Fwd: Fwd: dolphine slaughter

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> Slaughter of 17 000 dolphins ready to begin

> This is a clipping of an article from the Internet

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> article is so

> appalling

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> Hopefully this email will make it's way to others

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> feel similarly.

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> Slaughter of 17 000 dolphins ready to begin

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> Fishermen in central Japan are set to begin hunting

> dolphins, an annual event which comes around every

> autumn. This year,

> however, the activity might trigger controversy

> after the recent

> international outcry over Japan's whaling programme.

> The dolphin hunting

> season officially got under way on Sunday in the

> small port town of Taiji -

> the traditional home of Japanese whaling - some

> 450km southwest of Tokyo.

> Poor weather has prevented fishermen from going out

> to sea so far, but

> they plan to catch a total of nearly 2 400 dolphins

> and smaller species of

> whales during the season, which runs until the end

> of April, a local

> official said. Both whaling and dolphin hunting are

> traditions that date

> back hundreds of years in Japanese society. But

> unlike Japan's whaling

> programme, which Tokyo says is for scientific

> research purposes,

> dolphins are hunted purely to provide meat for

> consumption, a Fisheries

> Agency official said. The hunt was being carried out

> in accordance with

> International Whaling Commission (IWC) rules,

> according to the Fisheries

> Agency official, adding that strict quotas were set

> each year. In addition

> to Taiji, dolphin hunting is allowed at several

> other ports and a total of

> nearly 17 000 dolphins are caught every season.

>

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> this entire mail,

> paste it into a new mail (to keep the formatting

> neat), add your name,

> city, country and email address and send it to

> anyone

> that you think

> will

> feel the same. If you find that your name is at

> number

> 100, please

> forward

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> <stoptheslaughter

> stoptheslaughter

> <stoptheslaughter >> Every time

> I

> receive 100 names I

> will forward them to various organisations such as

> Green Peace in order

> to

> help them in their fight against this sort of

> atrocity. Thanks for your

> concern!

>

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> 1) Timothy King - Cape Town - South Africa -

> stoptheslaughter

> <stoptheslaughter

> << stoptheslaughter

> <stoptheslaughter >>

> 2) Sharon Moore - Cape Town - South Africa

> 3) Douglas Gillett - Cape Town - South Africa

> 4) Dennis Mayes - Cape Town - South Africa

> 5) Heidi Dittrich - SA Cape Town

> 6) Emma Taladia - SA Cape Town

> 7) Nanette Rowland- Cape Town - South Africa

> 8) Hayley Fortune - Cape Town, South Africa

> 9) Sage Fortune - Cape Town, South Africa

> 10) Zaahied Cassim- Cape Town, South Africa

> 11) Jason Witkowsky - South Africa, Cape Town

> 12) Shireen Hewitt - South Africa, Cape Town

> 13) Jason Wright - South Africa, Cape Town

> 14) Anni MacLeod - Cape Town South Africa

> 15) Cheryl Van Eeden - Cape Town South Africa

> 16) Amber MacLeod - Cape Town South Africa

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> 19) Doreen Hall - Cape Town, South Africa

> 20) Charlie Teuteberg - Cape Town, South Africa

> 21) Andrew Marsland - Cape Town, South Africa

> 22) Viv Gutsche - Cape Town, South Africa

> 23) Yvonne Gutsche - Pretoria, South Africa

> 24) Andre Pieterse - Pretoria, South Africa

> 25) Helga de Vasconcelos Sarria - Johannesburg,

> South

> Africa

> 26) Nina Pittindrigh - Pretoria, South Africa

> 27) Rick Natt - Johannesburg, South Africa

> 28) Ilze Pieterse - Johannesburg, South Africa

> 29) Lesley Thomas - Johannesburg, South Africa

> 30) Johann Grundlingh - Pretoria, South Africa

> 31) Frits Haas - Pretoria, South Africa

> 32) Colin Beyers - Port Elizabeth, South Africa

> 31) Darko Vucetic - Johannesburg, South Africa

> 32) Michelle Fouche - Durban, South Africa

> 33) Andre Potgieter - Johannesburg, South Africa

> 34) Nicole Contente - London, UK

> 35) Natasha Azevedo - Johannesburg, South Africa

> 36) Kim Muir - Cape Town, South Africa

> 37) Claudia Jaeger - Windhoek, Namibia

> 38) Anneli Rudiger, Windhoek, Namibia

> 39) Louise Ellison, Windhoek, Namibia

> 40) Louise Leach, Windhoek, Namibia

> 41) Pieter Burger, Windhoek, Namibia

> 42) Brett Young , Windhoek, Namibia

> 43) Paul Pluss , Windhoek Namibia

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> 45) Charmaine Louw, Walvis Bay, Namibia

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> 47) Michaela Boon , Walvis Bay , Namibia

> 48) Hannes Swanepoel, Windhoek, Namibia

> 49) Charl Boettger, Windhoek, Namibia

> 50) Emilia Kamffer, Cape Town

> 51) Leonie Botha, Cape Town

> 52) Jaqui Scott, Durban, South Africa

> 53) Karen van den Heever , South Africa

> 54) Jackie Nunn, Johannesburg, South Africa

> 55) Nicole Theron, Johannesburg, South Africa

> 56) Natasha Ansley

> 57) Natalie Ansley

> 58) Tracey Fenwick

> 59) Atholl Mackinlay

> 60) Gayle Morrison, Johannesburg, South Africa

> 61) John Reed, Johannesburg, South Africa

> 62) Iona Reed, Johannesburg, South Africa

> 63) Thomas McNeill

> 64) Quinton Smith, Johannesburg, South Africa

> 65) Cynthia Morrison, Roodepoort, South Africa

> 66) Alex Morrison, Roodepoort, South Africa

> 67) Liz Pryor, Glasgow, Scotland

> 68) Fiona Ross, Cape Town, South Africa

> 69) Leigh Pomario , South Africa

> 70) Brian Little, Cape Town, South Africa

> 80) Glen Impey, London, England

> 81) Byron Levey, Cape Town, South Africa

> 82) Brynna Vetch, Woking, England

> 83) Dave Chantry, Woking, England

> 84) Michelle Ballington, Godalming, England

> 85) Steve Jenkins, Ashford, England

> 86) Sam Horrocks, Farnham, England

> 87) Torquille De Jonge, Isleworth, England

> 88) Dan Bowyer, London England

> 89) Henry Burr, Copthorne Surrey

> 90) Stuart Daniel, London, England

> 91) Gordon A Watt, London, England

> 92) Simon Miles, Nottingham, England

> 93) Holly Catton, Paignton, England

> 94) Janine Lyon-Williams, London, England

95)Michelle Ingman, Sydney, Australia

96)Hayley Ingman, Sevenoaks, England

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