| Date posted 2009-10-15 |
Please stop Japan's Drive Hunts |
| Every year more than 20,000 small whales, dolphins and porpoises are brutally killed each year off the coast of Japan. One of the methods used is drive hunts, where large groups of animals are rounded up using boats and driven towards the shore and trapped in a bay or cove using nets before being killed or sold to marine parks. |
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| To: His Excellency Mr Shin Ebihara |
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Dear Ambassador
I have recently heard about the documentary film The Cove and was alarmed to find out that more than 20,000 small whales, dolphins and porpoises are brutally killed each year off the coast of Japan. One method of hunting is the drive hunt, in which large groups of these animals are rounded up using boats and driven towards the shore where they are trapped in a bay or cove using nets. The animals are then killed in the shallows with knives or taken away to a slaughterhouse. The hunt can take place over a number of days, with the animals trapped and frightened. The slaughter process itself is crude and brutal. In addition, Japanese consumers are being sold dolphin meat, containing dangerously high levels of mercury, often labeled as whale meat. A number of the trapped animals are kept alive and selected by aquariums and marine parks that pay large sums of money for animals to display in their facilities.The dolphins taken alive are handled crudely, many dying of stress during the process or facing shortened, impoverished lives in captivity. Dolphins are wondrous creatures in many ways. Today these sentient, caring creatures are very much in need of your immediate action. I respectfully ask that the Japanese government revoke the permits that allow these hunts to continue. Yours sincerely, |
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