Back to photostream

This morning we noticed a dolphin had escaped the outer net, with no barrier to stop it from swimming out to open sea-Taiji, Japan

January 24, 2017 - Bottlenose Dolphins Selection – Taiji, Japan

 

 

After five days of being netted in the cove, the super pod of bottlenose dolphins have been driven out to sea.

We will not forget the 100 members of the pod who have been taken captive, forced to spend the remainder of their lives in cramped, filthy tanks, performing degrading tricks for humans, or the 4 dolphins we documented dead from the stress and starvation they have experienced in the last 5 days. We will be here until the end of the season to broadcast the horrors of Taiji to the world.

The Japanese media submissively ignores the slaughter. Japanese politicians aggressively support the slaughter and the majority of the Japanese public remain willfully ignorant of the killing and for the most part they simply don’t care.

Being willfully ignorant of the horror of Taiji is not an excuse. The screams of the dolphins are echoing around the globe, these bloody scenes of sadistic brutality are being viewed around the world by millions.

These dolphins are thinking, feeling self-aware beings with a complex language and social networks. This killing is cold blooded murder. There can be no acceptable excuse.

Are there good people in Japan? Of course there are ... they are the exception to the rule because of the one hundred million plus Japanese people, very few are in opposition to this iniquity and pleading ignorant just does not cut it because when the rest of the world is aware of an atrocity in a country and their citizens claim to be unaware , well that sounds highly suspicious and where have we heard this before? They are aware. The truth is they just don’t care, as a nation they seemingly lack empathy and as a nation they are seemingly devoid of compassion.

Taiji is an evil place.

 

 

Sites for more information :

 

Sea Shepherd Cove Guardians Page (official)

www.facebook.com/SeaShepherdCoveGuardiansOfficialPage

 

Cove Guardians

www.seashepherd.org/cove-guardians

 

Photo: Sea Shepherd

 

 

1,118 views
12 faves
3 comments
Uploaded on January 24, 2017
Taken on January 24, 2017