Tensions running high as annual dolphin hunt starts in Taiji
By YUMMIN SON / Staff Writer
TAIJI, Wakayama Prefecture –This coastal community’s annual dolphin hunt kicked off Sept. 1, and foreign anti-whaling activists were out in force to protest the slaughter as dozens of police officers stood by to keep the peace.
Taiji is regarded as the cradle of traditional whaling in Japan. Ever since its dolphin drive was portrayed in an unflattering light in the Academy Award-winning 2009 documentary “The Cove,” this small town has been on the radar of international conservation groups …
Asahi Shimbun – September 02, 2014
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Australian arrested in Sea Shepherd whale hunt protest
By Andrew Darby
An Australian filmmaker arrested in a Faroe Islands protest has described as horrendous a pilot whale hunt she was trying to prevent.
Krystal Keynes, 28, was driving a Sea Shepherd speedboat, donated to the campaign by US actor Charlie Sheen, when she was chased down by the Danish navy.
Ms Keynes, from Exmouth in Western Australia, said she was brought ashore under arrest and marched past whales killed in the local community’s “grind”, or whale hunt …
Sydney Morning Herald – September 1, 2014 – 6:25 PM
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Danish Navy helps Faroe Islanders kill 33 pilot whales
By Oliver Tickell
The Danish Navy has just supported the annual ‘grind’ cetacean slaughter on the Faroe Islands, seizing three boats used by Sea Shepherd to obstruct the hunt, and detaining their crew. The move enabled whale hunters to slaughter an entire pod of 33 pilot whales …
The Ecologist – 1st September 2014
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