Taiji - Dolphin Slaughter & Dolphin Capture for the Entertainment Industry




Dolphin caught on rocks trying to escape at Taiji, Nov 22, 2013 
This is a Taiji killer taking this dolphin away to be slaughtered
Dolphin Slaughter at Taiji, Japan
and 
Capture of Dolphin's at Taiji for Entertainment
at Dolphin Shows and Swim with Dolphin Programs
  
Taiji Japan, every September 1st to March 1st, the country of Japan issues permits to find migrating dolphins past the coast of Taiji, drive them into The Cove where most are brutally slaughtered, a few may be picked for dolphin shows and babies dumped back out to sea to die without their mother's, alone.   On January 17th through the 2ist, 2014, the largest bottlenose dolphin pod with an estimated 250 family members, including an albino calf.  You can see more HERE

Thousands of dolphins are stolen from the sea and entire families are brutally killed in the cove. To support these killings, a few are taken and sold for tens of $1,000's of dollars to Aquariums and Swim with Dolphins Programs all over the world which subsidizes these killings. But most are killed for a few hundred dollars worth of meat, the nursing babies are taken alive and dumped out at sea to die slowly alone, so their deaths are not counted towards the Japanese Government's kill quota since they are too small to get much meat from. The dead dolphins are butchered for meat, although there is not much market value for it since their meat has toxic levels of mercury, and is often mislabeled as whale meat.

 Please do not support this tragedy by attending Dolphin Shows etc., instead, refuse to support this awful industry and do not pay to go to dolphin shows, aquariums or anyplace that keeps dolphins in captivity. Take away the market, and the dolphins won't have to suffer these terrible deaths.  Don't buy a ticket to places that have captive orcas, dolphins or other cetaceans, instead, help and share with your family and friends so we can stop this. 
 
You can find out more by watching "The Cove" and "Blackfish".  Support organizations like Sea Shepard Cove Guardians and Ric O'Barry's Dolphin Project and visit their Facebook pages to find out what is happening now at The Cove in Taiji. 
 
Please follow these links to see for yourself
what is happening this year in Taiji.
 
 
Ric O'Barry's Dolphin Project Facebook - photo album of dolphin hunts & slaughter

Cove Guardians Facebook - their photo albums of dolphin hunts & slaughter

 
Current Dolphin Drive for the 2013 to 2014 season,
September 1st through the end of March

  • Striped Dolphin Family: RIP, February 20th, 2014.  SSCG short video of the dolphins (under the tarps, between a small gap in the tarps)) thrashing during their slaughter.
  • 14 Blue Cove Days!  Bad weather and rough seas help prevent the killers from finding dolphins and killing them.
  • Bottlenose Dolphin Family: RIP,  February 5th, 2014
  • Risso's Dolphin Family: RIP, February 4, 2014
  • Striped Dolphin Family: RIP, January 28th, 2014 - this was particularly brutal slaughter of the entire pod of 60+ dolphins, babies and juveniles, the photos are very sad. 
  • Pacific White Sided Dolphins, entire pod of 4 taken captive for entertainment: January 27th, 2014
  • 3 Captive Bottlenose Dolphins from 250+ Drive Found Dead: RIP, January 26th, 2014
  • Pan Tropical Dolphin Family: RIP, January 24th, 2014 
  • Striped Dolphin Family: RIP, January 23rd, 2014
  • January 21st, the day after the 5 day, 250+ bottlenose dolphin drive, captive selection and slaughter the Taiji killers went searching for dolphins and found none.

Colossal 250+  Bottlenose Dolphin Family: 5 days of horror at Taiji

  1. Bottlenose Dolphin Family, Last Day: RIP, January 21st, 2014  [blog post]
  2. Bottlenose Dolphin Family, 3rd Day of Captive Selection, January 20th, 2014 [blog post]
  3. Bottlenose Dolphin Family: 2nd Day of Captive Selection, January 19th, 2014 [blog post]
  4. Bottlenose Dolphin Family, 1st Day of Captive Selection, January 18th, 2014 [blog post]
  5. Bottlenose Dolphin Family, Drive into The Cove with albino baby, January 17th, 2014 [blog post]


The killers Holiday Break: No Dolphins were hunted or killed

 

29 days of Blue Cove Days!- no Dolphin Families were found during hunts for 29 days!
 

Warning about the video below which shows how dolphins are killed.  This was taken in January 2011 of the slaughter of what appears to be a small pod of striped dolphins - the slaughter is ugly.   Please be sure to read the text at the films end.  This video was made by AtlanticBlue.de  Thank you for your courage to witness this.  Please share with others, we have to stop this ugly industry.
 


Whale and Dolphin Conservation has put together this video from several sources, to show what actually happens underneath the tarps in Taiji.  The Japanese government claims the dolphins are killed in a humane way, there is nothing humane about how it is done at all.
 
 
 
The Humane Society of the United States has a clip from the movie "The Cove" that shows just how awful these dolphin hunts are in Taiji Japan.
 
 
 

On January 11th, 2010, over 40 Dolphins were killed at Taiji's Cove.

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