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Saturday, December 15, 2012

URGENT CALL TO ACTION: Save Beached Endangered HumpBack Whale

Taken from a Facebook Campaign and sharing everywhere to try and save this beautiful mind of the sea

***PLEASE TAKE ACTION NOW (!). The authorities in Texel (Netherlands) do NOT want rescue org try to save him!
Fax: +31 (0)222 362287
Phone: +31 (0)222 36 21 21
E-mail: gemeente@texel.nl
***PLEASE TAKE ACTION NOW (!). The authorities in Texe

l (Netherlands) do not want rescue org try to save him!
Fax: (0)222 362287 Phone: (0)222 36 21 21 E-mail: gemeente@texel.nl
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***Here's an e-mail that could be sent:~
E-mail:~ gemeente@texel.nl

To whom it may concern!

I am so shocked about you not letting the real experts try to save the stranded, endangered humpback whale. Did you know untrained villagers in Bali managed to do this unaided?

It is all over facebook and we are already aware that Dolfinarium Harderwijk are NOT competent to take ANY decisions about stranded whales! The Dutch authorities are being laughed at.

Thousands of people from all over the world are now following this, contacting media, and much more.

I urge you to let the rescue orgs such as The Black Fish, Sea Shepherd and others do their job at the spring tide tonight!

The world is watching you!

Please share this everywhere, with all of your networks, we need to move quickly to save this beautiful humpback whale

The story continues: Dolfinarium Harderwijk vets tried to euthanize him last night but he's still alive and kicking! So much so they've decided it's too dangerous to get near him to try again. Tonight is a spring tide, meaning it'll be higher than usual, she has one more chance to live.

Stay Passionate

Never Ever Give Up

#Dolphinsloveus

Jackie Bigford

Dolphins Love Us Facebook

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Endangered Orcas Playing December 3rd, 2012

The endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales visited Vashon and Maury Islands on December 3, 2012, searching for salmon. As they passed Point Robinson, they burst into playful antics that have to be seen to be believed: cartwheels, breaches, tail slaps, spyhops, and beautiful synchronized swimming in their tightly knit family groups.

These orcas are free to roam where they please, unlike the ones in marine circuses like Seaworld, and they never leave their mothers. They remain in closely bonded matrilineal family groups for their entire lives, which can last over 100 years for females and over 60 years for males. They swim up to 100 miles per day.

These orcas are endangered because Seaworld got its start decades ago by capturing and selling one-third of them -- specifically targeting the babies, taking an entire generation and killing many of their mothers, who were trying desperately to protect them. (All but one of those young captured whales died in Seaworld's barren concrete tanks within a few years. The sole survivor is Lolita at the Miami Seaquarium, imprisoned alone for 42 years in a tiny bathtub-sized tank.) The population of the Southern Resident Killer Whales has never recovered to its precapture numbers, and these beloved orcas of Puget Sound remain critically endangered.

Please DO NOT give your money to Seaworld, the Miami Seaquarium, or any other marine circus. Not one of them can give these highly intelligent cetaceans even a shred of the freedom and families they were torn from. Instead, please come watch wild whales in their REAL sea world: the ocean.

Reprinted from uploaded Youtube Video: http://www.youtube.com/user/meg17mcd

Stay Passionate
Never Be Quiet
Never Give Up

Jackie Bigford
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Friday, November 23, 2012

World Wide Dolphin Rallies Nov. 23-25th 2012

SEVEN COUNTRIES = NINE CITIES

9 Rallies for Dolphins and Whales in 7 cities *This Weekend*
Rallies this weekend (Nov,23-25) to shed light for the Dolphins & Whales of Taiji, Japan.
Cities: Canberra, London, LosAngeles, Miami, Milano, SaoPaulo, Vancouver, Texas and Tokyo.

Help us to spread the word!!!! Be part of it!!!! Details posted for each city on Facebook

Thank you to Sandy McElhany for this thought-provoking article;

One third of the way into following yet another killing season taking place in Taiji, Japan, it is difficult to find a single word to summarize the events that occur in a hidden cove in a small coastal village. Bizarre? Sinister? Bloody? Tragic? Ghastly? Gruesome? All of the above and then some?

On November 1, Ceta-Base, the online database of captive marine mammals around the world, reported on its facebook page:

2012/2013 Drive Fisheries page has been updated.
Since the start of the season on September 1st, 2012 a total of 407 dolphins from four species have been driven into the cove in Taiji, Japan. Of this total 156 were killed, 221 were released and 28 were live-capture, two additional animals died (one pilot whale after live-capture and one incidental death of a bottlenose following a drive). Species captured, sold & killed include: Bottlenose Dolphins (T. gilli), Risso's Dolphins (G. griseus), Short-finned Pilot Whale (G. macrorhynchus) and Striped Dolphins (S. coeruleoalba).

Among those who understand the intelligence and complex social structures of these marine mammals is a group of scholars known as the Helsinki Group, who came together in 2010 in Finland. Out of their deliberations came a document known as the Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans:

Every individual cetacean has the right to life.

No cetacean should be held in captivity or servitude; be subject to cruel treatment; or be removed from their natural environment.

All cetaceans have the right to freedom of movement and residence within their natural environment.

No cetacean is the property of any State, corporation, human group or individual.

Cetaceans have the right to the protection of their natural environment.

Cetaceans have the right not to be subject to the disruption of their cultures.

The rights, freedoms and norms set forth in this Declaration should be protected under international and domestic law.

Cetaceans are entitled to an international order in which these rights, freedoms and norms can be fully realized.

No State, corporation, human group or individual should engage in any activity that undermines these rights, freedoms and norms.

Nothing in this Declaration shall prevent a State from enacting stricter provisions for the protection of cetacean rights.

Please visit Examiner.com/ Commentary-on-a-bloody-killing-season-taiji for the complete article.


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Jackie Bigford
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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!

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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!

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