Save the Dolphins

Save the Dolphins

I have always been fascinated by dolphins. I just love them.

Dolphin drive hunting, also called dolphin drive fishing, is a method of hunting dolphins and occasionally other small cetaceans by driving them together with boats and then usually into a bay or onto a beach. Their escape is prevented by closing off the route to the open sea or ocean with boats and nets. Dolphins are hunted this way in several places around the world. The largest number of dolphins are hunted using this method in Japan, however the practice also occurs on the Solomon Islands, the Faroe Islands and Peru. Dolphins are mostly hunted for their meat; some are captured and end up in dolphinariums.

Despite the highly controversial nature of the hunt resulting in international criticism and the possible health risk that the often polluted meat causes, many thousands of dolphins are caught in drive hunts each year. Wikpedia

Quote: “Stop the killing
My name is Chris Lowes, and I am a qualified Sub Aqua diver from Hull in East Yorkshire. I love the sea and all that lives in it; it was on a visit to Devon that I first saw a dead dolphin. It was a horrible sight and I was informed by some local people that it had been killed after being caught in a fishing boat’s nets.

Dolphins all around our coast are being killed at an alarming rate, and it is this organisation and website’s mission to help stop the needless killing of these beautiful creatures. But we need your help, to help stop the deaths of Hundreds of dolphins around our coasts.

We aim to achieve better conservation of dolphins in the seas around the UK by involving the public in the monitoring of populations and the threats they face, and by the regular production of material to educate and inform the general public and to lobby for better environmental protection on their behalf.”
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Save the Dolphins belongs to the following groups:

ART ACTION UNION - CREATIVE ACTIVISM, Beach Art, Exotic Mammals, Fractal Frenzy, Happy Haven, Safe Haven and Underwater & Sealife