For The Love of Dolphins

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Join The World WIde Protest to #SaveJapansDolphins Day - Aug. 31st or Sept.1st 2012

We think~We feel~We matter

#JapanDolphinsDay2012

Please help Celebrate Japan Dolphins Day 2012 at a Japanese Embassy or Consulate near you! TO SEE A FULL LIST OF EVENT CITIES AROUND THE GLOBE, PLEASE CLICK Save Japan Dolphins Day below: this will take you to the Group on Facebook who have worked so hard to organize this event.

On August 31, 2012 rallies and peaceful protests will be held in front of Japanese Embassies & Consulates worldwide. The events are to protest the September 1 start of the annual Taiji dolphin cull as seen in the Academy-award winning documentary The Cove. The message is positive: Japan, le

t the dolphins live & be free!

Will you join us? Will you help lead an event in your community? If so, please send a message to the Adminstrators at Save Misty The Dolphin or leave a note here on the event wall. We will work with you to help set-up your event on facebook, provide on-going technical assistance from now through August 31 & include your event in any official Japan Dolphins Day 2012 communications.

Japan Dolphins Day (JDD) was founded by Ric O'Barry and Save Japan Dolphins (SJD). WE are honored to again be working with SJD & an international team of organizations & activists to help make the 2012 Japan Dolphins Day the biggest & best GLOBAL event ever to raise awareness about the plight of dolphins in Taiji.

NEVER BE SILENT - NEVER GIVE UP!

For The Love of Dolphin

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Mother Grey Whale Lifts Her Baby - Incredible Whale Encounter

This is joyous and remarkable..an experience that these folks will never forget

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Friday, January 27, 2012

Save the Dolphins of Japan #TheCove

This video is a direct result of the the Acadamy Award Winning Documentary "The Cove". Like many around the world I was horrified and sickened by the brutal annual slaughter that takes place in Taiji Japan.

I knew that I had to do something, so I started a Petition on Twitter and the people signing the petition wanted to know how their voices could be heard...that led to this video...we are just a group of people that want to let the people of Japan know what is happening in their waters...we wanted to share in the message that the world will not tolerate the senseless slaughter of our dolphin friends.

Dolphins are mammals and not fish and we need to educate the people of Japan.

Thank you to everybody who participated with this project. A huge thank you to Paul Steele who spent endless hours editing the huge amount of material that I sent him..without his passion and commitment to join me this video project would not have happened..I owe him a huge debt of gratitude.

The music interludes were graciously provided by the group The Watanabees and Laura Ashton!

The combined Twitter Reach of the people who participated in this video is well over 2 million and on Facebook it reaches several million as well.

Friday, December 16, 2011

Japanese Police Are Getting Desperate in Taiji

Erwin Vermeulen - The First Cove Guardian Arrest

Erwin VermeulenSea Shepherd Cove Guardian Erwin Vermeulen, a citizen of the Netherlands, was arrested today in Taiji, while attempting to take photos of Risso’s dolphin being transferred between holding pens in the sea and the Dolphin Resort Hotel.

An employee of the Dolphin Resort Hotel merely accused Erwin of shoving him and this allegation was immediately acted upon. The police handcuffed Mr. Vermeulen and took him to the Shingu police station where he is currently being held. He has been denied a lawyer and visitation rights, even from the Dutch Embassy.

Under Japanese law, Erwin can be held for 28 days before being allowed to speak with a lawyer.

The arrest seemed pre-planned. No witnesses saw Erwin shove the employee and Erwin was not even questioned. The police simply approached him and took him away. Out of compassion for the dolphins being slaughtered in Taiji, Erwin Vermeulen travelled to Japan at his own expense to devote his time and energy to the Cove Guardian mission.

The Cove Guardians are now half way through their 2nd year in Taiji. Operation Infinite Patience is clearly wearing down the nerves of the Japanese fishermen, local politicians, and the police.

Operating inside Japan requires a completely different approach, and patience is the key to success. The Cove Guardian mission is to be ever present, recording every activity, and constantly on vigil in the face of the dolphin killers, day in and day out, for as long as dolphins are being killed. All Cove Guardians are cautioned that every move must be nonviolent and within the boundaries of Japanese law.

Last year, the Cove Guardians were present in the killing cove for six months, cutting the number of dolphin kills in half, and this year they have been on vigil since September 1st. Many dolphins have been saved.
The key to the success of this mission is in not handing the authorities any excuse to expel the Cove Guardians. For that reason, every precaution is taken to avoid breaking any laws. Erwin Vermeulen did not break any laws. He was conveniently accused of doing so. Which law, we do not know, because the Japanese police refuse to divulge that information.

All we know is that Erwin was trying to take photographs of the dolphins when he was approached by police, handcuffed, and taken to the Wakayama Prefecture police station, where he has not been seen or heard from since.

Earlier this year, when Cove Guardian Rosie Kunneke was assaulted by a Taiji fisherman, her assailant was questioned and immediately released. This clearly indicates a double standard at work, with the law being applied discriminately and unfairly against the defenders of the dolphins.

Tensions are building and it appears that the police are testing the waters. They want to see what the reaction of the international public will be before making their next move.

The police have a dilemma. How do they get rid of non-violent dolphin defenders who have not broken any laws, but are clearly disrupting the horrific, cruel slaughtering practices of the Taiji fishermen?

Arresting Erwin may be the first move in a new strategy to deter the Cove Guardians by accusing them of false offences.

The Cove Guardians will not be deterred. Original Story posted: Sea Shepherd.org

If you are reading this, please share this message, please post to your own Social Media Sites, share on Twitter and Facebook. If you have any connections with the press, please forward the link to the story!

Thank you for sharing your love of dolphins
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Sunday, October 16, 2011

Beautiful Elephant Seals - Encounters with Man

Experience the pure joy of these encounters with Elephant Seals

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Kill The Bill - Not The Sea Lions

KILL THE BILL - NOT THE SEA LIONS

HR 3069 would amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act to allow the LETHAL REMOVAL of California Sea Lions from the Columbia River. Their crime - eating salmon!

PLEASE CALL YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND URGE THEM TO OPPOSE HR 3069: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-3069

TO LOCATE YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS GO TO: https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ~ HELP SAVE THE SEA LIONS! THANK YOU!!!!

Taken Directly from Facebook - To Stay Informed please visit their page
Save the Bonneville Sea Lions
If you want to read the bill before you call/email congress here is the link: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h112-3069If you want to read the bill here is the link:

This post was inspired by my good friend Sandy McElhaney

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Jackie Bigford
Animal Passionist
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Bottlenose Dolphins Slaughtered at The Cove

Update October 4, 2010: It is now thought the large pod of dolphins slaughtered in “The Cove were striped dolphins and not bottlenose. The striped dolphin is known to have a very low survival rate in captivity.



October 3, 2010 Today Tia Butt of Save Japan Dolphins and Rosie Kunneke, and Sarah Legg of the Cove Guardians, reported real time from The Cove that 28-30 dolphins were driven into “The Cove” inTaiji, Japan where they were brutally slaughtered. Although the fisherman had built walls to keep watchful eyes out the activists could hear the bottlenose dolphins, mothers, children, and infants thrashing in the water as the dishonorable fisherman of Taiji stabbed them until they were immobilized and then sliced out their spines causing an agonizing death lasting at time up to 10 minutes.

Please watch this video made by Dieter Hagmann last winter to understand the terrible truth about the dolphin drives in taiji:

One dolphin was spared today. That one dolphin will pay for the gas, and all expenses for todays hunt bringing in close to $200,000 from a swim with dolphins program, marine park, or aquarium. The dolphin spared today will be put into a tiny sea pen where his training through food deprivation will begin. Then in one years time he or she will be packed in iced and shipped to a life of captivity and slavery, an early death being certain. Please watch A fall From Freedom a movie that documents the connection between SeaWorld and the dolphin drives of Japan http://afallfromfreedom.org/.
We must work with the people of Japan to end this cruel slaughter. By supporting Japanese businesses that are promoting eco-tourism and dolphin appreciation we can demonstrate that supporting the dolphins in the wild can be profitable. Please support Izumi Ishii because he is our hope for the future. His t-shirts are wonderful and his tours are taking the Japanese coastlines away from whaling and towards eco-tourism.


Izumi Ishii A Champion for Dolphins

http://kohkaimaru.com/?profile&l=2
http://www.freewebstore.org/We-Are-Free/WE_ARE_FREE_TEES/cat930749_829978.aspx
Please Join the movement to save the dolphins of Taiji
http://www.savejapandolphins.org/
And if you haven’t already please watch The Cove
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/cove/
Please send love, energy, and strength to the one remaining dolphin of the pod as he or she swims in the blood of their loved ones wondering what kind of monster is this creature that walks on land. She or she has many years of sorrow and pain ahead. This pod will never be forgotten.

Guest Post by Kirsten Massebeau
Champions for Cetaceans