Ocean Sentry
(From afp.google.com) London- Environmental campaigners demonstrated outside the Japanese embassy here Wednesday against what they called the country”s “appallingly cruel” hunting of dolphins. Campaign Whale and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) said the hunts include pods of dolphins driven into shallow coves by fishermen and hacked to death. They also said 15,000 Dall”s porpoises are killed each year with hand-thrown harpoons and that the hunts go on despite the declining demand for dolphin and porpoise meat, which has been found to contain high levels of toxins. “Since commercial whaling was banned by international agreement in 1986, around 360,000 Dall”s porpoises have been killed.That”s a porpoise speared every 30 minutes of every day for the past 22 years.”
