them why you will never consider visiting their country while the Dolphin Hunt continues.
: )
No update as yet on the 12 Risso's Dolphins trapped in The Killing Cove.
Update on the 12 Risso's Dolphins trapped in the killing cove - They've all been slaughtered.
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I've been following this issue since the film Cove came out last year.
There are other ways to make difference--boycott eating Tuna and switch to fish in the market with sustainable fishery.
Dolphins are the innocent victims to the Tuna industry.
There are other ways to make difference--boycott eating Tuna and switch to fish in the market with sustainable fishery.
Dolphins are the innocent victims to the Tuna industry.
I think I read somewhere that a Dolphin dies every 53 minutes due to being caught in fishing nets. Also, when a can of Tuna states that it's "Dolphin Friendly Tuna" this just means they've reduced the number of Dolphins that die in their nets, they're still killing Dolphins.
Hi everyone sorry I've been so busy I haven't got on here till today and how sad is everything that I've just read. I have boycotted anything coming from Japan and have encourage others to do the same. I have also contacted the official's in Japan to tell them to stop killing these innocent dolphins. I do respect the people who go out and risk their own lives to protect these animals. Just pass on the information and hope that others will help in this fight.
Madortoise said:
Candy said:
I've been emailing them too, I know they must get a lot because I've had a couple of emails returned to me as "Undeliverable" so their inbox must be filling up fast... Keep doing it tho, I wrote to the Taigi mayor, and ripped him a new a$$hole...lol Not that he cares, but I can only imagine they receive thousands of emails, phonecalls and faxes as soon as the boats go out.
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Memo Reveals Japan Aquarium Industry's Secret Sponsorship of Dolphin Slaughter
Submitted by Save Taiji Dolphins
October 5, 2005
An international consortium of environmental organizations, fighting to end the world's largest dolphin slaughter in Japan, today released an internal memo prepared by the Japan Cetacean Conference on Zoological Gardens and Aquariums to its member aquariums encouraging the buying of more dolphins from the Taiji drive fishery.
"The aquarium industry is secretly subsidizing the violent slaughter of thousands of dolphins in Taiji and other fishing villages in Japan," stated David Phillips, Director of the International Marine Mammal Project of Earth Island Institute. "This memo is the first direct proof from the Conference to its member aquariums soliciting buyers for dolphins."
"In a key part of the memo," adds activist Richard O'Barry, former trainer of TV star Flipper and marine mammal specialist for One Voice, a leading French animal welfare organization, "the Conference encourages its member aquariums to request even more dolphins that are currently not available due to permit restrictions."
Fishermen herd dolphin schools into shallow waters, where around two thousand are annually slaughtered for meat," adds Sakae Hemmi, spokesperson for Elsa Nature Conservancy. "The aquarium industry subsidizes the slaughter by offering thousands of dollars to buy a few prime specimens of dolphins from the shallow waters of the blood-filled slaughter pools. Without these enormous prices for prime specimens, it will be quite difficult for the drive fishery to survive, for dolphin meat is much contaminated with mercury."
The memo was prepared by Senzo Uchida, Executive Secretary of the Japan Cetacean Conference on Zoological Gardens and Aquariums and sent to the directors of aquariums that are members of the Conference. The memo outlines a meeting held by representatives of the Conference, the Taiji Fishing Cooperative, Taiji town councillors, and the Isana Union, representing the drive fishermen at Taiji. Even the Japanese government was involved, as Mr. Hidehiro Kato of the Japan National Research Institute, a government agency, originally recommended this meeting be held. The memo states in part (English translation):
"…for the purposes of continued cetacean capture and stable supply, it is necessary to have frank expressions of opinion from fishers involved in dolphin drive fisheries and from aquariums needing cetaceans."
"Currently when dolphins are captured in drive fisheries, they are sorted live to select individuals for captivity, after which the rest are all used for meat."
"Pacific striped dolphins cannot be taken in drive fisheries at Taiji because no permits have been granted. However, if the capture of this species at Taiji were to become possible, this would benefit fishers and the aquariums which keep cetaceans…Applying for a permit to capture a new cetacean species at Taiji would require that there is a need. Accordingly, from the perspective of exhibiting cetaceans for educational purposes, we would like to perform a questionnaire survey to determine the extent to which aquariums participating in the Cetacean Conference want Pacific striped dolphins, and then use the results to justify applying for a permit to capture them at Taiji."
A copy of the original memo in Japanese and an English translation are attached to this press release.
David Phillips concluded: "The public, including the people of Japan, would be outraged if they knew the truth -- that thousands of innocent dolphins die a horrible death so that a few can be shown doing tricks in aquariums. The drive fishery and the slaughter must be stopped, and the aquarium industry should be ashamed of sponsoring the killing of thousands of dolphins annually."
The campaign to stop the dolphin slaughter is a joint project of the Elsa Nature Conservancy of Japan, the International Marine Mammal Project of Earth Island Institute, and One Voice, a leading French animal protection organization.
Copies of the original memo and English translation are available here as an Acrobat .pdf file (~100k).
MEDIA ALERT: VIDEO FOOTAGE and PHOTOS of the dolphin drive fisheries of Japan is available from Earth Island Institute by calling (415) 788-3666 or faxing (415) 788-7324. For further information, visit www.saveTaijiDolphins.org.
For more information contact:
Elsa Nature Conservancy of Japan
Earth Island Institute
One Voice - France
Contacts: David Phillips, Earth Island
(415) 788-3666 x145
Richard O'Barry, One Voice
(305)-668 4834
(33) 6 79 83 1661 (France)
Sakae Hemmi, Elsa Nature Conservancy of Japan
(81)-298511637 (Japan)
Article taken from https://www.earthislandprojects.org/news/new_news.cfm?newsID=751
Submitted by Save Taiji Dolphins
October 5, 2005
An international consortium of environmental organizations, fighting to end the world's largest dolphin slaughter in Japan, today released an internal memo prepared by the Japan Cetacean Conference on Zoological Gardens and Aquariums to its member aquariums encouraging the buying of more dolphins from the Taiji drive fishery.
"The aquarium industry is secretly subsidizing the violent slaughter of thousands of dolphins in Taiji and other fishing villages in Japan," stated David Phillips, Director of the International Marine Mammal Project of Earth Island Institute. "This memo is the first direct proof from the Conference to its member aquariums soliciting buyers for dolphins."
"In a key part of the memo," adds activist Richard O'Barry, former trainer of TV star Flipper and marine mammal specialist for One Voice, a leading French animal welfare organization, "the Conference encourages its member aquariums to request even more dolphins that are currently not available due to permit restrictions."
Fishermen herd dolphin schools into shallow waters, where around two thousand are annually slaughtered for meat," adds Sakae Hemmi, spokesperson for Elsa Nature Conservancy. "The aquarium industry subsidizes the slaughter by offering thousands of dollars to buy a few prime specimens of dolphins from the shallow waters of the blood-filled slaughter pools. Without these enormous prices for prime specimens, it will be quite difficult for the drive fishery to survive, for dolphin meat is much contaminated with mercury."
The memo was prepared by Senzo Uchida, Executive Secretary of the Japan Cetacean Conference on Zoological Gardens and Aquariums and sent to the directors of aquariums that are members of the Conference. The memo outlines a meeting held by representatives of the Conference, the Taiji Fishing Cooperative, Taiji town councillors, and the Isana Union, representing the drive fishermen at Taiji. Even the Japanese government was involved, as Mr. Hidehiro Kato of the Japan National Research Institute, a government agency, originally recommended this meeting be held. The memo states in part (English translation):
"…for the purposes of continued cetacean capture and stable supply, it is necessary to have frank expressions of opinion from fishers involved in dolphin drive fisheries and from aquariums needing cetaceans."
"Currently when dolphins are captured in drive fisheries, they are sorted live to select individuals for captivity, after which the rest are all used for meat."
"Pacific striped dolphins cannot be taken in drive fisheries at Taiji because no permits have been granted. However, if the capture of this species at Taiji were to become possible, this would benefit fishers and the aquariums which keep cetaceans…Applying for a permit to capture a new cetacean species at Taiji would require that there is a need. Accordingly, from the perspective of exhibiting cetaceans for educational purposes, we would like to perform a questionnaire survey to determine the extent to which aquariums participating in the Cetacean Conference want Pacific striped dolphins, and then use the results to justify applying for a permit to capture them at Taiji."
A copy of the original memo in Japanese and an English translation are attached to this press release.
David Phillips concluded: "The public, including the people of Japan, would be outraged if they knew the truth -- that thousands of innocent dolphins die a horrible death so that a few can be shown doing tricks in aquariums. The drive fishery and the slaughter must be stopped, and the aquarium industry should be ashamed of sponsoring the killing of thousands of dolphins annually."
The campaign to stop the dolphin slaughter is a joint project of the Elsa Nature Conservancy of Japan, the International Marine Mammal Project of Earth Island Institute, and One Voice, a leading French animal protection organization.
Copies of the original memo and English translation are available here as an Acrobat .pdf file (~100k).
MEDIA ALERT: VIDEO FOOTAGE and PHOTOS of the dolphin drive fisheries of Japan is available from Earth Island Institute by calling (415) 788-3666 or faxing (415) 788-7324. For further information, visit www.saveTaijiDolphins.org.
For more information contact:
Elsa Nature Conservancy of Japan
Earth Island Institute
One Voice - France
Contacts: David Phillips, Earth Island
(415) 788-3666 x145
Richard O'Barry, One Voice
(305)-668 4834
(33) 6 79 83 1661 (France)
Sakae Hemmi, Elsa Nature Conservancy of Japan
(81)-298511637 (Japan)
Article taken from https://www.earthislandprojects.org/news/new_news.cfm?newsID=751
David Phillips concluded: "The public, including the people of Japan, would be outraged if they knew the truth -- that thousands of innocent dolphins die a horrible death so that a few can be shown doing tricks in aquariums. The drive fishery and the slaughter must be stopped, and the aquarium industry should be ashamed of sponsoring the killing of thousands of dolphins annually."
I can only hope that people actually read it and become aware of what they are doing when they buy tickets to the marine parks like Sea World. This quote that I copied and pasted is exactly what I was trying to say in my Sea World thread. That if the public actually knew how they get these Killer Whales and these Dolphins they would not support these parks anymore. This article that you've posted tells it all. It's the marine parks that support these killing and it needs to stop and the only way that it can stop is through educating people and people getting involved. I encourage anyone who loves animals to please help in this fight to stop these innocent killing and keeping these animals captive. Please help us fight this.
I can only hope that people actually read it and become aware of what they are doing when they buy tickets to the marine parks like Sea World. This quote that I copied and pasted is exactly what I was trying to say in my Sea World thread. That if the public actually knew how they get these Killer Whales and these Dolphins they would not support these parks anymore. This article that you've posted tells it all. It's the marine parks that support these killing and it needs to stop and the only way that it can stop is through educating people and people getting involved. I encourage anyone who loves animals to please help in this fight to stop these innocent killing and keeping these animals captive. Please help us fight this.
Look Candy... It made CNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Japan - After almost 24 hours since being pulled from the water, three Pacific White Sided Dolphins are clinging to life onboard a truck that is now trapped in a blizzard.
Since the start of the dolphin hunting season, members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society have been closely reporting on the brutal slaughter and capture of wild dolphins at the infamous Cove in Taiji.
Yesterday the three dolphins were lifted from sea pens where they were being held. They were sedated, packed with ice into wooden crates, and loaded into the back of a truck by handlers from the infamous Dolphin Base, international exporter of dolphins from Taiji.
Sea Shepherd activists followed the truck, expecting it to deliver the dolphins to Osaka Airport for transit abroad. Instead, the truck with its live cargo continued north. In a snowstorm, it hit a guardrail stopping it in its tracks.
News broke of the incident after details spread across the social networking site Facebook, promoting thousands into contacting Japanese embassies worldwide to report the incident and request assistance.
No details of a rescue plan have so far come to light
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-547164
See, all those emails weren't a waste of time... Wooohoooooo!!
Japan - After almost 24 hours since being pulled from the water, three Pacific White Sided Dolphins are clinging to life onboard a truck that is now trapped in a blizzard.
Since the start of the dolphin hunting season, members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society have been closely reporting on the brutal slaughter and capture of wild dolphins at the infamous Cove in Taiji.
Yesterday the three dolphins were lifted from sea pens where they were being held. They were sedated, packed with ice into wooden crates, and loaded into the back of a truck by handlers from the infamous Dolphin Base, international exporter of dolphins from Taiji.
Sea Shepherd activists followed the truck, expecting it to deliver the dolphins to Osaka Airport for transit abroad. Instead, the truck with its live cargo continued north. In a snowstorm, it hit a guardrail stopping it in its tracks.
News broke of the incident after details spread across the social networking site Facebook, promoting thousands into contacting Japanese embassies worldwide to report the incident and request assistance.
No details of a rescue plan have so far come to light
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-547164
See, all those emails weren't a waste of time... Wooohoooooo!!
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