February 21, 2021
This is a short interview with Japanese activist Mineto Meguro concerning dolphin hunting in Japan. Questions: What made you first focus on addressing animal issues? A: […]
January 29, 2021
By Leah Lemieux & Mineto Meguro Guest-writer Mineto Meguro represents the Japanese non-profit organization (NPO) Animal Liberator, one of the few groups in Japan focusing on […]
January 15, 2020
By Cara Sands, Dolphin Project Taiji, 1-12-20: Taiji’s dolphin hunters have certainly been kept busy this month. In this week alone, there have been four successful […]
April 12, 2019
Despite the fact that dolphins are incredibly intelligent, sociable, and sentient beings, we still choose to hunt them, either to death as part of traditional slaughters […]
March 13, 2018
The tiny town of Taiji, and its dolphin hunts held in an innocuous local cove, have the deep support of Japan’s most powerful political forces. By […]
January 18, 2018
Something is happening in Japan. A Sea Change. Little by little, without much notice or debate, a change. Across Japan, the practice of hunting dolphins and […]
November 20, 2017
Blue Planet II viewers were crying their eyes out as a whale carried its dead newborn around – killed by human activity. The Mirror, 20.11.2017 Sir […]
November 13, 2016
A tour of Hong Kong’s shark fin trading quarters is the harrowing testimony to how openly such products are still being traded. In addition, there are […]
March 21, 2016
Tragically, concepts like the Chinese sparrow-kill from 1958 are still widely applied even nowadays. Please read the following story and find out at the end, what […]
March 2, 2016
China becomes the latest nightmare for captive cetaceans due to the expansion of ocean parks. This begs the question does China have to follow the same […]