Please stay tuned! We will be leaving within the week.
Check out the last video I took in Otsuchi in March of this year. This was less than an hour after the initial surge of water destroyed the city. We walked down the hill to find that the road we need to drive out on no longer existed. We ended up having to hike out the next day.
Marley and Carisa
Cetacean Defense League
Monday, September 19, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
CALL TO ACTION!
RIC O' BARRY'S CALL TO ACTION:
Ric wants everyone to call your local Japanese Embassy & file an official complaint that toxic meat is being sold to Japanese people. Dolphin meat from Taiji has been tested & shown to be contaminated with 2000 ppm of mercury, accepted level is 0.4 ppm. The meat is poison, this is a human health issue.
Please pledge to call your Japanese embassy on a regular basis, monthly, weekly or daily!! These calls are logged and they do make a difference!
Marley and Carisa
Cetacean Defense League
Ric wants everyone to call your local Japanese Embassy & file an official complaint that toxic meat is being sold to Japanese people. Dolphin meat from Taiji has been tested & shown to be contaminated with 2000 ppm of mercury, accepted level is 0.4 ppm. The meat is poison, this is a human health issue.
Please pledge to call your Japanese embassy on a regular basis, monthly, weekly or daily!! These calls are logged and they do make a difference!
Marley and Carisa
Cetacean Defense League
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The first dolphins of the season are being killed in the cove right now.
We are sad to report that the first blood has been shed in the cove. As I write this, approximately 12 Risso's dolphins are being slaughtered in Taiji. They were driven into the cove 2 hours ago by the banger boats. That is all we know for now and we are anxiously awaiting updates. Please continue phoning the embassy every single day
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Shame on the Japanese government for allowing this, only the scum of the earth would commit such a crime against another living creature.
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Shame on the Japanese government for allowing this, only the scum of the earth would commit such a crime against another living creature.
Cetacean Defense League
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Looking back at our first trip to Japan VIDEO 5
Great news! Sea Shepherd returns to Taiji!
Operation Infinite Patience: Return of the Cove Guardians
Check out the Sea Shepherd website to read about this years campaign in Taiji, http://www.seashepherd.org/
Carisa and I are extremely happy to hear that Sea Shepherd will be returning to The Cove this year. Originally we thought there wouldn't be an official campaign so this is great news! We are pleased to volunteer with Sea Shepherd in Japan and are thrilled that the campaign continues! Last year an estimated 750 dolphin and pilot whales were saved as a result of the pressure applied by the Cove Guardians.
Please donate to help us stay in Taiji for three weeks!! Even $5 or $10 helps!
For the oceans,
Marley and Carisa
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
Looking back at our first trip to Japan VIDEO 4
After last years Cove Guardian campaign, Sea Shepherd estimates that the amount of dolphins killed in the Cove was cut in half and we hope that this year our presence in Taiji will do the same. This year is going to be a lot tougher to get any possible vantage points on the hunt because of steps taken by the Japanese government to prevent the public from seeing anything. I can't even imagine how much money the Japanese government is putting into security at the Cove right now. We have seen the new 'task force' being trained in Taiji, and we have seen the new security fences. Why are they putting so much effort into protecting this awful hunt? We also know that there is a really good chance our blog is being monitored so I have a few questions for the Japanese government....
Why is it that the Japanese government continues to allow POISON dolphin meat to be sold legally in Japan when they know the mercury levels are well above the limit?
Why is it that the Japanese government continues to allow dolphins and porpoises to be dismembered while fully conscious in a National Park?
And why is it that the Japanese government continues to disregard International laws protecting cetaceans?
This next video I am sharing was taken by myself in Otsuchi, Japan this March. To be honest, I think it's incredibly shameful that the government of Japan would be spending so much money on ridiculous security in Taiji when many of the cities in North East Japan remain in ruins and many citizens are still without a place to live. Wouldn't it be more compassionate to direct those funds elsewhere?
Marley Daviduk
Cetacean Defense League
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