Tag Archives: taiji japan
10Sep
25 Dolphins Taken Captive as Taiji Hunts Begin
Taiji, Japan: On September 1, the first day of the dolphin hunting season, hunters located a large pod of bottlenose dolphins swimming
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17Jun
From Freedom to Circles: Angel’s Story
Part of being a Cove Monitor in Taiji, Japan, in addition to documenting the drive hunts, is to check on the numbers
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16Mar
Taiji’s Drive Hunt Season Has Ended
On February 28, Dolphin Project can confirm that the main part of the 2025-26 dolphin drive season ended. The smaller beaked dolphin
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11Dec
Taiji: Nothing Justifies This Level of Cruelty
Whenever we post footage of the dolphin drive hunts in Taiji, Japan, some people immediately reach for the same predictable defenses: “Well,
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02Jan
How Taiji Profits off of Dolphins’ Suffering
Why do dolphin hunters in Taiji continue to capture hundreds of dolphins and force them into the town’s infamous killing cove year
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19Nov
Taiji Dolphin Sales are Being Revealed
Over the past several months, Japanese organization Life Investigation Agency (LIA) has been sorting through and translating 1000s of documents acquired from
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03Sep
Our Activism in Taiji: Present and Future
My name is Ren Yabuki from the Japanese environmental NGO Life Investigation Agency (LIA). I would like to take this opportunity to
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19Jan
Taiji Appeals Ruling by Wakayama District Court
On April 22, 2022, Ren Yabuki, Director of Life Investigation Agency in conjunction with Dolphin Project, filed a lawsuit against the town
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12Dec
Let’s Keep Making Progress for Dolphins
After a three-year absence, I returned to Taiji in November. Due to the pandemic, Dolphin Project Cove Monitors were unable to be
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18Oct
Bottlenose Dolphins Hunted by Taiji Fishermen
Update – October 19, 2023: Two of the bottlenose dolphins held overnight in the Cove have been selected for captivity, and another
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