URGENT REQUEST FOR SIGN-ONs

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URGENT REQUEST FOR SIGN-ONs

 

REVEALED: WESTERNERS SECRETLY DEAL IN DOLPHINS FROM JAPAN.

 

Two American aquarium specialists are brokering the sale and transfer of twelve

bottlenose dolphins from the Japanese slaughter pens to a Dominican Republic

amusement park, Ocean World Adventure Park. We believe the dolphins will be

transferred to the Dominican Republic sometime before March. We are trying to

stop this and need your help.

 

Stefan Meister, a German national and vice president of Ocean World Adventure

Park, Dr. Michael Briggs DVM, who is an American citizen associated with the

Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, and another American dolphin dealer and marine mammal

veterinarian, Dr. Ted Hammond, are all involved in the deal.

 

The 12 dolphins, now known as " The Taiji Twelve, " were recently captured in

Taiji, Japan. This was an extremely violent and deadly dolphin capture, with

dolphin hunters and dolphin trainers working side by side, killing several

" reject " dolphins in the grueling selection process. The more than 200

bottlenose dolphins and pilot whales that were not selected for the aquarium

industry were killed and slaughtered. By purchasing select dolphins from the

Japanese drive hunts, the western dolphin dealers are making the hunt extremely

profitable, thereby causing the hunts to continue. We have been successful, at

least to some degree, in shutting down the demand for dolphin meat for human

consumption, by exposing the mercury contamination of the meat. We now want to

expose aquarium industry members who support the dolphin slaughter by doing

business with the hunters. The campaign in the Dominican Republic is the first

important step toward our effort to shut down the demand for live show dolphins

from Japan.

 

You can see the capture here:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCx0ORuDZFE ( Please send this link to all your

contacts.)

 

We are in the process of composing a letter to the president of the Dominican

Republic, asking him to not allow The Taiji Twelve into the country. If your

organization wants to be included in the sign-on letter, please let me know

ASAP. We need to act quickly.

 

Thanks,

 

Richard O'Barry

Marine Mammal Specialist

International Marine Mammal Project

Earth Island Institute

Miami Florida Branch

Phone/Fax: 305-668 1619

Mobile Phone: 786-973 8618

ricobarry

www.SaveJapanDolphins.org