Another season of slaughter in Taiji, Japan, comes to an end. Many dolphins died over the past six months. Bottlenose dolphins get peculiar "special treatment," albeit not much better than the rest of the dolphins and small whales driven into the notorious Cove.
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The International Marine Mammal Project asks Prime Minister Kishida of Japan to end whaling and dolphin hunting.
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The government of Japan, while no longer a voting member of the IWC, continues to manipulate other governments at the International Whaling Commission, offering, through their puppets, a resolution to legalize commercial whaling and killing a proposed South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary.
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IMMP's Philippines office protested the beginning of the Taiji dolphin slaughter season. They were joined by an Attorney Woo look-alike, and the media took notice!
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A pod of pilot whales and a pod of Risso's dolphins are now dead, having been slaughtered in just the first week of the notorious Taiji dolphin hunting season last week. The captures, often resulting in a lifetime of dolphin misery in captivity, and slaughter for meat will continue for another six months. WARNING: Graphic Photos.
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The official Japanese statistics cannot hide the tragedy of the dolphin drive hunts in Taiji, Japan.
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Mr. Kunito Seko is an activist living in Taiji. His story is one of hope, as he grew to understand the cruelty and the damage that captures of dolphins in Taiji for captivity was causing these sentient beings. See his photos of the hunts, and read his words in Japanese and English.
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The police of Wakayama, Japan, are investigating a complaint by environmentalists that mercury levels in dolphin meat far exceed Japanese health standards. The International Marine Mammal Project pioneered the testing of dolphin meat in Taiji and supports the action, hoping that the government will at last protect human health by ending the dolphin hunts.
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The notorious Taiji Whale Museum, owned by the government of Taiji town in Japan, is responsible for the drive hunts for dolphins that takes place annually, slaughtering hundreds of dolphins and small whales as well as feeding the captivity industry with live dolphins.
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The end of February marks the end of the six-month-long Taiji dolphin drive hunts, one of Japan’s most shameful and inhumane practices.
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