Pod of captive dolphins killed one-by-one in Japanese bloodbath festival
A pod of captive dolphins are to be killed one-by-one in a traditional dolphin hunt in western Japan, where local fisherman corral the mammals into a secluded bay before killing many for meat. At least 250 dolphins have been trapped in a cove, with the prettiest selected for sale to aquariums and the rest butchered for meat, was damaging the reputation of Japan. Today the Japanese widow of John Lennon added her voice to pleas to dolphin fishermen that they stop their hunt, days after the US ambassador to Tokyo waded into the row.
Read more and see pictures of the poor animals -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2542611/Captive-dolphins-killed-one-one-Japanese-bloodbath-festival.html
More recent reports on this year's massacre -
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/01/another-massacre-of-dolphins-by.html
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