More than 400,000 dolphins, killed in Japanese waters | Photo 06

01 June 2009

JAPAN'S SMALL CETACEAN HUNTS

More than 400,000 dolphins, porpoises and small whales have been killed in Japanese waters over the last 20 years. The Government of Japan still allows more than 22,000 small cetaceans to be killed each year in unsupervised hunts around the coast of Japan. Some of the populations hunted are rare or endangered, others are threatened or in decline from overhunting.

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