A worldwide peaceful and lawful protest of the annual dolphin slaughter in Japan, as depicted in the Academy Award winning documentary The Cove and the Animal Planet series Blood Dolphins. The Japanese government issues 23,000 permits annually to coastal communities to kill dolphins of several species
By Ric O’Barry Campaign Director Save Japan Dolphins Earth Island Institute Wagby Saad, the owner of the four dolphins imported from Taiji (“The Taiji Four�) to Hurghada, Egypt, has finally transferred them to a somewhat bigger new tank (as opposed to his backyard swimming pool).
By Ric O’Barry Campaign Director Save Japan Dolphins Earth Island Institute I am in Hurghada, Egypt, where four dolphins from Taiji were sent to populate a new oceanarium being built here. Unfortunately, five more dolphins have been ordered from Taiji.
by Ric O’Barry Campaign Director Save Japan Dolphins Earth Island Institute It’s with a heavy heart that I write today’s post. Despite all our efforts and despite the worldwide condemnation of the cruel dolphin slaughter, the Japanese government remains defiant and has allowed the first dolphin kill of this season at Taiji.
By Ric O’Barry Campaign Director Save Japan Dolphins Earth Island Institute This is a special invitation for you to join our worldwide Save Japan Dolphins Day rallies around the world in front of Embassies and Consulates of the government of Japan.
By Ric O’Barry Campaign Director Save Japan Dolphins Earth Island Institute Hans Peter Roth and Kyoko Tanaka, members of our Save Japan Dolphins Team from, respectively, Switzerland and Japan, are in Taiji now, checking the activity in the infamous Cove. Hans Peter Roth at the Cove in Taiji. Photo by Kyoko Tanaka, Sept.
By Ric O’Barry Campaign Director Save Japan Dolphins Earth Island Institute According to our volunteers in Taiji, on Sunday the dolphin drive boats went out and found ten bottlenose dolphins, which were herded into the Bay near Taiji. One major change from previous trips (an alternative which some of our people observed towards the end of last year’s season in March 2010): There is a floating dock with sea pens in the middle of the Bay, well away from the Cove depicted in the documentary. It appears that the fishermen, in order to elude hidden cameras, are now using this floating dock for dolphins.
By Ric O’Barry Campaign Director Save Japan Dolphins Earth Island Institute I’m pleased to announce that a new television series, Blood Dolphins, will start on August 27th on Animal Planet. My son Lincoln is the director of this mini-series on the efforts of Earth Island Institute and me around the world to protect dolphins
Welcome! Earth Island Institute and the Save Japan Dolphins Campaign are heading back to Taiji, Japan Wednesday Sept. 1st, 2010 to celebrate “Dolphin Day�.
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