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This Map Shows Where Dolphins Captured at the Cove in 2013 Were Sold.
Activists say demand by water parks and aquariums for dolphins is driving the slaughter now under way in Taiji, Japan.
As the annual dolphin-killing season begins at the cove at Taiji, Japan, the focus will be on the slaughter. Far less attention will be paid, however, to the fate of dolphins captured and sold to marine-mammal entertainment parks worldwide.
But some activists are bringing their fight to facilities that fuel demand for live dolphins.
Live dolphins are far more lucrative than dead ones. Taiji fishermen can earn $150,000 or more from selling a single live animal, while one butchered for meat fetches only $500 to $600, an economic reality that keeps the drives in business, opponents say.
It is impossible to know the final fate of all dolphins captured in Taiji. The Japanese government does not keep figures, nor does the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Most information comes from newspapers, activists on the ground, or people in countries where dolphins are destined to perform for or swim with tourists.
One website, Ceta-Base, tracks captive cetaceans and documents about where some, but not all, Taiji dolphins go. There were about 300 live captures in Taiji in 2013, according to the site, but information only exists on about half of those animals. Here’s the count: 92 dolphins were transferred to Japan, 36 went to China, 20 to Ukraine, 11 to Russia, six to South Korea, and five to Vietnam.
Worldwide, 105 facilities in about 20 countries import or display dolphins obtained from Taiji, according to Ceta-Base.
Kish Dolphin Park in Iran, for example, imported 12 dolphins in 2008. Dolphinarium NEMO, in Ukraine, bought 36 dolphins between 2010 and 2013; Saudi Arabia’s Fakieh Aquarium purchased six dolphins in 2013; and Cabo Adventures, a swim-with park in Baja, Mexico (the only site in the Americas with Taiji dolphins), imported seven animals in 2005.
Many animals never leave Taiji, including Angel, an albino calf captured in January and now on display at the Taiji Whale Museum.
Ric O’Barry, star of the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove and head of the Dolphin Project, is one of the activists fighting against the demand side of the dolphin trade.
Sometimes he wins; sometimes he loses.
In 2006, O’Barry learned that 12 Taiji dolphins had been sold to Ocean World Adventure Aquatic Park in the Dominican Republic. The park paid $154,000 per animal but never took delivery, following an international outcry.
“As soon as I found out, I came here to the DR and bought a full-page ad in the largest newspaper, an open letter to the president at the time, [Leonel] Fernández,” O’Barry said in an interview at the time.
Fernández rejected the permit, and Ocean World lost $1.85 million, O’Barry said.
In 2010, while in Taiji, O’Barry and his son Lincoln were alerted by an Egyptian environmental group that four dolphins captured in the cove had been placed in the swimming pool of a private villa in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada, Egypt.
Lincoln was producing an Animal Planet series, Blood Dolphins, so father, son, and crew hopped a plane to locate and film the dolphins.
“When we got there, they were transferring the dolphins from the pool to a hole in the ground they dug out in the desert,” O’Barry said.
O’Barry wanted to contest the importation. “We read in the newspaper that they didn’t have the necessary permits and thought maybe we could get them sent back to Japan,” he said.
He didn’t mean Taiji: He traveled to Mikurajima Island, part of Tokyo, where residents celebrate, name, and even grant citizenship to local dophins. “I went to look for a place to build a sanctuary to get them returned from the desert,” he said.
The Dolphin-Killing Season Is About to Begin in Japan; Here’s What You Can Do About It
But political unrest was exploding into widespread violence in Egypt. “A full-blown war was going on,” O’Barry said. “So we just gave up.”
The “Taiji Four,” as they were known, remained in the sun-scorched, dusty hole in the Eastern Sahara. “This is where Taiji dolphins go,” O’Barry said. “It’s despicable.” The site is now a dolphinarium. “We’re not sure if the four are still alive,” he added.
Meanwhile, the number of dolphins sold into captivity continues to rise. “It’s clear that demand continues to drive these brutal hunts,” Courtney Vail of Whale and Dolphin Conservation said in an email.
O’Barry recently learned that some Taiji-caught dolphins currently in Russia are slated for export to a park in Phuket, Thailand.
“Russians built the facility, but the permit hasn’t been approved yet,” he said. “This may be a chance to block the dolphins like we did in the DR.”
While the number of dolphins killed and captured at the cove in Taiji, Japan, has been trending downward in the wake of the worldwide attention wrought by the film, O’Barry is far from satisfied, refusing to take solace in such “one-off victories.”
O’Barry, 75, said he will not relent on his Taiji activism until he can stand “on that rocky shore, look out, and know [the drive hunt] is finally over.”
Until that day, O’Barry and his team of volunteers at The Dolphin Project will remain, as they have been since 2003, a highly visible, peaceful presence on the ground in the cove, monitoring and reporting the daily activities of the 30-odd fishers who conduct the killings. “There’s nothing easy about this fight, that’s for sure, and I’m not going anywhere, even at my age,” he said.
With the 2014–2015 Taiji dolphin-hunting season approaching its expected March 1 end, O’Barry spoke with TakePart from his home in Miami, engaging in a wide-ranging discussion on all things cove dolphin, including why the drive hunt still happens and what he believes will cause its downfall.
TakePart: The Cove premiered more than six years ago at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. You’re quoted as saying that when you sat in that theater in Park City, Utah, you were convinced the hunt would be over. And yet, here we are—it’s 2015, and the slaughter and capture of dolphins in Taiji is ongoing. What happened?
Ric O’Barry: Robert Redford told me afterwards it was the only Sundance documentary that he ever saw get a standing ovation. It won the U.S. Audience Award at Sundance and more than 100 awards at other festivals around the world, and at every screening there was a standing ovation. But it wasn’t the fanfare, nice as that was, that the film received that made me predict the hunt’s demise. It was because of how the film pulled the curtain back on the high levels of mercury in dolphin meat. But the hunt goes on. And it goes on because there are 127 million people in Japan who still have never seen the movie.
O’Barry: They don’t have access to it. Unfortunately, it never got to the Japanese people for free on the Internet. It went to a distributor, who owns the rights in Japan. And he hasn’t allowed it to be shown in the country for free. We—someone, anyone—would have to buy the rights back from this distributor, because every time someone puts it on the equivalent of their YouTube, it’s taken down immediately. And then there would have to be a campaign, a big one, to drive the Japanese to watch it. Then and only then will the pendulum shift. Why? The mercury angle. I cannot stress this enough.
O’Barry: $30,000. Relatively speaking, that’s pretty cheap, considering how much we spend trying to stop this slaughter. We’re working on this particular facet of the issue; it’s not dead yet.
TakePart: U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy sent shock waves across the dolphin captive industry in January 2014 by tweeting her opposition to Japan’s drive hunts. You said at the time you wanted to get a meeting with her. Did you? If so, what happened?
O’Barry: I went to the embassy with a delegation including Izumi Ishii, a onetime dolphin hunter in the city of Futo who now runs sightseeing tours for dolphins. Ambassador Kennedy was out of the country. We met with her staff, and they were not very receptive, to say the least. I got the impression she got into trouble for speaking her mind. She was shooting from the hip, I think, and there was never any follow-up from her. Once we get the million signatures on our petition, we’ll go back to her and try again. We’re not giving up on Caroline Kennedy.
TakePart: Last year The Japan Times ran an op-ed condemning the hunt.
O’Barry: The op-ed pointed out what Izumi Ishii’s been saying for years—the hunt is not a centuries-long tradition, as the fishers say. It’s not culture. It started in 1969. It’s not old enough to be cultural or traditional. Even if it was cultural or traditional, there’s no reason for it to continue. It was our culture not to let women have the right to vote. We don’t do that anymore. It was our culture to own slaves. We don’t do that anymore.
TakePart: Eight children from Thailand observed the hunt last month from the ground as youth cove monitors for your organization, The Dolphin Project. Talk to me about the importance of handing the baton to a younger generation.
O’Barry: The best way to bring about change for the common good is by example. We’re hoping these kids set an example and, in fact, are seeing other schoolkids, ordinary citizens, and Japanese citizens coming to Taiji. They’re sort of pioneers in that regard. Traditionally, it’s been activists over there—the Dolphin Project or whoever. But now we’re seeing ordinary people come. I’ve been waiting a long time for this.
This Map Shows Where Dolphins Captured at the Cove in 2013 Were Sold
O’Barry: They're moving forward with it. They have some sea pens built. Personally, I don’t think it will work. I don’t think tourists will go. Think about what they’re proposing: watching dolphins jump and do tricks in sea pens in a park, and then nearby fishermen are killing other dolphins. Really? Really?
TakePart: More than a year ago, Taiji fishers captured an albino dolphin that activists subsequently named Angel. Currently, she’s living in a tank in the Taiji Whale Museum. How’s she doing? What’s her fate?
O’Barry: I saw her just last month. I’ve been around dolphins for 50 years, so I can read her body language, and I can tell you her life is extremely boring. She’s trapped in a small tank with two other dolphins of a different species; they don’t socialize well. I’ve been told that she’s for sale for $500,000, and they’re waiting for a buyer. We talked about trying to raise the money and moving her to a sanctuary, but when you get into paying for hostages, dishing out ransom money—well, it doesn’t solve the problem. “Anguish” is the word that comes to mind; you just want to pull your hair out and scream, and that’s where we are with her.
TakePart: What keeps you going year after year?
O’Barry: If I stopped to think about it, I probably wouldn’t be. I really believed when I saw the film at Sundance that it would end the killings. But I also assumed that everyone in Japan would get to see it. They haven’t. They don’t have the information we Westerners take for granted. If you want to solve a problem, you first need to make someone aware of it, and then they can do something. We have to, we must reach the Japanese people—even if they watch the film and only believe the mercury poisoning segments, that’s enough. That will end it.
The Annual Dolphin-Killing Season at the Cove Has Begun. Activists shoot video of a dolphin that attempted to escape the slaughter.
Ric O’Barry, founder of the Dolphin Project and subject of the 2009 Oscar-winning documentary The Cove, and his team of cove monitors filmed the capture from the shore as fishers drove a pod of 12 into the mouth of the cove.
Surrounded by seven fishing boats, the panic-stricken dolphins fled toward the beach in an attempt to escape. O’Barry saw one dolphin thrash and bang its head against the rocks, suffering from the shock of being captured.
“The violence comes from the drive itself,” said O’Barry in a statement. “The drives are so stressful on dolphins that pregnant females in the process of a drive can abort their calves, and young ones can’t always keep up the fast pace.”
O’Barry resisted the urge to jump into the water as the female dolphin beached a few feet from where he stood. The 75-year-old, who was arrested in late August for not presenting his passport to Japanese officials, said in the video that jumping in would guarantee arrest and possible deportation.
“Had we jumped in, we’d have been arrested immediately for conspiracy to disrupt commerce,” he said. “Our video, computers, cameras—everything would have been confiscated.”
The video is part of Dolphin Project’s efforts to end the exploitation and slaughter of hundreds of dolphins at Taiji each year. In this year alone, it’s estimated that a total of 1,873 marine animals will be captured and killed from Sept. 1 to March 1.
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The long-running war between the whales and the United States Navy is over.
For marine mammals, the ping of sonar or the muffled blast of underwater detonations can be deafening and even deadly.
The settlement ends litigation brought by environmental groups against the Navy over its use of sonar in important feeding grounds for whales off the Southern California coast near Santa Catalina, San Clemente, and San Nicolas islands, as well as waters around Hawaii, including Maui, Molokai, and the Big Island.
“The settlement protects some of the most important areas for marine mammals that are sensitive to sonar,” said Miyoko Sakashita, oceans director for the Center for Biological Diversity, one of several groups involved in the litigation. “It’s a great benefit to the whales and lets the Navy fulfill its training needs.”
It’s the first time the Navy has acknowledged that it is possible to protect marine mammal habitatwithout hindering its training regimen—abandoning its previous stance that putting limitations on sonar testing and exercises wasn’t feasible, Earthjustice lead counsel David Henkin said.
“This sets a precedent for future approvals of Navy activities, not only here in Hawaii and Southern California, but everywhere the Navy conducts its activities,” Henkin said in an email.
A 2013 Navy report estimated that over the subsequent five years (2014 through 2019), sonar testing, underwater detonations, missile launches, anti-submarine warfare, and ship strikes could kill up to 155 whales, dolphins, seals, and sea lions and permanently injure more than 2,000 animals. The Navy also estimated that 9 million incidents of marine mammal disturbances could alter feeding and breeding activities in the 120,000-square-mile Southern California testing zone.
The National Marine Fisheries Service approved the Navy’s testing plans in 2013, finding the activities would have a “negligible impact” on marine mammals. But in April, a U.S. district judge in Hawaii ruled that the agency violated environmental laws by approving the Navy’s plan.
Here are the highlights of the settlement:
California
The Navy can no longer use sonar between Santa Catalina and San Nicola islands—a prime feeding ground for beaked whales.
Sonar is banned in a blue whale feeding area near San Diego.
Navy Sonar testing is now banned in areas near San Diego where blue whales feed (Fig. A and B). (Map: EarthJustice.org)
The Navy can no longer test sonar in beaked whale feeding grounds (Fig. A and B) between Santa Catalina and San Nicolas islands. (Map: EarthJustice.org)Hawaii
Sonar and explosives training is banned on the east side of the Big Island of Hawaii and north of Molokai and Maui. That will protect critical Hawaiian monk seal habitat and small populations of endangered false killer whales.
Limits are imposed on major Navy training exercises in the channel between Maui and the Big Island.
The National Marine Fisheries Service will investigate any marine mammal injuries or deaths.
Navy sonar and explosives training is banned along the east side of the Big Island of Hawaii (Map: EarthJustice.org)
Navy sonar and explosives training has been banned along the north coasts of Molokai and Maui, to protect critical habitat of endangered monk seals and false killer whales. (Map: EarthJustice.org)Blind dolphin has been replaced
There was news late last week that the half blind dolphin was replaced, taken back on a 30 hour truck journey in a small coffin like structure to Wersut Seguni Indonesia (WSI), central Java.We are not sure how these dolphins are being treated at WSI, and what condition they are in.
We need independent vets to to assess the health of Wake Bali dolphins and dolphins held in the WSI facility.
We ask Siti Nurbaya Bakar (Environment and Foresty Minister) and Susi Pudjiastuti (Minister of Marine and Fisheries) to allow these vets in to asses the dolphins.
Please continue to tweet and email the ministers here.
Siti: @bravonur sitinurbaya_bakar@yahoo.co.id
Susi: @susipudjiastuti susi@kkp.go.id
Exclusive Video Exposes Dolphin Slaughter in Japan and Peru.
Dolphin hunting in Japan is on the decline, but it appears to be on the rise in other parts of the world.
Fishermen in the small Japanese town of Taiji have begun their annual dolphin drive, capturing and killing hundreds of animals in a government-sanctioned hunt that has sparked international outrage since its portrayal in the 2009 Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove."
Japan's Gruesome Annual Dolphin Hunt Caught on Camera - Photo from the 2009 annual dolphin hunt in Taiji, Japan, shows hundreds of dolphins being captured for aquariums or killed for meat. The below video is by Hardy Jones of Blue Voice Org in 2009.
Some are kept alive to be sold to aquariums around the world, although the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums agreed in May to stop sourcing dolphins from Taiji.
"During this season, hundreds of sentient, intelligent, communicative animals will be killed in an astonishingly brutal way, and that includes males, females and calves," said Hardy Jones, a filmmaker and activist who began documenting dolphin hunts in Japan in the 1970s.
Reposted from NBCnews.com. Please show your support to those who have risked their lives capturing this footage for the world, support Hardy Jones and Blue Voice Org.
The mass stranding in Peru:
For the followup necropsy report regarding the mass dolphin standings of Peru, read Hardy's findings HERE as he travels to Peru to witness the standings and assess the dire situation;
According to the necropsy reports; The stranded dolphins in Peru died due to acoustical trauma and decompression syndrome.
Navy agrees to restrict offshore training to protect marine mammals.
The settlement brings an end to legal challenges against the government from environmentalists — led by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Earthjustice. It was signed Monday by U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway in Honolulu.
In April, Mollway ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service had violated federal environmental laws when it decided the Navy’s training would have a “negligible impact” on whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions and sea turtles.
That set off months of negotiations between the Navy, the fisheries service and the environmental groups.
“By agreeing to this settlement, the Navy acknowledges that it doesn’t need to train in every square inch of the ocean and that it can take reasonable steps to reduce the deadly toll of its activities,” said Earthjustice attorney David Henkin.
The Navy’s testing plan could have proved disruptive to feeding areas, migratory corridors and places where the animals reside, he said.
A spokesman said the Navy agreed to the settlement because it faced “the real possibility that the court would stop critically important training and testing.” Lt. Cmdr. Matt Knight, spokesman for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, said that “the Navy has been, and will continue to be, good environmental stewards as we prepare for and conduct missions in support of our national security.”
The litigation centered on a disagreement about how many marine mammals might be harmed by the Navy’s training regimen. Mollway ruled that the Navy had vastly underestimated the threat.
According to the environmentalists, the settlement calls for a ban on mid-frequency sonar and explosives on the eastern side of the Big Island and north of Molokai and Maui, in an effort to protect whales and Hawaiian monk seals. Surface ships would be required to use “extreme caution” to avoid hitting humpback whales.
Off Southern California, the Navy is banned from using mid-frequency sonar between Santa Catalina Island and San Nicolas Island, also near blue whale habitat off San Diego, the environmental groups said. The same extreme caution would be required for ships in the feeding habitat and migratory corridors for blue, fin and gray whales.
The Navy asserted its training could kill 155 whales over five years. Environmentalists said the number of those killed or injured would be much higher.
Among other things, the Navy uses sonar to teach sailors how to detect “super quiet” submarines that can operate in relatively shallow near-shore areas.
Though the military would have preferred a less-restrictive agreement, Knight said, “this … preserves critically important testing and training.”
Bill Rossiter, executive director for advocacy, science and grants at Cetacean Society International, said the agreement means “beaked whale populations in Southern California that have been suffering from the Navy’s use of sonar will be able to find areas of refuge where sonar will be off-limits.”
The new restrictions will be applied under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
This is the first Day They will Have killed and stolen Dolphins in Taji Japan (Day 11)
Taiji: 7 boats in formation pushing a pod of dolphins. #DolphinProject#Tweet4Dolphins 8:20am and you know something now, I watch the boards at Ric's (O'Barry) and at the Sea Shepherd site and its the same thing every year. The postings are the same every year. Swim Dolphins, Swim. Break Free Dolphins, etc. and we know its not going to happen. These dolphins are mince or they will be stolen into slavery to perform for you people that attend those types of events.
The bottom line is that we need to stop this from happening. Its barbaric. Its insane. It is stealing from our oceans.
All these Dolphins are guilty of if you sill, is being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Enough already. We need to stop it from happening and we need to work harder to do it.
Thanks to the people on the ground but we the people here need to stop going to these places that teach them to jump through a hoop so to speak, and we need to change International laws at once.
That is where it starts and where it stops.
This is no different.
These people that are part of private companies (if corporations are people too my fiends, well then what about the morals aspect of an individual?) that are kidnapping Dolphins are killing them as a way for them to make money or they are putting them to work so that company can make money.
What we are doing to these animals is just not fair. It is not morally sound at all. It is not cool.
And, we still have a half year more of this being able to happen by law. We need to change the law(s).
Last Tuesday, a 75-year-old American man named Ric O’Barry was arrested in Japan around 10 PM for driving without a passport. While paparazzi snapped photos, he was taken from his car to a local jail. After calls from the embassy and at least one Congressman, the man was quietly released 24 hours later.
O’Barry, formerly a dolphin trainer for the TV show Flipper, has been a target for Japanese police for years. Rocketed to fame by the Oscar-winning film The Cove in 2009, O’Barry has been trying to convince—or force—local fishermen to stop hunting dolphins for decades. But fishermen set out in boats this week once again, looking for dolphins. Has anything changed in the six years since The Cove came out?
The fishermen of Taiji call the hunt a local tradition. Using speed boats, they corral massive pods of tens or even hundreds of dolphins and push them into a secluded cove on the island, where they are either killed for meat or captured.
Over the past few decades, the hunt’s focus has shifted from butchering dead animals to capturing them alive so they can be trained and sold to aquariums and marine parks. According to the Oceanic Preservation Society, the organization that produced The Cove, just one live dolphin can fetch upwards of $200,000.
Now, critics say, the hunt has become part of a large commercial industry. Dolphins, whose complex emotional and cognitive abilities have been demonstrated by scientists, shouldn’t be used for meat or for entertainment, they argue.
The tide may be changing, however.
Last year in Taiji, due to declining demand for meat, increased awareness about the hunt, and pressure from activists, the number of dolphins slaughtered and taken captive hit a record low.
Japan’s country-wide dolphin catch is now down to less than 6,000 animals from 23,000 when the film was released, said The Cove’s director, Louie Psihoyos, in part because of the gruesome images of dying dolphins and blood-red water that splashed across film screens in the US and elsewhere.
Activists also pressured the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) to cut ties with its member group in Japan, the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA), because it certified marine parks that bought captive dolphins from the hunt. WAZA suspended the Japanese branch last April. Shortly after, JAZA released a statement saying that it would officially ban its members from acquiring dolphins from the Taiji dolphin drive fisheries.
Another reason the dolphin hunt is losing supporters is the meat itself, which is widely known to be contaminated with dangerously high levels of mercury and PCBs. One 2010 government report found that Taiji’s 3,500 residents had mercury levels that were above the national average. The country’s Health Ministry has cautioned people about eating dolphin meat before, noting that many samples of dolphin meat in Japan have been found to exceed the safe limit for mercury levels—some as high as 5,000 times over.
Nevertheless, the hunting boats are still heading out. The Taiji Fishermen’s Union, which sets yearly quotas for the hunt, is allowing hunters to capture or slaughter a total of 1,873 cetaceans (whales and dolphins) during the 2015-2016 season. They can take 462 bottlenose dolphins, 450 striped dolphins, 400 pantropical spotted dolphins, 256 Risso’s dolphins, 134 Pacific white-sided dolphins, 101 pilot whales, and 70 false killer whales.
“I wish I could say that you make a movie, and the world changes the next day. But it takes a while for culture to catch up,” Psihoyos told Motherboard.
He and the Oceanic Preservation Society just recently bought the rights to release The Cove for the first time in Japan, where many citizens are unaware about the hunts in Taiji.
“Hopefully, they are just as horrified as western audiences have been,” he said. “Most people there don’t believe it. They just can’t believe the horror that goes on inside their own borders.”
