Every year, over 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are killed by
Japanese fisherman. After driving pods of wild dolphins from
the open sea into shallow coves
with motorized boats and loud bang sticks, the fishermen
kill the dolphins, slashing their throats with knives or
stabbing them with harpoon-like spears. Thrashing about,
many of the dolphins take several minutes to die an
agonizing cruel death, turning the surrounding sea blood
red.
This brutal massacre, the largest
dolphin kill in the world, goes on for six months of every
year, from October through April.
Even more shocking, the captive dolphin industry and marine
parks around the world are a willing accomplice to the kill,
paying as much as $100,000 per captured dolphin.
In Taiji, Japan, the annual dolphin slaughter starts October
1st and continues for six months. This massacre of dolphins
is strongly encouraged by three local dolphinariums who
purchase the “show-quality” dolphins and ship them off to
marine parks in Japan and around the world. Annually, in
Taiji alone, over a thousand dolphins are killed with some
50 or more captured and sold to marine parks.
Its time to stop this senseless slaughter now!!!
Here’s what you can do:
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1: Write the Japanese Prime Minister, Yasuo Fukuda, and
tell him you will not purchase
any Japanese products or visit Japan until they stop
killing and capturing dolphins and whales.
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2: Do not participate in any captive swim-with dolphin
programs.
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3: Do not support or visit any marine park, zoo, or
amusement park that has captive dolphins and
whales.
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With your help we can save the whales again!
This is what they wrote they will do with the financial support:
" Continue in our efforts to stop all whaling by Japan, Norway,
and Iceland.
" Fight for the regulation of Ocean Noise Pollution at the
upcoming meeting of the United Nations in June 2007.
" Continue to produce hard-hitting Public Service Announcements
(PSAs) to raise public awareness to the critical issues facing
the overall health of dolphins, whales and our oceans.
" Continue to produce films on the critical issues facing
dolphins, whales, and our oceans. We have already begun
production of our film "Alaska's Tongass: Rainforest of
the Whales" that we will be presenting to Congress and
the United Nations with the hope of saving the world's largest
intact temperate rainforest and summer feeding grounds of the
humpback whale from massive clear-cutting which would desecrate
this internationally protected area. We also have another
groundbreaking documentary film in pre- production. Due to
the sensitive nature of this film, we cannot at this time reveal
anything about it, but please stay tuned to our web site for
updates on this amazing film. You won't want to miss it!
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Good links |
save the whales again
Global whale alliance
The whaleman foundation |
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Videos |
Isabel Talking about the whales.
After the save the whales again
project with Izzy and Hayden. Also included the beginning
Taji dolphin video
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Artickels & Interviews |
surfnews - Save the whales
again with Isabel and Hayden
unknow - Save the whales again
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