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Film on the Dolphin Hunt Stirs Outrage in Japan
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, Japan, slaughter, dolphins, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, killing )

Cher
- 6 days ago - all-creatures.org
For years, dolphin hunts off the seaside town of Taiji, which turn coastal waters red with blood each winter, have drawn the ire of Western activists. But few among the Japanese public seemed to care, or even know, about the slaughter.
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In Japan's Managed Landscape, a Struggle to Save the Bears
Animals  (tags: animals, bears, Japan, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 11 days ago - enn.com
Although it is a heavily urbanized nation, fully two-thirds of Japan remains woodlands. Yet many of the forests are timber plantations inhospitable to wildlife, especially black bears, which are struggling to survive in one of the most densely populated
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Whale Forensics Highlights Japanese Threat to Species
Animals  (tags: animals, whales, Japan, threat, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, killing, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 17 days ago - all-creatures.org
A high proportion of the whale meat on sale in Japan comes from a population of north Pacific minke whales that some fear is under serious threat.
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Please Stop Japan's Drive Hunts ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, killing, drive hunts, Japan, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, suffering )

Cher
- 17 days ago - secure2.wdcs.org
Every year more than 20,000 small whales, dolphins and porpoises are brutally killed each year off the coast of Japan. One of the methods used is drive hunts, where large groups of animals are rounded up using boats and driven towards the shore and
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Whale Wars Saga Begins With Sea Shepherd's Paul Watson Under Investigation
Animals  (tags: whale, wars, Paul, Watson, Sea, Shepherd, Animal, Planet, ocean, Japan, hunt, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, protection, suffering, cruelty, slaughter, animalrights, investigation, politics, Australia )

Tom
- 34 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Watson's police and court records are being evaluated before he's allowed to enter Australia to start his annual campaign. Watson claims politics are behind all of this, saying, "I'm not wanted on any warrants and I've never received a felony conviction."
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Iceland Plans Big Whalemeat Trade
Animals  (tags: Whales, Iceland, Japan, Exports, whale meat, slaughter, killing, suffering, AnimalWelfare, endangered, sadness, wildlife )

Dee
- 44 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The company behind Iceland's fin whaling industry is planning a huge export of whale meat to Japan.
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Rampaging Bear Injures Nine at Service Station in Japan
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, black bears, Japan, attack, environment, protection, wildlife, death, killed )

Cher
- 50 days ago - guardian.co.uk
A bear injured nine people at a highway service station in central Japan before being shot dead in a souvenir shop, a firefighter said today.
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Conservationists Say 70 Dolphins in Japan Released
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, dolphins, released, Japan, environment, conservation, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 54 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
A Japanese fishing town that holds a well-known annual hunt to kill and sell dolphins for meat has released 70 of the animals from its first catch of the season following an international outcry, a conservationist group said Tuesday.
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Slaughter in 'The Cove' Has Begun
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, Japan, slaughter, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 58 days ago - blog.peta.org
After a brief glimmer of hope that the slaughter in Taiji, Japan, would not happen this year, it has belatedly begun. Of the 100 dolphins rounded up so far, half will be released and the other half will be sent to prison aquariums. Fifty pilot whales
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Japanese Town In 'The Cove' Setting Dolphins Free
Animals  (tags: animals, whales, Japan, seeting them free, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 59 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
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.
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The Cove Killings Start Again
Animals  (tags: animals, dolphins, whales, killing, Japan, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 59 days ago - examiner.com
In the early hours of Tuesday morning 13 fishing boats left Taji's harbor and began driving dolphins and pilot whales, approximately 50 - 100 of them, into a cove.
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Bad News at The Cove -Taiji Dolphin Hunt Begins
Animals  (tags: animals, dolphins, killing, Japan, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 60 days ago - all-creatures.org
Eight days later than usual, but still arriving, this year's seasonal dolphin killing has begun at Taiji with about 50 pilot whales and 100 bottlenose dolphins being driven into the cove this morning.
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Taiji Dolphin Hunt Begins: About 100 Dolphins and 50 Pilot Whales Driven Into Cove
Animals  (tags: slaughter, japan, taiji, dolphins )

Claudia
- 61 days ago - japanprobe.com
Taiji dolphin hunt begins: about 100 dolphins and 50 pilot whales driven into cove
51 comments
Activist Returns to Dolphin-Hunt Cove! Video!
Animals  (tags: AnimalWelfare, environment, killing, dolphins, Japan, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 62 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Former dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, star of the new documentary The Cove, again confronts the Japanese town where dolphins are trapped and killed by hand in "drive hunts."
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On Tuesday, in the Japanese Town of Taiji, the Dolphin Killing Will Resume."Spared" Dolphins Are Shipped to Marine Parks!!!
Animals  (tags: dolphins, killings, thousands, japan, taiji, marineparks )

Claudia
- 71 days ago - independent.co.uk
On Tuesday, in the Japanese town of Taiji, the dolphin killing will resume.
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