(JP) Action Alert: Stop Export of Taiji Dolphins to China

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Urgent! Help Needed to Stop Export of Taiji Dolphins

 

Taiji, internationally infamous town of cruel whaling and dolphin

drive hunt, is planning to sell eight newly-captured bottlenose

dolphins to an aquarium in Dalian, China.

 

Taiji Town Council adopted this decision with a majority vote on

March 15 and the application for this export permit has already

been submitted to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

 

As of March 22, the permit had apparently not been issued yet, but

it seems as if the export is going to be permitted.

 

Taiji Town officials claim that the dolphins will be sold under

" Academic Exchange Program " , but according to the Mainichi

Newspaper dated March 15, those dolphins will be sold at

approximately 42 million yen (more than 400,000 US dollars) and the

money will go to the whale museum/aquarium, which has been having

financial problems, that is run by the town.

 

It is obvious that those dolphins, who were captured by inhumane

drive hunt last autumn, will be sold for the town's financial gain.

 

 

Please take a moment to send e-mails and/or faxes to below. Your

letters can be short and brief. But they need to hear from as many

people and groups as possible.

 

 

Mr. Shoichi Nakagawa, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry

E-mail: webmaster

Fax: +81-3-3501-6942

 

Mr. Nariaki Nakayama, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports,

Science and Technology

E-mail: voice

Fax: +81-3-3597-2757

 

Mr. Kazutaka Sangen, Town Mayor of Taiji

E-mail: taiji

Fax: +81-735-59-2801Taiji Town Mayor

 

Thank you very much for your help.

For dolphins,

 

Sakae Hemmi

Elsa Nature Conservancy, Japan

P.O.Box 2, Tsukuba Gakuen Post Office

Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, 305-8691 Japan

Tel & Fax: +81-29-851-1637

E-mail: PAH03724

http://enjoy.pial.jp/~animals/elsa/