8:18AM BST 10 May 2012 The Telegraph
Taiji, the Japanese town infamous for its annual slaughter of hundreds of dolphins that featured in the film The Cove,
is to build a marine mammal park near where the cull takes place.
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The town, which has been a target of animal rights protesters, intends to turn part of the cove into a 69-acre pool where
people can swim and kayak alongside small whales and dolphins. The park will be populated by bottlenose dolphins and
black whales caught in waters near the town would be released into the pool.
The Oscar-winning film The Cove, which followed US activists' attempts to infiltrate Taiji, brought the annual cull of 2,000
dolphins to international attention. Residents claim the hunt is part of tradition and a way of getting food.
Kazutaka Sangen, Taiji's mayor, told Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper that the zoo would not spell the end of the cull.
"We will continue hunting dolphins and establish Taiji as a town of whales, however much criticism we get from abroad."
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Footnote:-
The Cove is a secret area in a Japanese national park, ironically a nature preserve, where thousands of dolphins are slaughtered
every year — more than anywhere else in the world. What happens there is but a small example of the dangers facing the world’s
oceans, including the critical issues of overfishing, increasing pollution from fossil fuels, mounting toxicity, human predatory greed
and the exploitation of intelligent animals for our entertainment.
Taiji, the Japanese town infamous for its annual slaughter of hundreds of dolphins that featured in the film The Cove,
is to build a marine mammal park near where the cull takes place.
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The town, which has been a target of animal rights protesters, intends to turn part of the cove into a 69-acre pool where
people can swim and kayak alongside small whales and dolphins. The park will be populated by bottlenose dolphins and
black whales caught in waters near the town would be released into the pool.
The Oscar-winning film The Cove, which followed US activists' attempts to infiltrate Taiji, brought the annual cull of 2,000
dolphins to international attention. Residents claim the hunt is part of tradition and a way of getting food.
Kazutaka Sangen, Taiji's mayor, told Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper that the zoo would not spell the end of the cull.
"We will continue hunting dolphins and establish Taiji as a town of whales, however much criticism we get from abroad."
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Footnote:-
The Cove is a secret area in a Japanese national park, ironically a nature preserve, where thousands of dolphins are slaughtered
every year — more than anywhere else in the world. What happens there is but a small example of the dangers facing the world’s
oceans, including the critical issues of overfishing, increasing pollution from fossil fuels, mounting toxicity, human predatory greed
and the exploitation of intelligent animals for our entertainment.
