A place of sadness, injustice, and an utter lack of compassion Taiji is a place of genuine horror. What goes on there, from Sept 1st to Mar 1st of every year, is beyond anything we can conceptualize as part of the routine fabric of life in a modern industrialized nation. It’s a sickness that somehow...
The moment her freedom was stolen, over half a century agoPhoto Credit: One Green Planet – onegreenplanet.org The show is finally over. After more than a half century of forced performances, the Miami Seaquarium has announced that Lolita will no longer be required to take part in shows. She is known as Tokitae to the...
Endangered belugas in the St. Lawrence River, Quebec, Canada Photo credit: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation cbc.ca On at least two of the key fundamentals, we’ve come a long way, and we’re beginning to make progress on a third. Where we once sought them out with whaling boats, to harvest them for their meat, blubber and oil,...
The time to act to protect our beautiful planet is now.Photo by Jeremy Bishop As you may have seen, we the citizens of almost every nation on Earth have recently become party to a global-level agreement that will confer on us some pretty ambitious targets and obligations over the next few years. The goals are...
With questions pertaining to the environment, it’s never about ‘us or them’. Beware any argument that implies this to be the case. Of course we want to do what’s best for us, or what’s best for our fellow humans, and the advocates of this argument know that. But what they don’t want you to notice...
Which is the greater injustice? To have lived free and one day to have it cruelly and permanently denied? Or to have never known it at all? Which do you find more heartbreaking? For the overwhelming majority of captive dolphins, one or the other of these is their reality. If you had to choose between...
On any given day, your social media feed is likely to produce at least one feel-good story about divers, boaters or fishers successfully freeing a whale or dolphin from entanglement. It’s always with a palpable sense of relief that we see the victim of our ocean trash able to safely swim away. Often, he’ll swims...
Cetaceans are a diverse group spanning 14 known families and more than 90 species
Photo Credit: Awesome Ocean awesomeocean.com
Whaling has continued under many guises, including bogus scientific research.
Photo Credit: The Guardian
Ren Yabuki - taking on the Taiji hunters despite fierce opposition from local authorities
Photo Credit: Whale & Dolphin Conservation uk.whales.org
