GlobalAnimal.org’s OCEAN section dives into ocean conservation, including activism to save whales, dolphins, turtles, and bluefin tuna. Find news about Sea Shepherd and efforts to stop the Taiji dolphin slaughter.
JAPAN – In response to overwhelming criticism from around the world (you!), Misty the dolphin was moved to a smaller, clean tank with other dolphins to keep him company. The new situation is hardly ideal, but at least ends weeks of solitary confinement in a filthy pool.
TAIJI, JAPAN – A dolphin captured in the annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan, is being held in solitary confinement in a small, filthy pool at Dolphin Base, a mile from the slaughter where captured dolphins are held for sea parks around the world.
What does it mean to be dubbed “The Grand Central Station” of shark finning? In Hong Kong, it means that over ten tons of shark fins pass through in a given year, cut out of the 38 million sharks that are left to sink to the ocean’s bottom, drowning, victims of bad tradition. That number is so huge, it’s incomprehensible. And reprehensible.
ARMENIA – The bad news is another dolphinarium opened, this time in Armenia. The good news is that an alliance of 50 Armenian environmental groups and animal-welfare organizations gathered outside the new dolphinarium in protest.
Dec. 22, 2010 – Japanese whalers radically changed their slaughter tactics this season in an attempt to foil anti-whaling activists in the Southern Ocean who have formidable resources this year. Japan awarded itself a scientific permit to kill whales in millions of square kilometers of ocean to the south of Australia and the area south of New Zealand. According to Sea Shepherd captain, Paul Watson, “this new special permit has Japan thumbing their noses at both Australia and New Zealand.” Considering Australia’s lawsuit against Japan at the Hague and its proposed aerial surveillance of Japan’s “criminal behavior,” plus New Zealand’s intensified monitoring of their whaling and the worldwide condemnation, Japan seems unconcerned to lose all legal and ethical ground. Japan may have doubled its area of killing and deceit. But the determination of those protecting the whales knows no bounds. – Global Animal
With increasing numbers of beached whales found and a very low success rate in rescuing them, we’re thrilled to report that a whale rescued 10 years ago, has been identified, alive and well! Read this touching story about a heroic rescue effort rewarded!
PARIS — The conservation conference has created new protections for sharks and other marine creatures, but hardly did anything to help prevent bluefin tuna from being over-fished into extinction. Do you think the small reduction in quotas for bluefins are enough to save them?
GULF OF MEXICO — Acoustic data has shown the sperm whales near the Gulf oil spill were sensible when disaster struck: they left. Not only does this type of marine survey allows us to know the whales are safe, but it is also a cheaper, more reliable, and safer way to track marine life.
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