• ‘I could hear the dolphins screaming’ – The Vancouver Province (4/6)
• Coalition Sponsors Ad in International Herald Tribune (4/2)
• Secret film will show slaughter to the world – Japan Times, 3/30
• Why bother to set mercury limits that are ignored? – Japan Times, 3/30
• Japan Times receives Genesis Bardot award
• The Truth, Dr. Anita – from the Solomon Star. Mark Berman responds.
• Special OPS – from Digital Content Producer. Extreme photography in Taiji.
• Premier Will Block Western Provinces Capture and Export of Live Dolphins in Solomon Islands
• Move to bring back whaling – as Japan suspends humpback hunt from Fishing News International
• Mercury Taint Divides a Japanese Whaling Town from the New York Times, 2/21/08
• Stop the Okinawa Dolphin Slaughter!
• New videos from CNN
• Weblog Update: Taiji: The new Minamata
• In the News: Dolphin slaughter brings charges from both sides
• News Room: Dolphin Hunt Sags Amid Mercury Fears
• Alert: Free the Cuban Four! We need your help to confiscate and return these four dolphins to their home waters!
• Article: Japan Times, 11/03 – Activists comfort dying dolphins
• In the News: National Geographic, 11/2 – Japan's Dolphin Hunt Protested
• In the News: Entertainment Tonight, 11/1 – Stars Try to Save Dolphins
• Article: Sky News, 11/1 – Heroes Star In Japan Dolphin Cull Clash
• Press Release: Surfline 10/28 – Dave Rastovich, Hayden Panettiere and 20 Others Risk Arrest in Japan
• Article: TIME magazine, 10/4 – Postcard: Taiji
• Article: AP, 9/30 – Japan's Minamata Disease still lingers
• Article: Japan Times, 9/19 – Time to Kill: Tokyo sanctions an extended cull of Taiji dolphins
• Weblog Updated: "Each time we return to Taiji, the dolphin hunters are a little bit more angry than the last time we saw them. This is because we are exposing their crimes against nature on a huge international scale." Click to read more…
• News: More Dolphins to Die? See Elsa’s letter protesting expansion of dolphin killing in Japan to Pacific white-sided dolphins.
• Article: Japan Times, 9/04 – Media ignoring mercury-tainted dolphin meat: assemblyman
• Article: VOICE of AMERICA, 9/04 – Toxic Dolphin Meat Served in School Lunches in Japan
• An open letter to the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums
• Article: ENS, 8/30 – Councilmen From Japanese Whaling Town Break Code of Silence
• News: Soltai concerned about Solomons move to resume dolphin exports
• News: Iceland stops whale-hunting quotas after low demand
  "Nearly a year after ending its ban on commercial whaling, Iceland will not issue new whale-hunting quotas until market demand increases and it gets an export license from Japan…"
• Event: Japan Dolphin Day, September 25^th, 2007 …click to learn more.
• Action Alert – Tell CITES: Take Action for Dolphins
• Article: Japan Times, 8/1 – Taiji officials: Dolphin meat ‘toxic waste’
  Assembly pair break taboo, warn of acute mercury risk in school lunches
• Taiji city council members protest high mercury levels in pilot whale meat served to school lunch programs.
• Press Release: Dubai should prohibit importation of live dolphins From Solomon Islands
• Press Release: IUCN Scientists Oppose Dolphin Export From Solomon Islands
• Action Alert: Solomon Islands Dolphin Captures (here we go again!)
• News Room: Sydney Morning Herald, 6/6 – Solomons capture sparks fears of live dolphin exports ...click to learn more.
• Analysis: Mercury in Dolphin Meat: The New Minamata Plague in Japan
• Article: The Panama News, 5/6 – Of dolphins and decency
• Action Alert: Help Stop Panama Dolphin Captures!
• Article: The Panama News, 4/27 — Dolphin capture foes turn up the heat ...click to learn more.
• Article: Journalo 2/26: Japanese fishermen, with government approval, are currently conducting an annual dolphin hunt that kills …click to learn more.
• Article: Japan Times 02/21: The Samurai Dolphin Man – A campaigner slams the world's greatest slaughter of cetaceans …click to learn more.
• Article: Japan Times 02/14: Eyewitness to slaughter in Taiji's killing coves – A gruesome fate befalls thousands of dolphins in Japan every year …click to learn more.
• Weblog updated: Reports continue from Taiji …click to learn more.
• Article: From Dominican Today – Dominican President will be asked to halt dolphin imports …click to learn more.
• Press Release: Dominican Republic to Import 12 "Show" Dolphins from Japan Slaughter Pens …UPDATED 31 January 2007
• Article: The Independent 14 January 2007 – £25,000: What brutal hunters in Japan charge for catching a dolphin …click to learn more.
• Article: Japan Times 11 January, 2007 – Mercury level acute; store pulls dolphin
  Meat sample from Okuwa chain contained levels 13.5 times state limit …click to learn more.
• News Release: The Okuwa Supermarket has announced that the ban on selling dolphin meat is now PERMANENT! …click to learn more. Press Release in English and also in Japanese (.pdf, ~100k).
• Article: The Independent, 6 January 2007 – Bloodbath: Japan's dolphin cull gets underway …click to learn more.
• Article: Animal People – Mercury poisoning may save whales …click to learn more.
• Interview: Ric O'Barry on Dolphins in Japan
  "The Samurai Dolphin Man and the Japan Connection" …click to learn more.
• Article: Japan Times 1 November 06 – Dolphin kill dogged by mercury, activists …click to learn more.
• Event Reports: Japan Dolphin Day, September 20^th, 2006 …click to learn more
• Article: Kansai Time Out 8/30/06: The Good and Evil of Hunting Dolphins …click to learn more.
• Event: Japan Dolphin Day, September 20^th, 2006 …click to learn more.
• News: Ric O’Barry Protests Dolphin Slaughter at Whaling Commission …click to learn more.
• News: Letter from the president of WAZA about the drive fishery…click to learn more, OR download (.pdf, ~50k).
• In the News: TIME magazine on captive dolphins in the Solomons.
  “Since the facility was established in 2003, at least 22 dolphins have died, either in the pens or in catching operations…”
• Top Conservation Group Opens Office in Honiara
  International environmental group Earth Island Institute has established its office in Honiara, Solomon Islands, with local environmental activist Lawrence Makili heading it. From Pacific Island Report and The Solomon Star.
• Press Release: Updated: New Solomon Islands Law Tightens Ban on Dolphin Trafficking …click to learn more, OR download a copy of the law (.pdf, ~20k).
• Japan Times Article: ‘Secret’ dolphin slaughter defies protests …click to learn more. Now available in Japanese as a .pdf, ~250k.
• Tokyo Shimbun Article: Aquarium Dolphin Capture Cruel?! In English and Japanese. …click to learn more.
• Groups Vow to Stop Japan Dolphin Slaughter…click to learn more.
• Memo Reveals Japan Aquarium Industry’s Secret Sponsorship of Dolphin Slaughter…click to learn more.
• Japanese markets selling toxic dolphin meat from Futo...click to learn more.
• ABC’s news program PRIMETIME featured a story on the killing of dolphins in Japan on October 27^th, 2005 …click to learn more.
• Reports from Japan Dolphin Day, from around the world.

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