Sting ~ Save The Dolphins

Save the Honiara Dolphins! URGENT!

  This is INHUMANE: This is GREED: This Makes Me Sick: These Beautiful Dolphins NEED US NOW!!!

Four have died since they were originally discovered.

 

Animal rights activists Ric and Lincoln O'Barry discover that 13 dolphins are being held in cruel, inhumane and dire conditions by a local dolphin dealer at a rundown private facility in
the Solomon Islands.

Their tiny pool is black with feces... and refuse.
These dolphins will not survive in these ...polluted pools.

 Please Sign NOW: 100,000 Signatures NEEDED

• Target: The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Solomon Islands
• Sponsored by: Earth Island Institute

In the Animal Planet mini-series BLOOD DOLPHINS, animal rights activists Ric and Lincoln O'Barry discover that 13 dolphins are being held in cruel, inhumane and dire conditions by a local dolphin dealer at a rundown private facility in the Solomon Islands.   Their tiny pool is black with feces and refuse.  These dolphins will not survive in these polluted pools.   Four have died since they were originally discovered.  Initial efforts by Earth Island Institute and the O'Barry's to relocate the dolphins have
been unsuccessful.  We need the local government to step in. 

Urge the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources and the Solomon Islands Prime Minister to immediately confiscate these dolphins and require that they be humanely treated and returned to the wild. 

The dealers license should be revoked and the facility should be shut down permanently. 


Go Here to Sign: Save the Honiara Dolphins

Thank you for your support and as always thank you for caring for these beautiful dolphins

Jackie Bigford
@JackiesBuzz

Anti-dolphin hunting groups, #Taiji town to hold 1st meeting

WAKAYAMA — 

Local leaders and activists who have been engaged in an anti-dolphin hunting campaign in the traditional whaling town of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, will hold their first meeting around Nov 2 to exchange opinions, organizers of the meeting said Wednesday.

According to the organizers and the town government officials, the meeting will be attended by Taiji Mayor Kazutaka Sangen, senior officials of a local fisheries cooperative association and representatives of the anti-hunt groups, including the Sea Shepherd.

The coastal town in southwestern Japan was recently in the spotlight as the Oscar-winning U.S. documentary film, ‘‘The Cove,’’ depicted and criticized dolphin hunting in the town.
Anti-hunt activists have been protesting in the town since September when Japanese fishermen began their annual hunt of dolphins, whales and other cetaceans in waters off Taiji.

Story continues here: Historic First Meeting
As Reported in Japan Today

As always, thank you for your concern for our friends ~ The Dolphins ~

Jackie Bigford
@JackiesBuzz

World Surfing Champion Kelly Slater Opposes #DolphinSlaughter 's

Your equest is being processed...

It is heartbreaking to realize that the Taiji dolphin kills are still happening as we speak. Hundreds of Dolphin and whale families are being exterminated in the name of an outdated tradition and human greed. What is even harder to comprehend is that the meat is filled with heavy metal toxins and mercury poison, and is completely unfit for human consumption. We need to band together as caring human beings to end the slaughter, and protect humans from poisoned meat. I urge everyone to put pressure on the Japanese government to end this practise, and to support direct action groups such as Sea Shepherd and Save Japan Dolphins.

For Full Story: Huffington Post - Deborah Bassett

Images From "International Dolphin Day" October 14th Part 2

I wanted to share with you some of the many wonderful images and people who are so committed to ending the horrific slaughter or capture and sale of dolphins from #Taiji Japan #TheCove 

It matters not what you are thought to be but who you are ~

 Dublin Ireland

 Hong Kong Japan

 Miami

ROME ITALY

 OTTAWA CANADA

 SEATTLE WASHINGTON

 Ric O'Barry Bowing his Head in a Moment of Silence

 Thanks for visiting my space ~


Jackie Bigford
@Jackiesbuzz

Dolphins from #Taiji Japan SOLD to Aquariums Worldwide

Here is the fate of captured dolphins from #Taiji Japan this year ~ Sold to Egypt, Saudi Arabia

The town of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, exported four bottlenose dolphins each to Saudi Arabia and Egypt in August, a Taiji official said Friday.

"Dolphins in Taiji are popular around the world because they are smart and I personally think they have cute faces," Hiromitsu Nambu, who arranges exports of live dolphins from Taiji, told The Japan Times.

Dolphins are also caught alive in the Black Sea and near Indonesia and the Solomon Islands, but "probably none of those places secure as stable a supply of live dolphins as Taiji," Nambu said.

Activists criticize capturing dolphins, saying the mammals undergo enormous stress. The Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove," in addition to showing the slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, has footage of dolphins reputedly being fed medicine for stomach ulcers.

Taiji also sells dolphins to China and other countries, Nambu said. According to export statistics compiled by the Customs Bureau, 57 live animals under the category of whales, dolphins, dugongs and manatees were exported from January to August this year, of which 22 went to China, 16 to Ukraine and 11 to Thailand.

The total monetary value of the animals was ¥172 million, customs declarations show.

All of these animals were probably dolphins caught in Taiji, either from the town directly or from aquariums in Japan that bought the dolphins from Taiji in the past.

Whales and dugongs are not caught alive anywhere in Japan, and manatees are not found here, according to Yoshiko Machida, a spokeswoman for World Wide Fund for Nature Japan.

Taiji, the only place in Japan where live dolphins are caught, took 93 alive in 2008, the Fisheries Agency said.

The town also slaughtered some 1,700 dolphins that year, agency figures show.

Four bottlenose dolphins from Taiji were delivered about two months ago to the popular Egyptian eco-tourism resort of Hurghada on the Red Sea, Amr Ali, a spokesman for the Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association, said Oct. 1. After changing hands for a reputed $300,000 (¥24.71 million) each in retail, the two males and two females were flown to Egypt on Aug. 15, Ali said.

Story Continues here: Dolphins from Taiji Sold to Egypt

By MINORU MATSUTANI

Staff writer

and BOYD HARNELL

Special to The Japan Times

We must get the message out that the sale of live dolphins is a multi-million dollar industry in Japan and that when we support Aquariums and Swim with Dolphin Programs we are supporting the misery shown above as well as the annual slaughter of 22,000 Dolphins in Japan, with the most brutal slaughter being carried out at #TheCove...take away the financial gains and the slaughter will cease..there is not enough money in the killing of dolphins for the food industry...next time you want to take your children to Swim Program or to an Aquarium I hope that you will keep this in mind.

Thank you for sharing my space here

Jackie Bigford

@JackiesBuzz 

Open Letter to Japanese Consulate -Killing of Dolphins in #Taiji Japan

 This was posted on facebook as a result of the Worldwide Day of Protest to protect Japan's Dolphins....I thought that it was well written and is something that you could copy and send to your corresponding Japanese Embassy either in an email or by snail mail.

 ~open letter for Thailand's Peaceful Protest for
the Killing of Dolphins in Taiji, Japan. It was handed over to the
Japanese Consulate by our brave volunteers.

Noina Siripannee Supratya

October 14th, 2010
Worldwide Save Japan Dolphins Day

Dolphins and whales are born wild and free.

......And that is the way they should remain so.

Though they can be taught, they cannot be tamed. And most certainly, they do not belong in captivity, selfishly kept as jesters; to be poked, prodded and laughed at as the crowd pleased. There is no educational value in this tragic amusement, only torture.

These ocean wanderers are far different from domesticated animals and timid livestocks. We do not breed them in large numbers, feed them nor responsible for their well-beings. Ironically, this makes the hunt for and sales of dolphins meat “as much a human rights issue as an animal welfare issue.”* Because, being the apex predators as they are―on the same level as sharks and us humans―their meat accumulate dangerous level of mercury and other carcinogens. But, unlike other products in the market, dolphins and whales meat are simply marked as "whale meat". Whereas other merchandises would be classified and labeled accordingly; "import", "organic" and such, to give consumers a variety of choices. Those who unknowingly purchased and comsumed "whale meat", believing it is entirely safe, have no freedom of choice. Since they do not acknowledge the fact that consumption of whale meat could lead to Minamata disease and could cause their children to born heartbrokenly unhealthy and imperfect. These people have the right to know just how much they risk.

It may be hard to accept, but we are not here to point our fingers and condemn the Japanese coastal communities. We are not here to criticize the way people try to make a living and feed their families. We are offering alternatives and mutual understandings; we encourage more sustainable and environmentally-friendly methods for profit, such as dolphins-watch cruises and eco-tourism, which are becoming ever so popular. And we are asking Japan, as a nation, a question; is there really that much demand for whale meat, when there are other appetizing proteins available in abundance? Why and what are these unnecessary slaughters really for, is it defiance refusing to give in?

We all know that changes do not happen overnight. But we hope we had embarked on something bigger than ourselves, something that would finally bring about a roaring snowball of change, no matter what and when that would be. However, while hope is merely a belief, an abstract concept. We will solidly practice this belief of ours, we will continue to shout, to bear the flag, to voice to the world's attention the voices that were drowned in Taiji. Until things change, and things will change.

Thailand's Peaceful Protest for the Killing of Dolphins in Taiji, Japan. Together with other protesters who join hands today in 15 other countries.

Also PLEASE ADD THIS PHRASE: Iruka-No-Kokyo

*quoted Ric O'Barry

 

Please get involved...the killings continues the day after the world-wide protest...as always

Thanks for taking the time to visit and for caring about our beautiful oceans and our dolphin friends fighting for their lives at #TheCove.

Jackie Bigford

@JackiesBuzz