The Cove Makes A Difference For Dolphins In Taiji!!!!
I woke up this morning, opened my laptop and saw some fantastic hopeful news! Seriously, I’m still groggy but typing with enthusiasm.
Here is the deal. The film The Cove revealed to the world what’s happening in Taiji, Japan. Every year in that small town 23,000 dolphins are captured, slaughtered and sold for meat. The Cove has caused such a public outcry that, for the moment, the fishermen in Taiji have not yet killed a single dolphin. (Although they still are capturing dolphins to sell in the international dolphin trade.)
An article on the Huffington Post says the following:
The Japanese town chronicled in the award-winning film “The Cove” for its annual dolphin hunt that turns coastal waters red with blood has suspended killing the animals – at least for this week’s catch – following an international outcry.
The western Japanese town of Taiji will sell some of the animals to aquariums as it does every year, but the remainder of the 100 bottlenose dolphins that were caught early Wednesday in the first catch of the season are to be released. In the past, they were killed and sold for meat.
An official at the Taiji fisheries association, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the town abhors the publicity its dolphin-killing has drawn, said Thursday that the decision was made partly in response to the international outcry created by “The Cove.”
Now, this doesn’t mean that dolphins are saved forever. But Taiji hates the press and the attention so keeping our eye on them now is vital. Go to The Cove’s website and find out what you can do to help! Seriously, what are you waiting for? Go now!
I would read the whole article if I were you. The news is just so darn good! And good news doesn’t come often enough.
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