They huddle with each other as if they have sensed what is about to happen. A heartbreaking video is shown by Dolphin Project in which pilot whales, also known as pilot whales, swim in an artificial enclosure: the matriarch turns around them and rubs against her family members.
They huddle with each other as if they have sensed what is about to happen. A heartbreaking video the one shown by Dolphin Project where pilot whales also known as pilot whales, they swim in an artificial enclosure: the matriarch goes around them and rubs herself against the members of her family.
The video was shot on September 10 in a bay near Taiji, Japan and tells what we now know well, a meaningless massacre that every year involves dolphins and pilot whales that are hunted or to be locked up in zoos and water parks or , in the case of dolphins, ending up in supermarkets.
As we know, from the first of September the annual hunt has begun again, which has dolphins as its main targets, but which also does not disdain the pilot whales that are slaughtered in the so-called Bay of Death.
Dolphins and pilot whales are first captured, then kept in an artificial enclosure and finally slaughtered on site for their meat, while others are removed from their natural habitat to become automatons in water parks and zoos, forced to play with balls under flashes and the screams of visitors.
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Heartbreaking images of pilot whales looking for an escape:
The hunt lasts six months in total, up to 1700 individuals can be killed in this time frame. The images are more and more harrowing, with the Bay that is colored with the blood of these poor animals, but this time Dolphin Project, which has been fighting for years for the end of this havoc, has managed to capture an even sadder moment, the one in which pilot whales realize that they can no longer escape, that they have become prisoners.
In recent years, there have been many complaints, but to date, unfortunately, the situation remains unchanged. In 2009, the 2009 Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove" brought Taiji to world attention after showing the cruelty with which dozens of dolphins and other cetaceans are killed.
The documentary film The Cove:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KRD8e20fBo
Watch the video of the fearful pilot whales:
Activists from around the world join Sea Shepherd's Cove Guardians and Ric O'Barry's Dolphin Project group each year to witness and spread the cruel images of the hunting and capture of dolphins or small whales destined for the lucrative dolphinarium market. But not only that, in 2006 we told you about Imogen, the youngest of the Dolphin Project volunteers, who first wrote a letter and then met the mayor of Taiji to ask him to stop this slaughter.
Needless to say, at the time Kazutaka Sangen he replied:
“It is not in my faculty to stop hunting because the Japanese government has given permits, so the fishermen are not breaking the law. This is their job and a means of earning a living. All I can do is make sure they don't break the law by killing or capturing endangered or endangered dolphins. Only then will I be able to punish those who do not respect the rules ”.
Today he continues on this trail, saying:
“Foreign activists ask us why we kill these cute animals, but we still see them today as a vital source of food. Take a look around, if we didn't live off what the sea offers us, there would be nothing left. People keep telling us to stop whaling and find another way to make a living. But what the heck would we do instead? ”.
The data, however, say the opposite, which is that very few Japanese now eat or want to eat dolphins. Fishermen sell live dolphins to water parks that ask for young, healthy and female dolphins. I gather them in the bay and select them, the rest are killed so that the dolphins and other cetaceans do not learn to avoid the Taiji area.
And how to allow all this, when a live dolphin can be worth as much as 8 thousand dollars?
What can we do
On the Dolphin Project there are some suggestions on how to contribute, in our small way, to change.
1) Stop buying dolphin show tickets
2) Sign the petition to stop the violence against dolphins
Read also:
- Taiji Bay: Resumes the annual slaughter of dolphins in Japan
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- Taiji, the massacre returns. 15 things you don't know about dolphins and dolphins (VIDEO)
Dominella Trunfio
