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14 Pilot Whales Killed Today-Urgent Protests Needed

BlueVoice.org

 

14 Pilot Whales Killed Today in Taiji, Japan

 

Fishermen in Taiji, Japan killed 14 pilot whales this morning before the sun

was up.

Hardy Jones for BlueVoice, reporting live from Taiji, Japan

 

The slaughter this year began early and has been horrific in its numbers. On

occasion 2 groups of dolphins held at the same time waited for slaughter.

The fisherman began killing one group while the other dolphins in the same

small bay heard the shrieks of the dying, tasted the blood in the water, not

fully able to comprehend what was going on, but knowing horrible death was

befalling the other captives.

The weather is good and the fisherman will go out again today and tomorrow

to hunt again. A huge number of animals are off shore and they are taking

massive numbers of them for slaughter.

Your protests are urgently needed to save dolphins.

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The pilot whales killed today were slaughtered in a small cove secluded from

our view. The local government has blocked access to points from which we

can photograph.

The fisherman descended on us, furious that we were in Taiji again with

cameras. They're mad because I filed a complaint with police after they

attempted to abduct us in 2001. That really caused trouble for them.

BlueVoice is very well known to them. They admit to checking our web site

frequently.

 

 

We purchased some of the freshly killed pilot whale meat and will test it

for high levels of mercury. This is one of the major weapons we have in

curtailing demand for these animals.

Your donations and protests are needed to get this information out to the

world, to keep us in the field and to carry on our work to save these

wonderful animals.

We will continue to report from Taiji in coming days. Check the BlueVoice

site for ongoing reports.

 

International Pressure CAN Stop This Brutality

 

Our films on PBS and National Geographic and our recent interview on CBS

News have created an avalanche of protest. WE NEED TO KEEP THE PRESSURE ON!

In Japan, government agencies are debating this issue at the highest levels.

TO STOP THE KILLING we must let them know the world is watching every day.

BlueVoice continues to expand world coverage of these atrocities and we need

your help to do this.

 

Some might say, " if they are killing so many dolphins and small whales at

Taiji today, what good has all the effort done? "

One answer is that where once there were many villages that hunted dolphins,

today Taiji is the last village killing these huge numbers of dolphins in

the Japanese main island. With the focus on only one village we can

concentrate our efforts, isolate it and eventually end the killing there

too.

 

Recently several villages were refused permits to take dolphins. If we can

expose the brutality at Taiji again and again it will eventually end the

dolphin hunt and all its barbarities there.

http://www.bluevoice.org/jcemail/EmailFrom.html

 

Other sample letters and addresses to send protests here:

http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_061020_1.html