UK/London: Japan Dolphin Day protest - Wednesday 20 September 2006

The Marine Connection, as co-ordinators of the London Dolphin Day protest, were delighted to see so many people attending the Japan Dolphin Day protests outside the Japanese Embassy in London, especially on a week day. In addition to the London protest, 31 other countries demonstrated outside their Japanese Embassies in this global rally demanding an end to the needless slaughter of dolphins, small whales and porpoises.

Over 100 concerned members of the public, other leading animal welfare groups and the passing public all gathered outside the Embassy between 12pm and 3pm on 20 September 2006 in order to display the immense disgust which is provoked by the brutal slaughters in Japan during which 20,000 dolphins, small whales and porpoises are killed. The protest also highlighted the fact that marine parks are the backbone of the dolphin drive hunts from which captive facilities pick out the "best" specimens in order to train and subsequently display them at marine parks in Japan.

Petitions were signed, leaflets handed out, questions asked and answered and whistles blown, with the aim of making the Japanese Embassy aware of the damage that they are causing to the small cetacean stocks in Japan's waters, the brutality of the drive hunts and the catastrophe of condemning more animals to a restrictive and inadequate life in captivity......

Source: full report and photos

Link: END THE DOLPHIN SLAUGHTER - Direct link to japanese Government page!


Other EVANA-articles about this topic:
Australia/Adelaide: Protests urge end to dolphin slaughter (en)

Japan: Stop the dolphin slaughter (en)