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Activists stage dolphin die-in at Japanese embassy in US
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by Amy Judd | September 4, 2008 at 12:21 pm
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A dolphin die-in took place in Washington yesterday at the Japanese embassy, as environmental and animal rights activists dressed as dolphins to protest what they said was the 'horrific butchering' of thousands of dolphins every year by Japenese fishermen.
Animal welfare activists accuse Japan of brutally slaughtering some 20,000 dolphins and small whales every year in the "biggest massacre of its kind in the world," said the Animal Welfare Institute and Humane Society International, which organized the protest in Washington.
"Japanese fishermen round up pods of dolphins with speedboats and trap them in a small cove where they kill most of them for their meat, often beating them to death with lead pipes," turning the sea water into a churning, scarlet pool of blood, said Rebecca Regnery, deputy director of Humane Society International.
A few of the dolphins are spared and sold to the aquarium industry, but they are so traumatized, they don't live long in captivity, marine biologist Naomi Rose said.
Amid calls over a megaphone of "Shame on Japan, stop the slaughter," dozens of protesters wearing foam dolphin costumes were herded by other activists dressed as Japanese fishermen wielding spears made of tin foil to the Japanese embassy, where they lay down in the midday sun for a die-in.
"We're here to send a message to the Japanese that the world is watching and knows that the dolphin hunt is cruel and inhumane," Humane Society International spokesman Martin Mortofano told AFP.
"They've been doing this for years but just because it's a historical practice doesn't mean that they have to keep doing it.
The dolphin hunt in Japan started yesterday and the demonstration was meant to bring awareness to that.
"They have to stop doing it or they are going to wipe out the dolphins around their islands," Humane Society International's senior scientist, Naomi Rose, told AFP.
According to Rose, around 17,000 Dall's porpoises and up to 3,000 dolphins and orcas are killed by the Japanese every year in open-ocean harpoon hunts and the coastal drive hunt.
Japanese authorities claim to know nothing about the hunting or the brutal killing of these animals.
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at 16:40 on September 4th, 2008
amyjudd, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 20:24 on September 4th, 2008
amyjudd, I like this story. It's good stuff. Authorities don't notice 3000 large dolphins and orcas killed each year!? From the videos on previous reports of this practice, authorities must all be blind. The report of a "scarlet pool of blood" is an under statement.
at 09:47 on October 23rd, 2009
BASTA, BASTA MESMO!!!
ISSO É IMORAL, É INDIGESTO...
O QUE PRECISA PARA ACABAR COM ESSA PALHAÇADA DE BALEAÇÃO SIMULADA E ASSASSINA >>>
FORA JAPÃO...
"SAVING WHALES & DOLPHINS"
PAREM DE RECEBER SUBORNO DO JAPÃO >>>
PAREM COM O COMÉRCIO DA CARNE DOS DOLPHINS >>>
SOMENTE UMA GUERRA RESOLVE ESSE PROBLEMA!!!
at 10:04 on October 23rd, 2009
DOLPHIN VIGIL AT THE JAPANESE EMBASSY IN LONDON Help EIA send a message to Japan to end the slaughter of whales, dolphins and porpoises 6 Oct 09
Dolphin Vigil at the Japanese Embassy in London
Cetaceans Campaign
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DOLPHIN VIGIL AT THE JAPANESE EMBASSY IN LONDON
Help EIA send a message to Japan to end the slaughter of whales, dolphins and porpoises
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06 October 2009
DOLPHIN VIGIL AT THE JAPANESE EMBASSY IN LONDON
Help EIA send a message to Japan to end the slaughter of whales, dolphins and porpoises
Dolphin Vigil at the Japanese Embassy in London
101-104 Piccadilly
Wednesday 21st October, 12-2pm
Up to 20,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises (cetaceans) are killed in Japan’s coastal waters every year, driving some populations towards extinction. This includes around 15,000 Dall’s porpoises, the largest cetacean hunt in the world.
For almost 20 years, EIA has been investigating and exposing these cruel and unregulated hunts and campaigning to end them. Enormous pressure has been placed on the Japanese Government to ban them – and our campaigns have led more than 2,700 supermarket stores in Japan to stop selling whale, dolphin and porpoise products.
The hunts are now receiving unprecedented international attention due to the release of a new award winning docu-drama, the Cove, which tracks a group of committed activists who go undercover to film the dolphin drive hunt in Taiji.
To coincide with the release of The Cove in the UK, EIA and other organisations will be participating in a peaceful vigil outside the Japanese Embassy in Piccadilly, London on Wednesday 21st October from noon to 2pm.
Please join us if you can for an hour or two on 21st October and show the Japanese Government that you care about whales, dolphins and porpoises in their coastal waters. Bring a red flower to represent the animals killed to lay on the steps of the Embassy. The nearest tube station is Green Park.
People often ask what is the point of these actions? Embassies around the world are obliged to report back to their Governments any events that relate to them. Therefore our message will go directly to the Japanese Government loud and clear that it must end these hunts.
You can also support the campaign by signing an online petition calling on Gordon Brown to urge Japan’s new Prime Minister to end the hunts.
petitions.number10.gov.uk/dolphin-hunting/
DOLPHIN VIGIL AT THE JAPANESE EMBASSY IN LONDON
Help EIA send a message to Japan to end the slaughter of whales, dolphins and porpoises
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