Can you help to stop this inhumane slaughter?
28 Feb 2007 18:19:44 UTC
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Shocking images have emerged of a brutal yet legal dolphin drive hunt in Japan.
Despite being considered one of the most gentle and intelligent creatures on the planet, thousands of dolphins are still captured or killed every year.
The drive hunts see hundreds of the mammals chased, rounded up and slaughtered over a period of hours or even days, while others are dragged away to be sold for up to $100,000 each to marine parks around the world.
In the Japanese fishing village of Taiji, fishermen are rounding up and slaughtering hundreds and even thousands of dolphins right now.
After driving pods of dolphins into shallow coves, the fishermen kill the dolphins, slashing their throats with knives or stabbing them with spears. Thrashing about, the dolphins take as long as six minutes to die. The water turns red with their blood and the air fills with their screams.
This brutal massacre — the largest scale dolphin kill in the world — goes on for six months of every year. Even more shocking, the captive dolphin industry is an accomplice to the kill.
Can you help to stop this inhumane slaughter?
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Keith~
Thank you for sharing this. I was unaware that even today such brutal tactics go on. (Why should we be surprised if we let the brutality of illegal and unjustified wars continue?) Having sailed beside dolphins, I know ehat gentle cratures they are.
"We must be the change we wish to see."
Mahatma Gandhi
RE: what does this have to
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The title of this discussion board is "Einstein Cafe," and as such it allows for a very wide range of topics among the participants of E@H which may have no bearing whatsoever to the project itself. If you took the time to notice, there are other discussion boards which are exclusively for E@H oriented topics.
On a more personal note, your post is offensive! Mr. Stanley brought to our attention something he feels strongly about, and wanted to share among his friends here, both rightly and properly. You are an arrogant fool for mounting such a personal attack on him and those who may agree with him, rather than politely offering your own, reasoned thoughts disagreeing with the premise of his posting.
RE: what does this have to
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Ehm, all the days, humans still die, still suffer, are still part of the life cycle...
Let's hope that at least You Care !
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RE: Can you help to stop
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Hmm. My solution would be a small, networked fleet of marine automata whose primary purpose would be to convince any mammals in the area that it's time to frolic elsewhere. Secondarily, depending on the applicable laws, there would be provisions to disable any illegal fishing equipment that may be deployed, while simultaneously reporting time/location of its use to proper authorities. During the off-season, or while not presently engaged in the preservation of cherished marine life, the mini-fleet would collect and relay voluminous amounts of oceanographic and meteorological data – for the DC community that maintains the vigilance of monitoring and directing all the interactive undersea activities.
Laugh if you want, but it's not hard these days to build a few intelligent dinghies...
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The Dinghies would have to be low elint(Electronic intelligence) so they can sneak into various countries territorial waters without getting blowen up by the countries navy. I think it could work. Who should control it, the UN?. We could use a few of those up north.
Edit: We could increase their functionality. By identifing ships/oil tankers who dump their bilge water off coasts killing countless sea birds and marine life and hold them to account.
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
An Article that is a little
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An Article that is a little more balanced. It sort of illustrates the complexity of the issue.
Japan Focus
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
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Cheers Laurel...
I must have missed that post, I wonder if they have thought about a career in the Diplomatic Corp?
RE: The Dinghies would have
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The submersible units, while patrolling within the range of their supply buoys, would also launch and recover the aerial reconnaissance drones. Depending on what's going on at any given moment, each vessel (buoys included) can deploy its own parafoil, and use it as either a kite for propulsion, or as a paraglider wing to fly to a new location.
Frankly? I'd feel most confident with an international collaboration of scientists at the helm of a nexus like that.
Tally-ho! :)
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Well, Keith, from that second article it sounds like raising the national consciousness (perhaps several of them) is the trick, for the quickest, easiest solution. Something like a Dolphin-aid concert/video, maybe?
Whaling by driving animals
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Whaling by driving animals inshore is practised in various places. Here, for example, is a Wiki artcle about the traditional pilot whale kill on the Faroe Islands.
Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream.
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Looks Like there is a proposal to get a start on it :-) IPY
I would like to see this go ahead. The spin off would be technologies to explore
bodies in solar system cost effectivly. I hope I did not hijack this thread
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold