tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25373834511564444262024-03-23T01:03:35.514-05:00Save Wonderful Nature and Animal Keiko T. Oldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859488789054287551noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537383451156444426.post-26658298404866826222022-08-06T04:26:00.001-05:002022-12-14T00:58:49.541-06:00Dear Captain of the Sea Shepherd E/J Bilingual 日本語付き <div><br></div><div><div><div><i><font size="4" face="Arial" color="#0277bd"><b> この記事は2016年ごろ、オーストラリアの捕鯨反対グループのリーダーであり、シーシェパードのキャプテンポールワトソンが日本の<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">海洋哺乳類を守る会 のリーダー 森岡敏明さんに宛てた手紙です。</span></b></font><b style="color: rgb(2, 119, 189); font-family: Arial;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">その手紙の和訳を森岡さんから私、恵子髙橋オールズに依頼があり、拙い英語力で翻訳を始めたものの、ポール ワトソンの文章の表現があまりにも独特すぎるので、私の友人で英語検定講師に確認してもらいながら訳しました。</span></b><b style="color: rgb(2, 119, 189); font-family: Arial;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">また元明治大学の教授で反捕鯨家のショーン・オドワイザー氏と共同でこの記事を書き上げましたが森岡さんからたっての願いで公開を断念しました。</span></b></i></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial" color="#0277bd"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i> あれから年月が経ち、森岡さんは捕鯨反対グループから退き、ある国の日本大使館に戻って行きましたので、勝手ながら公開に踏み込みました。</i></span></b></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial" color="#0277bd"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><br></i></span></b></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" color="#00838f"><b><font size="4"> This article is letter from leader of the Sea Shepherd Captain Paul Watson to the Society for the Protection of Japanese Marine Mammals leader Mr. Toshiaki Morioka, around 2016. At the Mr.Morioka request of translatin it to me.</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" color="#00838f" size="4"><b>But Paul Watson's sentence expression was too unique, so I worked with my friend English test instructor. She checked my translated.</b></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" color="#00838f" size="4"><b>I also wrote this article in collaboration with former Meiji University professor and anti-whaling Sean Odweiser, but I gave up publishing it at the request of Mr. Morioka. Many years have passed since then, and Mr. Morioka retired from the anti-whaling group and returned to the Japanese embassy in a certain country, so he decided to open it to the public without permission.</b></font></div></div><div><font face="Georgia" color="#00838f" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_c35_f6a6_6f98_2916" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-87w7hngBMVk/VSHuh1ppWHI/AAAAAAABO_M/YCrwrjHXP2E/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 836px; height: auto;"><br></div><div><b><font face="Arial"> </font><font face="Copperplate" size="4">ART by Keiko Olds</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Copperplate" size="4"><br></font></b></div><div><br></div><div><address><div style="text-align: left;"><b><font size="4" face="Palatino" style="font-style: normal;" color="#248f24">I will introduce this man’s article on Protecting the Marine Mammals with a Japanese representative,</font></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><font size="4" face="Palatino" style="font-style: normal;" color="#248f24">Toshiki Morioka, who has written “To Taiji Dolphin Activists, a Message to You” in my blog. </font></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><font size="4" face="Palatino" style="font-style: normal;" color="#248f24">It is available in both Japanese and English.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><font size="4" face="Palatino" style="font-style: normal;" color="#248f24">Also, the Sea Shepherd captain, Paul Watson wrote the replay to Mr. Morioka as an open letter. </font></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><font size="4" face="Palatino" style="font-style: normal;" color="#248f24">This is also available in both languages.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><font size="4" face="Palatino" style="font-style: normal;" color="#248f24">The first letter is by Mr. Morioka, </font></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><font size="4" face="Palatino" style="font-style: normal;" color="#248f24">and the second one is by Paul Watson, </font></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><font size="4" face="Palatino" style="font-style: normal;" color="#248f24">and the last one is the latest article featured in Japan Times </font></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><font size="4" face="Palatino" style="font-style: normal;" color="#248f24">by Meiji University Associate professor, Shaun O’Dwyer.</font></b></div></address></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><font color="#248f24"><br></font></b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font color="#248f24" face="Arial"><b>以前、日本の海洋哺乳類を守る会のリーダー森岡敏明さんが書いた「<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">太地のイルカ活動家に伝えたいメッセージ」を</span></b></font><b style="color: rgb(36, 143, 36); font-family: Arial;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ここのブログで英語と日本語で紹介した。</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">そして今回はシーシェパードのキャプテン、ポール・ワトソンが</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">森岡敏明さん宛に</span></b><b style="color: rgb(36, 143, 36); font-family: Arial;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">オープンレターとしての返事を書いたので</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">日本語と英語でここに公開する。</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: rgb(36, 143, 36); font-family: Arial;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">最初に</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">森岡さんの手紙から。</span></b><b style="color: rgb(36, 143, 36); font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">そしてポールワトソンの手紙。</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#248f24" face="Arial"><b>最後に明治大学准教授ショーンオドワイヤーさんによるジャパンタイムスの最新の記事。</b></font></span></div><div><i><b><font face="Copperplate" color="#248f24"><br></font></b></i></div><div><font color="#248f24"><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><font style="font-weight: bold;"><i> </i></font><font face="Arial" color="#0000b8"><b><font size="6">Message to the World from Japanese Activist</font></b></font></font></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </font></b><b style="font-style: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="5">From Action for Marine Mammals Representative</font></b></div></div><div><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="font-style: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><font> </font></b><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="7" color="#0000ff">Toshiaki Morioka</font></b></div> <img id="id_1e5f_18e6_c014_a3de" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5mHo3f71ATs/VQeiGFQfPpI/AAAAAAABNV4/m1ipqXpjV70/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 363px; height: auto;"></span><div style="font-style: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font><br></font></b></div><div style="font-style: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;"><font size="4" face="Arial">Dolphin protection activists who have working in Taiji has been told to "Get out of Taiji" and continues to be abused by dolphin hunting advocates and the right-wing nationalist faction. They are too unilateral to create a discussion. The fishermen deepens their confidence and pride against the Japanese dolphin release for dolphin protection activists. The fisherman cannot push away the activists because they are intrigued to accomplish their goal. Those activists do not need to listen to these abusive words. I want those whom use force to stop the fisherman whom hunt Dolphins, whole heartedly, to leave the area. </font></span></div><div><div><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Before I state my opinion, about the area in which the dolphin hunting occur, we have to say that they are doing the wrong thing and are making a grave mistake. In Wakayama Taiji, from Japan's agricultural view, the supply of Dolphins provides only 1/8 of the whole dolphin supply. </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">(in 2012, the total number of Dolphins caught was over 16497, and out of the total, Taiji caught 2013). The Japanese dolphin hunting requires a harpoon to kill the animal. The fishermen catch the Dolphins far enough that you cannot see by a binocular. Right now, </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Dolphin hunting in Hokkaido is still being carried out. Dolphin hunting has began due to the rapid recovery of devastated by the tsunami Tohoku region (mainly Iwate Prefecture). Dolphin hunting in Taiji is easy to be seen by the public eye from the simple reason that the massacre has created "The Cove" documentary. However, a larger tragedy is not just in Taiji but many of them are done elsewhere. We must be kept note of that fact.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Right now, a lot of dolphin protection activists gather in Taiji because of a big misunderstanding. </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Taiji's goal is not to hunt for food.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">"Taiji have to hunt in order to eat" This quote is a widespread in the media and displayed as a wrong propaganda. "Protect the tradition of dolphin food" is what fisherman wants to display.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">In the late 1960s, whaling in Taiji (dolphin) was very different.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">The Mayor of Taiji of those days with held the name "town of whaling" to Taiji in 1969 so that tourists would come as well as opening the Taiji Whale Museum with training facilities for Dolphins. </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">In order to sell the dolphin in facilities for dolphin shows in Japan and overseas, they created a training area to tame them.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Up to 2014, Taiji house a facility in which they take in wild dolphins and tame them. </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Cute, smart, and well accustomed to humans, to catch the dolphin that hears you very well, must be a motivation catch a lot of dolphins and choose one that fits that description. </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Drive Hunting's Hunting is the No. 1 best way that does not injure the dolphin. So fisherman catches a dolphin just for the aquarium and kills the remaining lot. </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">And eating dolphins in Taiji, rather than the traditions and food culture, began after 1969. The catching of Dolphins was first mainly for dolphin aquariums, but the remaining Dolphins were given to the fisherman as a bonus. </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">"I have eaten due to a habit". Even if everyone is persuading fisherman and telling them to "not eat the dolphin", people of Taiji will not stop.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">This is because because the dolphins are sold for the aquarium and does not have to stop fishing.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Us, the activists, must stop the dolphin aquariums. So I need to share this with a lot of people.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">We must persuade people not to buy dolphin show tickets. It is the only way.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">It not a simple matter, and this does not solve the problem immediately.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">The Government and intellectuals in South Korea Eliminated the the dolphin show after a long discussion with the People. </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">The demonstrations that activists carry out in Taiji do not change anything. Even if the hidden camera or spying, this is the wrong course of action. Admittedly, monitoring is a necessity, but it is no doubt you will be directed to a more worst situation. It may possibly increase fundings from the government due to low buisness.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">This should be well known to dolphin protection activists.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">We must fight not only Taiji, but the other 53 locations in Japan and it's Dolphinarium with more than 300 places in the world.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Because people are going to see the dolphins, they can sell dolphin.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">The dolphin show is neither logical or part of culture; it is simply business.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Dolphin fishing and sales of bio-sale has been carried out using tax money. </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Therefore, dolphin conservationists and environmental protection organizations in the world must direct their effort and be committed to eliminating the dolphin show.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><i>Action for Marine Mammals </i></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><i>Representative:Toshiaki Morioka</i></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://amm-japan.jimdo.com/">http://amm-japan.jimdo.com/</a></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><br></div><div>Translated Japanese to English by Keiko and Ann Olds</div></span></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8"><font size="5"> </font><font face="Arial" size="6">太地のイルカ活動家に伝えたいメッセージ</font></font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="font-size: large;"> 海洋哺乳類を守る会 代表 </b><b><font size="5">森岡敏明</font><font size="4">より</font></b></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i> </i>太地で活動するイルカ保護活動家たちはこれまで「太地から出て行け」とイルカ猟擁護派及び右翼民族主義派から口汚く罵られつづけてきた。それらは議論と言うにはあまりに一方的なものであり、イルカ保護活動家たちにとっては日本のイルカ解放のための信念と確信を深めることはあっても、彼らを太地から退去させるには少しの影響も与えていないのではないかとさえ思われる。このような拙劣きわまる「意見」に耳を貸す必要はないが、私はあえてここで、活動家の同志たちに深い敬意を持って「イルカ保護活動家が太地を去るべき理由」を示したいと思う。 </b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">私の考えを述べる前にまず、日本で実際にイルカ猟が行われている場所について多くの人が誤って認識していることを指摘しなければならない。現在和歌山県太地町の追い込み猟で捕殺されているイルカは日本全体のイルカ捕殺数の約8分の1にしかならない。</b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(2012年、日本全体のイルカの捕獲枠は16,497頭。その中で和歌山県のイルカ追い込み漁業の漁獲枠は2013頭にすぎない。)日本のイルカ猟の主流は「突きん棒」であり、岸辺から双眼鏡で見ることのできない遥か沖合いで猟が行われている。北海道でもイルカ猟は依然としておこなわれており、一時期は津波で壊滅的打撃を受けた東北地方(主に岩手県)のイルカ猟も急速に回復しつつある。太地のイルカ猟は沿岸のひとつの小さな湾の中で虐殺が行われているという単純な理由から人目に触れやすく、結果、映画「ザ・コーヴ」の撮影対象にもなった。しかし、より大きな悲劇は太地ではなく、まったく別の場所で行われている。我々はその事実にまず留意しておかなければならない。 </b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">現在、これほどまでにイルカ活動家が太地で活動するようになったのは、彼らの致命的な誤解に由来する。そもそも太地ではイルカを食べるために猟をしているわけではないのである。「太地ではイルカを食べるために猟をしている」という情報はメディアのミスリードによるものに他ならない。つまり、「イルカ食の伝統を守るべきである」というひとつの命題は、イルカ猟推進派による問題のすり替えにすぎないのである。</b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1960年代後半を境に太地で捕鯨(イルカ猟)のスタイルは大きく変化している。当時の太地町長が太地を「捕鯨の町」として 町おこしの材料にしようと、1969年にイルカの馴致施設を備えた「太地町立くじらの博物館 (Taiji Whale Museum)」を開館した。馴致施設とはイルカを飼い馴らし、イルカショーのために国内及び海外の水族館に転売できるよう訓練するための施設である。2014年現在、この施設を備えイルカを飼育しているのは、世界でも太地町のみである。</b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">容姿端麗で人によく懐く従順なイルカを確保するためには、その何倍ものイルカを捕獲しなければならない。追い込み猟はイルカに傷を付けずに捕獲するための唯一且つ最良の猟法である。結果、漁師は少数の水族館用のイルカを捕獲するために、夥しい数のイルカを捕殺することになるのである。太地におけるイルカ食の需要はこうした町おこしの結果、「人為的に創出されたもの」である。太地のイルカ食は「伝統」でも「食文化」でもなく、この「1969年」という年を起点に始まった、水族館ビジネスが招いたひとつの「悪習」である。あくまで水族館ビジネスがイルカ猟の主目的であり、イルカ食は副産物にすぎない。いわば、「おつり」である。それゆえ、「イルカを食べないで」といくら町の人たちに訴えかけたところでイルカ猟は決してなくならない。町の人に声は届かないのである。 </b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> 私たち活動家が訴えるべきはあくまで水族館ビジネスの廃止である。そのためには国民を広く啓蒙する必要がある。国民に対して根気強くイルカショーのチケットを買うべきではないことを訴えることこそがイルカを守るための正道であり最も有効な手段なのである。これは容易なことでも短い道のりでもない。しかし、実際に韓国では行政と知識人、市民団体との長い議論の末、イルカショービジネスからの撤退に成功している。</b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">海外のイルカ保護活動家が太地でデモをし、モニターをし、スパイまがいの活動をしているのは、残念ながらまったく逆効果で筋違いな活動と言わざるを得ない。確かに太地については監視も必要な側面はあるが、外野やマスコミを煽る負の効果のほうがはるかに大きく、なかんずく、税金の拠出根拠にされていることには言及せざるを得ない。このことにイルカ保護活動家であるなら無関心であってはならない。我々が向かうべきは太地ではなく、日本全国に53か所、そして世界各国に300ヶ所以上存在する水族館 (Dolphinarium)である。言うまでもないが、需要があるからこそ供給がある。イルカショーとは倫理や文化の問題ではなく、ビジネスの領域に属する問題である。イルカ猟が税金と生体販売の売上金で維持されている以上、我々イルカ保護活動家及び国内海外の環境保護団体はイルカショーのチケットを買わせない活動にリソースを集中すべきである。問題を解決するためには問題のルーツを正しく見極めなければならない。</b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">海洋哺乳類を守る会 代表</font></b></div><div><b><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" size="4">森岡敏明 </font></b><a href="http://amm-japan.jimdo.com/">http://amm-japan.jimdo.com/</a></div><div><img id="id_6e22_1407_d208_2410" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9P7L8VQohtI/VSGYRMDxsKI/AAAAAAABO-4/jEJgl0cCTyc/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 778px; height: auto; margin: 4px;"><b><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" size="4"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" size="6">〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜</font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div><font face="Arial" color="#0000b8"><b><font size="5"> </font><font size="7">A Message to Toshiaki Morioka</font></b></font></div><div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5"><b> From Captain of Sea Shepherd </b></font></span></div></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font face="Arial" size="5"> </font></b></span><font size="7">☠</font><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="5"> </font><font face="Arial" size="7" color="#0000ff">Paul Watson </font></b><font size="7">☠</font></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> <img id="id_31a7_6c26_9417_dc3b" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-gxjdOXUH5ys/VQeiHcnjWPI/AAAAAAABNWA/2rytcyxp4ok/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 374px; height: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font face="Arial" size="5"><br></font></b></span></div><div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>I am sorry you feel this way, but you do not understand what the Cove Guardians are doing, if you think they are there simply to lecture Japanese fishermen.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>They are not. They are there to focus international attention on the slaughter of the dolphins and when the Cove Guardians come to Taiji they are there to bring the images home to their respective countries.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Sea Shepherd is not anti-Japanese and never has been. We are pro-dolphin. We are inTaiji to support the dolphins and the truth is that these dolphins do not belong to the Japanese people. They are a nation onto themselves and the fishermen of Taiji are viciously assaulting the citizens of this nation of dolphins, killing them, capturing them, torturing them and that Toshiaki, makes what they are doing very much our business.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Are you saying that if the Cove Guardians were not in Taiji, the killing would end? I wish that were so but if the Cove Guardians leave Taiji, the only thing that will end is the continued international exposure that the Cove Guardians bring to this cruel massacre.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>You say, “It is not seen as normal, legitimate or even acceptable for overseas activist groups to operate in this remote corner of Japan as if it were their own backyard.”</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Yet Japanese whalers go to the Southern Ocean, to an internationally established whale sanctuary and treat this sanctuary like it is their own backyard. Tell me Toshiaki, why is it okay for Japanese whalers to treat the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary and the Australian Whale Sanctuary like it is their personal slaughterhouse, yet it is not acceptable for the Cove Guardians to bear witness and document and expose the slaughter of dolphins in Taiji?</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>We are not creating a Japanese puppet organization and we have no intention of doing so. We welcome the participation of Japanese citizens but we are not in Japan to create an organization, we are in Taiji to continue to focus worldwide attention on this obscenity that takes place there.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>We are opposing IMATA and we are opposing the shipment of dolphins by airlines. We are opposing the slaughter of dolphins and pilot whales in the Danish Faeroe Islands and we are opposing whalers in the Southern Ocean and in the North Atlantic.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>We do not give a damn about what nationality the killers are, and we never have. We have fought dolphin killing, whale killing sadistic killers worldwide from many different cultural and ethnic backgrounds and what we oppose is the hand that holds the harpoon or knife. The colour and nationality of that hand is unimportant and irrelevant.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>The killers are homo sapiens and we have a responsibility to oppose any homo sapien that slaughters these intelligent and socially complex sentient beings. This is not about racism. There is only one race and that is the human race and the killers and we are of the same race. It really is between people who kill dolphins and whales and people who wish to stop the killing. It is as simply as that, and tossing accusations of racism into the issue is nothing more than a tactical way of defending the indefensible.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Before we came to Taiji in 2003 there was not a single Japanese voice opposing the slaughter. The media did not mention it and the Japanese people were oblivious to it.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>That is no longer the case. We have made Taiji, this town without pity into a household word around the world, a place now considered with respect to dolphins as every bit as vile as Treblinka or Dachau were to humans.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>The Japanese government receives tens of thousands of e-mails and letters every year from all around the world and that carries more weight than a few people holding up protest banners in Tokyo.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>What the Japanese government responds to is “gaiatsu.” This means foreign pressure and every single piece of Japanese legislation dealing with marine conservation has been passed because of gaiatsu.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>If people in Japan feel that there is rising anti-Japanese sentiment because of the slaughter of dolphins the answer is to stop slaughtering dolphins. We are not creating this anti-Japanese sentiment. It is the slaughter that is creating this animosity. We are merely exposing the horror that is the truth of Taiji. Do you wish to chastise us for being the messengers of truth. If Japan is being viewed by many with anger and even horror it is because of the slaughter, it is not because of us.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>What you are asking is for us to not speak truth to power. You are asking us to draw down the curtain over Taiji so that the world will once again be blissfully ignorant of the killing.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>This we will not do. We will not abandon the dolphins. Our objective is to make sure that every dolphin that dies in Taiji is killed before the eyes of the world. We cannot allow the killing to resume in silence.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>You want us to view the problem from the other side through the eyes of the fishermen of Taiji. That is like asking is to view the crimes of serial killers through the eyes of the psychopaths.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Toshiaki, Have you seen the slaughter, have you heard the screams of the dolphins, have you smelt the blood in the air, have you seen the bay turn red with the blood of these beautiful creatures?</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Do you really think we can simply turn our backs on these dolphins and walk away?</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>If we are being offensive to the fishermen it is because what they are doing is offensive to us, to decency and to our collective dignity as a species.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>What has been happening in Taiji is a crime against nature and the future of humanity. We will not walk away from it and we will never abandon these dolphins.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Yes we have to stop the cruel performances by dolphinariums where these intelligent creatures are enslaved. Movies like The Cove and Blackfish have gone along way in educating people worldwide about the horror of this viciously cruel industry.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4"><font face="Arial"><b>The Japanese right wing nationalists have seized on this issue to espouse their agenda of hate. As incredible as it seems, they seem to think that linking their cause to slaughter and torture is the most positive media strategy they can deploy. </b></font><b style="font-family: Arial;">Oh wait, I’m sorry, I forgot that the Japanese right wing nationalist have always been aligned with slaughter, bloodshed, slavery and torture. I’m sure that many Chinese citizens would agree</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><b style="font-family: Arial;"><font size="4">The Cove Guardians are not hiding their light as you say in a remote corner of Japan. What they see and document is sent out to the entire world and people are noticing, and more so every year. Before we went to Taiji in 2003, no one, absolutely no one knew of this. Today the world is aware of it so you cannot say our efforts in Taiji have not been successful. From an educational and media position the campaign has been hugely successful.</font></b></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>You say there is nothing left to do at the cove that requires overseas activists. I am sorry but you are wrong. If the overseas activists leave, the opposition to this slaughter will end. The advantage that overseas activists have over Japanese activists is that the Japanese government cannot intimidate the non-Japanese activists and they have and will continue to intimidate the Japanese activists.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Our loyalty is 100% with the dolphins and we will not be intimidated into abandoning them by nationalistic indignation because of the color of our skin or the nationality of our passports. We will not submit and surrender to discrimination.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>The slaughter of dolphins at Taiji must be ended. It has no place in the 21st century, no place in the civilized world and no place within any human culture. It is a cruel and remorseless senseless immoral waste of life, an obscenity that every human being should oppose if they have any self-respect for themselves as human beings.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Thank-you Toshiaki for opposing the killing. You obviously have empathy for these wonderful marine mammals and we appreciate that. We really do, but please do not presume to dismiss us on the grounds that we are not Japanese.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>The dolphins are not Japanese either. They belong in those waters. It is their home and we as their defenders have every right to be at their side.</b></font></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Translated English to Japanesee by Keiko Olds and LOVECAT</span></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><font size="5" color="#0000b8"> </font><font color="#0000b8" size="6" face="Arial">シーシェパード・キャプテン・ポールワトソンから</font></b></div><div><b><font size="5" color="#0000b8"> 海洋哺乳類を守る会 代表 森岡敏明にメッセージ</font></b></div><div><b><font size="5" color="#0000b8"><br></font></b></div><div><div><b><font face="Arial">あなたには申し訳ないがコーブガーディアンが単に日本の漁師に訴えていると思っているのならそれは間違いだ。あなたはコーブガーディアンの行動を全く理解していない。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">彼らは、イルカの虐殺虐殺に対して、世界からの注目を集めるためにそこにいるのであり、彼らが太地に行くのは、</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">そこで見たイメージを、それぞれの国へ持ち帰るためである。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">シーシェパードは決して反日活動家ではない。我々ははイルカを支持する。我々はイルカをサポートするための太地入りである。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">事実イルカは日本人に属しているわけではない。イルカには自分たちの統一国家があり、国の市民イルカ達を太地の漁師は残忍に暴行虐殺したり捕獲拷問して苦しめている。トシアキ、そういう彼等の行動が我々にこういう仕事をさせている。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">もしもコーヴガーディアンが太地から去ったら、コーブガーディアンが今まで行ってきた"冷酷な大量殺戮の世界的な暴露"が終了するだろう。そうであると良いが、しかし、もしコーブガーディアンが太地を離れたら、唯一終わることと言えばコーブガーディアンが今まで行ってきた"冷酷な大量殺戮の世界的な暴露"が終了するだろう。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">あなたはこう言うかもしれない。海外の活動家が、まるで自分の裏庭のように、この離れた場所で活動するのは、</font></b><b><font face="Arial">普通ではないし、合法的でも無いし受け入れがたい事である、と。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">国際的にクジラ保護区と認定された南極海にまだ日本は生き続け、まるでそこが自分の裏庭であるようにその聖域で捕鯨をしている。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">トシアキ教えてくれ、なぜ日本人が南極海の鯨保護区やオーストラリアのクジラ保護区でまるで彼らの個人的な屠殺場でのようにしている事が良くて、コーブガーディアンが太地でイルカの虐殺を目撃し耐えながら記録する事が悪いのか。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">我々は、日本人の傀儡団体を作るつもりはない。我々は日本人の参加を歓迎するが、しかし、我々は団体を作るために日本にいるのではない。我々が太地にいるのは、太地で行われている残忍な行為に対して、世界的に関心をあつめるためである。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">我々はIMATAや航空会社によってイルカの出荷を反対する。そしてデンマークのフェロー諸島でイルカやゴンドウクジラの虐殺にも反対している。そして我々は南極海と北大西洋における捕鯨も反対している。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">我々は殺戮者がどんな国籍だろうが関係はないし、我々も国籍を持たない。世界中多くのの異なる文化や民族から構成されている我々は、鯨やイルカを殺害する銛やナイフを持つサディスティックな殺戮者と戦ってきた。肌の色、国籍は重要ではなく無関係だ。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">殺戮者は人間であり、この知的で、社会的に複雑で、感覚のある生き物を殺している人間を阻止する責任がある。これは人種差別ではない。この世界にはたったひとつだけの種族が存在する。それは、人類、と、殺し屋、だ。イルカや鯨を殺すものと、それを阻止するものたちである。ようするに、人種差別批判をこの問題にさしはさむという事は、弁護の余地のない者たちを守るための戦略的な方法でしかない。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">我々はが2003年に太地に来る以前は日本でのイルカ虐殺に反対するものはひとりもいなかった。メディアがそれについて触れる事がなかった事を日本の人々は誰も気づかなかった。が、今は状況は違う。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"> 我々は、太地、それは、哀れみをもたない町の名前を世界中の人々に知られるようにした。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">太地は、イルカにとって、トレブリンカかダッハウ(ナチスの強制収容所)と同じくらい恥ずべき場所である。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">日本政府は世界中から毎年、何万ものメールや手紙を受け取り、それは今や、東京で、イルカ漁反対の垂れ幕を持って反対活動をしている数人の人たちより、重要であるはずである。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"> </font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">「Gaiatsu」は日本政府が反応する。これは外国の圧力を意味し、日本の海洋自然保護法律ひとつひとつが外圧によって変わった。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">もし日本の人々がイルカの虐殺を止める事が反日感情だと思っている様だが、我々は反日感情を生み出してはない。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">もし、日本人が、イルカの虐殺のために、反日感情が増大していると思っているなら、答えはイルカの虐殺を止めることである。我々が、この反日感情を生み出しているのではない。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">虐殺こそが、この敵意を生み出しているのである。我々は単に、太地の真実である、この恐怖をあきらかにしているだけである。あなたは、我々が真実のメッセンジャーであることで、我々を責めますか?もし日本が、多くの人によって、怒りや、恐怖とともに見られているとしたら、それはこの惨殺によってであり、我々のせいではない。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"> </font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">我々に真実を語る事をやめろと求めるのか。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">あなたは我々と太地の間にカーテンを下ろし、再び太地でのこの上なく無知な殺害が始まることを我々に求めている。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">我々はそれを望んではいない。私たちはイルカを見捨てない。我々の目的は、太地で死ぬ全てのイルカを世界中の人々が殺害を目撃し確認することです。我々は静寂の中で殺害が再開することは許さない。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"> </font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">あなたは、この問題を太地の漁師の視線で見て欲しいという。それは、まるで、連続殺人をサイコパスの視線で見てくれと言っているのと同じだ。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"> </font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">トシアキは、美しい生物が入り江を血で真っ赤に染め、空気中に血の匂いを嗅ぎ、イルカが悲鳴をあげながら殺されていくのを見た事があるのか?</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">あなたは本当に我々がこのイルカに背を向け歩き離れて行く事がができると思うか?</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">もし、我々が、漁師に対して、腹だたしく、不快な存在とするならば、それは、彼らが 我々と、我々の良識、そして、種としての集団的な尊厳に対してしていることが、不愉快で、無礼だからである。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">太地で起こっている事は人類の未来と自然に対する犯罪である。我々はそこから出て行く事はないしイルカ達を見捨てる事は決してない。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">むろん、我々は、イルカの水族館で、この知性がある生物が奴隷にされ、残酷なパフォーマンスを行っているのを止めなければならない。コーブやブラックフィッシュのような映画は、世界の人々に、この恐ろしく残酷な産業の恐怖を知らせるのに役立ってきた。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">日本の左翼愛国主義者は、彼らの憎しみと言う指針を支持するために、この問題に飛びついた。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"> とても信じ難い事だが彼等はそうのような虐殺や拷問にその原因をリンクすることは、彼らが展開することができ、ほとんどの正のメディア戦略であることを考えているようだ、ああ失敬。私は日本の右翼民族主義は常に虐殺、流血、奴隷制と拷問共にある事をことを忘れていた。その事は多くの中国人民が同意するだろうと確信する。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">ザ・コーブガーディアンは、あなたの様に光を隠して日本の隅で語るようなことはしない。彼らが何を見たか、事実を世界中に送り出し、毎年もっと人々に知り多くの人々が全身で感じていく。我々が2003年に太地に行く以前は、誰も絶対にこの事を知る者はいなかった。今日、我々の太地での努力が成功しないとあなたには断言できないと言うことに世界中が知ってている。教育とメディアの位置からキャンペーンは大成功を収めてきた。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">あなたは海外の活動家はコーブでやり残したことはもう何もないと言う。海外活動家が撤退にすると、この虐殺反対が終了てしまう。海外の活動家が日本の活動家より良い事は、日本政府が外国人活動家を威嚇する事は不可能だし、彼らは日本の活動家を威嚇し続けるだけということです。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">我々のイルカへの忠誠心は100%であり、我々は肌の色やパスポートの国籍を理由に侮辱脅迫されてもイルカを見捨てない。我々は差別に対して服従、降伏はしない。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">太地でのイルカの虐殺を終了する必要がある。それは、21世紀の場所がない、文明世界で場所がない、あらゆる人間の文化の中場所がない。それは人生で残酷、無慈悲、無駄、不道徳、廃棄物、もし彼等が自尊心を持つ人間ならすべての人間がその惨忍さを反対し廃棄するべきである。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"> </font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">イルカの虐殺反対をするトシアキにお礼を言う。あなたは明らかに素晴らしい海洋哺乳類の為に感情を持っているし、我々はそれを感謝している。本当に、我々の事を日本人ではないことを理由に我々を葬る前提としないでほしい。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"> </font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">イルカはどちら日本人ではない。彼らは海域に属している。そこは彼らの家であり、我々の守備は彼らの側にあり、あらゆる権利を持っている。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><br></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><img id="id_d990_1c50_7060_a76e" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JJgKYkY18f4/VQe06gcFKZI/AAAAAAABNXU/xTIADXoCxn4/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 804px; height: auto;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="4"><b>シーシェパード SEASHEPHERD </b></font></div><div><b style="font-style: italic;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" size="6">〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜</font></b></div></div><div><h1 style="font-style: normal; margin: 0.125em 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="6"> </font><font color="#0000b8"><font face="Arial" size="6">Japanese activists </font></font></span></h1><h1 style="font-style: normal; margin: 0.125em 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 184); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="6">fight against the tide to </font></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 184); font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-large; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">save whales and dolphins</span></h1><div style="font-style: italic;"><h5 class="writer" role="author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-style: normal;"><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><font face="Arial" size="5">Associate Professor in the School of Global JapaneseStudies at Meiji University</font></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><font face="Arial"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5"> </font><font size="6" color="#0000ff">Shaun O'Dwyer</font></span></font></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> <img id="id_1c98_a724_5526_19f6" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-f_6vLeydds8/VQekWztN7qI/AAAAAAABNWM/xebKVQ09inw/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 364px; height: auto;"><font face="Arial" size="5"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div></h5></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>It’s tough being a Japanese activist — especially if you are campaigning against whaling or dolphin hunting.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Just ask Takayo Yamaguchi, subjected to online abuse, death threats and hacking attacks since she pioneered “tweetstorm” dolphin defense campaigns on social media in Japan six months ago. Or veteran conservationist Sakae Hemmi, cofounder of ELSA Nature Conservancy in 1976, who has been questioned several times by police since she first became involved in activism against the dolphin hunts in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture. Or Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, two Greenpeace Japan activists convicted of trespass and theft in 2010 after seizing a parcel of whale meat illicitly posted by a Japan scientific whaling employee, which they presented as evidence to prove allegations of embezzlement within the scientific whaling program.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Often unaware of these activists’ work, foreign opponents of Japan’s whaling and dolphin hunting wonder why there are so few Japanese critics. Something needs to be said about the obstacles Japanese activists face.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>First of all, it’s difficult to resist the nationalism surrounding cetacean hunting, upheld by a mixed crowd of Fisheries Agency bureaucrats, politicians, journalists, academics and Net <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">uyo</em> (social media-based rightists). Even Japan Communist Party politicians have called for the protection of Japan’s whaling traditions and culinary culture. As Hemmi emphasized to me, in Japan whaling and dolphin hunting are “legal fisheries.” And the fishery business has existential and cultural importance; it’s considered essential to Japan’s food security and culinary identity, defined in part as a <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">gyoshokubunka</em> (marine food culture).</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Accumulated resentment against decades of foreign criticism; a conviction that foreign activists and governments are threatening a key, if largely symbolic stronghold in Japanese fisheries (“once whaling falls, tuna fisheries will be next!”); and the politics of Japan’s scientific whaling boondoggle are all behind a deep “them and us” mentality promoted by Fisheries bureaucrats, politicians and pundits. It’s characterized by strident assertions of cultural difference, complaints of cultural imperialism and liberal helpings of the “eco-terrorism” slur.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>The sometimes extreme tactics of foreign activist organizations and the racism of some foreign critics feed this defensive self-definition. Most Japanese rarely eat whale or dolphin meat, but they are sympathetic to complaints about arrogant foreigners trying to impose their values upon Japan.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>These confrontations make life difficult for Japanese activists. Hemmi told me they “have to be very careful not to be mistaken for having a connection with Sea Shepherd,” the militant anti-whaling group founded by activist Paul Watson that hounds Japanese whaling vessels in the Southern Seas. Yamaguchi says other Japanese ask her why she doesn’t “protect Japanese from attacks by foreign activists.” She adds that “insulting the entire Japanese public (over the dolphin drive hunt in the cove in Taiji) is creating sympathy for Taiji fishermen.”</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Another veteran conservationist expressed dismay at how the behavior of foreign activists has provided excuses “for the government to shut us out of talks with officials,” undermining years of patient lobbying in coalition with other conservation organizations.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Japanese activists are hardly alone in facing home-crowd animosity. Even in an anti-whaling stronghold like Australia, environmentalist and animal rights organizations are often accused of being “un-Australian” and “extremist” by powerful mining and livestock farming interests. Yet they can push back against critics in the court of public opinion, because — unlike many of their Japanese counterparts — they are often big, well-financed, well-connected NPOs.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Large donation-paying memberships and big budgets permit the hiring of numerous professional staff specializing in recruiting, lobbying and advocacy; and through these activities, such organizations can acquire credibility and leverage with politicians, industry groups, celebrities and the mass media. Expensive media-savvy campaigns allow them to influence public opinion directly.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Greenpeace Australia had 45,000 paying members in 2013, 70 full- and part-time employees and a budget of 17 million Australian dollars (¥1.5 trillion). Animals Australia, a top animal-welfare umbrella organization, claims 20,000 members, 22 full- and part-time staff and an annual budget of AU$3 million (¥278 million) in 2013.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Japan’s environmentalist and animal welfare organizations are proportionately smaller. Greenpeace Japan in 2013 had 5,000 members, 31 full- and part-time staff and a budget of ¥195 million. In the same year, the Nature Conservation Society of Japan had 25 full-time staff, 15,000 members and a budget of ¥254 million. Organizations working on campaigns against cetacean hunting are often far smaller, with one or two full-time staffers, or just a few volunteers. Then there are individuals like Yamaguchi, who works with the international Save the Blood Dolphins campaign to raise awareness of captive dolphins’ plight.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Why the disparity in scale and influence? Political scientists studying Japan’s NPO sector often invoke the Edo Period Confucian slogan “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Kanson minpi”</em> — “Revere officials and look down on the masses” — to explain the statist ideology of modern Japanese governance, which limited NPO growth until recent times.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Originating in the late 19th century and adopted from European models, this ideology put the state firmly in charge of Japan’s catch-up modernization: An elite educated bureaucracy decided economic and social goals, while industry and especially the public were expected to remain in the passenger seats. There — to paraphrase philosopher Masao Maruyama — people could easily “doze off over their rights”. Japanese statism achieved its complete form in the post-1945 era.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>This statism traditionally admitted limited space for civil society groups, as political scientists like Keiko Hirata and Robert Pekannen have explained; they are ideally small, localized and cooperative with government. Activist groups don’t fit that formula easily. Though environmental movements developed in the 1960s and ’70s, they focused on “single-issue” causes and their appeal faded as most Japanese accepted government priorities on economic growth and increasing affluence.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, however, there was an upsurge in public support for volunteerism, just when faith in bureaucratic competence was also falling. Public pressure led to passage of an NPO law in 1998 that substantially lowered the financial requirements for NPO registration, established wide criteria for organizations to register under and streamlined their bureaucratic supervision.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Since the March 11, 2011, Tohoku disasters, registered volunteer NPOs have really come into their own (including one that this author co-directs). However, activist organizations still face statist prejudices and bureaucratic bias, especially when they are involved with push-button nationalist issues such as whaling and dolphin hunting — as Greenpeace Japan found, to its cost.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Many such organizations avoid NPO registration, in spite of the fund-raising status, enhanced prestige and (sometimes) tax deductibility it confers. Since 2010 Greenpeace Japan has been registered as a “general incorporated association.” This, Junichi Sato told me, is a “legal status with much more flexibility,” which also satisfies Greenpeace’s desire “to be independent from influences of authority.”</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Hemmi said that ELSA didn’t apply for NPO registration because it didn’t want to be subjected to bureaucratic regulation. Other activists said that registration was too much trouble, or that Japanese groups campaigning against cetacean hunts are often too small and divided by factional rivalry to qualify for NPO registration anyway.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Skeptical readers might think that there is nothing wrong with this state of affairs. Large, cashed-up advocacy NPOs can have a distorting influence on government policy out of all proportion to their membership bases. After all, America’s National Rifle Association is also an NPO! And if Japanese anti-whaling and anti-dolphin hunting activists can’t change the minds of their fellow Japanese, then so be it.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>There is another view, however, which sees activist organizations as a potentially powerful but loyal opposition, countering the outsize influence of the Japan Fisheries Agency and whaling nationalism in shaping policy, diplomacy and public opinion about whaling, dolphin hunting and fisheries.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>In such a role, these groups could bring to the Japanese public’s notice problems with transparency, waste and scientific credibility in the “research whaling” program, air questions about mercury contamination in cetacean meat and promote economic alternatives for the declining fishing towns involved in whaling and dolphin hunting.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Most of all, they could mobilize the public to push the Japan Fisheries Agency and its political allies away from whaling nationalism and toward pro-active commitment to fisheries conservation, at home and on the high seas, in collaboration with other governments and NPOs.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>“To me, protecting dolphins means protecting the ocean, and protecting the ocean means protecting us,” says Yamaguchi, summing up her holistic vision. “It’s not only because dolphins are pretty”.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>To achieve those goals, and to get themselves heard above the confrontations between the Japanese government and foreign activist organizations, Japanese activist groups will need to pull together and acquire more finances, size and domestic and international influence. For their part, foreign activists should ease off the confrontation tactics and provide more resources, advice and moral support to Japanese activists instead.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Shaun O’Dwyer is an associate professor in the School of Global Japanese Studies, Meiji University, and a co-director of the It’s Not Just Mud NPO. Foreign Agenda offers a forum for opinion about issues related to life in Japan. Comments and story ideas: <a href="mailto:community@japantimes.co.jp" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">community@japantimes.co.jp</a></b></em></p><div style="font-style: italic;"><a href="Associate Professor in the School of Global JapaneseStudies at Meiji University Shaun O" dwyer'="" id="id_cd20_90bf_ac3e_3930"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2015/03/16/voices/japanese-activists-fight-tide-save-whales-dolphins/#.VQcA8xg8KrV</span></div><div></div></a></div><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"> <br></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><font color="#0000b8"><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><font face="Arial" size="6"><b>日本の活動家が挑む大波</b></font></font></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 184); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"> <font size="4">強力な圧力に立ち向かう、イルカ漁や捕鯨に反対する日本人たち。</font></b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> </span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> </span><b style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">明治大学国際日本学部 准教授</font></b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> </span></p><div style="font-style: normal; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><font color="#0000ff" size="5"><b> ショーン・オドワイヤー</b></font></div><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">2015年03月16日ジャパンタイムズ掲載</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">「日本人の活動家はつらいよ。」日本人の活動家は大変です。特に、捕鯨やイルカ漁の反対活動をしている場合は、難しいようだ。山口たかよさんは、日本のソーシャルメディアでイルカ保護キャンペーンのツイートストームを半年前に開始。それ以来、オンライン上での人権侵害や死の脅迫、ハッキングの攻撃などを受けている。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">1976年に発足した、日本の反捕鯨団体の草分けともいえるELSA自然保護の会の辺見栄さんは、和歌山県太地町でのイルカ漁に対する活動に参加した時から、何度か警察の尋問にあっている。また、グリーンピース・ジャパンの活動家、佐藤潤一さんと鈴木徹さんは、日本の調査捕鯨におけるクジラ肉横領疑惑を告発する証拠品として、調査捕鯨船の乗員が不正に自宅に送ったとした鯨肉の小包を運送会社から持ち出して提示したところ、2010年に不法侵入と窃盗で有罪判決となった。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">こういった活動家による働きは日本国内では報道されることが少なく、日本の捕鯨やイルカ漁に反対する海外の活動家は、なぜ日本人は立ち上がらないのかと感じている。そこで、日本人の活動家が直面している障壁について言及しよう。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">まず第一に水産庁の官僚や政治家、記者、学者、またソーシャルメディアで活動するネトウヨ(ネット右翼)といった層に支持されている捕鯨にまつわるナショナリズムに抵抗することが難しい。共産党の政治家ですら、日本捕鯨の伝統と食文化の保護を求めているのだ。辺見さんが言うように、日本の捕鯨やイルカ漁は「合法的な漁業」である。そして、漁業は重要な存在で、文化的にも大事にされている事業なのだ。なぜなら、海の食物を食べる魚食文化は、日本の食文化アイデンティティの一部であり、食料の確保と同じように不可欠であると考えられているのだ。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">何十年も続く外国からの批判に憤りが蓄積し、あたかも外国の活動家や政府が日本の漁業の重要な砦を脅かしているかのように考え「捕鯨の次はマグロ漁が危ない」と言うようになった。調査捕鯨という無駄な官業を続けてきた背景には、水産庁の官僚や政治家や評論家が推進してきた「外と内」という考え方が深く根付いている。それは、文化の違いを強調したり、文化帝国主義だと批判したり、「エコテロリズム」という中傷を多く利用するという形で表れている。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">海外の活動家団体の極端なやり方や、一部の人達による人種差別的な発言が、日本人の立場を守ろうと頑なにさせてしまう。多くの日本人はほとんどクジラやイルカ肉を食べないが、外国人の価値観の押しつけに対する批判には共感を覚える。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">こういった対立は日本の活動家の在り方を困難にしている。辺見さんはこう話す。「シー・シェパードと繋がりがあると誤解されないように気をつけなくてはならない。」シー・シェパードとは南極海で調査捕鯨船を妨害しようとした海洋環境保護団体で、ポール・ワトソン氏によって設立された。山口さんは、他の日本人に「なぜ海外の活動家による攻撃から日本人を守らないんだ」と言われた。「(太地町のイルカ追い込み漁を通して)日本国民全体を侮辱しているように受け取られやすいことが、太地町の漁師さんたちへの同情を生んでいる。」という。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">もう一人、長年鯨類保護に取り組んできた活動家は、外国の活動家の行動に大きな落胆を表した。他の自然保護団体と連合して長年の間、辛抱強くロビー活動を行ってきたのにもかかわらず、外国人活動家の行動が原因となって、「日本政府が私たちとの面談を断る理由となってしまい、今までの努力が損なわれてしまった。」と。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">日本の活動家だけがこんな状況にいるわけではない。オーストラリアの活動家も、板挟みに苦労している。オーストラリアのような反捕鯨活動が盛んな国ですら、環境活動家や動物保護団体は、強力な鉱業産業や家畜産業の団体によって、しばしば「非オーストラリア人」とか「過激派」と言われて非難されてしまう。しかし、彼らは世論でその批判を押し返すことが可能だ。なぜなら日本の環境団体とは違い、大きくて十分な資金があり、連携のとれたNPO団体だからだ。寄付をする会員が多く、予算があるため、支持者の拡大やロビー活動、弁護士など能力の高い専門職員を雇うことができる。これらの活動を通して政治家や事業団体、有名人やマスメディアとの信頼と影響力を獲得してゆく。的を射たメディア・キャンペーンをすることで直接的に世論に影響を与えている。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">グリーンピース・オーストラリアは2013年度には45,000人の会員がおり、フルタイム・パートと合わせて70人の職員が働き、約15億円の予算があった。アニマル・オーストラリアは、トップの動物福祉団体で、同年、20,000人の会員がおり、22人の職員と、2億7800万円の予算があった。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">日本の環境保護団体や動物福祉団体は、人口が多い割に規模が小さい。グリーンピース・ジャパンは2013年度は5,000人の会員がおり、31人の職員、予算は1億9,500万円、同年の日本自然保護協会は15,000人の会員で、25人の職員、予算が2億5,400万円だ。イルカ漁や捕鯨に対する活動を行う団体はこれよりもずっと小さく、一人か二人のスタッフや数人のボランティアがいるくらいだ。そして山口さんのように個人でSave the Blood Dolphins の活動に協力して、イルカ、シャチなど捕獲の悲しい現状を伝えようとする人たちがいるという現状だ。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">なぜ、こんなに規模や影響力に差があるのだろうか?日本のNPO分野を研究している政治学者は、江戸時代の儒教者のスローガンである「官尊民卑」を引き合いに出す。これは、政府や官僚を尊び、大衆を見下すという意味だが、現在までNPOの成長を制限してきた現代日本の国家主義というイデオロギー(観念)を表している。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">19世紀後半に伝来し、ヨーロッパをモデルとして採用したこのイデオロギーは日本が近代化する中で定着した。エリート教育を受けた官僚が、経済や社会の目標を決め、政策を行い、産業界やとりわけ大衆は主導権を行使しない立場にしていいと考えられたものだった。哲学者の丸山眞男氏がいうところの、「権利の上に眠る者」に人々はいとも簡単になってしまう。(*権利に甘んじて安心し、行動を起こさないうちにその権利すら失うという意味だ。) 日本の国家主義は、1945年以降にその完全な形となった。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">この国家主義が、市民グループの活動を限定的なものにした。政治学者の平田恵子氏やロバート・ぺカンナン氏が説明するように、「理想的な市民グループは、小さく地元密着型で、政府と協力的である」となっている。活動家のグループはその形式にそうそう当てはまらない。1960年代~70年代に環境運動が活発になっていったが、グローバルではなく局地的な問題、例えば水俣や原子力などだけに焦点を絞っていた上、当時のほとんどの日本人は経済成長と経済的な豊かさを優先課題とした政府の政策を受け入れたため、環境運動は下火になっていった。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">1995年の神戸大震災後、偶然起こった数々のスキャンダルが原因で政府への信頼が揺らいだと同時に、ボランティア活動に対する国民の支持が急増した。世論による圧力は法人登録をするための資金条件を下げ、官僚による監督を合理化し、登録できる組織の範囲を広げたNPO法が1998年に出来上がることに繋がった。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">2011年3月11日の東北震災以来、登録されたボランティアのNPOはその真価が認められてきている。この記事の著者が共同理事をしているNPOもそうだ。ところが、活動家団体は、いまだに国家主義者の先入観や官僚主義の偏見に直面している。グリーンピース・ジャパンの例にもあるように、捕鯨やイルカ漁といった愛国主義者が敏感になる問題だと、なおさら手痛い思いをすることもある。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">NPO法人登録することで資金調達環境や名声が得られて、時には税金控除ができる場合もあるのに、多くの団体はそれを避けている。以前はNPO法人に登録していたグリーンピース・ジャパンは、2010年から「一般社団法人」として登録している。佐藤潤一さんは私にこう説明した。「グリーンピースが求める「権力の影響からの独立」が可能になり、より自由に活動できる法的地位だからです。」</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">辺見さんもELSAのNPO法人登録を申請しなかったが、それは政府の規制を受けたくなかったからだ。他の活動家は、NPO法人登録は面倒なことが多いと言う。また、クジラやイルカの漁に反対している日本の団体はたいてい小さく、ばらばらなので、NPO法人登録をするための人数基準を満たすことが難しいだろう。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">懐疑的な読者はこの状態は何の問題もないと思うかもしれない。規模が大きく資金の多い社会派NPOは、その大きな支持者層によって、他の国民が望まない影響を政策に与えることもある。なんと、アメリカのライフル協会もNPO法人だ。日本のイルカやクジラ捕獲を反対する活動家が、他の日本人の考え方に変化をもたらすことが出来ないのは、仕方がないのかもしれない。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">しかし、別の見方もある。活動団体をパワフルだが誠実な野党として見ることもできる。捕鯨やイルカ漁そして漁業に対する世論と外交と政策を方向付ける中で、日本の水産庁と捕鯨ナショナリズムのもたらす偏った影響に対しバランスをとる野党だ。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">もしそのような役割として見れば、これらの団体は日本国民に調査捕鯨の科学的な信ぴょう性や透明性、また税金の無駄使いなどの問題を気付かせることに貢献できる。またクジラ類の肉に多く含まれている水銀の危険性を提示したり、衰退する漁師町でイルカ漁や捕鯨の代わりとなる産業を推奨することが出来るであろう。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">何よりも、彼らは民衆を動かして、日本の水産庁や政治的協力者にも圧力を与え、それらの方向を捕鯨ナショナリズムから切り離すことが出来るだろう。また、他国の政府やNPO団体と協力しながら、日本近海でも国際水域でも、漁業保全に積極的に取り組むことも出来るはずだ。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">「私にとっては、ただ”イルカが可愛い”からというだけではなく、イルカを守ることは海を守ること。そして、海を守ることは私達を守ることということだからです。」と山口たかよさんは彼女の大きな視点を話す。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">日本政府と外国人活動家団体との対立の泥沼から抜け出して、これらの目標を達成するためには、日本の活動家グループは連携をとる必要がある。一緒に活動することで大きな団体になり、より多くの活動資金を得て、国内外に影響をもたらせるようになる。こうなる為には、外国人活動家は対立的な言動を和らげる必要があり、その代わりに、もっと日本の活動家に資金やアドバイス、精神的な支援を提供したほうがいい。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> ショーン・オドワイヤー 明治大学国際日本学部 准教授、It’s Not Just Mud NPO法人理事 </b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#248f24">*</font>This Japanese article </span><span style="font-style: italic;">has been published by <font color="#248f24">Ceta Journal</font></span></b></font></p><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b style="font-family: Arial;"><font size="4"><font color="#248f24">*</font>Translation English to Japanese by <font color="#248f24">Ceta Journal </font></font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; 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<span class='st_email_large' displayText='Email'></span></div>Keiko T. Oldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859488789054287551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537383451156444426.post-31076123165024561942022-08-04T12:05:00.001-05:002022-12-14T00:58:49.705-06:00Dear Captain of the Sea Shepherd E/J Bilingual 日本語付き <div><br></div><div><div><div><i><font size="4" face="Arial" color="#0277bd"><b> この記事は2016年ごろ、オーストラリアの捕鯨反対グループのリーダーであり、シーシェパードのキャプテンポールワトソンが日本の<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">海洋哺乳類を守る会 のリーダー 森岡敏明さんに宛てた手紙です。</span></b></font><b style="color: rgb(2, 119, 189); font-family: Arial;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">その手紙の和訳を森岡さんから私、恵子髙橋オールズに依頼があり、拙い英語力で翻訳を始めたものの、ポール ワトソンの文章の表現があまりにも独特すぎるので、私の友人で英語検定講師に確認してもらいながら訳しました。</span></b><b style="color: rgb(2, 119, 189); font-family: Arial;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">また元明治大学の教授で反捕鯨家のショーン・オドワイザー氏と共同でこの記事を書き上げましたが森岡さんからたっての願いで公開を断念しました。</span></b></i></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial" color="#0277bd"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i> あれから年月が経ち、森岡さんは捕鯨反対グループから退き、ある国の日本大使館に戻って行きましたので、勝手ながら公開に踏み込みました。</i></span></b></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial" color="#0277bd"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><br></i></span></b></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" color="#00838f"><b><font size="4"> This article is letter from leader of the Sea Shepherd Captain Paul Watson to the Society for the Protection of Japanese Marine Mammals leader Mr. Toshiaki Morioka, around 2016. At the Mr.Morioka request of translatin it to me.</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" color="#00838f" size="4"><b>But Paul Watson's sentence expression was too unique, so I worked with my friend English test instructor. She checked my translated.</b></font></div><div><font face="Georgia" color="#00838f" size="4"><b>I also wrote this article in collaboration with former Meiji University professor and anti-whaling Sean Odweiser, but I gave up publishing it at the request of Mr. Morioka. Many years have passed since then, and Mr. Morioka retired from the anti-whaling group and returned to the Japanese embassy in a certain country, so he decided to open it to the public without permission.</b></font></div></div><div><font face="Georgia" color="#00838f" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_c35_f6a6_6f98_2916" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-87w7hngBMVk/VSHuh1ppWHI/AAAAAAABO_M/YCrwrjHXP2E/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 836px; height: auto;"><br></div><div><b><font face="Arial"> </font><font face="Copperplate" size="4">ART by Keiko Olds</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Copperplate" size="4"><br></font></b></div><div><br></div><div><address><div style="text-align: left;"><b><font size="4" face="Palatino" style="font-style: normal;" color="#248f24">I will introduce this man’s article on Protecting the Marine Mammals with a Japanese representative,</font></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><font size="4" face="Palatino" style="font-style: normal;" color="#248f24">Toshiki Morioka, who has written “To Taiji Dolphin Activists, a Message to You” in my blog. </font></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><font size="4" face="Palatino" style="font-style: normal;" color="#248f24">It is available in both Japanese and English.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><font size="4" face="Palatino" style="font-style: normal;" color="#248f24">Also, the Sea Shepherd captain, Paul Watson wrote the replay to Mr. Morioka as an open letter. </font></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><font size="4" face="Palatino" style="font-style: normal;" color="#248f24">This is also available in both languages.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><font size="4" face="Palatino" style="font-style: normal;" color="#248f24">The first letter is by Mr. Morioka, </font></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><font size="4" face="Palatino" style="font-style: normal;" color="#248f24">and the second one is by Paul Watson, </font></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><font size="4" face="Palatino" style="font-style: normal;" color="#248f24">and the last one is the latest article featured in Japan Times </font></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><font size="4" face="Palatino" style="font-style: normal;" color="#248f24">by Meiji University Associate professor, Shaun O’Dwyer.</font></b></div></address></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><font color="#248f24"><br></font></b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font color="#248f24" face="Arial"><b>以前、日本の海洋哺乳類を守る会のリーダー森岡敏明さんが書いた「<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">太地のイルカ活動家に伝えたいメッセージ」を</span></b></font><b style="color: rgb(36, 143, 36); font-family: Arial;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ここのブログで英語と日本語で紹介した。</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">そして今回はシーシェパードのキャプテン、ポール・ワトソンが</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">森岡敏明さん宛に</span></b><b style="color: rgb(36, 143, 36); font-family: Arial;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">オープンレターとしての返事を書いたので</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">日本語と英語でここに公開する。</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: rgb(36, 143, 36); font-family: Arial;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">最初に</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">森岡さんの手紙から。</span></b><b style="color: rgb(36, 143, 36); font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">そしてポールワトソンの手紙。</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#248f24" face="Arial"><b>最後に明治大学准教授ショーンオドワイヤーさんによるジャパンタイムスの最新の記事。</b></font></span></div><div><i><b><font face="Copperplate" color="#248f24"><br></font></b></i></div><div><font color="#248f24"><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><font style="font-weight: bold;"><i> </i></font><font face="Arial" color="#0000b8"><b><font size="6">Message to the World from Japanese Activist</font></b></font></font></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </font></b><b style="font-style: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="5">From Action for Marine Mammals Representative</font></b></div></div><div><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="font-style: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><font> </font></b><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="7" color="#0000ff">Toshiaki Morioka</font></b></div> <img id="id_1e5f_18e6_c014_a3de" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5mHo3f71ATs/VQeiGFQfPpI/AAAAAAABNV4/m1ipqXpjV70/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 363px; height: auto;"></span><div style="font-style: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font><br></font></b></div><div style="font-style: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;"><font size="4" face="Arial">Dolphin protection activists who have working in Taiji has been told to "Get out of Taiji" and continues to be abused by dolphin hunting advocates and the right-wing nationalist faction. They are too unilateral to create a discussion. The fishermen deepens their confidence and pride against the Japanese dolphin release for dolphin protection activists. The fisherman cannot push away the activists because they are intrigued to accomplish their goal. Those activists do not need to listen to these abusive words. I want those whom use force to stop the fisherman whom hunt Dolphins, whole heartedly, to leave the area. </font></span></div><div><div><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Before I state my opinion, about the area in which the dolphin hunting occur, we have to say that they are doing the wrong thing and are making a grave mistake. In Wakayama Taiji, from Japan's agricultural view, the supply of Dolphins provides only 1/8 of the whole dolphin supply. </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">(in 2012, the total number of Dolphins caught was over 16497, and out of the total, Taiji caught 2013). The Japanese dolphin hunting requires a harpoon to kill the animal. The fishermen catch the Dolphins far enough that you cannot see by a binocular. Right now, </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Dolphin hunting in Hokkaido is still being carried out. Dolphin hunting has began due to the rapid recovery of devastated by the tsunami Tohoku region (mainly Iwate Prefecture). Dolphin hunting in Taiji is easy to be seen by the public eye from the simple reason that the massacre has created "The Cove" documentary. However, a larger tragedy is not just in Taiji but many of them are done elsewhere. We must be kept note of that fact.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Right now, a lot of dolphin protection activists gather in Taiji because of a big misunderstanding. </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Taiji's goal is not to hunt for food.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">"Taiji have to hunt in order to eat" This quote is a widespread in the media and displayed as a wrong propaganda. "Protect the tradition of dolphin food" is what fisherman wants to display.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">In the late 1960s, whaling in Taiji (dolphin) was very different.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">The Mayor of Taiji of those days with held the name "town of whaling" to Taiji in 1969 so that tourists would come as well as opening the Taiji Whale Museum with training facilities for Dolphins. </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">In order to sell the dolphin in facilities for dolphin shows in Japan and overseas, they created a training area to tame them.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Up to 2014, Taiji house a facility in which they take in wild dolphins and tame them. </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Cute, smart, and well accustomed to humans, to catch the dolphin that hears you very well, must be a motivation catch a lot of dolphins and choose one that fits that description. </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Drive Hunting's Hunting is the No. 1 best way that does not injure the dolphin. So fisherman catches a dolphin just for the aquarium and kills the remaining lot. </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">And eating dolphins in Taiji, rather than the traditions and food culture, began after 1969. The catching of Dolphins was first mainly for dolphin aquariums, but the remaining Dolphins were given to the fisherman as a bonus. </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">"I have eaten due to a habit". Even if everyone is persuading fisherman and telling them to "not eat the dolphin", people of Taiji will not stop.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">This is because because the dolphins are sold for the aquarium and does not have to stop fishing.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Us, the activists, must stop the dolphin aquariums. So I need to share this with a lot of people.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">We must persuade people not to buy dolphin show tickets. It is the only way.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">It not a simple matter, and this does not solve the problem immediately.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">The Government and intellectuals in South Korea Eliminated the the dolphin show after a long discussion with the People. </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">The demonstrations that activists carry out in Taiji do not change anything. Even if the hidden camera or spying, this is the wrong course of action. Admittedly, monitoring is a necessity, but it is no doubt you will be directed to a more worst situation. It may possibly increase fundings from the government due to low buisness.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">This should be well known to dolphin protection activists.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">We must fight not only Taiji, but the other 53 locations in Japan and it's Dolphinarium with more than 300 places in the world.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Because people are going to see the dolphins, they can sell dolphin.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">The dolphin show is neither logical or part of culture; it is simply business.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Dolphin fishing and sales of bio-sale has been carried out using tax money. </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;">Therefore, dolphin conservationists and environmental protection organizations in the world must direct their effort and be committed to eliminating the dolphin show.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><i>Action for Marine Mammals </i></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><i>Representative:Toshiaki Morioka</i></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://amm-japan.jimdo.com/">http://amm-japan.jimdo.com/</a></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial;"><br></div><div>Translated Japanese to English by Keiko and Ann Olds</div></span></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8"><font size="5"> </font><font face="Arial" size="6">太地のイルカ活動家に伝えたいメッセージ</font></font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="font-size: large;"> 海洋哺乳類を守る会 代表 </b><b><font size="5">森岡敏明</font><font size="4">より</font></b></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i> </i>太地で活動するイルカ保護活動家たちはこれまで「太地から出て行け」とイルカ猟擁護派及び右翼民族主義派から口汚く罵られつづけてきた。それらは議論と言うにはあまりに一方的なものであり、イルカ保護活動家たちにとっては日本のイルカ解放のための信念と確信を深めることはあっても、彼らを太地から退去させるには少しの影響も与えていないのではないかとさえ思われる。このような拙劣きわまる「意見」に耳を貸す必要はないが、私はあえてここで、活動家の同志たちに深い敬意を持って「イルカ保護活動家が太地を去るべき理由」を示したいと思う。 </b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">私の考えを述べる前にまず、日本で実際にイルカ猟が行われている場所について多くの人が誤って認識していることを指摘しなければならない。現在和歌山県太地町の追い込み猟で捕殺されているイルカは日本全体のイルカ捕殺数の約8分の1にしかならない。</b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(2012年、日本全体のイルカの捕獲枠は16,497頭。その中で和歌山県のイルカ追い込み漁業の漁獲枠は2013頭にすぎない。)日本のイルカ猟の主流は「突きん棒」であり、岸辺から双眼鏡で見ることのできない遥か沖合いで猟が行われている。北海道でもイルカ猟は依然としておこなわれており、一時期は津波で壊滅的打撃を受けた東北地方(主に岩手県)のイルカ猟も急速に回復しつつある。太地のイルカ猟は沿岸のひとつの小さな湾の中で虐殺が行われているという単純な理由から人目に触れやすく、結果、映画「ザ・コーヴ」の撮影対象にもなった。しかし、より大きな悲劇は太地ではなく、まったく別の場所で行われている。我々はその事実にまず留意しておかなければならない。 </b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">現在、これほどまでにイルカ活動家が太地で活動するようになったのは、彼らの致命的な誤解に由来する。そもそも太地ではイルカを食べるために猟をしているわけではないのである。「太地ではイルカを食べるために猟をしている」という情報はメディアのミスリードによるものに他ならない。つまり、「イルカ食の伝統を守るべきである」というひとつの命題は、イルカ猟推進派による問題のすり替えにすぎないのである。</b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1960年代後半を境に太地で捕鯨(イルカ猟)のスタイルは大きく変化している。当時の太地町長が太地を「捕鯨の町」として 町おこしの材料にしようと、1969年にイルカの馴致施設を備えた「太地町立くじらの博物館 (Taiji Whale Museum)」を開館した。馴致施設とはイルカを飼い馴らし、イルカショーのために国内及び海外の水族館に転売できるよう訓練するための施設である。2014年現在、この施設を備えイルカを飼育しているのは、世界でも太地町のみである。</b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">容姿端麗で人によく懐く従順なイルカを確保するためには、その何倍ものイルカを捕獲しなければならない。追い込み猟はイルカに傷を付けずに捕獲するための唯一且つ最良の猟法である。結果、漁師は少数の水族館用のイルカを捕獲するために、夥しい数のイルカを捕殺することになるのである。太地におけるイルカ食の需要はこうした町おこしの結果、「人為的に創出されたもの」である。太地のイルカ食は「伝統」でも「食文化」でもなく、この「1969年」という年を起点に始まった、水族館ビジネスが招いたひとつの「悪習」である。あくまで水族館ビジネスがイルカ猟の主目的であり、イルカ食は副産物にすぎない。いわば、「おつり」である。それゆえ、「イルカを食べないで」といくら町の人たちに訴えかけたところでイルカ猟は決してなくならない。町の人に声は届かないのである。 </b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> 私たち活動家が訴えるべきはあくまで水族館ビジネスの廃止である。そのためには国民を広く啓蒙する必要がある。国民に対して根気強くイルカショーのチケットを買うべきではないことを訴えることこそがイルカを守るための正道であり最も有効な手段なのである。これは容易なことでも短い道のりでもない。しかし、実際に韓国では行政と知識人、市民団体との長い議論の末、イルカショービジネスからの撤退に成功している。</b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">海外のイルカ保護活動家が太地でデモをし、モニターをし、スパイまがいの活動をしているのは、残念ながらまったく逆効果で筋違いな活動と言わざるを得ない。確かに太地については監視も必要な側面はあるが、外野やマスコミを煽る負の効果のほうがはるかに大きく、なかんずく、税金の拠出根拠にされていることには言及せざるを得ない。このことにイルカ保護活動家であるなら無関心であってはならない。我々が向かうべきは太地ではなく、日本全国に53か所、そして世界各国に300ヶ所以上存在する水族館 (Dolphinarium)である。言うまでもないが、需要があるからこそ供給がある。イルカショーとは倫理や文化の問題ではなく、ビジネスの領域に属する問題である。イルカ猟が税金と生体販売の売上金で維持されている以上、我々イルカ保護活動家及び国内海外の環境保護団体はイルカショーのチケットを買わせない活動にリソースを集中すべきである。問題を解決するためには問題のルーツを正しく見極めなければならない。</b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">海洋哺乳類を守る会 代表</font></b></div><div><b><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" size="4">森岡敏明 </font></b><a href="http://amm-japan.jimdo.com/">http://amm-japan.jimdo.com/</a></div><div><img id="id_6e22_1407_d208_2410" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9P7L8VQohtI/VSGYRMDxsKI/AAAAAAABO-4/jEJgl0cCTyc/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 778px; height: auto; margin: 4px;"><b><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" size="4"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" size="6">〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜</font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div><font face="Arial" color="#0000b8"><b><font size="5"> </font><font size="7">A Message to Toshiaki Morioka</font></b></font></div><div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5"><b> From Captain of Sea Shepherd </b></font></span></div></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font face="Arial" size="5"> </font></b></span><font size="7">☠</font><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="5"> </font><font face="Arial" size="7" color="#0000ff">Paul Watson </font></b><font size="7">☠</font></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> <img id="id_31a7_6c26_9417_dc3b" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-gxjdOXUH5ys/VQeiHcnjWPI/AAAAAAABNWA/2rytcyxp4ok/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 374px; height: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font face="Arial" size="5"><br></font></b></span></div><div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>I am sorry you feel this way, but you do not understand what the Cove Guardians are doing, if you think they are there simply to lecture Japanese fishermen.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>They are not. They are there to focus international attention on the slaughter of the dolphins and when the Cove Guardians come to Taiji they are there to bring the images home to their respective countries.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Sea Shepherd is not anti-Japanese and never has been. We are pro-dolphin. We are inTaiji to support the dolphins and the truth is that these dolphins do not belong to the Japanese people. They are a nation onto themselves and the fishermen of Taiji are viciously assaulting the citizens of this nation of dolphins, killing them, capturing them, torturing them and that Toshiaki, makes what they are doing very much our business.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Are you saying that if the Cove Guardians were not in Taiji, the killing would end? I wish that were so but if the Cove Guardians leave Taiji, the only thing that will end is the continued international exposure that the Cove Guardians bring to this cruel massacre.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>You say, “It is not seen as normal, legitimate or even acceptable for overseas activist groups to operate in this remote corner of Japan as if it were their own backyard.”</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Yet Japanese whalers go to the Southern Ocean, to an internationally established whale sanctuary and treat this sanctuary like it is their own backyard. Tell me Toshiaki, why is it okay for Japanese whalers to treat the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary and the Australian Whale Sanctuary like it is their personal slaughterhouse, yet it is not acceptable for the Cove Guardians to bear witness and document and expose the slaughter of dolphins in Taiji?</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>We are not creating a Japanese puppet organization and we have no intention of doing so. We welcome the participation of Japanese citizens but we are not in Japan to create an organization, we are in Taiji to continue to focus worldwide attention on this obscenity that takes place there.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>We are opposing IMATA and we are opposing the shipment of dolphins by airlines. We are opposing the slaughter of dolphins and pilot whales in the Danish Faeroe Islands and we are opposing whalers in the Southern Ocean and in the North Atlantic.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>We do not give a damn about what nationality the killers are, and we never have. We have fought dolphin killing, whale killing sadistic killers worldwide from many different cultural and ethnic backgrounds and what we oppose is the hand that holds the harpoon or knife. The colour and nationality of that hand is unimportant and irrelevant.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>The killers are homo sapiens and we have a responsibility to oppose any homo sapien that slaughters these intelligent and socially complex sentient beings. This is not about racism. There is only one race and that is the human race and the killers and we are of the same race. It really is between people who kill dolphins and whales and people who wish to stop the killing. It is as simply as that, and tossing accusations of racism into the issue is nothing more than a tactical way of defending the indefensible.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Before we came to Taiji in 2003 there was not a single Japanese voice opposing the slaughter. The media did not mention it and the Japanese people were oblivious to it.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>That is no longer the case. We have made Taiji, this town without pity into a household word around the world, a place now considered with respect to dolphins as every bit as vile as Treblinka or Dachau were to humans.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>The Japanese government receives tens of thousands of e-mails and letters every year from all around the world and that carries more weight than a few people holding up protest banners in Tokyo.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>What the Japanese government responds to is “gaiatsu.” This means foreign pressure and every single piece of Japanese legislation dealing with marine conservation has been passed because of gaiatsu.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>If people in Japan feel that there is rising anti-Japanese sentiment because of the slaughter of dolphins the answer is to stop slaughtering dolphins. We are not creating this anti-Japanese sentiment. It is the slaughter that is creating this animosity. We are merely exposing the horror that is the truth of Taiji. Do you wish to chastise us for being the messengers of truth. If Japan is being viewed by many with anger and even horror it is because of the slaughter, it is not because of us.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>What you are asking is for us to not speak truth to power. You are asking us to draw down the curtain over Taiji so that the world will once again be blissfully ignorant of the killing.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>This we will not do. We will not abandon the dolphins. Our objective is to make sure that every dolphin that dies in Taiji is killed before the eyes of the world. We cannot allow the killing to resume in silence.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>You want us to view the problem from the other side through the eyes of the fishermen of Taiji. That is like asking is to view the crimes of serial killers through the eyes of the psychopaths.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Toshiaki, Have you seen the slaughter, have you heard the screams of the dolphins, have you smelt the blood in the air, have you seen the bay turn red with the blood of these beautiful creatures?</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Do you really think we can simply turn our backs on these dolphins and walk away?</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>If we are being offensive to the fishermen it is because what they are doing is offensive to us, to decency and to our collective dignity as a species.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>What has been happening in Taiji is a crime against nature and the future of humanity. We will not walk away from it and we will never abandon these dolphins.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Yes we have to stop the cruel performances by dolphinariums where these intelligent creatures are enslaved. Movies like The Cove and Blackfish have gone along way in educating people worldwide about the horror of this viciously cruel industry.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4"><font face="Arial"><b>The Japanese right wing nationalists have seized on this issue to espouse their agenda of hate. As incredible as it seems, they seem to think that linking their cause to slaughter and torture is the most positive media strategy they can deploy. </b></font><b style="font-family: Arial;">Oh wait, I’m sorry, I forgot that the Japanese right wing nationalist have always been aligned with slaughter, bloodshed, slavery and torture. I’m sure that many Chinese citizens would agree</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><b style="font-family: Arial;"><font size="4">The Cove Guardians are not hiding their light as you say in a remote corner of Japan. What they see and document is sent out to the entire world and people are noticing, and more so every year. Before we went to Taiji in 2003, no one, absolutely no one knew of this. Today the world is aware of it so you cannot say our efforts in Taiji have not been successful. From an educational and media position the campaign has been hugely successful.</font></b></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>You say there is nothing left to do at the cove that requires overseas activists. I am sorry but you are wrong. If the overseas activists leave, the opposition to this slaughter will end. The advantage that overseas activists have over Japanese activists is that the Japanese government cannot intimidate the non-Japanese activists and they have and will continue to intimidate the Japanese activists.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Our loyalty is 100% with the dolphins and we will not be intimidated into abandoning them by nationalistic indignation because of the color of our skin or the nationality of our passports. We will not submit and surrender to discrimination.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>The slaughter of dolphins at Taiji must be ended. It has no place in the 21st century, no place in the civilized world and no place within any human culture. It is a cruel and remorseless senseless immoral waste of life, an obscenity that every human being should oppose if they have any self-respect for themselves as human beings.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Thank-you Toshiaki for opposing the killing. You obviously have empathy for these wonderful marine mammals and we appreciate that. We really do, but please do not presume to dismiss us on the grounds that we are not Japanese.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>The dolphins are not Japanese either. They belong in those waters. It is their home and we as their defenders have every right to be at their side.</b></font></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Translated English to Japanesee by Keiko Olds and LOVECAT</span></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><font size="5" color="#0000b8"> </font><font color="#0000b8" size="6" face="Arial">シーシェパード・キャプテン・ポールワトソンから</font></b></div><div><b><font size="5" color="#0000b8"> 海洋哺乳類を守る会 代表 森岡敏明にメッセージ</font></b></div><div><b><font size="5" color="#0000b8"><br></font></b></div><div><div><b><font face="Arial">あなたには申し訳ないがコーブガーディアンが単に日本の漁師に訴えていると思っているのならそれは間違いだ。あなたはコーブガーディアンの行動を全く理解していない。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">彼らは、イルカの虐殺虐殺に対して、世界からの注目を集めるためにそこにいるのであり、彼らが太地に行くのは、</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">そこで見たイメージを、それぞれの国へ持ち帰るためである。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">シーシェパードは決して反日活動家ではない。我々ははイルカを支持する。我々はイルカをサポートするための太地入りである。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">事実イルカは日本人に属しているわけではない。イルカには自分たちの統一国家があり、国の市民イルカ達を太地の漁師は残忍に暴行虐殺したり捕獲拷問して苦しめている。トシアキ、そういう彼等の行動が我々にこういう仕事をさせている。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">もしもコーヴガーディアンが太地から去ったら、コーブガーディアンが今まで行ってきた"冷酷な大量殺戮の世界的な暴露"が終了するだろう。そうであると良いが、しかし、もしコーブガーディアンが太地を離れたら、唯一終わることと言えばコーブガーディアンが今まで行ってきた"冷酷な大量殺戮の世界的な暴露"が終了するだろう。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">あなたはこう言うかもしれない。海外の活動家が、まるで自分の裏庭のように、この離れた場所で活動するのは、</font></b><b><font face="Arial">普通ではないし、合法的でも無いし受け入れがたい事である、と。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">国際的にクジラ保護区と認定された南極海にまだ日本は生き続け、まるでそこが自分の裏庭であるようにその聖域で捕鯨をしている。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">トシアキ教えてくれ、なぜ日本人が南極海の鯨保護区やオーストラリアのクジラ保護区でまるで彼らの個人的な屠殺場でのようにしている事が良くて、コーブガーディアンが太地でイルカの虐殺を目撃し耐えながら記録する事が悪いのか。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">我々は、日本人の傀儡団体を作るつもりはない。我々は日本人の参加を歓迎するが、しかし、我々は団体を作るために日本にいるのではない。我々が太地にいるのは、太地で行われている残忍な行為に対して、世界的に関心をあつめるためである。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">我々はIMATAや航空会社によってイルカの出荷を反対する。そしてデンマークのフェロー諸島でイルカやゴンドウクジラの虐殺にも反対している。そして我々は南極海と北大西洋における捕鯨も反対している。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">我々は殺戮者がどんな国籍だろうが関係はないし、我々も国籍を持たない。世界中多くのの異なる文化や民族から構成されている我々は、鯨やイルカを殺害する銛やナイフを持つサディスティックな殺戮者と戦ってきた。肌の色、国籍は重要ではなく無関係だ。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">殺戮者は人間であり、この知的で、社会的に複雑で、感覚のある生き物を殺している人間を阻止する責任がある。これは人種差別ではない。この世界にはたったひとつだけの種族が存在する。それは、人類、と、殺し屋、だ。イルカや鯨を殺すものと、それを阻止するものたちである。ようするに、人種差別批判をこの問題にさしはさむという事は、弁護の余地のない者たちを守るための戦略的な方法でしかない。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">我々はが2003年に太地に来る以前は日本でのイルカ虐殺に反対するものはひとりもいなかった。メディアがそれについて触れる事がなかった事を日本の人々は誰も気づかなかった。が、今は状況は違う。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"> 我々は、太地、それは、哀れみをもたない町の名前を世界中の人々に知られるようにした。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">太地は、イルカにとって、トレブリンカかダッハウ(ナチスの強制収容所)と同じくらい恥ずべき場所である。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">日本政府は世界中から毎年、何万ものメールや手紙を受け取り、それは今や、東京で、イルカ漁反対の垂れ幕を持って反対活動をしている数人の人たちより、重要であるはずである。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"> </font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">「Gaiatsu」は日本政府が反応する。これは外国の圧力を意味し、日本の海洋自然保護法律ひとつひとつが外圧によって変わった。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">もし日本の人々がイルカの虐殺を止める事が反日感情だと思っている様だが、我々は反日感情を生み出してはない。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">もし、日本人が、イルカの虐殺のために、反日感情が増大していると思っているなら、答えはイルカの虐殺を止めることである。我々が、この反日感情を生み出しているのではない。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">虐殺こそが、この敵意を生み出しているのである。我々は単に、太地の真実である、この恐怖をあきらかにしているだけである。あなたは、我々が真実のメッセンジャーであることで、我々を責めますか?もし日本が、多くの人によって、怒りや、恐怖とともに見られているとしたら、それはこの惨殺によってであり、我々のせいではない。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"> </font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">我々に真実を語る事をやめろと求めるのか。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">あなたは我々と太地の間にカーテンを下ろし、再び太地でのこの上なく無知な殺害が始まることを我々に求めている。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">我々はそれを望んではいない。私たちはイルカを見捨てない。我々の目的は、太地で死ぬ全てのイルカを世界中の人々が殺害を目撃し確認することです。我々は静寂の中で殺害が再開することは許さない。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"> </font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">あなたは、この問題を太地の漁師の視線で見て欲しいという。それは、まるで、連続殺人をサイコパスの視線で見てくれと言っているのと同じだ。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"> </font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">トシアキは、美しい生物が入り江を血で真っ赤に染め、空気中に血の匂いを嗅ぎ、イルカが悲鳴をあげながら殺されていくのを見た事があるのか?</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">あなたは本当に我々がこのイルカに背を向け歩き離れて行く事がができると思うか?</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">もし、我々が、漁師に対して、腹だたしく、不快な存在とするならば、それは、彼らが 我々と、我々の良識、そして、種としての集団的な尊厳に対してしていることが、不愉快で、無礼だからである。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">太地で起こっている事は人類の未来と自然に対する犯罪である。我々はそこから出て行く事はないしイルカ達を見捨てる事は決してない。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">むろん、我々は、イルカの水族館で、この知性がある生物が奴隷にされ、残酷なパフォーマンスを行っているのを止めなければならない。コーブやブラックフィッシュのような映画は、世界の人々に、この恐ろしく残酷な産業の恐怖を知らせるのに役立ってきた。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">日本の左翼愛国主義者は、彼らの憎しみと言う指針を支持するために、この問題に飛びついた。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"> とても信じ難い事だが彼等はそうのような虐殺や拷問にその原因をリンクすることは、彼らが展開することができ、ほとんどの正のメディア戦略であることを考えているようだ、ああ失敬。私は日本の右翼民族主義は常に虐殺、流血、奴隷制と拷問共にある事をことを忘れていた。その事は多くの中国人民が同意するだろうと確信する。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">ザ・コーブガーディアンは、あなたの様に光を隠して日本の隅で語るようなことはしない。彼らが何を見たか、事実を世界中に送り出し、毎年もっと人々に知り多くの人々が全身で感じていく。我々が2003年に太地に行く以前は、誰も絶対にこの事を知る者はいなかった。今日、我々の太地での努力が成功しないとあなたには断言できないと言うことに世界中が知ってている。教育とメディアの位置からキャンペーンは大成功を収めてきた。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">あなたは海外の活動家はコーブでやり残したことはもう何もないと言う。海外活動家が撤退にすると、この虐殺反対が終了てしまう。海外の活動家が日本の活動家より良い事は、日本政府が外国人活動家を威嚇する事は不可能だし、彼らは日本の活動家を威嚇し続けるだけということです。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">我々のイルカへの忠誠心は100%であり、我々は肌の色やパスポートの国籍を理由に侮辱脅迫されてもイルカを見捨てない。我々は差別に対して服従、降伏はしない。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">太地でのイルカの虐殺を終了する必要がある。それは、21世紀の場所がない、文明世界で場所がない、あらゆる人間の文化の中場所がない。それは人生で残酷、無慈悲、無駄、不道徳、廃棄物、もし彼等が自尊心を持つ人間ならすべての人間がその惨忍さを反対し廃棄するべきである。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"> </font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">イルカの虐殺反対をするトシアキにお礼を言う。あなたは明らかに素晴らしい海洋哺乳類の為に感情を持っているし、我々はそれを感謝している。本当に、我々の事を日本人ではないことを理由に我々を葬る前提としないでほしい。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"> </font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">イルカはどちら日本人ではない。彼らは海域に属している。そこは彼らの家であり、我々の守備は彼らの側にあり、あらゆる権利を持っている。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><br></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><img id="id_d990_1c50_7060_a76e" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JJgKYkY18f4/VQe06gcFKZI/AAAAAAABNXU/xTIADXoCxn4/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 804px; height: auto;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="4"><b>シーシェパード SEASHEPHERD </b></font></div><div><b style="font-style: italic;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" size="6">〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜</font></b></div></div><div><h1 style="font-style: normal; margin: 0.125em 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="6"> </font><font color="#0000b8"><font face="Arial" size="6">Japanese activists </font></font></span></h1><h1 style="font-style: normal; margin: 0.125em 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 184); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="6">fight against the tide to </font></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 184); font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-large; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">save whales and dolphins</span></h1><div style="font-style: italic;"><h5 class="writer" role="author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-style: normal;"><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><font face="Arial" size="5">Associate Professor in the School of Global JapaneseStudies at Meiji University</font></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><font face="Arial"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5"> </font><font size="6" color="#0000ff">Shaun O'Dwyer</font></span></font></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> <img id="id_1c98_a724_5526_19f6" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-f_6vLeydds8/VQekWztN7qI/AAAAAAABNWM/xebKVQ09inw/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 364px; height: auto;"><font face="Arial" size="5"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div></h5></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>It’s tough being a Japanese activist — especially if you are campaigning against whaling or dolphin hunting.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Just ask Takayo Yamaguchi, subjected to online abuse, death threats and hacking attacks since she pioneered “tweetstorm” dolphin defense campaigns on social media in Japan six months ago. Or veteran conservationist Sakae Hemmi, cofounder of ELSA Nature Conservancy in 1976, who has been questioned several times by police since she first became involved in activism against the dolphin hunts in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture. Or Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, two Greenpeace Japan activists convicted of trespass and theft in 2010 after seizing a parcel of whale meat illicitly posted by a Japan scientific whaling employee, which they presented as evidence to prove allegations of embezzlement within the scientific whaling program.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Often unaware of these activists’ work, foreign opponents of Japan’s whaling and dolphin hunting wonder why there are so few Japanese critics. Something needs to be said about the obstacles Japanese activists face.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>First of all, it’s difficult to resist the nationalism surrounding cetacean hunting, upheld by a mixed crowd of Fisheries Agency bureaucrats, politicians, journalists, academics and Net <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">uyo</em> (social media-based rightists). Even Japan Communist Party politicians have called for the protection of Japan’s whaling traditions and culinary culture. As Hemmi emphasized to me, in Japan whaling and dolphin hunting are “legal fisheries.” And the fishery business has existential and cultural importance; it’s considered essential to Japan’s food security and culinary identity, defined in part as a <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">gyoshokubunka</em> (marine food culture).</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Accumulated resentment against decades of foreign criticism; a conviction that foreign activists and governments are threatening a key, if largely symbolic stronghold in Japanese fisheries (“once whaling falls, tuna fisheries will be next!”); and the politics of Japan’s scientific whaling boondoggle are all behind a deep “them and us” mentality promoted by Fisheries bureaucrats, politicians and pundits. It’s characterized by strident assertions of cultural difference, complaints of cultural imperialism and liberal helpings of the “eco-terrorism” slur.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>The sometimes extreme tactics of foreign activist organizations and the racism of some foreign critics feed this defensive self-definition. Most Japanese rarely eat whale or dolphin meat, but they are sympathetic to complaints about arrogant foreigners trying to impose their values upon Japan.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>These confrontations make life difficult for Japanese activists. Hemmi told me they “have to be very careful not to be mistaken for having a connection with Sea Shepherd,” the militant anti-whaling group founded by activist Paul Watson that hounds Japanese whaling vessels in the Southern Seas. Yamaguchi says other Japanese ask her why she doesn’t “protect Japanese from attacks by foreign activists.” She adds that “insulting the entire Japanese public (over the dolphin drive hunt in the cove in Taiji) is creating sympathy for Taiji fishermen.”</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Another veteran conservationist expressed dismay at how the behavior of foreign activists has provided excuses “for the government to shut us out of talks with officials,” undermining years of patient lobbying in coalition with other conservation organizations.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Japanese activists are hardly alone in facing home-crowd animosity. Even in an anti-whaling stronghold like Australia, environmentalist and animal rights organizations are often accused of being “un-Australian” and “extremist” by powerful mining and livestock farming interests. Yet they can push back against critics in the court of public opinion, because — unlike many of their Japanese counterparts — they are often big, well-financed, well-connected NPOs.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Large donation-paying memberships and big budgets permit the hiring of numerous professional staff specializing in recruiting, lobbying and advocacy; and through these activities, such organizations can acquire credibility and leverage with politicians, industry groups, celebrities and the mass media. Expensive media-savvy campaigns allow them to influence public opinion directly.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Greenpeace Australia had 45,000 paying members in 2013, 70 full- and part-time employees and a budget of 17 million Australian dollars (¥1.5 trillion). Animals Australia, a top animal-welfare umbrella organization, claims 20,000 members, 22 full- and part-time staff and an annual budget of AU$3 million (¥278 million) in 2013.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Japan’s environmentalist and animal welfare organizations are proportionately smaller. Greenpeace Japan in 2013 had 5,000 members, 31 full- and part-time staff and a budget of ¥195 million. In the same year, the Nature Conservation Society of Japan had 25 full-time staff, 15,000 members and a budget of ¥254 million. Organizations working on campaigns against cetacean hunting are often far smaller, with one or two full-time staffers, or just a few volunteers. Then there are individuals like Yamaguchi, who works with the international Save the Blood Dolphins campaign to raise awareness of captive dolphins’ plight.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Why the disparity in scale and influence? Political scientists studying Japan’s NPO sector often invoke the Edo Period Confucian slogan “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Kanson minpi”</em> — “Revere officials and look down on the masses” — to explain the statist ideology of modern Japanese governance, which limited NPO growth until recent times.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Originating in the late 19th century and adopted from European models, this ideology put the state firmly in charge of Japan’s catch-up modernization: An elite educated bureaucracy decided economic and social goals, while industry and especially the public were expected to remain in the passenger seats. There — to paraphrase philosopher Masao Maruyama — people could easily “doze off over their rights”. Japanese statism achieved its complete form in the post-1945 era.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>This statism traditionally admitted limited space for civil society groups, as political scientists like Keiko Hirata and Robert Pekannen have explained; they are ideally small, localized and cooperative with government. Activist groups don’t fit that formula easily. Though environmental movements developed in the 1960s and ’70s, they focused on “single-issue” causes and their appeal faded as most Japanese accepted government priorities on economic growth and increasing affluence.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, however, there was an upsurge in public support for volunteerism, just when faith in bureaucratic competence was also falling. Public pressure led to passage of an NPO law in 1998 that substantially lowered the financial requirements for NPO registration, established wide criteria for organizations to register under and streamlined their bureaucratic supervision.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Since the March 11, 2011, Tohoku disasters, registered volunteer NPOs have really come into their own (including one that this author co-directs). However, activist organizations still face statist prejudices and bureaucratic bias, especially when they are involved with push-button nationalist issues such as whaling and dolphin hunting — as Greenpeace Japan found, to its cost.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Many such organizations avoid NPO registration, in spite of the fund-raising status, enhanced prestige and (sometimes) tax deductibility it confers. Since 2010 Greenpeace Japan has been registered as a “general incorporated association.” This, Junichi Sato told me, is a “legal status with much more flexibility,” which also satisfies Greenpeace’s desire “to be independent from influences of authority.”</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Hemmi said that ELSA didn’t apply for NPO registration because it didn’t want to be subjected to bureaucratic regulation. Other activists said that registration was too much trouble, or that Japanese groups campaigning against cetacean hunts are often too small and divided by factional rivalry to qualify for NPO registration anyway.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Skeptical readers might think that there is nothing wrong with this state of affairs. Large, cashed-up advocacy NPOs can have a distorting influence on government policy out of all proportion to their membership bases. After all, America’s National Rifle Association is also an NPO! And if Japanese anti-whaling and anti-dolphin hunting activists can’t change the minds of their fellow Japanese, then so be it.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>There is another view, however, which sees activist organizations as a potentially powerful but loyal opposition, countering the outsize influence of the Japan Fisheries Agency and whaling nationalism in shaping policy, diplomacy and public opinion about whaling, dolphin hunting and fisheries.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>In such a role, these groups could bring to the Japanese public’s notice problems with transparency, waste and scientific credibility in the “research whaling” program, air questions about mercury contamination in cetacean meat and promote economic alternatives for the declining fishing towns involved in whaling and dolphin hunting.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Most of all, they could mobilize the public to push the Japan Fisheries Agency and its political allies away from whaling nationalism and toward pro-active commitment to fisheries conservation, at home and on the high seas, in collaboration with other governments and NPOs.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>“To me, protecting dolphins means protecting the ocean, and protecting the ocean means protecting us,” says Yamaguchi, summing up her holistic vision. “It’s not only because dolphins are pretty”.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>To achieve those goals, and to get themselves heard above the confrontations between the Japanese government and foreign activist organizations, Japanese activist groups will need to pull together and acquire more finances, size and domestic and international influence. For their part, foreign activists should ease off the confrontation tactics and provide more resources, advice and moral support to Japanese activists instead.</b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Shaun O’Dwyer is an associate professor in the School of Global Japanese Studies, Meiji University, and a co-director of the It’s Not Just Mud NPO. Foreign Agenda offers a forum for opinion about issues related to life in Japan. Comments and story ideas: <a href="mailto:community@japantimes.co.jp" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">community@japantimes.co.jp</a></b></em></p><div style="font-style: italic;"><a href="Associate Professor in the School of Global JapaneseStudies at Meiji University Shaun O" dwyer'="" id="id_cd20_90bf_ac3e_3930"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2015/03/16/voices/japanese-activists-fight-tide-save-whales-dolphins/#.VQcA8xg8KrV</span></div><div></div></a></div><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"> <br></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><font color="#0000b8"><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><font face="Arial" size="6"><b>日本の活動家が挑む大波</b></font></font></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 184); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"> <font size="4">強力な圧力に立ち向かう、イルカ漁や捕鯨に反対する日本人たち。</font></b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> </span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> </span><b style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">明治大学国際日本学部 准教授</font></b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> </span></p><div style="font-style: normal; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><font color="#0000ff" size="5"><b> ショーン・オドワイヤー</b></font></div><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">2015年03月16日ジャパンタイムズ掲載</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">「日本人の活動家はつらいよ。」日本人の活動家は大変です。特に、捕鯨やイルカ漁の反対活動をしている場合は、難しいようだ。山口たかよさんは、日本のソーシャルメディアでイルカ保護キャンペーンのツイートストームを半年前に開始。それ以来、オンライン上での人権侵害や死の脅迫、ハッキングの攻撃などを受けている。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">1976年に発足した、日本の反捕鯨団体の草分けともいえるELSA自然保護の会の辺見栄さんは、和歌山県太地町でのイルカ漁に対する活動に参加した時から、何度か警察の尋問にあっている。また、グリーンピース・ジャパンの活動家、佐藤潤一さんと鈴木徹さんは、日本の調査捕鯨におけるクジラ肉横領疑惑を告発する証拠品として、調査捕鯨船の乗員が不正に自宅に送ったとした鯨肉の小包を運送会社から持ち出して提示したところ、2010年に不法侵入と窃盗で有罪判決となった。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">こういった活動家による働きは日本国内では報道されることが少なく、日本の捕鯨やイルカ漁に反対する海外の活動家は、なぜ日本人は立ち上がらないのかと感じている。そこで、日本人の活動家が直面している障壁について言及しよう。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">まず第一に水産庁の官僚や政治家、記者、学者、またソーシャルメディアで活動するネトウヨ(ネット右翼)といった層に支持されている捕鯨にまつわるナショナリズムに抵抗することが難しい。共産党の政治家ですら、日本捕鯨の伝統と食文化の保護を求めているのだ。辺見さんが言うように、日本の捕鯨やイルカ漁は「合法的な漁業」である。そして、漁業は重要な存在で、文化的にも大事にされている事業なのだ。なぜなら、海の食物を食べる魚食文化は、日本の食文化アイデンティティの一部であり、食料の確保と同じように不可欠であると考えられているのだ。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">何十年も続く外国からの批判に憤りが蓄積し、あたかも外国の活動家や政府が日本の漁業の重要な砦を脅かしているかのように考え「捕鯨の次はマグロ漁が危ない」と言うようになった。調査捕鯨という無駄な官業を続けてきた背景には、水産庁の官僚や政治家や評論家が推進してきた「外と内」という考え方が深く根付いている。それは、文化の違いを強調したり、文化帝国主義だと批判したり、「エコテロリズム」という中傷を多く利用するという形で表れている。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">海外の活動家団体の極端なやり方や、一部の人達による人種差別的な発言が、日本人の立場を守ろうと頑なにさせてしまう。多くの日本人はほとんどクジラやイルカ肉を食べないが、外国人の価値観の押しつけに対する批判には共感を覚える。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">こういった対立は日本の活動家の在り方を困難にしている。辺見さんはこう話す。「シー・シェパードと繋がりがあると誤解されないように気をつけなくてはならない。」シー・シェパードとは南極海で調査捕鯨船を妨害しようとした海洋環境保護団体で、ポール・ワトソン氏によって設立された。山口さんは、他の日本人に「なぜ海外の活動家による攻撃から日本人を守らないんだ」と言われた。「(太地町のイルカ追い込み漁を通して)日本国民全体を侮辱しているように受け取られやすいことが、太地町の漁師さんたちへの同情を生んでいる。」という。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">もう一人、長年鯨類保護に取り組んできた活動家は、外国の活動家の行動に大きな落胆を表した。他の自然保護団体と連合して長年の間、辛抱強くロビー活動を行ってきたのにもかかわらず、外国人活動家の行動が原因となって、「日本政府が私たちとの面談を断る理由となってしまい、今までの努力が損なわれてしまった。」と。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">日本の活動家だけがこんな状況にいるわけではない。オーストラリアの活動家も、板挟みに苦労している。オーストラリアのような反捕鯨活動が盛んな国ですら、環境活動家や動物保護団体は、強力な鉱業産業や家畜産業の団体によって、しばしば「非オーストラリア人」とか「過激派」と言われて非難されてしまう。しかし、彼らは世論でその批判を押し返すことが可能だ。なぜなら日本の環境団体とは違い、大きくて十分な資金があり、連携のとれたNPO団体だからだ。寄付をする会員が多く、予算があるため、支持者の拡大やロビー活動、弁護士など能力の高い専門職員を雇うことができる。これらの活動を通して政治家や事業団体、有名人やマスメディアとの信頼と影響力を獲得してゆく。的を射たメディア・キャンペーンをすることで直接的に世論に影響を与えている。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">グリーンピース・オーストラリアは2013年度には45,000人の会員がおり、フルタイム・パートと合わせて70人の職員が働き、約15億円の予算があった。アニマル・オーストラリアは、トップの動物福祉団体で、同年、20,000人の会員がおり、22人の職員と、2億7800万円の予算があった。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">日本の環境保護団体や動物福祉団体は、人口が多い割に規模が小さい。グリーンピース・ジャパンは2013年度は5,000人の会員がおり、31人の職員、予算は1億9,500万円、同年の日本自然保護協会は15,000人の会員で、25人の職員、予算が2億5,400万円だ。イルカ漁や捕鯨に対する活動を行う団体はこれよりもずっと小さく、一人か二人のスタッフや数人のボランティアがいるくらいだ。そして山口さんのように個人でSave the Blood Dolphins の活動に協力して、イルカ、シャチなど捕獲の悲しい現状を伝えようとする人たちがいるという現状だ。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">なぜ、こんなに規模や影響力に差があるのだろうか?日本のNPO分野を研究している政治学者は、江戸時代の儒教者のスローガンである「官尊民卑」を引き合いに出す。これは、政府や官僚を尊び、大衆を見下すという意味だが、現在までNPOの成長を制限してきた現代日本の国家主義というイデオロギー(観念)を表している。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">19世紀後半に伝来し、ヨーロッパをモデルとして採用したこのイデオロギーは日本が近代化する中で定着した。エリート教育を受けた官僚が、経済や社会の目標を決め、政策を行い、産業界やとりわけ大衆は主導権を行使しない立場にしていいと考えられたものだった。哲学者の丸山眞男氏がいうところの、「権利の上に眠る者」に人々はいとも簡単になってしまう。(*権利に甘んじて安心し、行動を起こさないうちにその権利すら失うという意味だ。) 日本の国家主義は、1945年以降にその完全な形となった。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">この国家主義が、市民グループの活動を限定的なものにした。政治学者の平田恵子氏やロバート・ぺカンナン氏が説明するように、「理想的な市民グループは、小さく地元密着型で、政府と協力的である」となっている。活動家のグループはその形式にそうそう当てはまらない。1960年代~70年代に環境運動が活発になっていったが、グローバルではなく局地的な問題、例えば水俣や原子力などだけに焦点を絞っていた上、当時のほとんどの日本人は経済成長と経済的な豊かさを優先課題とした政府の政策を受け入れたため、環境運動は下火になっていった。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">1995年の神戸大震災後、偶然起こった数々のスキャンダルが原因で政府への信頼が揺らいだと同時に、ボランティア活動に対する国民の支持が急増した。世論による圧力は法人登録をするための資金条件を下げ、官僚による監督を合理化し、登録できる組織の範囲を広げたNPO法が1998年に出来上がることに繋がった。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">2011年3月11日の東北震災以来、登録されたボランティアのNPOはその真価が認められてきている。この記事の著者が共同理事をしているNPOもそうだ。ところが、活動家団体は、いまだに国家主義者の先入観や官僚主義の偏見に直面している。グリーンピース・ジャパンの例にもあるように、捕鯨やイルカ漁といった愛国主義者が敏感になる問題だと、なおさら手痛い思いをすることもある。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">NPO法人登録することで資金調達環境や名声が得られて、時には税金控除ができる場合もあるのに、多くの団体はそれを避けている。以前はNPO法人に登録していたグリーンピース・ジャパンは、2010年から「一般社団法人」として登録している。佐藤潤一さんは私にこう説明した。「グリーンピースが求める「権力の影響からの独立」が可能になり、より自由に活動できる法的地位だからです。」</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">辺見さんもELSAのNPO法人登録を申請しなかったが、それは政府の規制を受けたくなかったからだ。他の活動家は、NPO法人登録は面倒なことが多いと言う。また、クジラやイルカの漁に反対している日本の団体はたいてい小さく、ばらばらなので、NPO法人登録をするための人数基準を満たすことが難しいだろう。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">懐疑的な読者はこの状態は何の問題もないと思うかもしれない。規模が大きく資金の多い社会派NPOは、その大きな支持者層によって、他の国民が望まない影響を政策に与えることもある。なんと、アメリカのライフル協会もNPO法人だ。日本のイルカやクジラ捕獲を反対する活動家が、他の日本人の考え方に変化をもたらすことが出来ないのは、仕方がないのかもしれない。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">しかし、別の見方もある。活動団体をパワフルだが誠実な野党として見ることもできる。捕鯨やイルカ漁そして漁業に対する世論と外交と政策を方向付ける中で、日本の水産庁と捕鯨ナショナリズムのもたらす偏った影響に対しバランスをとる野党だ。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">もしそのような役割として見れば、これらの団体は日本国民に調査捕鯨の科学的な信ぴょう性や透明性、また税金の無駄使いなどの問題を気付かせることに貢献できる。またクジラ類の肉に多く含まれている水銀の危険性を提示したり、衰退する漁師町でイルカ漁や捕鯨の代わりとなる産業を推奨することが出来るであろう。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">何よりも、彼らは民衆を動かして、日本の水産庁や政治的協力者にも圧力を与え、それらの方向を捕鯨ナショナリズムから切り離すことが出来るだろう。また、他国の政府やNPO団体と協力しながら、日本近海でも国際水域でも、漁業保全に積極的に取り組むことも出来るはずだ。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">「私にとっては、ただ”イルカが可愛い”からというだけではなく、イルカを守ることは海を守ること。そして、海を守ることは私達を守ることということだからです。」と山口たかよさんは彼女の大きな視点を話す。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b><font face="Arial">日本政府と外国人活動家団体との対立の泥沼から抜け出して、これらの目標を達成するためには、日本の活動家グループは連携をとる必要がある。一緒に活動することで大きな団体になり、より多くの活動資金を得て、国内外に影響をもたらせるようになる。こうなる為には、外国人活動家は対立的な言動を和らげる必要があり、その代わりに、もっと日本の活動家に資金やアドバイス、精神的な支援を提供したほうがいい。</font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> ショーン・オドワイヤー 明治大学国際日本学部 准教授、It’s Not Just Mud NPO法人理事 </b></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#248f24">*</font>This Japanese article </span><span style="font-style: italic;">has been published by <font color="#248f24">Ceta Journal</font></span></b></font></p><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><b style="font-family: Arial;"><font size="4"><font color="#248f24">*</font>Translation English to Japanese by <font color="#248f24">Ceta Journal </font></font></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; text-align: center; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375em; padding: 0px; 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<span class='st_email_large' displayText='Email'></span></div>Keiko T. Oldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859488789054287551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537383451156444426.post-54685247910138174832016-12-30T10:33:00.001-06:002022-12-14T00:58:49.947-06:00Ban Plastic bag<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; line-height: 28px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A new law in Michigan will prohibit local governments from banning, regulating or imposing fees on the use of plastic bags and other containers. You read that correctly: It’s not a ban on plastic bags — it’s a ban on banning plastic bags.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; line-height: 28px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Michigan Lt. Gov. Brian Calley signed the new public act into law on Wednesday, along with 11 other bills. Gov. Rick Snyder is currently on vacation out of state, local news sources reported, and Calley has the authority to sign bills into law in his absence.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; line-height: 28px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The new public act prohibits local ordinances from “regulating the use, disposition, or sale of, prohibiting or restricting, or imposing any fee, charge, or tax on certain containers,” including plastic bags, as well as cups, bottles and other forms of packaging. This means individual cities and municipalities are not allowed to ban plastic bags or charge customers a fee for using them.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; line-height: 28px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bans and restrictions on the use of plastic bags are widespread in other parts of the country and around the world. The rationale is simple: Plastic bags are infamous non-biodegradable sources of pollution — although they will eventually break down into tiny pieces, scientists believe this process can take hundreds of years, or even up to a century, in landfills.</span></p><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-5116462037312968" data-ad-slot="5347424330" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; width: 336px; height: 280px;"><ins id="aswift_1_expand" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-table; border: none; height: 280px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"><ins id="aswift_1_anchor" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; border: none; height: 280px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 336px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></ins></ins></ins><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; line-height: 28px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many scientists are growing particularly concerned about plastic pollution in the oceans. Research suggests that 5 million to 12 million metric tons of plastic may have been dumped into the ocean in 2010 alone. There, the waste is frequently eaten by seabirds and other marine animals — or it breaks down into tiny pieces known as microplastics, which scientists believe can be harmful or even toxic to sea creatures who ingest it.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; line-height: 28px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bangladesh was the first country in the world to ban certain types of thin plastic bags in 2002, after they were found to have choked the nation’s drainage systems during a series of devastating floods. China instituted a similar ban in 2008 , and also prohibits businesses from giving out thicker plastic bags to customers for free. Other nations, including South Africa and Italy, have also enacted similar restrictions.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; line-height: 28px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">San Francisco became the first U.S. municipality to institute a plastic bag ban. And in 2014, California became the first state. 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Oldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859488789054287551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537383451156444426.post-47024607944969821572016-08-01T19:41:00.001-05:002022-12-14T00:58:49.832-06:00WHALE & DOLPHIN HUNT OF JAPAN / Table Content <div class="separator" style="font-weight: bold; clear: both;"><font><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6" color="#c62828" face="Arial">WHALE & DOLPHIN HUNT OF JAPAN</font> </b></font></div><div class="separator" style="font-weight: bold; clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="font-weight: bold; clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="font-weight: bold; clear: both;"><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; 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Oldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859488789054287551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537383451156444426.post-15642156657481070502016-04-16T22:15:00.001-05:002023-03-30T23:11:31.453-05:00The FBI now tracks animal abuse like it tracks homicides<div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>| </b></font><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/05/home.html" id="id_791f_794_848_a030">HOME</a><font size="4" face="Arial"><b> | </b></font><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2016/02/table-of-contents.html" id="id_7e00_593b_8e94_2b1f">TABLE CONTENTS</a><font size="4" face="Arial"><b> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> | </span></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="7" color="#ff0000" face="Arial"><b>◉Warning Graphic◉</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKLBb6xuhYWNWHAb7YzJfdbaSrRX5HYL7v-3UWzqFshJJo8zaxxXlyG1j3gMLXC0tH4HVmdeuxZkLXu6umD4AxW2JsqMzGr3NJPe_3YTNFiJw1IrCN_MTnumIZwEkvrAuztRhZXSK9yYU/s640/blogger-image-1985062054.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKLBb6xuhYWNWHAb7YzJfdbaSrRX5HYL7v-3UWzqFshJJo8zaxxXlyG1j3gMLXC0tH4HVmdeuxZkLXu6umD4AxW2JsqMzGr3NJPe_3YTNFiJw1IrCN_MTnumIZwEkvrAuztRhZXSK9yYU/s640/blogger-image-1985062054.jpg" id="id_c9e1_269d_5f18_d0ef" style="width: 640px; height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="5" color="#248f24" face="Arial"><b>FBI turns animal cruelty into top-tier felony</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2bfc9938446541318a0af0b1fd97c205/fbi-turns-animal-cruelty-top-tier-felony" id="id_9fe9_9f75_10e8_2425">http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2bfc9938446541318a0af0b1fd97c205/fbi-turns-animal-cruelty-top-tier-felony</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">By SUE MANNING </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>LOS ANGELES (AP) — Young people who torture and kill animals are prone to violence against people later in life if it goes unchecked, </b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>studies have shown. A new federal category for animal cruelty crimes will help root out those pet abusers before their behavior worsens and give a boost to prosecutions, an animal welfare group says.</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>For years, the FBI has filed animal abuse under the label "other" along with a variety of lesser crimes, <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">making cruelty hard to find, </span></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>hard to count and hard to track. The bureau announced this month that it would make animal cruelty a Group A felony with its own category </b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>— the same way crimes like homicide, arson and assault are listed.</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>"It will help get better sentences, sway juries and make for better plea bargains," said Madeline Bernstein, </b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>president and CEO of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles and a former New York prosecutor.</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>The category also will help identify young offenders, and a defendant might realize "if he gets help now,</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b> he won't turn into Jeffrey Dahmer," she said.</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>Law enforcement agencies will have to report incidents and arrests in four areas: simple or gross neglect; </b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>intentional abuse and torture; organized abuse, including dogfighting and cockfighting; and animal sexual abuse, </b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>the FBI said in statement. The bureau didn't answer questions beyond a short statement.</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>"The immediate benefit is it will be in front of law enforcement every month when they have to do their crime reports," said John Thompson, </b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>interim executive director of the National Sheriffs' Association who worked to get the new animal cruelty category instituted. </b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>"That's something we have never seen."</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>Officers will start to see the data are facts and "not just somebody saying the 'Son of Sam' killed animals before he went to human victims and 70-some percent of the school shooters abused animals prior to doing their acts before people," said Thompson, a retired assistant sheriff from Prince George's County, Maryland.</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>FBI studies show that serial killers like Dahmer impaled the heads of dogs, frogs and cats on sticks; </b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>David Berkowitz, known as the "Son of Sam," poisoned his mother's parakeet; and Albert DeSalvo, </b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>aka the "Boston Strangler," trapped cats and dogs in wooden crates and killed them by shooting arrows through the boxes.</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>It will take time and money to update FBI and law enforcement databases nationwide, revise manuals and send out guidelines, </b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>Thompson said, so there won't be any data collected until January 2016. After that, it will take several months before there are numbers to analyze.</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>The new animal cruelty statistics will allow police and counselors to work with children who show early signs of trouble, </b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>so a preschooler hurting animals today isn't going to be hurting a person two years from now, Bernstein said.</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>The FBI's category will track crimes nationwide and is bound to give animal cruelty laws in all 50 states more clout. </b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>Many states are seeing more of those convicted of animal cruelty being sentenced to prison, in marked contrast to years past.</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>Whether talking about state laws or the FBI change, it is clear "that regardless of whether people care about how animals are treated,</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b> people — like legislators and judges — care about humans, and they can't deny the data," said Natasha Dolezal, </b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b>director of the animal law program in the Center for Animal Law Studies at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qgnhW11XjF8" width="501" height="282" id="y_id_c51a_f709_5c11_523d" frameborder="0" style="height: 337px; width: 599px;"></iframe><br></div><br></span></div><h1><font face="Arial"><span style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">A first look at the FBI’s animal cruelty statistics will be available next year, but it will take three to five years for the data to begin showing helpful patterns.<br></font></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">It was more than 10 years ago that Mary Lou Randour realized she couldn't answer what should have been a simple question: Was cruelty against animals on the rise or in decline? 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line-height: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5" color="#248f24" face="Arial"><b>Tracking Animal Cruelty</b></font></span></div><span class="blackgraphtx" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc outside none;"><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5" color="#248f24" face="Arial"><b>FBI Collecting Data on Crimes Against Animals</b></font></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="font-weight: inherit; text-align: start;"><a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2016/february/tracking-animal-cruelty" id="id_65fe_972a_7c67_53f2">https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2016/february/tracking-animal-cruelty</a></div></span><p></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="blackgraphtx" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc outside none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">02/01/16</span></p><h4><font face="Arial Narrow"><span class="blackgraphtx" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc outside none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">Acts of cruelty against animals are now counted alongside felony crimes like arson, burglary, </font></span></font><font face="Arial Narrow"><span class="blackgraphtx" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc outside none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">assault, and homicide in the </font></span></font><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">FBI’s expansive criminal database. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On January 1, the Bureau’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) began collecting detailed data from </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">participating law enforcement agencies on acts of animal cruelty, including gross neglect, torture, organized abuse, and </span><font face="Arial Narrow"><span class="blackgraphtx" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc outside none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">sexual </font></span></font><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">abuse. Before this year, crimes that involved animals were lumped into an “All Other Offenses” category in the </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s annual </span><em style="font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">Crime in the United States</em><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';"> report, a survey of crime data provided </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">by about 18,000 city, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies.</span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">By adding animal cruelty offenses to NIBRS, law enforcement agencies and the advocacy groups that pushed for the </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">inclusion in the FBI database are hoping the results will reveal a more complete picture of the nature of cruelty to animals. </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">“Some studies say that cruelty to animals is a precursor to larger crime,” said Nelson Ferry, who works in the Bureau’s </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">Criminal Statistics Management Unit, which manages NIBRS. “That’s one of the items that we’re looking at.”</span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">The National Sheriffs’ Association was a leading advocate for adding animal cruelty as a data set in the Bureau’s collection </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">of crime statistics. The association for years has cited studies linking animal abuse and other types of crimes—most </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">famously, murders committed by serial killers like Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and the “Son of Sam” killer David </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">Berkowitz. The organization also points out the overlap animal abuse has with domestic violence and child abuse.</span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">“If somebody is harming an animal, there is a good chance they also are hurting a human,” said John Thompson, </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">deputy executive director of the National Sheriffs’ Association. “If we see patterns of animal abuse, the odds are that </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">something else is going on.” </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">A first look at NIBRS animal cruelty statistics will be available next year, but it will take at least three to five years for </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">the data to begin showing helpful patterns. Groups that advocated for the new animal cruelty data hope that by adding </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">it to NIBRS—rather than the summary-based statistics agencies provide the Bureau each year—they will get a much </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">richer data set from which to mine. That’s because NIBRS requires participating agencies to not only report crimes but</span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';"> also all the circumstances of a crime. Additionally, the Bureau plans to phase out summary-based UCR statistics—which </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">have been collected roughly the same way since 1930—in favor of NIBRS by 2021.</span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">“With summary data, all I can tell you is a crime occurred,” said Amy Blasher, who is leading the broader transition </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">to NIBRS at the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division, keeper of the Bureau’s various crime data stores. </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">“With the incident-based, it’s more granular. It tells the story.”</span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">The move to collect more granular data requires agencies to adjust how they track and disseminate crime statistics. </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">Only about 31 percent of the country is represented in NIBRS today—a fraction of the overall UCR participants; </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">however, Blasher anticipates the figure to grow larger as law enforcement agencies opt in, including police departments in </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">Washington, D.C. and Chicago over the next two years. The FBI is aggressively pushing for the transition to NIBRS. In a </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">speech last March in Atlanta, FBI Director James Comey said it was his personal mission to get better data “that we </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">can all use to have informed conversations about the most important issues we face.”</span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">Those who lobbied for better animal abuse data would agree. “With this information, law enforcement and victim services </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">would be able to better target their intervention efforts with respect to both animal cruelty and those crimes for which </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">animal cruelty serves as a marker,” said Dr. Mary Lou Randour of the Animal Welfare Institute, which worked closely with </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">the National Sheriffs’ Association to advance their cause. “Identifying and analyzing animal cruelty crimes would provide </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">an important tool for law enforcement.” </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">The National Sheriffs’ Association’s John Thompson urged people to shed the mindset that animal cruelty is a crime only </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">against animals. “It’s a crime against society,” he said, urging all law enforcement agencies to participate in NIBRS. “By </span><span style="font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">paying attention to [these crimes], we are benefiting all of society.”</span></h4><h4><font style="font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdGruxXjAoGd2IOL-WO8avb2M_mIS5TnpP_Ng2eOg4HBhaMA1KSbyaz1N7eA_IKICTg6jzoV-48-LmIfoc9-G7qxTxZB9ieT4SHKyNvL3vzrEEifRnyaEPd_aNiPImlAgu__-mfMRuh5o/s640/blogger-image-478925278.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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<p><font face="Arial" size="5"><b> ✴︎Section 2— Clarification to Policy and Procedures
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<p><font size="4" face="Arial">National UCR Program to begin collecting data on animal </font></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Beginning January 1, 2016, the national UCR Program will add the offense of Animal Cruelty to the
NIBRS as a Group A offense and as a Crime Against Society.</span></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Arial">Data Element 12 (Type Criminal Activity/Gang Information) will expand to include four data
values about the type of abuse. The four types of abuse will be:
</font></p>
<ul style="list-style-type: none">
<li>
<p><font size="4" face="Arial"> Simple/Gross Neglect (failure to provide food, water, shelter, veterinary care, or
intentionally or knowingly withholding food or water)
</font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><font size="4" face="Arial"> Intentional Abuse and Torture
</font></p>
</li>
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<p><font size="4" face="Arial"> Organized Abuse (dog fighting and cock fighting)
</font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><font size="4" face="Arial"> Animal Sexual Abuse (bestiality).
</font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Arial">The definition of Animal Cruelty will be:
</font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Arial">Intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly taking an action that mistreats or kills any animal without
just cause, such as torturing, tormenting, mutilation, maiming, poisoning, or abandonment.
Included are instances of duty to provide care, e.g., shelter, food, water, care if sick or injured;
transporting or confining an animal in a manner likely to cause injury or death; causing an animal
to fight with another; inflicting excessive or repeated unnecessary pain or suffering, e.g., uses
objects to beat or torture an animal. This definition does not include proper maintenance of
animals for show or sport; use of animals for food, lawful hunting, fishing, or trapping.
</font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Arial">The national UCR Program staff will implement these changes to the NIBRS during the 2015
calendar year and will begin to collect these data on January 1, 2016.
</font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Arial">Agencies with questions should contact Ms. Drema Fouch in the CSMU’s Programs Development
Group. You can reach her by telephone at <a dir="ltr" href="tel:(304)%20625-2982" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6">(304) 625-2982</a> or by e-mail at
<drema.fouch@ic.fbi.gov>.
</font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Arial">Quality Assurance Review guidelines for policy changes and data
enhancements
</font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Arial">In the past several years, both the Summary Reporting System (SRS) and the NIBRS have
undergone several changes:
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<ul style="list-style-type: none">
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<p><font size="4" face="Arial"> Expanded location and property data values in the NIBRS
</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Arial"> Revised definition of rape in the SRS
</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Arial"> Began the collection of cargo theft data and human trafficking data in both the SRS and
the NIBRS. </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Arial">************************************************************************************************************************</font></p><p><font size="5" color="#b20000" face="Arial"><b>Tennessee launches nation's first statewide animal abuse registry</b></font></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">LAURA MOSS </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">January 5, 2016</span></p><p><a href="http://www.mnn.com/family/pets/stories/tennessee-launches-nation-first-statewide-animal-abuse-registry" id="id_c03e_31f1_a78a_90dd">h</a><a href="http://www.mnn.com/family/pets/stories/tennessee-launches-nation-first-statewide-animal-abuse-registry" id="id_148e_28f0_2a79_7b4c" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ttp://www.mnn.com/family/pets/stories/tennessee-launches-nation-first-statewide-animal-abuse-registry</a></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoPr39UI7Cw9Q2SqhlR-WQTlrnT7ltVSQzMln-ia4i1Z6DvE2gSgtZHBEtC1-vhY1PohM8e6igmRiqT-Uy_JN-eCI-0xeciDqi-SwYKCrSNyAmGjYKkhgdnXQ0hBddt7Pmkaug2QMaAB4/s640/blogger-image--46760746.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Read More </span></b></font><a href="http://wfla.com/2015/09/09/citrus-county-mother-daughter-arrested-in-animal-cruelty-investigation/" id="id_8d5d_dabc_b81d_55fa">http://wfla.com/2015/09/09/citrus-county-mother-daughter-arrested-in-animal-cruelty-investigation/</a></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJFnFXw0_KmCOfz_CTZ50D1UVvylcajkeNuiFW3g9y8snpR8JNw26Zo4zbdrjMXLtj4xeAdV98Qm-OxC7EbLeATk_oyXfpUKCARK-SBtxnrsQ3MRUMxFp5kTe0pVC3VaiCaLi9WON5yqY/s640/blogger-image--956205055.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJFnFXw0_KmCOfz_CTZ50D1UVvylcajkeNuiFW3g9y8snpR8JNw26Zo4zbdrjMXLtj4xeAdV98Qm-OxC7EbLeATk_oyXfpUKCARK-SBtxnrsQ3MRUMxFp5kTe0pVC3VaiCaLi9WON5yqY/s640/blogger-image--956205055.jpg" id="id_30c3_ed4f_7117_d610" style="width: 640px; 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-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SEPTEMBER 4, 2015 </span><a href="https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2015/09/04/new-river-man-arrested-for-animal-abuse-13-dogs-seized/" id="id_ac32_37a5_c7e_6b46">https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2015/09/04/new-river-man-arrested-for-animal-abuse-13-dogs-seized/</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigpSWxmgyYDraJQBZ2w3gBT38fqFPhb4XTII1ehcEw0ddZTUBp9VYlxDWvMLaEgbn8g8lyqCd8MWyJNL9KA4J4bSlZb4ap7v1HDsbc6UmS1PlihsA1u_BV1Q4GYSUgNWZu2jDBj4GIZ5o/s640/blogger-image-1093629206.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigpSWxmgyYDraJQBZ2w3gBT38fqFPhb4XTII1ehcEw0ddZTUBp9VYlxDWvMLaEgbn8g8lyqCd8MWyJNL9KA4J4bSlZb4ap7v1HDsbc6UmS1PlihsA1u_BV1Q4GYSUgNWZu2jDBj4GIZ5o/s640/blogger-image-1093629206.jpg" id="id_a9db_f374_79ee_c2cf" style="width: 640px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p><b><font size="7">♠︎</font><font size="6" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Police Search For Person Who Taped Dog’s Muzzle Shut</font></b></p><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); clear: both;"><font size="4"><b>A stray dog was found with electrical tape wrapped so tightly around her muzzle that it may cause permanent damage. </b></font><b><span style="font-weight: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Read More </span></b><a href="http://petcha.com/pet_care/police-search-for-person-who-taped-dogs-muzzle-shut/" id="id_37a6_7edd_9e13_c7bd">http://petcha.com/pet_care/police-search-for-person-who-taped-dogs-muzzle-shut/</a></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">August 11, 2015 </span><a href="http://www.local10.com/news/dog-found-dead-with-note-worst-case-of-animal-abuse-in-pembroke-pines-police-say" id="id_292_a923_e052_86ad">http://www.local10.com/news/dog-found-dead-with-note-worst-case-of-animal-abuse-in-pembroke-pines-police-say</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1czBY4jhQf1jkbe8bs_ZI_Z2GUvvf3OHoB1leSL7qm0w1Qyvs13cAtay37Xi6KBYhf-x4CPTUNNVZx3cW1UsWjETZW-MHQ9_KI_8Q039cIR17s8RPa2NUWGkwAYA-caU3O9uaSXckups/s640/blogger-image--2093240461.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1czBY4jhQf1jkbe8bs_ZI_Z2GUvvf3OHoB1leSL7qm0w1Qyvs13cAtay37Xi6KBYhf-x4CPTUNNVZx3cW1UsWjETZW-MHQ9_KI_8Q039cIR17s8RPa2NUWGkwAYA-caU3O9uaSXckups/s640/blogger-image--2093240461.jpg" id="id_6acd_8860_96b0_2ab6" style="width: 640px; 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background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Read More </span><a href="http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150325/PC16/150329542/1177/charleston-man-charged-with-animal-cruelty-after-mastiff-was-found-underweight-malnourished" id="id_ae39_84f3_a3dc_ebf6">http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150325/PC16/150329542/1177/charleston-man-charged-with-animal-cruelty-after-mastiff-was-found-underweight-malnourished</a></p><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiegMDXTf-WSquD0Fn-0ej2DU9FCrmvUeDZj_xe3J3KC8oMFs6k35MENb0MZ5cPIgFMFAFcElhbTP6Jhn3biy7kwoYCCt5sUAChNLZAH5rbie_Xeu4l744Hd6VbmnaLF8ECgydnNWhvjFE/s640/blogger-image--201240590.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiegMDXTf-WSquD0Fn-0ej2DU9FCrmvUeDZj_xe3J3KC8oMFs6k35MENb0MZ5cPIgFMFAFcElhbTP6Jhn3biy7kwoYCCt5sUAChNLZAH5rbie_Xeu4l744Hd6VbmnaLF8ECgydnNWhvjFE/s640/blogger-image--201240590.jpg" id="id_d478_ed24_2d66_ec05" style="width: 640px; 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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Since 2004, the wild population of horseshoe crabs has been on the decline. Scientists already learned that captivity isn’t the be-all end-all solution either. While they aren’t necessarily overfished, their population is definitely vulnerable. And you’ll see how if they’re vulnerable, human health and human lives are definitely vulnerable too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Not surprisingly, extracting the horseshoe crab blood is a gory process. While horseshoe crabs can be raised in captivity, it isn’t that simple. Ethical issues aside of keeping the crabs in captivity, as to be expected, the quality of the crab’s blood deteriorates in captivity. Researchers solve this issue by catching-bleeding-returning wild horseshoe crabs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">While the crabs live on the seafloor, they mate in shallow waters. It’s the perfect opportunity to capture the wild animals. Once captured, the crabs are shipped to research laboratories, and “the tissue around their hearts is pierced and 30 percent of their blood is drained.” After the blood’s been extracted, the horseshoe crabs are returned to the ocean in order to avoid rebleeding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">According to Huffington Post, researchers also found that bled crabs “are more lethargic and less likely to follow tides.” Behavioral changes aren’t even the worst part. The horseshoe crab’s health can drastically be compromised because lower blood levels and cell counts, coupled with unnatural behaviors, can negatively impact the animal’s ability to ward off infections. One research project found that eight percent of the studied returned bled crabs died upon being returned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Horseshoe crab blood is unusual for two reasons. Firstly, it gets its incredible blue color from the copper used to carry oxygen around the crab’s body, in the same way the iron in hemoglobin makes our blood red. Secondly, horseshoe crab blood reacts to the presence of bacterial endotoxins, coagulating around the contamination and trapping it in a gel-like substance. The blood is so sensitive that it will react to a contaminant concentration of one part per trillion. The chemical component of the blood that causes this reaction, coagulan, is isolated from crab blood to be used in what is known as Limulus amebocyte lysate testing or LAL. LAL tests are performed on medical equipment, vaccines and other injectables: if they don’t cause a coagulation reaction, they’re clean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">In order to obtain horseshoe crab blood, around 250,000 live crabs are harvested along the east coast of the U.S. each year. They are transported to one of five companies, cleaned and then set up in racks for around 30 percent of their blood to be drawn. They are returned to the sea a few days after being caught and are returned quite a distance from the harvesting sites to ensure the same crabs aren’t bled repeatedly. It’s estimated that between 10 and 30 percent of the crabs die during or after the process. One study has also shown that the process is so taxing that female crabs travel less frequently to spawning grounds after being bled, thereby slowing down the rate of reproduction. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Therefore, if you have ever used pharmaceutical drugs, then you probably already have horseshoe crab’s blood on your hands.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The evolution of the horseshoe crab extends back far before the dawn of human civilization, before the dinosaurs, before flowering plants... back to the era in our planet's history when visible life first appeared.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Our Evolution section traces the development of the horseshoe crab from the <a href="http://www.horseshoecrab.org/evo/paleo/paleo.html" style="text-decoration: none;">Paleozoic Era</a> and provides an overview of the changes to our planet's geology, climate, flora and fauna from 540 million years ago to the present. Toward the end of the <a href="http://www.horseshoecrab.org/evo/ceno/cenozoic.html" style="text-decoration: none;">Cenozoic Era</a>, beginning with the <a href="http://www.horseshoecrab.org/evo/ceno/holocene.html" style="text-decoration: none;">Holocene</a> (11,000 BC to the Present), we look specifically at the evolution and development of the Delaware Bay.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you've ever had a flu shot, know someone with a pace maker or joint replacement, or have given your pet a rabies vaccination, you owe a debt of gratitude to the horseshoe crab. Vaccines, injectable drugs, intravenous solutions, and implantable medical devices, both for humans and animals, are quality checked for safety using a test that comes from the blood of horseshoe crabs. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Humans can become sick if exposed to bacteria<a href="http://www.horseshoecrab.org/med/endotoxin.html" style="text-decoration: none;">l endotoxin</a>. It is especially dangerous if endotoxin enters our blood stream directly, such as from an injectable drug. Given this, drugs and medical devices that come in contact with our blood stream are tested to help assure they do not contain harmful levels of endotoxin. </span><br>
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Like other animals, the horseshoe crab has an immune and blood coagulation system that protects it against infection. Inside the horseshoe crab’s blood cell (called the amebocyte) are the protiens of its blood clotting system. These proteins are released in response to the presence of unwanted organisms like Gram negative bacteria and cause its blood to clot around the injury and bacteria, protecting the animal from further harm. </span><br>
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Endotoxin Testing: LAL and TAL</strong> </span><br>Research on horseshoe crabs showed that their blood is very sensitive to <a href="http://www.horseshoecrab.org/med/endotoxin.html" style="text-decoration: none;">endotoxin</a>, which is a component of Gram-negative bacteria like <em>E. coli</em>. In the 1960s (<a href="http://www.horseshoecrab.org/med/timeline.html" style="text-decoration: none;">see timeline</a>), Frederik Bang and Jack Levin developed a test from <em>Limulus polyphemus</em> blood that detected the presence of endotoxin. This test, based on the fact that the blood of the horseshoe crab gels or clots when it comes in contact with endotoxin, was called the <em>Limulus</em> amebocyte lysate (<strong>LAL</strong>)test and was commercialized in the United States in the 1970s<strong></strong>. In Asia, there is a similar test called <strong>TAL</strong> which takes its name from an Asian species of crab, <em>Tachypleus tridentatus</em>. </span><br>
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The LAL and TAL test methods have advanced since the early days, all with the purpose of helping to make injectable drugs, vaccines, and medical devices safer for humans and animals. In addition to the use of their blood for an endotoxin test such as the gel clot test, the horseshoe crab's DNA has been used to develop a recombinant test method for endotoxin. Even as alternatives are being developed that will retire or reduce the use of horseshoe crab blood, we will always be indebted to the horseshoe crab's contribution to our health.</span><br>
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In addition, a version of the LAL test has been clear by FDA as a test to aid in the diagnosis of invasive fungal infections. This test takes advantage of the fact that the horseshoe crabs blood clotting system responds to (1→3)-β-glucans as well as to endotoxins. (1→3)-β-glucans are a cell wall component of a wide range of fungi. A glucan test can indicate the presence (or absence) of a fungal infection within a couple of hours of drawing a patient’s blood sample so that appropriate treatment can begin promptly. Conventional methods of diagnosis can take days of even weeks to give a definitive result.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) are an integral part of the marine ecosystem and significant natural resource in many coastal national park units. As a member of the benthic community, they prey on small benthic fauna, such as bivalves and worms. They are preyed upon by sharks, as well as the federally listed loggerhead sea turtle. Horseshoe crab eggs provide a critical food resource for migrating shorebirds (i.e. red knot) which stop along the Atlantic coastline.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>You are likely to see an abundance of horseshoe crabs during their peak spawning season in May and June. Females begin to come ashore to spawn along protected sandy beaches during evening high tides during the full and new moons. Males (1/3 the size of females) attach themselves to females as they approach spawning beaches with a pair of modified claws that look like boxing gloves. You may see more than one male crowding a pair forming a large cluster along the water’s edge. Fertilization of the eggs is external and eggs are laid in nests that are dug in the sand by the female. Females may nest several times in one tidal cycle. Spawning sites within the Cape Cod National Seashore include Pleasant Bay, Nauset Marsh, Great Island, and in recent years, East Harbor.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Horseshoe crabs are commercially harvested for bait for American eel and whelk fisheries, and their blood is used to produce a critical pharmaceutical product, Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL). LAL is the pharmacological standard used to detect fever-causing bacteria in all injectable drugs (i.e vaccines) and implantable medical devices. Throughout their range, managers are concerned about declines in spawning abundance, possible over-exploitation and unsustainable harvest of horseshoe crabs. In Massachusetts, these concerns have led to stricter fishery regulations and even closures of certain areas to harvest. Harvesting horseshoe crabs within the Cape Cod National Seashore boundary is prohibited.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Cape Cod National Seashore is currently participating in the Cooperative Tagging Program through the US Fish and Wildlife Service. CACO Natural Resource Management staff, with the help of the Cape Cod Horseshoe Crab Conservation Association, are actively tagging adult horseshoe crabs within the East Harbor system in North Truro. Tag and recapture data provides more information about horseshoe crab movement and abundance which is crucial for making effective management decisions. </b></span><a href="https://www.nps.gov/caco/learn/nature/horseshoe-crabs.htm" id="id_e0dd_7e97_8e38_d8f4"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://www.nps.gov/caco/learn/nature/horseshoe-crabs.htm</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Ever since humans created and used tools for everyday life, destruction and greed was born on this Earth. Those animals who become entangled in nets and traps cannot bite their way through human's unnatural strong materials. When those materials get thrown into the environment and into the ocean, it will forever stay in the water without decay. With these large unnatural webs floating in the water, animals die without meaning. With the shadow of greed in the hearts of human's, it continues to overwhelm the Earth as animals once knew it. Now is the time to stop this meaningless killing. </b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #b20000; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>"Dirty Fishing" Emptying Oceans, Experts Say</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The collateral damage amounts to about 30 million tons (about 27 million tonnes) of sea life each year, says marine ecologist Jane Lubchenco of Oregon State University—about one-third the total global catch. Among the worst offenders are shrimp trawlers, who often discard up to 10 pounds of sea life for each pound of shrimp they catch.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"If a hunter is hunting for elk, he's not killing sparrows, eagles, coyotes, and pronghorn," said Elliott Norse, president of Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI) in Redmond, Washington. "That's different in the sea. We fish blindly—and it's an exceedingly wasteful way of doing things."</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Leading marine scientists ranked dolphins and porpoises across the globe for the risk they face from lethal fishing nets. Ten species are included in a list of populations conservationists say require urgent action to prevent further deaths. The report lists the following priority locations and species:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Researchers say most of these species are killed by gillnets. Made of monofilament (single-strand) nylon mesh, gillnets are difficult for dolphins and porpoises to see or detect with their sonar.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(69 , 69 , 69); font-size: 17px;">The pollution of the environments under water is very clear. Lost fishing nets, lines, hooks and weights are found by divers in large numbers on shipwrecks and reefs but also on the sandy seabed around. </span></h3>
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<span style="color: rgb(69 , 69 , 69); font-size: 17px;">Ghost fishing is a term that describes what happens when derelict fishing gear ‘continues to fish’ The issue of “ghost fishing” was first brought to the attention of world at the 16th Session of the FAO Committee on Fisheries in April 1985. Following debate at COFI, the FAO Secretariat published an in-depth study of the problem. Derelict fishing gear, sometimes referred to as “ghost gear” or “ghost nets” is any discarded, lost, or abandoned, fishing gear in the environment. This gear continues to fish and trap animals, entangle and potentially kill marine life, smother habitat, and act as a hazard to navigation. Derelict fishing gear, such as nets or traps and pots, is one of the main types of debris impacting the marine environment today. Debris in our oceans, seas and inland waters is very big, so big it will probably never disappear. </span></h3>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The sheer brutality of what reportedly happened at Gadhimai, however, was something that I could not simply read and forget about. Buffaloes and goats were transported by foot from India and various parts of Nepal to the festival grounds. They were often made to walk for days without food or water. Many of them died along the way. Once they reached the festival venue, they were dragged into the slaughter field or even hung from sticks and carried because they were in no condition to walk. Once inside the field, they were randomly and brutally hacked with all sorts of weapons by inexperienced butchers. Little calves were murdered in front of their mothers and vice versa. Many of them did not die in one attempt and would lie writhing in pain for days. It all seemed so very futile to subject completely innocent beings to a plight like that. The images I saw were horrific and the terror in the eyes of the animals was unmistakable. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There have been many <a href="http://www.animals24-7.org/2014/11/29/the-toll-from-gadhi-mai-2014-750-buffalo-sacrificed-1000-devotees-in-attendance/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">debates about the number of animals that are actually killed at Gadhimai </a>every five years. But for me the exact number was irrelevant. Even if one animal was suffering torture of this magnitude it surely was worth trying to do something about it.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So I decided to support <a href="http://www.hsi.org/news/news/2014/11/stop-gadhimai-112614.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Humane Society International's campaign</a> to prevent illegal transport of animals from India to Nepal for Gadhimai. I contributed financially but also activated politicians, religious leaders and journalists. Along the way I met many individuals who were working selflessly for the cause. These are not people you will hear about or read about in news articles but the role they played cannot be undermined. I truly believe that the official end to ritualistic animal sacrifice at Gadhimai is the collective victory of countless individuals and organisations. This includes politicians who tried to help instead of simply ignoring the appeals of many concerned people, journalists who covered the issue even though others did not find the news "exciting" enough as well as people who signed endless petitions and participated in Twitter storms to heighten awareness about animal cruelty at Gadhimai. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There is so much to be disheartened about in the animal activism space. Every day we see pictures of animal cruelty and it pains many of us so very deeply. In fact, in the lead up to Gadhimai last year, I spent many sleepless nights thinking about the torture that was awaiting the animals. Days like today are rare and definitely must be celebrated. More importantly they signal to us that nothing is impossible if all stakeholders come together and make a concerted effort.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; margin: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 200px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"While the Gadhimai Temple Committee has officially announced the end of animal sacrifice, the local people will need to be educated and sensitised."</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is also important to point out, however, that a lot of work still remains to be done. While the Gadhimai Temple Committee has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2015/07/28/animal_0_n_7885398.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">officially announced the end of animal sacrifice</a>, the local people will need to be educated and sensitised. Such practices go on for years because people themselves often have blind faith in them. Thus, it will be crucial to ensure that their beliefs are changed and this is by no means an easy task. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Also, Nepal, like many other places, has an entire calendar of animal sacrifice. It is an integral part of the some of the other festivals as well, such as the <a href="http://www.awnnepal.org/fullstory.php?post_ID=12" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Goat Drowning Festival</a>, so it will need widespread and concerted efforts to improve the lives of animals. All of this will take time of course but we must ensure that we keep up the momentum against such meaningless and cruel killings of fellow living beings not just at Gadhimai but across the world. Today, I remember all the innocent lives that have been lost at Gadhimai till date and hope that in 2019 the same field that has witnessed the brutal massacre of thousands of animals can be converted into a place of celebration. A celebration of life.</span></div>
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background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ざ ざ ~ ん ・ ・ ・</b></div><font face="Arial"><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><ruby>船<rt>ふな</rt></ruby>べりに<ruby>波<rt>なみ</rt></ruby>がぶつかってはくだけちります</b></div><b><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><ruby>船<rt>ふね</rt></ruby>の<ruby>上<rt>うえ</rt></ruby>には <ruby>期待<rt>きたい</rt></ruby>に<ruby>胸<rt>むね</rt></ruby>をおどらせた10<ruby>人<rt>にん</rt></ruby>ばかりの<ruby>人<rt>ひと</rt></ruby>たちが</b></div><ruby><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><ruby>身<rt>み</rt></ruby>を<ruby>乗<rt>の</rt></ruby>りだすようにして <ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>のほうに<ruby>目<rt>め</rt></ruby>をこらしています</b></div></ruby><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">いったいかれらは <ruby>一面<rt>いちめん</rt></ruby>の<ruby>大海原<rt>おおうなばら</rt></ruby>に<ruby>何<rt>なに</rt></ruby>を<ruby>探<rt>さが</rt></ruby>しているのでしょう?</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">じつは この<ruby>人<rt>ひと</rt></ruby>たちはクジラを<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>にきたのです</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">クジラというのは、そう、<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>に<ruby>住<rt>す</rt></ruby>んでいて</b></div><ruby><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>むかしに<ruby>栄<rt>さか</rt></ruby>えた<ruby>恐竜<rt>きょうりゅう</rt></ruby>のように<ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きな<ruby>動物<rt>どうぶつ</rt></ruby>です</b></div></ruby><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">そのクジラを<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>にきた<ruby>人<rt>ひと</rt></ruby>たちにまじって</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1<ruby>匹<rt>ぴき</rt></ruby>のネコが ガラス<ruby>玉<rt>だま</rt></ruby>のような<ruby>目<rt>め</rt></ruby>をかがやかせていました</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ネコくんは<ruby>船<rt>ふね</rt></ruby>のへさきにじんどって</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ほかのだれにも<ruby>負<rt>ま</rt></ruby>けない<ruby>熱心<rt>ねっしん</rt></ruby>さで <ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>上<rt>うえ</rt></ruby>をじっと<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>つめていました</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">かれも <ruby>船<rt>ふね</rt></ruby>に<ruby>乗<rt>の</rt></ruby>っている<ruby>人<rt>ひと</rt></ruby>たちと<ruby>同<rt>おな</rt></ruby>じくクジラを<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>にきたのですが</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">それにはちょっとしたワケがありました..</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></b></div></b></font></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTNYlkZkxKobQYdBPwlS27BsywMn1rPK1uoif58ed8tDCqWbNqBlJQ1h2kH4u8t_WFJS-Nx2KaoHdf8XPxuGkEub319JA4e1q-VqHSKZWSm-JfFmJFNWVcyqWMAtZ-1-RqEBhUTVLqbRU/s640/blogger-image--353452270.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTNYlkZkxKobQYdBPwlS27BsywMn1rPK1uoif58ed8tDCqWbNqBlJQ1h2kH4u8t_WFJS-Nx2KaoHdf8XPxuGkEub319JA4e1q-VqHSKZWSm-JfFmJFNWVcyqWMAtZ-1-RqEBhUTVLqbRU/s640/blogger-image--353452270.jpg" id="id_9390_998b_a071_383e" style="width: 917px; height: auto;"></a></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>じつをいうと、ネコくんはクジラを<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べてみたいと<ruby>思<rt>おも</rt></ruby>っていたのです<br>かれはもともとお<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>には<ruby>目<rt>め</rt></ruby>がありません<br><ruby>生<rt>なま</rt></ruby>の<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>、<ruby>煮<rt>に</rt></ruby>た<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>、<ruby>焼<rt>や</rt></ruby>いた<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>、<ruby>缶詰<rt>かんづめ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>、みんな<ruby>大好<rt>だいす</rt></ruby>きです<br>おまけにそうとうの<ruby>食<rt>く</rt></ruby>いしんぼうときていますから<br><ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>の<ruby>中<rt>なか</rt></ruby>でいちばん<ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きいと<ruby>聞<rt>き</rt></ruby>いているクジラのお<ruby>肉<rt>にく</rt></ruby>を<br><ruby>一度<rt>いちど</rt></ruby>でいいから<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べたいなあと<ruby>夢見<rt>ゆめみ</rt></ruby>ていたのです<br>もしクジラ1<ruby>頭分<rt>とうぶん</rt></ruby>の<ruby>肉<rt>にく</rt></ruby>を<ruby>缶詰<rt>かんづめ</rt></ruby>にしたら <ruby>百<rt>ひゃっ</rt></ruby>コ、<ruby>千<rt>せん</rt></ruby>コ、いや、もっとかな?<br>とにかく<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べきれないほどの<ruby>量<rt>りょう</rt></ruby>になるでしょう<br>そしたら きっと<ruby>一年中食<rt>いちねんじゅう た </rt></ruby>べほうだい<br>ほかのネコたちに<ruby>分<rt>わ</rt></ruby>けてあげることだってできます<br><ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>の<ruby>中<rt>なか</rt></ruby>には こうしてクジラを<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>て<ruby>楽<rt>たの</rt></ruby>しむ<ruby>以外<rt>いがい</rt></ruby>に<br>クジラの<ruby>肉<rt>にく</rt></ruby>をおいしい、おいしいといって<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べている人もいますが<br>ネコたちにはぜんぜん<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べさせてくれません<br>それなら いっそのこと じかにクジラのいるところまで<ruby>行<rt>い</rt></ruby>ってやろうと<br>ネコくんは<ruby>船<rt>ふね</rt></ruby>に<ruby>乗<rt>の</rt></ruby>りこむことを<ruby>決心<rt>けっしん</rt></ruby>したのです<br>この<ruby>船<rt>ふね</rt></ruby>は<ruby>捕鯨船<rt>ほげいせん</rt></ruby>といって、<ruby>以前<rt>いぜん</rt></ruby>は<ruby>南氷洋<rt>なんぴょうよう</rt></ruby>という<br><ruby>遠<rt>とお</rt></ruby>くて<ruby>寒<rt>さむ</rt></ruby>い<ruby>氷<rt>こおり</rt></ruby>の<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>まで クジラをとりにいっていたということです<br><ruby>当時<rt>とうじ</rt></ruby> そこにはクジラが<ruby>数<rt>かぞ</rt></ruby>えきれないほどわんさかいたそうですが<br>どういうわけかクジラをとることができなくなってしまい<br>いまではクジラ<ruby>見物<rt>けんぶつ</rt></ruby>にいくお<ruby>客<rt>きゃく</rt></ruby>を<ruby>乗<rt>の</rt></ruby>せる<ruby>船<rt>ふね</rt></ruby>になったのです</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix9Vd2mJAvKP46kJucEAHA2pUzJUSwuOFrzDThZwm9puO6P4MDV1e_p9Ms6rwLJxY_Dv_pwtnFRAcffhZMH5Qzw57hFrg-ks-ahpKr642v_YF4L0nPLel9QbZId0lKiVgBFE8peEhTfoo/s640/blogger-image--1276443643.jpg" id="id_fef_3424_e3cb_eea0" style="width: 921px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>ふたたびエンジンがかかり、<ruby>追跡<rt>ついせき</rt></ruby>がはじまりました<br><ruby>船<rt>ふね</rt></ruby>はほとんど<ruby>飛<rt>と</rt></ruby>びはねるようにしながら <ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>の上をつき<ruby>進<rt>すす</rt></ruby>みました<br><ruby>口<rt>くち</rt></ruby>をしっかり<ruby>閉<rt>と</rt></ruby>じていないと <ruby>大事<rt>だいじ</rt></ruby>な<ruby>舌<rt>した</rt></ruby>をかみそうです<br>こちらの<ruby>動<rt>うご</rt></ruby>きに<ruby>気<rt>き</rt></ruby>づいたのか、クジラたちも<ruby>場所<rt>ばしょ</rt></ruby>を<ruby>移<rt>うつ</rt></ruby>りはじめました<br>ジャンプをしながらどんどん<ruby>遠<rt>とお</rt></ruby>ざかっています<br>そのとき、<ruby>横合<rt>よこあ</rt></ruby>いから<ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きな<ruby>波<rt>なみ</rt></ruby>が<ruby>押<rt>お</rt></ruby>しよせ<br><ruby>船<rt>ふな</rt></ruby>べりをこえて ネコくんにおそいかかりました<br>あっというまもなく ネコくんは<ruby>波<rt>なみ</rt></ruby>にさらわれて<br><ruby>水<rt>みず</rt></ruby>の<ruby>中<rt>なか</rt></ruby>にジャボンと<ruby>落<rt>お</rt></ruby>っこちてしまいました<br>さあ、たいへんです<br><ruby>次<rt>つぎ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>瞬間<rt>しゅんかん</rt></ruby>、ネコくんは<ruby>上<rt>うえ</rt></ruby>も<ruby>下<rt>した</rt></ruby>もわきたつような<ruby>泡<rt>あわ</rt></ruby>に<ruby>囲<rt>かこ</rt></ruby>まれていました<br>ゴーゴーとそうぞうしい<ruby>音<rt>おと</rt></ruby>であたりはいっぱいです<br><ruby>耳<rt>みみ</rt></ruby>や<ruby>鼻<rt>はな</rt></ruby>からしょっぱい<ruby>水<rt>みず</rt></ruby>が<ruby>入<rt>はい</rt></ruby>りこんできます<br>「たすけて、おぼれちゃう!」<br><ruby>声<rt>こえ</rt></ruby>をあげようとしたネコくんは、<ruby>海水<rt>かいすい</rt></ruby>を<ruby>吸<rt>す</rt></ruby>いこんでむせかえりました<br>4<ruby>本<rt>ほん</rt></ruby>の<ruby>足<rt>あし</rt></ruby>をバタバタさせて ひっしに<ruby>空気<rt>くうき</rt></ruby>をもとめますが<br>こわさと<ruby>息苦<rt>いきぐる</rt></ruby>しさとで、<ruby>胸<rt>むね</rt></ruby>がしめつけられます<br>ネコくんはしだいに<ruby>気<rt>き</rt></ruby>が<ruby>遠<rt>とお</rt></ruby>くなってきました<br>もがくのをやめると あたりは<ruby>静<rt>しず</rt></ruby>まり、<ruby>青一色<rt>あおいっしょく</rt></ruby>になっていきました<br>ネコくんは <ruby>自分<rt>じぶん</rt></ruby>もまっ<ruby>青<rt>さお</rt></ruby>にそまっていくように<ruby>感<rt>かん</rt></ruby>じました..</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxZ4irFjA_M_Vyfj9gaZ5G2t0KFJTavpBJp3zpgw2KMiWTlW95UGDgKm_b3FGCKQzS1-X1FxSl18ixr-8aiDmxHkPVGBEn4DcfNeAXXvxsyY8bFI74dqMZ7QWESxn7Av0L7-cNAhtmb5A/s640/blogger-image-2098464023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxZ4irFjA_M_Vyfj9gaZ5G2t0KFJTavpBJp3zpgw2KMiWTlW95UGDgKm_b3FGCKQzS1-X1FxSl18ixr-8aiDmxHkPVGBEn4DcfNeAXXvxsyY8bFI74dqMZ7QWESxn7Av0L7-cNAhtmb5A/s640/blogger-image-2098464023.jpg" id="id_290d_29cc_7731_17c6" style="width: 920px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>ネコくんは<ruby>青<rt>あお</rt></ruby>い<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>中<rt>なか</rt></ruby>をただよっていました<br>ふしぎなことに、さきほどまでの<ruby>息苦<rt>いきぐる</rt></ruby>しさはまったくありません<br><ruby>手足<rt>てあし</rt></ruby>を<ruby>動<rt>うご</rt></ruby>かそうとしましたが <ruby>手足<rt>てあし</rt></ruby>はなく<br>かわりに<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>のようなヒレがついていました<br>でも、<ruby>水<rt>みず</rt></ruby>の<ruby>中<rt>なか</rt></ruby>ではこのほうが<ruby>便利<rt>べんり</rt></ruby>です<br>ネコくんは<ruby>自分<rt>じぶん</rt></ruby>が<ruby>生<rt>う</rt></ruby>まれたときからずっと<br>この<ruby>青<rt>あお</rt></ruby>い<ruby>世界<rt>せかい</rt></ruby>になじんでいたような<ruby>気<rt>き</rt></ruby>になりました<br>4<ruby>本<rt>ほん</rt></ruby>の<ruby>足<rt>あし</rt></ruby>で<ruby>地面<rt>じめん</rt></ruby>の<ruby>上<rt>うえ</rt></ruby>を<ruby>歩<rt>ある</rt></ruby>いていたなんて まるでウソみたいです<br>ここは<ruby>平和<rt>へいわ</rt></ruby>ですごしやすい<ruby>世界<rt>せかい</rt></ruby>でした<br><ruby>太陽<rt>たいよう</rt></ruby>は<ruby>空<rt>そら</rt></ruby>にかかった<ruby>円盤<rt>えんばん</rt></ruby>ではなく、ユラユラうごめく<ruby>光<rt>ひかり</rt></ruby>の<ruby>万華鏡<rt>まんげきょう</rt></ruby>です<br>ネコくんはとても<ruby>満ち足<rt>み た</rt></ruby>りた<ruby>幸<rt>しあわ</rt></ruby>せな<ruby>気分<rt>きぶん</rt></ruby>でした<br>ふいに <ruby>頭<rt>あたま</rt></ruby>の上に<ruby>暗<rt>くら</rt></ruby>いかげがさしました<br><ruby>上<rt>うえ</rt></ruby>から<ruby>水音<rt>みずおと</rt></ruby>とともに<ruby>黒<rt>くろ</rt></ruby>いものがとびこんできて<br>かれのまわりにひろがりました<br>それは<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>をとる<ruby>網<rt>あみ</rt></ruby>でした<br>かれの<ruby>体<rt>からだ</rt></ruby>はその<ruby>網<rt>あみ</rt></ruby>にからみとられ、<ruby>身動<rt>みうご</rt></ruby>きがとれなくなりました<br>もがけばもがくほど <ruby>網<rt>あみ</rt></ruby>はまきついて<ruby>体<rt>からだ</rt></ruby>に<ruby>食<rt>く</rt></ruby>いこみます<br>ネコくんはそのままズルズルと<ruby>引<rt>ひ</rt></ruby>き<ruby>上<rt>あ</rt></ruby>げられながら<br>ひっしになってさけびました<br>「たすけて、おぼれちゃう───」</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyvYQxwuMjrDTlji60nKMaxPZ_GhOAniuMWymmQ9GtAeAtulm4rfFcFOTjXLGiVchcZe0kLfhwON9VrTN5Sw52Ihx8wCbatpEfYCtHikX0K6fLT7HURsRZZYQNo4az1nBqqtS04Von0wM/s640/blogger-image--347192101.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>「わっ!」<br><ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きな<ruby>目玉<rt>めだま</rt></ruby>が <ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>中<rt>なか</rt></ruby>からこちらを<ruby>上目<rt>うわめ</rt></ruby>づかいに<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>つめています<br>そうです、かれはなんとクジラの<ruby>背中<rt>せなか</rt></ruby>の<ruby>上<rt>うえ</rt></ruby>に<ruby>乗<rt>の</rt></ruby>っていたのです<br><ruby>船<rt>ふね</rt></ruby>からではどのくらいの<ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きさか<ruby>見当<rt>けんとう</rt></ruby>がつきませんでしたが<br>いざこうして<ruby>上<rt>うえ</rt></ruby>に<ruby>乗<rt>の</rt></ruby>ってみると、なんというとてつもない<ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きさでしょう<br>「うひゃあ、これじゃ<ruby>缶詰<rt>かんづめ</rt></ruby><ruby>千<rt>せん</rt></ruby>コでも<ruby>足<rt>た</rt></ruby>りないや!」<br>うっかり<ruby>口<rt>くち</rt></ruby>にしてから、ネコくんはしまったと<ruby>思<rt>おも</rt></ruby>ってあわてて<ruby>口<rt>くち</rt></ruby>をつぐみました<br><ruby>自分<rt>じぶん</rt></ruby>のようにちっぽけなネコなど<br>クジラさんはきっとひとのみにしてしまうにちがいありません<br>はずかしさをまぎらすために<br>かれはしょっぱいのもかまわず <ruby>背中<rt>せなか</rt></ruby>をせっせとなめました<br>クジラさんが<ruby>笑<rt>わら</rt></ruby>って<ruby>体<rt>からだ</rt></ruby>をゆすったため、<ruby>足<rt>あし</rt></ruby>の<ruby>下<rt>した</rt></ruby>がゆれ<ruby>動<rt>うご</rt></ruby>きました<br>「あのぉ、あなたがぼくをたすけてくれたんですか?」<br>ネコくんはこわごわとクジラさんにたずねました<br>「ぼくは<ruby>何<rt>なに</rt></ruby>もしちゃいないよ<br> きみが<ruby>波間<rt>なみま</rt></ruby>をただよってきたので、ひょいと<ruby>背中<rt>せなか</rt></ruby>に<ruby>乗<rt>の</rt></ruby>っけたまでさ<br> <ruby>残念<rt>ざんねん</rt></ruby>ながら、いまのぼくにはきみをたすける<ruby>力<rt>ちから</rt></ruby>はなくてね<br> きみの<ruby>運<rt>うん</rt></ruby>がよかったんだ<br> たぶん ネコの<ruby>神<rt>かみ</rt></ruby>さまが<ruby>守<rt>まも</rt></ruby>ってくれたんだろう」<br>そういえば、クジラさんの<ruby>声<rt>こえ</rt></ruby>にはなんだか<ruby>元気<rt>げんき</rt></ruby>がないようです</b></font></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">「どこかぐあいでも<ruby>悪<rt>わる</rt></ruby>いんですか?」<br>「<ruby>網<rt>あみ</rt></ruby>にからまってしまって<ruby>動<rt>うご</rt></ruby>けないんだ」<br>ネコくんはクジラさんの<ruby>鼻<rt>はな</rt></ruby>すじを<ruby>伝<rt>つた</rt></ruby>いながら<br>コブのある<ruby>頭<rt>あたま</rt></ruby>のいちばん<ruby>前<rt>まえ</rt></ruby>のほうへ<ruby>歩<rt>ある</rt></ruby>いていきました<br><ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>ると、たしかにところどころやぶれかけた<ruby>網<rt>あみ</rt></ruby>が<br><ruby>頭<rt>あたま</rt></ruby>の<ruby>先<rt>さき</rt></ruby>から<ruby>胸<rt>むな</rt></ruby>ビレにかけて びっしりとからみついています<br>「なんとかぬけだそうとしたんだがね<br> よけいがんじがらめになって<ruby>身動<rt>みうご</rt></ruby>きもできなくなってしまった<br> ヒレは<ruby>傷<rt>きず</rt></ruby>つくし、<ruby>泳<rt>およ</rt></ruby>ぐ<ruby>力<rt>ちから</rt></ruby>もない<br> こうして<ruby>波間<rt>なみま</rt></ruby>をただようにまかせて もう<ruby>10日<rt>とおか</rt></ruby>ほどになる」<br>「<ruby>10日<rt>とおか</rt></ruby>も!? その<ruby>間食<rt>あいだた</rt></ruby>べものはどうしたんですか?」<br>「ぼくらは<ruby>夏<rt>なつ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>間<rt>あいだ</rt></ruby>にたくさん<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べて<ruby>体<rt>からだ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>中<rt>なか</rt></ruby>にたくわえるんでね<br> いまは<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べなくても<ruby>平気<rt>へいき</rt></ruby>なんだ」<br>とにかく<ruby>命<rt>いのち</rt></ruby>をすくってもらったことですし<br>ネコくんはなんとかしてクジラさんを<ruby>自由<rt>じゆう</rt></ruby>にしてあげたいと<ruby>思<rt>おも</rt></ruby>いました<br>そこで <ruby>網<rt>あみ</rt></ruby>をかみちぎろうとして<ruby>口<rt>くち</rt></ruby>にくわえて<ruby>引<rt>ひ</rt></ruby>っぱりました<br><ruby>牙<rt>きば</rt></ruby>のするどさには<ruby>自信<rt>じしん</rt></ruby>のあるネコくんでしたが<br>この<ruby>網<rt>あみ</rt></ruby>はどうしてもかみ<ruby>切<rt>き</rt></ruby>ることができず<br>しまいにはとうとう<ruby>歯<rt>は</rt></ruby>ぐきが<ruby>痛<rt>いた</rt></ruby>くなってしまいました<br>「むりだよ、<ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>が<ruby>作<rt>つく</rt></ruby>った<ruby>網<rt>あみ</rt></ruby>は ぼくらの<ruby>力<rt>ちから</rt></ruby>じゃどうにもならない」</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>クジラさんをたすけるのをあきらめてすることがなくなり<br>どこまでもうねる<ruby>波<rt>なみ</rt></ruby>ばかりながめているのにもあきてきたネコくんは<br>たいくつになってクジラさんにたずねました<br>「ねえ、クジラさんはいつも<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>中<rt>なか</rt></ruby>でどんなふうに<ruby>暮<rt>く</rt></ruby>らしているんだい?<br> <ruby>陸<rt>りく</rt></ruby>には<ruby>山<rt>やま</rt></ruby>や<ruby>川<rt>かわ</rt></ruby>や<ruby>森<rt>もり</rt></ruby>があって、いろんな<ruby>生<rt>い</rt></ruby>きものも<ruby>住<rt>す</rt></ruby>んでいるけど」<br>「ハハ、ぼくは<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>から<ruby>出<rt>で</rt></ruby>たことはないから<ruby>陸<rt>りく</rt></ruby>のことはよく<ruby>知<rt>し</rt></ruby>らないが<br> <ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>中<rt>なか</rt></ruby>だって<ruby>陸<rt>りく</rt></ruby>の<ruby>上<rt>うえ</rt></ruby>に<ruby>負<rt>ま</rt></ruby>けないくらいおもしろいと<ruby>思<rt>おも</rt></ruby>うね<br> たとえば、<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>には<ruby>川<rt>かわ</rt></ruby>はないけれど <ruby>海流<rt>かいりゅう</rt></ruby>といって<br> <ruby>温<rt>あたた</rt></ruby>かい<ruby>水<rt>みず</rt></ruby>や<ruby>冷<rt>つめ</rt></ruby>たい<ruby>水<rt>みず</rt></ruby>を<ruby>運<rt>はこ</rt></ruby>ぶ<ruby>流<rt>なが</rt></ruby>れが<ruby>決<rt>き</rt></ruby>まったところを<ruby>通<rt>とお</rt></ruby>っている<br> それから、<ruby>木<rt>き</rt></ruby>の<ruby>森<rt>もり</rt></ruby>や<ruby>林<rt>はやし</rt></ruby>のかわりにサンゴの<ruby>森<rt>もり</rt></ruby>や<ruby>海藻<rt>かいそう</rt></ruby>の<ruby>林<rt>はやし</rt></ruby>がある<br> そこにはとてもたくさんの<ruby>生<rt>い</rt></ruby>きものが<ruby>住<rt>す</rt></ruby>んでいるよ<br> スイスイと<ruby>泳<rt>およ</rt></ruby>ぐもの、プカプカと<ruby>浮<rt>う</rt></ruby>かぶもの<br> <ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>底<rt>そこ</rt></ruby>をノソノソとはうもの、じっとしてぜんぜん<ruby>動<rt>うご</rt></ruby>かないもの<br> ぼくのように<ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きいのから <ruby>目<rt>め</rt></ruby>に<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>えないほど<ruby>小<rt>ちい</rt></ruby>さいの<br> <ruby>美<rt>うつく</rt></ruby>しいかざりやもようのついたもの、<ruby>毒<rt>どく</rt></ruby>を<ruby>持<rt>も</rt></ruby>つもの<br> おおぜい<ruby>群<rt>む</rt></ruby>れて<ruby>暮<rt>く</rt></ruby>らすもの、ひとりでいたがるもの<br> どうもうなもの、いつも<ruby>逃<rt>に</rt></ruby>げまわっているもの・・・というぐあいにね<br> それから、<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>中<rt>なか</rt></ruby>はさまざまな<ruby>音<rt>おと</rt></ruby>で<ruby>満<rt>み</rt></ruby>ちている<br> ぼくらクジラは<ruby>声<rt>こえ</rt></ruby>で<ruby>仲間<rt>なかま</rt></ruby>どうしの<ruby>連絡<rt>れんらく</rt></ruby>をとりあっているんだ」<br>なるほど、いったんもぐれば<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>はおもしろい<ruby>素顔<rt>すがお</rt></ruby>を<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>せてくれるようです<br>でも、ネコくんはさっきみたいなぬれネズミになるのはごめんだと<ruby>思<rt>おも</rt></ruby>いました</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>「ぼくらクジラの<ruby>仲間<rt>なかま</rt></ruby>は<br> <ruby>毎年<rt>まいねん</rt></ruby> <ruby>季節<rt>きせつ</rt></ruby>がくると <ruby>北<rt>きた</rt></ruby>の<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>と<ruby>南<rt>みなみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>間<rt>あいだ</rt></ruby>を<ruby>旅<rt>たび</rt></ruby>するんだ<br> ちょうど<ruby>渡<rt>わた</rt></ruby>り<ruby>鳥<rt>どり</rt></ruby>が<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>上<rt>うえ</rt></ruby>を<ruby>大陸<rt>たいりく</rt></ruby>から<ruby>大陸<rt>たいりく</rt></ruby>へと<ruby>渡<rt>わた</rt></ruby>っていくようにね<br> <ruby>夏<rt>なつ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>北<rt>きた</rt></ruby>の<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>には <ruby>小<rt>ちい</rt></ruby>さな<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>やエビの<ruby>仲間<rt>なかま</rt></ruby>がたくさん<ruby>集<rt>あつ</rt></ruby>まってくる<br> それを<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べるために ぼくらははるばる<ruby>北<rt>きた</rt></ruby>へ<ruby>行<rt>い</rt></ruby>く<br> そして <ruby>冬<rt>ふゆ</rt></ruby>がおとずれると<br> <ruby>暖<rt>あたた</rt></ruby>かい<ruby>南<rt>みなみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>へ<ruby>移動<rt>いどう</rt></ruby>して こどもを<ruby>生<rt>う</rt></ruby>み<ruby>育<rt>そだ</rt></ruby>てるんだ」<br>クジラさんはむかしを<ruby>思<rt>おも</rt></ruby>いだしながら<br>ひとことひとことかみしめるようにネコくんに<ruby>話<rt>はな</rt></ruby>して<ruby>聞<rt>き</rt></ruby>かせました<br>「たまにははみだしものがいて<br> <ruby>決<rt>き</rt></ruby>められたコースをはずれてよその<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>をたずねたりもする<br> ぼくもこんなふうにならなけりゃ<br> まだ<ruby>一度<rt>いちど</rt></ruby>も<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>たことのない<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>へ<ruby>行<rt>い</rt></ruby>きたかったんだけど…」<br>そういってクジラさんは <ruby>少<rt>すこ</rt></ruby>し<ruby>悲<rt>かな</rt></ruby>しそうな<ruby>顔<rt>かお</rt></ruby>をしましたが<br><ruby>気<rt>き</rt></ruby>をとりなおして<ruby>先<rt>さき</rt></ruby>をつづけました<br>「ぼくらの<ruby>一族<rt>いちぞく</rt></ruby>は<ruby>岸辺<rt>きしべ</rt></ruby>に<ruby>近<rt>ちか</rt></ruby>いところを<ruby>泳<rt>およ</rt></ruby>いでいくんだ<br> ときどきのび<ruby>上<rt>あ</rt></ruby>がって<ruby>陸<rt>りく</rt></ruby>の<ruby>地形<rt>ちけい</rt></ruby>を<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>て<ruby>覚<rt>おぼ</rt></ruby>えておくと<br> <ruby>帰<rt>かえ</rt></ruby>り<ruby>道<rt>みち</rt></ruby>のときに<ruby>便利<rt>べんり</rt></ruby>なんでね」</b></font></span></div><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" color="#0000b8"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSnSk9aBmk3qPOuRUXVREiHl0AIccjmgBzVTIsLIq6fmApUKgfcVTAJ61mP13qVyyASw2ktKdOC4Hs0wSxI-jaEe4wlgjF84Tqmvo7oIgLzjldIIH9pP4oMc7W4hW31sA5x33kGjSm-Gk/s640/blogger-image-2032800487.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGRi2VPcxfC8p_cw9eZXyDCFsGP-7BTtFehGzgjoqlHDTeiZU9JJoDVhmB-RazX5nP9mk9ktBbF5RZ1KqnS2t-mDvv_O6okf2y3RF3nlAqOzDTfwqFr0btSfATWgLeyD9xY1mLXDQZ8JY/s640/blogger-image-959270651.jpg" id="id_8632_8bf6_6a2_74ff" style="width: 901px; height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>「クジラさんは<ruby>歌<rt>うた</rt></ruby>を<ruby>歌<rt>うた</rt></ruby>ったり、ジャンプをしたりするクジラの<ruby>仲間<rt>なかま</rt></ruby>ですか?」<br>「ああ、そうだよ<br> “いちばんの<ruby>歌<rt>うた</rt></ruby>い<ruby>手<rt>て</rt></ruby>でジャンプの<ruby>名手<rt>めいしゅ</rt></ruby>”のクジラさ<br> <ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>たちはザトウクジラと<ruby>呼<rt>よ</rt></ruby>んでいるようだが」<br>「クジラさんはどうしてそんな<ruby>重<rt>おも</rt></ruby>たそうな<ruby>体<rt>からだ</rt></ruby>で<br> <ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>上<rt>うえ</rt></ruby>を<ruby>飛<rt>と</rt></ruby>びはねるんですか?」<br>ネコくんは クジラさんのジャンプをその<ruby>目<rt>め</rt></ruby>で<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>たときから<br>ふしぎに<ruby>思<rt>おも</rt></ruby>っていたのです<br><ruby>島<rt>しま</rt></ruby>ほどもありそうな<ruby>体<rt>からだ</rt></ruby>を、あんなに<ruby>高<rt>たか</rt></ruby>く<ruby>水中<rt>すいちゅう</rt></ruby>から<ruby>持<rt>も</rt></ruby>ち<ruby>上<rt>あ</rt></ruby>げるなんて<br>よっぽど<ruby>骨<rt>ほね</rt></ruby>の<ruby>折<rt>お</rt></ruby>れることではないでしょうか?<br>「<ruby>音<rt>おと</rt></ruby>で<ruby>仲間<rt>なかま</rt></ruby>に<ruby>合図<rt>あいず</rt></ruby>を<ruby>送<rt>おく</rt></ruby>ったりするのにも<ruby>使<rt>つか</rt></ruby>うんだけど<br> まあとにかく、<ruby>空<rt>そら</rt></ruby>に<ruby>向<rt>む</rt></ruby>かってぐうんと<ruby>背<rt>せ</rt></ruby>のびして<br> <ruby>水<rt>みず</rt></ruby>に<ruby>体<rt>からだ</rt></ruby>をたたきつけるのは、とっても<ruby>気持<rt>きも</rt></ruby>ちがいいもんだよ<br> <ruby>仲間<rt>なかま</rt></ruby>の<ruby>中<rt>なか</rt></ruby>でだれがいちばん<ruby>高<rt>たか</rt></ruby>くジャンプできるか<br> <ruby>何回<rt>なんかい</rt></ruby>つづけて<ruby>飛<rt>と</rt></ruby>べるか<ruby>競争<rt>きょうそう</rt></ruby>するんだ<br> あの<ruby>最高<rt>さいこう</rt></ruby>の<ruby>気分<rt>きぶん</rt></ruby>は、ちょっときみたちにはわからないかなあ」<br>あれが<ruby>遊<rt>あそ</rt></ruby>びだなんて!<br>ネコくんが<ruby>虫<rt>むし</rt></ruby>を<ruby>追<rt>お</rt></ruby>いかけたり<br><ruby>草<rt>くさ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>葉<rt>は</rt></ruby>にじゃれついたりするのとはわけがちがいます<br>やっぱりクジラさんは<ruby>何<rt>なに</rt></ruby>をするのもスケールがでっかいようです</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>「よくぼくらのジャンプや<ruby>歌<rt>うた</rt></ruby>のことを<ruby>知<rt>し</rt></ruby>っていたね」<br>「さっきクジラさんを<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>にきた<ruby>人<rt>ひと</rt></ruby>たちといっしょに<br> <ruby>船<rt>ふね</rt></ruby>の<ruby>上<rt>うえ</rt></ruby>から<ruby>見物<rt>けんぶつ</rt></ruby>していたんです」<br>「そうか・・・・」<br><ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>といっしょだったと<ruby>聞<rt>き</rt></ruby>いて、クジラさんの<ruby>顔<rt>かお</rt></ruby>がくもりました<br><ruby>声<rt>こえ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>調子<rt>ちょうし</rt></ruby>でそれに<ruby>気<rt>き</rt></ruby>づいたネコくんは<br>いそいでクジラさんの<ruby>歌<rt>うた</rt></ruby>をほめあげました<br>「そうそう、<ruby>歌<rt>うた</rt></ruby>も<ruby>聞<rt>き</rt></ruby>きましたよ<br> とってもすてきな<ruby>声<rt>こえ</rt></ruby>ですね、ぼく<ruby>感動<rt>かんどう</rt></ruby>しちゃった」<br><ruby>感動<rt>かんどう</rt></ruby>したのはほんとうでしたが<br>ネコくんのおせじにクジラさんはまんざらでもないようです<br>「ありがとう<br> ぼくらの<ruby>歌<rt>うた</rt></ruby>はどういうときに<ruby>歌<rt>うた</rt></ruby>うかによって<br> いろいろなメロディーがあるんだ<br> ライバルとのけっとうでの<ruby>前口上<rt>まえこうじょう</rt></ruby>とか<br> <ruby>恋<rt>こい</rt></ruby>するメスにささげるセレナーデ<br> <ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>をとりに<ruby>出<rt>で</rt></ruby>かけるときに<ruby>大漁<rt>たいりょう</rt></ruby>を<ruby>祈<rt>いの</rt></ruby>る<ruby>歌<rt>うた</rt></ruby>とかね<br> <ruby>戦<rt>たたか</rt></ruby>いや<ruby>愛<rt>あい</rt></ruby>の<ruby>歌<rt>うた</rt></ruby>の<ruby>場合<rt>ばあい</rt></ruby>は、<ruby>歌<rt>うた</rt></ruby>がうまいほうが<ruby>有利<rt>ゆうり</rt></ruby>なんだよ」<br><ruby>歌<rt>うた</rt></ruby>でけんかの<ruby>勝<rt>か</rt></ruby>ち<ruby>負<rt>ま</rt></ruby>けや <ruby>恋<rt>こい</rt></ruby>の<ruby>相手<rt>あいて</rt></ruby>を<ruby>決<rt>き</rt></ruby>めるなんて<br>クジラさんたちってなかなかユニークだなあ<br>ネコくんはすっかり<ruby>感心<rt>かんしん</rt></ruby>しました</b></font></span></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhObDs4Piwo892XYekKmal5-l_y80iUNszg_1jhCEsFoENJbqneH7u_dCJFf7H1vKo6q4FpTmsFuZ4j1lZQ6SKhBF42zCQjuNpw_shKWcPKKQAz0ZkJRKLrwQCxGQ-tvWguCeizR3Y1bGk/s640/blogger-image--1532871320.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>「お<ruby>話<rt>はなし</rt></ruby>を<ruby>聞<rt>き</rt></ruby>いていたらお<ruby>腹<rt>なか</rt></ruby>がペコペコになっちゃった」<br><ruby>船<rt>ふね</rt></ruby>に<ruby>乗<rt>の</rt></ruby>る<ruby>前<rt>まえ</rt></ruby>にきちんと<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べておけばよかったと ネコくんはくやみましたが<br>いまとなっては<ruby>後<rt>あと</rt></ruby>の<ruby>祭<rt>まつ</rt></ruby>りです<br><ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>上<rt>うえ</rt></ruby>には<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べられそうなものもないし<br>さっきのトビウオでもつかまえておけばよかったのですが<br>「どれ、ちょっと<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>中<rt>なか</rt></ruby>をのぞいてごらん」<br><ruby>一度<rt>いちど</rt></ruby><ruby>落<rt>お</rt></ruby>っこちてひどい<ruby>目<rt>め</rt></ruby>にあったので<br>できれば<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>たくもなかったのですが<br>クジラさんがせっかく<ruby>胸<rt>むな</rt></ruby>ビレを<ruby>持<rt>も</rt></ruby>ち<ruby>上<rt>あ</rt></ruby>げてくれたので<br><ruby>上<rt>うえ</rt></ruby>に<ruby>乗<rt>の</rt></ruby>っかって<ruby>水面<rt>すいめん</rt></ruby>をのぞきました<br>するとどうでしょう<br>こんな<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>のまん<ruby>中<rt>なか</rt></ruby>なのに、<ruby>大小<rt>だいしょう</rt></ruby>さまざまな<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>が<br>ネコくんの<ruby>目<rt>め</rt></ruby>の<ruby>前<rt>まえ</rt></ruby>で<ruby>身<rt>み</rt></ruby>をひるがえしていくではありませんか<br>「<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>たちはぼくみたいな<ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きいのにくっつきたがるんだ<br> <ruby>流木<rt>りゅうぼく</rt></ruby>なんかにもよく<ruby>集<rt>あつ</rt></ruby>まっているよ<br> そのほうが<ruby>敵<rt>てき</rt></ruby>から<ruby>身<rt>み</rt></ruby>を<ruby>守<rt>まも</rt></ruby>りやすいからね<br> ぼくたち<ruby>生<rt>い</rt></ruby>きものはけっして<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べる、<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べられるだけの<ruby>関係<rt>かんけい</rt></ruby>じゃないのさ」</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>お<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>はもう<ruby>手<rt>て</rt></ruby>の<ruby>届<rt>とど</rt></ruby>きそうなところをツイと<ruby>横切<rt>よこぎ</rt></ruby>っていきます<br>ネコくんはのどから<ruby>手<rt>て</rt></ruby>が<ruby>出<rt>で</rt></ruby>るほど<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>がほしかったのですが<br>いかんせん とる<ruby>方法<rt>ほうほう</rt></ruby>がありません<br>「ネコの<ruby>神<rt>かみ</rt></ruby>さまに<ruby>聞<rt>き</rt></ruby>いてみたまえ」<br>クジラさんにそういわれて、ネコくんはじっと<ruby>頭<rt>あたま</rt></ruby>をはたらかせました<br>しばらくしてから、<ruby>突然<rt>とつぜん</rt></ruby>アイディアがパッとひらめきました<br>「よし、クジラさんが<ruby>網<rt>あみ</rt></ruby>ならぼくは<ruby>釣<rt>つ</rt></ruby>りでいくぞ!」<br>ネコくんはヒレのふちぎりぎりのところに<ruby>立<rt>た</rt></ruby>って<br><ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>のほうへおしりを<ruby>向<rt>む</rt></ruby>けると、しっぽを<ruby>水面<rt>すいめん</rt></ruby>にたらしました<br>ネコのお<ruby>母<rt>かあ</rt></ruby>さんがこどもをじゃらすときのやり<ruby>方<rt>かた</rt></ruby>で<br>しっぽの<ruby>先<rt>さき</rt></ruby>をピクッピクッと<ruby>動<rt>うご</rt></ruby>かし<br><ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>がえさだと<ruby>思<rt>おも</rt></ruby>いこむように<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>せかけます<br>いままでこんなふうにえものをとったことはありませんでしたが<br>ものはためしです<br>まもなく、びんかんなしっぽの<ruby>先<rt>さき</rt></ruby>に<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>がパクッと<ruby>食<rt>く</rt></ruby>いつく<ruby>手<rt>て</rt></ruby>ごたえがありました<br>ネコくんがすかさずしっぽをふり<ruby>上<rt>あ</rt></ruby>げますと<br><ruby>中<rt>なか</rt></ruby>くらいのお<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>が1<ruby>匹<rt>ぴき</rt></ruby>ぶら<ruby>下<rt>さ</rt></ruby>がっていました<br>きょうのおかずにはこれで<ruby>十分<rt>じゅうぶん</rt></ruby>です<br>「やったあ!」<br>「おみごと、ネコくん」</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ysCBGYT6FlV1O8YvskUy6PHPvOtWVy5_jR0MjFS5i3t3M3Ptygaf9FLBw0P8ug_g9mHOJHbCO8WkE8gMUqxGMCmGKa032whiTAlwWMzNeZgDHwWX_4DuQ7fBs-wL8A6iM4iII0NnUDY/s640/blogger-image--1430242324.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ysCBGYT6FlV1O8YvskUy6PHPvOtWVy5_jR0MjFS5i3t3M3Ptygaf9FLBw0P8ug_g9mHOJHbCO8WkE8gMUqxGMCmGKa032whiTAlwWMzNeZgDHwWX_4DuQ7fBs-wL8A6iM4iII0NnUDY/s640/blogger-image--1430242324.jpg" id="id_80ca_f18_5629_7ead" style="width: 931px; height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>ものを<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べられないクジラさんの<ruby>上<rt>うえ</rt></ruby>で<ruby>自分<rt>じぶん</rt></ruby>だけごちそうにあずかるのは<br>ネコくんはなんとなく<ruby>悪<rt>わる</rt></ruby>い<ruby>気<rt>き</rt></ruby>がしましたが<br>クジラさんがえんりょはいらないというので<br>ありがたくちょうだいすることにしました<br>「クジラさんはどうしてちっちゃな<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>しか<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べないんですか?<br> そんなに<ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きな<ruby>口<rt>くち</rt></ruby>なら<br> ぼくよりもっとでっかい<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>でも<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べられそうなのに」<br>お<ruby>腹<rt>なか</rt></ruby>がいっぱいになったネコくんは、またクジラさんに<ruby>質問<rt>しつもん</rt></ruby>しました<br>「ぼくらの<ruby>口<rt>くち</rt></ruby>の中にはえているヒゲはね<br> ちょうど<ruby>海水<rt>かいすい</rt></ruby>から<ruby>小魚<rt>こざかな</rt></ruby>をこしとって<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べるのにつごうよくできているんだ<br> クジラの<ruby>神<rt>かみ</rt></ruby>さまがそういうふうに<ruby>決<rt>き</rt></ruby>めたのさ」<br>ネコくんはときどきマグロやカツオの<ruby>缶詰<rt>かんづめ</rt></ruby>を<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べます<br>それなのに、クジラさんはまわりに<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>がいっぱい<ruby>泳<rt>およ</rt></ruby>いでいても<br><ruby>夏<rt>なつ</rt></ruby><ruby>以外<rt>いがい</rt></ruby>の<ruby>季節<rt>きせつ</rt></ruby>は<ruby>見向<rt>みむ</rt></ruby>きもせず<br><ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きな<ruby>図体<rt>ずうたい</rt></ruby>に<ruby>似合<rt>にあ</rt></ruby>わない<ruby>小<rt>ちい</rt></ruby>さな<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>やエビばかり<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べているなんてふしぎです<br>「・・・ぼくが<ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>の<ruby>船<rt>ふね</rt></ruby>にいたといったら<br> クジラさんはおもしろくなさそうだったけど<br> やっぱり<ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>はきらいですか?」<br>「うーん・・・」<br>クジラさんはむずかしそうな<ruby>顔<rt>かお</rt></ruby>をしてうなってしまいました</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>クジラさんが<ruby>網<rt>あみ</rt></ruby>にからまって<ruby>動<rt>うご</rt></ruby>けないでいることも<br>かれが<ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>をこころよく<ruby>思<rt>おも</rt></ruby>わない<ruby>理由<rt>りゆう</rt></ruby>のひとつかもしれません<br>しかし、なんといっても <ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>はクジラの<ruby>敵<rt>てき</rt></ruby>でもあるのです<br>こんなに<ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きくて <ruby>歌<rt>うた</rt></ruby>ったり<ruby>飛<rt>と</rt></ruby>んだりいろんなことができる<br><ruby>物知<rt>ものし</rt></ruby>りのクジラさんでさえ<br><ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>にはとてもかないません<br>「でもね、<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べられることがいやだというんじゃないよ<br> ぼくらだって、<ruby>小<rt>ちい</rt></ruby>さいうちや<ruby>年<rt>とし</rt></ruby>をとったり<ruby>病気<rt>びょうき</rt></ruby>になったりすると<br> サメやシャチにねらわれるからね<br> シャチというのはぼくらのしんせきで<br> “どうもうでかしこい<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>のかりうど”のクジラと<ruby>呼<rt>よ</rt></ruby>ばれている<br> <ruby>体<rt>からだ</rt></ruby>はぼくらより<ruby>小<rt>ちい</rt></ruby>さいけど<br> <ruby>仲間<rt>なかま</rt></ruby>どうしで<ruby>協力<rt>きょうりょく</rt></ruby>して<ruby>狩<rt>か</rt></ruby>りをして、えものを<ruby>分<rt>わ</rt></ruby>けあうんだ<br> かれらはおそれられているけれど、<ruby>尊敬<rt>そんけい</rt></ruby>されてもいる<br> ぼくらをみんなほろぼしてしまうようなことはしないからね」<br>「ふうん、<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>王<rt>おう</rt></ruby>さまみたいなクジラさんにも<ruby>苦手<rt>にがて</rt></ruby>な<ruby>敵<rt>てき</rt></ruby>がいるんだ」<br>「ぼくらは<ruby>別<rt>べつ</rt></ruby>に、ぼくらが<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べている<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>たちよりちっともえらくはないよ<br> どれか1<ruby>種類<rt>しゅるい</rt></ruby>だけが<ruby>栄<rt>さか</rt></ruby>えすぎて、みんなが<ruby>迷惑<rt>めいわく</rt></ruby>することのないように<br> <ruby>神<rt>かみ</rt></ruby>さまはとりはからっているからね<br> たとえば、ぼくらはたしかに<ruby>敵<rt>てき</rt></ruby>が<ruby>少<rt>すくな</rt></ruby>ないけど<br> そのかわり<ruby>生<rt>う</rt></ruby>まれるこどもの<ruby>数<rt>かず</rt></ruby>もとても<ruby>少<rt>すくな</rt></ruby>ない」</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>「ぼくらはみんな<ruby>自分<rt>じぶん</rt></ruby>の<ruby>身<rt>み</rt></ruby>にそなわった<ruby>道具<rt>どうぐ</rt></ruby>を<ruby>使<rt>つか</rt></ruby>って<br> <ruby>親<rt>おや</rt></ruby>に<ruby>教<rt>おそ</rt></ruby>わったり、<ruby>生<rt>う</rt></ruby>まれつき<ruby>知<rt>し</rt></ruby>っている<ruby>方法<rt>ほうほう</rt></ruby>でえものをとる<br> えものをとるのも、<ruby>住<rt>す</rt></ruby>みかを<ruby>探<rt>さが</rt></ruby>すのも、<ruby>身<rt>み</rt></ruby>を<ruby>守<rt>まも</rt></ruby>るのも<ruby>全部自前<rt>ぜんぶじまえ</rt></ruby>さ<br> シャチだって、するどい<ruby>歯<rt>は</rt></ruby>と<ruby>持<rt>も</rt></ruby>ち<ruby>前<rt>まえ</rt></ruby>のスピードで<ruby>狩<rt>か</rt></ruby>りをする<br> <ruby>天<rt>てん</rt></ruby>からさずかった<ruby>自分<rt>じぶん</rt></ruby>の<ruby>力<rt>ちから</rt></ruby>をわきまえているんだ<br> ところが<ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>は、ぼくらのような<ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きな<ruby>動物<rt>どうぶつ</rt></ruby>をかんたんにつかまえられる<br> この<ruby>網<rt>あみ</rt></ruby>や<ruby>船<rt>ふね</rt></ruby>のような<ruby>道具<rt>どうぐ</rt></ruby>を<ruby>使<rt>つか</rt></ruby>ってね<br> こういう<ruby>網<rt>あみ</rt></ruby>は、ちぎれて<ruby>流<rt>なが</rt></ruby>されたり、<ruby>漁師<rt>りょうし</rt></ruby>が<ruby>捨<rt>す</rt></ruby>てたりしたものだ<br> <ruby>網<rt>あみ</rt></ruby>があんまり<ruby>細<rt>ほそ</rt></ruby>くて<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>えにくいものだから<br> ぼくは<ruby>泳<rt>およ</rt></ruby>いでいるうちに うっかり<ruby>頭<rt>あたま</rt></ruby>をつっこんでしまった<br> ぼくらの<ruby>網<rt>あみ</rt></ruby>は<ruby>空気<rt>くうき</rt></ruby>の<ruby>網<rt>あみ</rt></ruby>ですぐに<ruby>消<rt>き</rt></ruby>えてしまうけど<br> <ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>が作った<ruby>網<rt>あみ</rt></ruby>は どうしたわけか<ruby>自然<rt>しぜん</rt></ruby>の<ruby>力<rt>ちから</rt></ruby>でくさったりこわれたりしない<br> おばけみたいにさまよいながら <ruby>生<rt>い</rt></ruby>きものたちを<ruby>殺<rt>ころ</rt></ruby>すおそろしいわなになる<br> ぼくらクジラやイルカの<ruby>仲間<rt>なかま</rt></ruby><ruby>以外<rt>いがい</rt></ruby>にも<br> <ruby>多<rt>おお</rt></ruby>くの<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>たち、<ruby>海鳥<rt>うみどり</rt></ruby>やウミガメ、アザラシたちがこのわなにはまってしまう<br> ぼくぐらいの<ruby>年<rt>とし</rt></ruby>ならまだしも、こどもたちのことを<ruby>思<rt>おも</rt></ruby>うと<ruby>胸<rt>むね</rt></ruby>が<ruby>痛<rt>いた</rt></ruby>むよ<br> しょっちゅう<ruby>息<rt>いき</rt></ruby>を<ruby>吸<rt>す</rt></ruby>いに<ruby>海面<rt>かいめん</rt></ruby>に<ruby>上<rt>あ</rt></ruby>がるから <ruby>網<rt>あみ</rt></ruby>にかかりやすいし<br> <ruby>体力<rt>たいりょく</rt></ruby>がないからすぐに<ruby>弱<rt>よわ</rt></ruby>ってしまう」<br>そういったクジラさんの<ruby>目<rt>め</rt></ruby>はとても<ruby>悲<rt>かな</rt></ruby>しそうでした..</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>「どうして<ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>の<ruby>道具<rt>どうぐ</rt></ruby>はぼくらのとちがうんだろう・・?」<br>「さあ、よくわからないが、<ruby>自然<rt>しぜん</rt></ruby>にはない<ruby>力<rt>ちから</rt></ruby>を<ruby>使<rt>つか</rt></ruby>っているようだ<br> ずっと<ruby>南<rt>みなみ</rt></ruby>にクジラがたくさん<ruby>住<rt>す</rt></ruby>んでいる<ruby>氷<rt>こおり</rt></ruby>の<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>があるんだが──」<br>「あ、それ <ruby>南氷洋<rt>なんぴょうよう</rt></ruby>っていうんでしょ?」<br>「そうそう、よく<ruby>知<rt>し</rt></ruby>っているね<br> ぼくらはそこで<ruby>長<rt>なが</rt></ruby>い<ruby>間<rt>あいだ</rt></ruby><ruby>平和<rt>へいわ</rt></ruby>にすごしてきたんだけど<br> ある<ruby>年<rt>とし</rt></ruby>から<ruby>突然<rt>とつぜん</rt></ruby>大きな<ruby>船<rt>ふね</rt></ruby>がやってきて<br> えたいの<ruby>知<rt>し</rt></ruby>れない<ruby>方法<rt>ほうほう</rt></ruby>でぼくらクジラをさらっていくようになった<br> やがて、ぼくら“<ruby>歌<rt>うた</rt></ruby>い<ruby>手<rt>て</rt></ruby>”の<ruby>一族<rt>いちぞく</rt></ruby>やほかの<ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きなクジラたちは<br> <ruby>仲間<rt>なかま</rt></ruby>をおおぜい<ruby>殺<rt>ころ</rt></ruby>されて ゆたかな<ruby>氷<rt>こおり</rt></ruby>の<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>から<ruby>姿<rt>すがた</rt></ruby>を<ruby>消<rt>け</rt></ruby>していった<br> いまじゃ“いちばんのチビですばしこいクジラ”が<br> みんなにかわって<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>のおつとめをはたすのにてんてこまいさ<br> というのも、<ruby>皮肉<rt>ひにく</rt></ruby>なことにかれらは<ruby>体<rt>からだ</rt></ruby>が<ruby>小<rt>ちい</rt></ruby>さくて<ruby>肉<rt>にく</rt></ruby>が<ruby>少<rt>すく</rt></ruby>なかったから<br> <ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きいクジラがすっかりいなくなるまで<ruby>見向<rt>みむ</rt></ruby>きもされなかったんだ<br> チビといったって ぼくよりふたまわりほど<ruby>小<rt>ちい</rt></ruby>さいだけなんだけどね<br> でも、そのチビクジラがいま<ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>にねらわれている<br> かれらの<ruby>身<rt>み</rt></ruby>にもしものことがあったら クジラの<ruby>楽園<rt>らくえん</rt></ruby>もおしまいだよ<br> そこにはペンギンやオットセイやほかにもいろんな<ruby>生<rt>い</rt></ruby>きものがいて<br> <ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>神<rt>かみ</rt></ruby>さまがそれぞれの<ruby>役目<rt>やくめ</rt></ruby>をわりふっているから<br> クジラの<ruby>役<rt>やく</rt></ruby>がだれもいなくなっちゃうと <ruby>神<rt>かみ</rt></ruby>さまもきっと<ruby>大弱<rt>おおよわ</rt></ruby>りだろう」</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>「<ruby>自分<rt>じぶん</rt></ruby>たちだって とりすぎたり<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>をよごしたりして<br> <ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>がいなくなっちゃうと<ruby>困<rt>こま</rt></ruby>ると<ruby>思<rt>おも</rt></ruby>うんだけどねぇ・・<br> ぼくらや<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>を<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べつくしても<ruby>足<rt>た</rt></ruby>りないほど<ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>は<ruby>多<rt>おお</rt></ruby>いのかな?」<br>なるほど、<ruby>陸<rt>りく</rt></ruby>の<ruby>上<rt>うえ</rt></ruby>では<ruby>山<rt>やま</rt></ruby>がけずられ、<ruby>森<rt>もり</rt></ruby>や<ruby>林<rt>はやし</rt></ruby>もきりはらわれて<br><ruby>家<rt>いえ</rt></ruby>やビルがどんどん<ruby>建<rt>た</rt></ruby>ちならんでいきます<br><ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>の<ruby>数<rt>かず</rt></ruby>があまりにふえすぎたせいなのでしょうか?<br>それにしても、<ruby>陸<rt>りく</rt></ruby>でも<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>でも<ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>のふるまいは<ruby>少々目<rt>しょうしょうめ</rt></ruby>にあまるようです<br>「やっぱりほかの<ruby>生<rt>い</rt></ruby>きもののことにももう<ruby>少<rt>すこ</rt></ruby>し<ruby>気<rt>き</rt></ruby>を<ruby>配<rt>くば</rt></ruby>ってほしいよね<br> <ruby>北<rt>きた</rt></ruby>と<ruby>南<rt>みなみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>を<ruby>行き来<rt>い き</rt></ruby>する<ruby>旅<rt>たび</rt></ruby>のと<ruby>中<rt>ちゅう</rt></ruby>で<ruby>海岸<rt>かいがん</rt></ruby>に<ruby>目<rt>め</rt></ruby>をやると<br> <ruby>年<rt>とし</rt></ruby>ごとに<ruby>様子<rt>ようす</rt></ruby>が<ruby>変<rt>か</rt></ruby>わっていくのがわかるんだ<br> <ruby>干潟<rt>ひがた</rt></ruby>も<ruby>磯浜<rt>いそはま</rt></ruby>も<ruby>埋立<rt>うめた</rt></ruby>てられて、きれいな<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>はどんどんせばまっていく<br> <ruby>岸<rt>きし</rt></ruby>の<ruby>近<rt>ちか</rt></ruby>くは<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>や<ruby>小<rt>ちい</rt></ruby>さな<ruby>生<rt>い</rt></ruby>きものが<ruby>卵<rt>たまご</rt></ruby>やこどもの<ruby>時期<rt>じき</rt></ruby>をすごす<ruby>場所<rt>ばしょ</rt></ruby>だから<br> <ruby>沖<rt>おき</rt></ruby>の<ruby>生<rt>い</rt></ruby>きものにとってもすごく<ruby>大事<rt>だいじ</rt></ruby>なところなんだ<br> ぼくらだって<ruby>子育<rt>こそだ</rt></ruby>てに<ruby>使<rt>つか</rt></ruby>っていたんだけど<br> だんだん<ruby>追<rt>お</rt></ruby>いたてられて<ruby>行<rt>い</rt></ruby>くあてがなくなってきた<br> <ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>と<ruby>陸<rt>りく</rt></ruby>とは<ruby>切<rt>き</rt></ruby>っても<ruby>切<rt>き</rt></ruby>れない<ruby>縁<rt>えん</rt></ruby>にあるんだよ<br> そもそも<ruby>地球<rt>ちきゅう</rt></ruby>でいちばん<ruby>最初<rt>さいしょ</rt></ruby>に<ruby>生命<rt>せいめい</rt></ruby>が<ruby>生<rt>う</rt></ruby>まれたのは<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>なんだ<br> ぼくらはいったん<ruby>陸<rt>りく</rt></ruby>に<ruby>上<rt>あ</rt></ruby>がってから また<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>にもどったので<br> その<ruby>大切<rt>たいせつ</rt></ruby>さがよくわかるんだけどね<br> <ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>だって<ruby>知<rt>し</rt></ruby>らないはずはないんだがなぁ・・・」</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>「ネコくんは<ruby>陸<rt>りく</rt></ruby>のけものなんだから<br> <ruby>死<rt>し</rt></ruby>ぬときもやっぱりおかの<ruby>上<rt>うえ</rt></ruby>でなきゃおかしいものね」<br>クジラさんは<ruby>弱々<rt>よわよわ</rt></ruby>しい<ruby>声<rt>こえ</rt></ruby>で<ruby>笑<rt>わら</rt></ruby>いました<br>「クジラさんは<ruby>陸<rt>りく</rt></ruby>の<ruby>上<rt>うえ</rt></ruby>で<ruby>死<rt>し</rt></ruby>んでもいいんですか?」<br>「ああ、<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>のそばからはなれるのでなければね<br> <ruby>死<rt>し</rt></ruby>んだクジラが<ruby>浜辺<rt>はまべ</rt></ruby>に<ruby>打<rt>う</rt></ruby>ち<ruby>上<rt>あ</rt></ruby>げられるのはめずらしいことじゃない<br> むかし、<ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>がまだ<ruby>自然<rt>しぜん</rt></ruby>にはない<ruby>力<rt>ちから</rt></ruby>を<ruby>持<rt>も</rt></ruby>たなかったころ<br> <ruby>浜<rt>はま</rt></ruby>で<ruby>死<rt>し</rt></ruby>んだクジラを<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>つけると、みんなでお<ruby>祭<rt>まつ</rt></ruby>りをして<br> <ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>の<ruby>神<rt>かみ</rt></ruby>さま、クジラの<ruby>神<rt>かみ</rt></ruby>さま、<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>神<rt>かみ</rt></ruby>さまに<br> <ruby>感謝<rt>かんしゃ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>気持<rt>きも</rt></ruby>ちをこめて<ruby>祈<rt>いの</rt></ruby>ったものだ<br> そして、ぼくたちのご<ruby>先祖<rt>せんぞ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>肉<rt>にく</rt></ruby>は<br> <ruby>大切<rt>たいせつ</rt></ruby>な<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べものとして<ruby>村<rt>むら</rt></ruby>のみんなに<ruby>配<rt>くば</rt></ruby>られ<br> <ruby>骨<rt>ほね</rt></ruby>や<ruby>油<rt>あぶら</rt></ruby>も<ruby>人<rt>ひと</rt></ruby>びとのためにいろいろと<ruby>役<rt>やく</rt></ruby>に立った..」<br>クジラさんはそれきりだまりこんでしまいました<br>あんまり<ruby>長<rt>なが</rt></ruby>くクジラさんがおしだまっているので<br>ネコくんはクジラさんがほんとうに<ruby>死<rt>し</rt></ruby>んでしまったのかと<ruby>思<rt>おも</rt></ruby>い<br><ruby>心配<rt>しんぱい</rt></ruby>になってたずねました<br>「クジラさ・・ん?」</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK-4YOXBEqsyvClGmJ_YPlgElFrbnD2Cu3-aHyC9pinw8ohjZR5OmIAidKH-_KOzQACfzjJuL-N4xhQA4s2iMKyktGOhpcwBMhjhkYFC2KoGDyTTjC9U3l4BL6F4d-F6uKCv9D_ziGyHQ/s640/blogger-image--1683067246.jpg" id="id_1810_a24f_b50f_499d" style="width: 916px; height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>すると、クジラさんはおもむろに<ruby>口<rt>くち</rt></ruby>を<ruby>開<rt>ひら</rt></ruby>きました<br>いままでの<ruby>疑問<rt>ぎもん</rt></ruby>がふいに<ruby>解<rt>と</rt></ruby>けて<ruby>答<rt>こた</rt></ruby>えが<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>つかったかのように<br>「<ruby>思<rt>おも</rt></ruby>うに・・・<br> <ruby>思<rt>おも</rt></ruby>うに、いまの<ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>たちは <ruby>天<rt>てん</rt></ruby>からさずかった<br> <ruby>生<rt>い</rt></ruby>きものとしての<ruby>自分<rt>じぶん</rt></ruby>たちにふさわしい<ruby>力<rt>ちから</rt></ruby>や<ruby>与<rt>あた</rt></ruby>えられた<ruby>役目<rt>やくめ</rt></ruby>に<br> <ruby>満足<rt>まんぞく</rt></ruby>できなくなって、より<ruby>多<rt>おお</rt></ruby>くを<ruby>求<rt>もと</rt></ruby>めるようになった<br> もっと<ruby>広<rt>ひろ</rt></ruby>くて<ruby>快適<rt>かいてき</rt></ruby>な<ruby>住<rt>す</rt></ruby>みか<br> もっと<ruby>多<rt>おお</rt></ruby>くの、いままで<ruby>口<rt>くち</rt></ruby>にすることのなかった<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べもの<br> それらをもっと<ruby>楽<rt>らく</rt></ruby>にたくさん<ruby>手<rt>て</rt></ruby>に<ruby>入<rt>い</rt></ruby>れる<ruby>方法<rt>ほうほう</rt></ruby>・・・<br> そうやって<ruby>自分<rt>じぶん</rt></ruby>たちのことばかり<ruby>考<rt>かんが</rt></ruby>えて<ruby>自然<rt>しぜん</rt></ruby>に<ruby>手<rt>て</rt></ruby>を<ruby>加<rt>くわ</rt></ruby>えていくうちに<br> <ruby>自分<rt>じぶん</rt></ruby>たちの<ruby>神<rt>かみ</rt></ruby>さまが ぼくらクジラをはじめ<br> <ruby>鳥<rt>とり</rt></ruby>やけものや<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>や<ruby>虫<rt>むし</rt></ruby>や<ruby>草<rt>くさ</rt></ruby>や<ruby>木<rt>き</rt></ruby>や、そのほかさまざまな<ruby>生<rt>い</rt></ruby>きものたち<br> そして、<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>や<ruby>空<rt>そら</rt></ruby>や<ruby>山<rt>やま</rt></ruby>や<ruby>川<rt>かわ</rt></ruby>や、ぼくらをとりまくすべてのものをつかさどる<br> ほかの<ruby>神<rt>かみ</rt></ruby>さまとおたがいに<ruby>相談<rt>そうだん</rt></ruby>しあい、<ruby>取り決<rt>と き</rt></ruby>めをして<br> この<ruby>美<rt>うつく</rt></ruby>しいけどこわれやすい<ruby>星<rt>ほし</rt></ruby>のバランスを<br> うまく<ruby>保<rt>たも</rt></ruby>つようにしているってことを <ruby>忘<rt>わす</rt></ruby>れちゃったんじゃないかな?<br> <ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>たちが<ruby>自分<rt>じぶん</rt></ruby>のことを<ruby>信<rt>しん</rt></ruby>じなくなったものだから<br> <ruby>人間<rt>にんげん</rt></ruby>の<ruby>神<rt>かみ</rt></ruby>さまはたぶん、かれらを<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>はなして<br> どこかへかくれちゃったのかもしれない・・・」<br>ネコくんはクジラさんの<ruby>話<rt>はなし</rt></ruby>にじっと<ruby>耳<rt>みみ</rt></ruby>をかたむけます</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM0h2OrXATOEs8uP6f39J-xiheks4oUJmwBSmx1Uk0y1XMYTbqqmqQZRT9-KroyFxgOrJtNtFH5KXPpAvIHNK8biRxu_QW5tsD3zllLNYGfPKFZFl4ajPRCPQnSjgqoVNrgNqlxFFQqeA/s640/blogger-image--30406813.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><ruby>冷<rt>つめ</rt></ruby>たい<ruby>夜<rt>よる</rt></ruby>の<ruby>潮風<rt>しおかぜ</rt></ruby>に、ネコくんはこごえて<ruby>毛皮<rt>けがわ</rt></ruby>をふくらませました<br>「つかれたらおやすみ<br> ぼくが<ruby>子守歌<rt>こもりうた</rt></ruby>を<ruby>歌<rt>うた</rt></ruby>ってあげよう<br> クジラの<ruby>子<rt>こ</rt></ruby>はたいていひとりっ<ruby>子<rt>こ</rt></ruby>だから、みんなあまえんぼうなんだ<br> お<ruby>母<rt>かあ</rt></ruby>さんクジラは1<ruby>年<rt>ねん</rt></ruby>くらいあかちゃんクジラにおちちをのませ<br> <ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>で<ruby>生<rt>い</rt></ruby>きていくために<ruby>必要<rt>ひつよう</rt></ruby>な<ruby>知恵<rt>ちえ</rt></ruby>をいろいろと<ruby>教<rt>おし</rt></ruby>える<br> ぼくたちクジラは<ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きくなるまでに<ruby>何年<rt>なんねん</rt></ruby>もかかるから、なかなか<ruby>数<rt>かず</rt></ruby>がふえない<br> だから、お<ruby>母<rt>かあ</rt></ruby>さんクジラはこどもをとても<ruby>大事<rt>だいじ</rt></ruby>に<ruby>大事<rt>だいじ</rt></ruby>に<ruby>育<rt>そだ</rt></ruby>てるんだ<br> そして、こどもをねかしつけるときには<ruby>歌<rt>うた</rt></ruby>を<ruby>歌<rt>うた</rt></ruby>ってあやしたのさ<br> お<ruby>母<rt>かあ</rt></ruby>さんほどうまくはないけど、<ruby>歌<rt>うた</rt></ruby>はいまでもしっかり<ruby>覚<rt>おぼ</rt></ruby>えている・・・<br> ウォ~~ン・・キュルルクルゥ~・・・」<br>ネコくんは<ruby>体<rt>からだ</rt></ruby>をまるくして<ruby>横<rt>よこ</rt></ruby>になりました<br>こうして<ruby>体<rt>からだ</rt></ruby>をぴったりくっつけていると<br>クジラさんの<ruby>心臓<rt>しんぞう</rt></ruby>が<ruby>波<rt>なみ</rt></ruby>のように<ruby>規則正<rt>きそくただ</rt></ruby>しいリズムで<ruby>打<rt>う</rt></ruby>っているのが<ruby>聞<rt>き</rt></ruby>こえます<br>そういえば、ネコくんも<ruby>小<rt>ちい</rt></ruby>さいころお<ruby>母<rt>かあ</rt></ruby>さんに<ruby>子守歌<rt>こもりうた</rt></ruby>を<ruby>歌<rt>うた</rt></ruby>ってもらったものでした<br>クジラさんの<ruby>心臓<rt>しんぞう</rt></ruby>の<ruby>音<rt>おと</rt></ruby>はネコくんたちに<ruby>比<rt>くら</rt></ruby>べてずっとゆったりしていますが<br>ネコくんはまるでお<ruby>母<rt>かあ</rt></ruby>さんに<ruby>抱<rt>だ</rt></ruby>かれているときのようにくつろいだ<ruby>気分<rt>きぶん</rt></ruby>でした<br><ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>上<rt>うえ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>星<rt>ほし</rt></ruby>はよごれた<ruby>空気<rt>くうき</rt></ruby>にじゃまされることなく<br><ruby>赤白黄色<rt>あかしろきいろ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>光<rt>ひかり</rt></ruby>を<ruby>競<rt>きそ</rt></ruby>いあっています<br><ruby>鏡<rt>かがみ</rt></ruby>のようにないだ<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>面<rt>おもて</rt></ruby>に<br>いくつかの<ruby>明<rt>あか</rt></ruby>るい<ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きな<ruby>星<rt>ほし</rt></ruby>が<ruby>自分<rt>じぶん</rt></ruby>の<ruby>姿<rt>すがた</rt></ruby>を<ruby>映<rt>うつ</rt></ruby>しています<br>ふたつの<ruby>波<rt>なみ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>伴奏<rt>ばんそう</rt></ruby>で クジラさんの<ruby>静<rt>しず</rt></ruby>かな<ruby>子守歌<rt>こもりうた</rt></ruby>を<ruby>聞<rt>き</rt></ruby>きながら<br>ネコくんはいつしか<ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>のように<ruby>深<rt>ふか</rt></ruby>い<ruby>眠<rt>ねむ</rt></ruby>りに<ruby>落<rt>お</rt></ruby>ちていきました</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEt9COt9Faid0flLRA4rftlOkGHDOgMAal1Yr4PykjXZFyuaz1pAm0NlbPSGLkTt-aN1CNjmhWrcWICokAlNGmbBAx6k5WDBDp5D216eX71ZCauuqH2-qmHnVWxTxNyw5dp06uBCuzNIc/s640/blogger-image-1296611631.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5"><ruby>生<rt>い</rt></ruby>きものたちをながめて</font></b></blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>うっとりしたり・・・<br><br>ちっちゃなエビたちがパチパチとハサミを<ruby>鳴<rt>な</rt></ruby>らす<ruby>音<rt>おと</rt></ruby><br><ruby>岸辺<rt>きしべ</rt></ruby>に<ruby>打<rt>う</rt></ruby>ちよせる<ruby>波<rt>なみ</rt></ruby>のどこか</b></font></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>なつかしいひびき<br>お<ruby>魚<rt>さかな</rt></ruby>たちのかすかなさえずり</b></font></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><br>はぐれクジラのこどくなつぶやき</b></font></span><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 184); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5">あっちこっちのクジラ<ruby>仲間<rt>なかま</rt></ruby>の</font></b></blockquote><blockquote><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 184); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5"><ruby>気<rt>き</rt></ruby>ままなおしゃべり</font></b></blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>のはるかな<ruby>深<rt>ふか</rt></ruby>みから</b></font></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>とどろいてくる<br>ぶきみな<ruby>呼<rt>よ</rt></ruby>び<ruby>声<rt>ごえ</rt></ruby>・・・<br></b></font></span></blockquote></td><td colspan="2" width="450" valign="top" nowrap="" style="line-height: 3ex; margin: 2em 1em 3em;"><blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><br><ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>は<ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きな、<ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きな<ruby>宝箱<rt>たからばこ</rt></ruby><br><ruby>楽<rt>たの</rt></ruby>しいこと、おもしろいこと、</b></font></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><ruby>美<rt>うつく</rt></ruby>しいことであふれてる<br>ときにはちょっぴり</b></font></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>こわい<ruby>目<rt>め</rt></ruby>にもあうけど<br>おそれずに<ruby>耳<rt>みみ</rt></ruby>をすませてごらん</b></font></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><br>ほら、すてきなふしぎたちが</b></font></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><ruby>呼<rt>よ</rt></ruby>んでいるよ<br><ruby>生<rt>い</rt></ruby>きるってやっぱり</b></font></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>すばらしいこと<br>このはてしない<ruby>世界<rt>せかい</rt></ruby>は<ruby>全部<rt>ぜんぶ</rt></ruby></b></font></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>きみのもの<br>あせらなくたって<ruby>逃<rt>に</rt></ruby>げやしない<br>いつだってきみを<ruby>待<rt>ま</rt></ruby>っている</b></font></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><br>いつだってきみのそばにいる<br>だから<br>きょうはおやすみ<br><ruby>楽<rt>たの</rt></ruby>しみはあしたにとっておいで<br><br>おやすみ、ちっちゃくておっきな<br>わたしのやんちゃな<ruby>子<rt>こ</rt></ruby>クジラくん<br><ruby>生<rt>う</rt></ruby>まれながらの<ruby>冒険家<rt>ぼうけんか</rt></ruby>くん・・・</b></font></span></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitbDs_g1qVWIyuok5rBN7bu7RRIqL1NqL4v7z8oa_9bKILRDQnxU7OjKPvZEBz5eAldpFypZRvRTZAG_2rXXvavkCJTxB-WrpUFjvDj9OYQkPiTsqAyDmXQtC57pzyBSVQ4c4sqxgq0w0/s640/blogger-image-1737494168.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>ズズズ・・・<br><ruby>何<rt>なに</rt></ruby>かがこすれる<ruby>音<rt>おと</rt></ruby>がして、ネコくんは<ruby>目<rt>め</rt></ruby>を<ruby>覚<rt>さ</rt></ruby>ましました<br>かれはあいかわらずクジラさんの<ruby>黒<rt>くろ</rt></ruby>い<ruby>背中<rt>せなか</rt></ruby>の<ruby>上<rt>うえ</rt></ruby>に<ruby>乗<rt>の</rt></ruby>っていましたが<br>まわりにはどこまでものたうつ<ruby>波<rt>なみ</rt></ruby>のかわりに<br><ruby>白<rt>しろ</rt></ruby>い<ruby>砂浜<rt>すなはま</rt></ruby>がまっすぐのびていました<br><ruby>空<rt>そら</rt></ruby>はうっすらと<ruby>赤<rt>あか</rt></ruby>みがかり、<ruby>日<rt>ひ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>出<rt>で</rt></ruby>が<ruby>近<rt>ちか</rt></ruby>いことをつげています<br>「クジラさん、<ruby>陸<rt>りく</rt></ruby>についたよ<br> ありがとう、おかげでたすかりました」<br>しかし、クジラさんは<ruby>返事<rt>へんじ</rt></ruby>をしませんでした<br>いくらゆすっても(ネコくんの<ruby>力<rt>ちから</rt></ruby>ではピクリともしませんでしたが)<br>さけんでも<br>クジラさんの<ruby>黒<rt>くろ</rt></ruby>い<ruby>体<rt>からだ</rt></ruby>は<ruby>岩<rt>いわ</rt></ruby>のようにじっとしたまま<ruby>動<rt>うご</rt></ruby>きません<br>かれはもうクジラであることをやめていたのです<br>もう<ruby>二度<rt>にど</rt></ruby>と<ruby>息<rt>いき</rt></ruby>もしなければ<br><ruby>力強<rt>ちからづよ</rt></ruby>い<ruby>泳<rt>およ</rt></ruby>ぎを<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>せることも、<ruby>美<rt>うつく</rt></ruby>しい<ruby>歌<rt>うた</rt></ruby>を<ruby>口<rt>くち</rt></ruby>ずさむこともないのです<br><ruby>温<rt>あたた</rt></ruby>かかった<ruby>血<rt>つめ</rt></ruby>は<ruby>冷<rt>つめ</rt></ruby>たくなるばかり<br>その<ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きな<ruby>体<rt>からだ</rt></ruby>を<ruby>形<rt>かたち</rt></ruby>づくっていた<ruby>細胞<rt>さいぼう</rt></ruby>のひとつひとつが<br>いますべて<ruby>死<rt>し</rt></ruby>にたえようとしていたのでした<br>ネコくんはだまって<ruby>砂<rt>すな</rt></ruby>にまみれた<ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きななきがらのそばに<ruby>立<rt>た</rt></ruby>ちつくしました<br>たった1<ruby>日<rt>にち</rt></ruby>でもかれがいっしょにすごした<ruby>友<rt>とも</rt></ruby>だちの<ruby>体<rt>からだ</rt></ruby>が<br>まもなくくちはてて<ruby>骨<rt>ほね</rt></ruby>となり、もとの<ruby>姿<rt>すがた</rt></ruby>をとどめなくなってしまうのは<br>たまらなく<ruby>悲<rt>かな</rt></ruby>しくつらいことでした<br>ネコくんはクジラさんの<ruby>体<rt>からだ</rt></ruby>をほんの<ruby>少<rt>すこ</rt></ruby>しかじりとりました<br><ruby>涙<rt>なみだ</rt></ruby>と<ruby>塩水<rt>しおみず</rt></ruby>とで<ruby>苦<rt>にが</rt></ruby>くしょっぱい<ruby>味<rt>あじ</rt></ruby>がしました</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><ruby>水平線<rt>すいへいせん</rt></ruby>にひとすじのまぶしいしんじゅ<ruby>色<rt>いろ</rt></ruby>の<ruby>光<rt>ひかり</rt></ruby>が<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>えてきました<br>それは<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>る<ruby>間<rt>ま</rt></ruby>にふくれあがり、<ruby>夜<rt>よる</rt></ruby>のやみを<ruby>追<rt>お</rt></ruby>いはらっていきました<br><ruby>空<rt>そら</rt></ruby>の<ruby>色<rt>いろ</rt></ruby>が<ruby>深<rt>ふか</rt></ruby>いぐんじょう<ruby>色<rt>いろ</rt></ruby>からむらさき、<ruby>赤<rt>あか</rt></ruby>、そして<ruby>昼<rt>ひる</rt></ruby>の<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>なれた<ruby>青<rt>あお</rt></ruby>へと<br>こくこくと<ruby>移<rt>うつ</rt></ruby>りかわっていくパノラマがくりひろげられました<br>そのとき、ネコくんは<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>たのです<br><ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>から<ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きな<ruby>大<rt>おお</rt></ruby>きなクジラが<ruby>高<rt>たか</rt></ruby></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">へまい</span><ruby style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">上<rt>あ</rt></ruby><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">がり</span></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><ruby>そのままどんどん<ruby>天高<rt>てんたか</rt></ruby></ruby></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">くのぼっていくのを</span></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><ruby><ruby>まきちらされた<ruby>水<rt>みず</rt></ruby>が、<ruby>顔<rt>かお</rt></ruby>を<ruby>出<rt>だ</rt></ruby>したばかりの</ruby></ruby></span><ruby style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">朝日<rt>あさひ</rt></ruby><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">を</span><ruby style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">浴<rt>あ</rt></ruby><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">びて</span></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><ruby><ruby>キラキラと<ruby>虹色<rt>にじいろ</rt></ruby>にかがやき、</ruby></ruby></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">クジラの</span><ruby style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">体<rt>からだ</rt></ruby><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">を</span><ruby style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">包<rt>つつ</rt></ruby><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">みました</span></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><ruby><ruby>そのたとえようのない</ruby></ruby></span><ruby style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">美<rt>うつく</rt></ruby><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">しさは</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ネコくんの</span><ruby style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">目<rt>め</rt></ruby><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">にやきついて</span></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><ruby style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">一生忘<rt>いっしょうわす</rt></ruby><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">れることはないでしょう</span></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><ruby><ruby><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>あたりがすっかり<ruby>明<rt>あか</rt></ruby>るくなったころ、</b></font></ruby></ruby></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><ruby><ruby>クジラは<ruby>空<rt>そら</rt></ruby>のかなたへ<ruby>消<rt>き</rt></ruby>えていきました<br></ruby></ruby></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">クジラさんの</span><ruby style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">体<rt>からだ</rt></ruby><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">は たくさんの</span><ruby style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">生<rt>い</rt></ruby><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">きものたちをつちかうために</span></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><ruby style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">土<rt>つち</rt></ruby><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">にかえり、</span><ruby style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">にかえっていきます</span></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">その</span><ruby style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">一部<rt>いちぶ</rt></ruby><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">は ネコくんの</span><ruby style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">体<rt>からだ</rt></ruby><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">の</span><ruby style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">一部<rt>いちぶ</rt></ruby><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">にもなりました</span></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><ruby><ruby><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>それではいったい、クジラさんのたましいは</b></font></ruby></ruby></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">どこへ</span><ruby style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">行<rt>い</rt></ruby><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ったのでしょう?</span></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><ruby><ruby><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><ruby>海<rt>うみ</rt></ruby>よりももっと<ruby>広<rt>ひろ</rt></ruby>くて<ruby>深<rt>ふか</rt></ruby>い<ruby>空<rt>そら</rt></ruby>の<ruby>向<rt>む</rt></ruby>こうの<ruby>世界<rt>せかい</rt></ruby>へ</b></font></ruby></ruby></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><ruby style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">旅立<rt>たびだ</rt></ruby><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">っていったのでしょうか?</span></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><ruby><ruby><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>あるいはもしかしたら、<ruby>氷<rt>こおり</rt></ruby>の<ruby>浮<rt>う</rt></ruby>かぶはるか<ruby>南<rt>みなみ</rt></ruby>のクジラたちの<ruby>楽園<rt>らくえん</rt></ruby>で<br><ruby>空<rt>そら</rt></ruby>から<ruby>仲間<rt>なかま</rt></ruby>たちの<ruby>幸<rt>しあわ</rt></ruby>せそうな<ruby>姿<rt>すがた</rt></ruby>をながめているのかもしれません<br>でも、ほんとうのところはネコくんにもわかりません..</b></font></ruby></ruby></span></div><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKcDxNibyLQRh6Kat0RoGNeuoPN4N2ZuSxESjCPNKhTO8_s0aQBEYiuvYEA2B0J5kE8Rtb_jmOlPwCeL_tI1DsMdvDrH5C8op_WoebGykXMb8m7wGroPde7m4EJ3NPUMEitVN4zZ31g4A/s640/blogger-image--897835143.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><table style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" id="id_69f8_d1a8_e860_c6b0"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="line-height: 3ex; margin: 2em 1em 3em;"><blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b>なんとかぶじに<ruby>住<rt>す</rt></ruby>みかの<ruby>町<rt>まち</rt></ruby>へもどったネコくんは<br>それからというもの<br><ruby>缶詰<rt>かんづめ</rt></ruby>のご<ruby>飯<rt>はん</rt></ruby>ばかり<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べるのをやめて<br>なるべく<ruby>自分<rt>じぶん</rt></ruby>の<ruby>力<rt>ちから</rt></ruby>でえものをとらえるようにしました<br>なにしろネコくんには<ruby>爪<rt>つめ</rt></ruby>と<ruby>牙<rt>きば</rt></ruby>という<br>ネコの<ruby>神<rt>かみ</rt></ruby>さまからさずかったりっぱな<ruby>狩<rt>か</rt></ruby>りの<ruby>道具<rt>どうぐ</rt></ruby>があるのですから<br>それでもかれはときどき<br>いつかもう<ruby>一度<rt>いちど</rt></ruby>、クジラさんたちに<ruby>会<rt>あ</rt></ruby>いに<ruby>行<rt>い</rt></ruby>きたいと<ruby>思<rt>おも</rt></ruby>うのです<br>でも、それはクジラを<ruby>食<rt>た</rt></ruby>べたいからではなくて<br>ごうかいなジャンプを<ruby>見<rt>み</rt></ruby>せてもらったり<br>きれいな<ruby>歌声<rt>うたごえ</rt></ruby>に<ruby>耳<rt>みみ</rt></ruby>をすませたいからです<br>そして、またいろんなお<ruby>話<rt>はなし</rt></ruby>を<ruby>聞<rt>き</rt></ruby>かせてもらえたらなあと<ruby>思<rt>おも</rt></ruby>うのです<br></b></font></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><br></b></font></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b><おしまい></b></font></span></blockquote><blockquote><br></blockquote><blockquote><br></blockquote></td><td style="line-height: 3ex; 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height: auto;"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="font-weight: bold;"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">鯨類は約5000万年前海から陸に上がり、約3000万年前また海に戻り今の姿に形成した気の遠くなるような進化を遂げ今日まで生きてきたという。人類の歴史は40〜50万年と鯨の足元にも及ばない。</font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">鯨類は何千万年もの間海で生活をして来た先住民であり生きた化石だ。</font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">人間が陸で生活をしているのと同じで、海は海で生活をする生物の場。</font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">そこには人と同じように家族の営み、教育、喜びや悲しみのドラマがあるのだがそれが見えないのは商品や食肉としか考えていないからだ。</font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">幸い数年ごとに動物や自然を人間の手によって壊すべきではないと気付く人々が増えてきた。</font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">野生動物は人間の資源ではなく自然環境をと共に守っていくものだ。</font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">増えすぎたから間引くとか、魚を大量に食べるから漁業に差し支えると言うのはそれは人間のエゴである。</font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">自然は自然の力で保たれていく、増え過ぎれば自然に減る。それは世の中に人間が現れるずっと以前から行われてきた。</font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">鯨が海で魚を食べることは当たり前であり、人間は鯨から海の幸を分けてもらうという形こそが地球に住む生物の形だと思う。</font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div><div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">鯨もイルカも人間と同じように長生きもしたい、生涯を全うしたいと思っている。</font></b></div><div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">それはどんな生き物もそうだ。</font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">人間が動物の命を奪い大切に感謝しながら食べようが骨や皮を無駄なく使おうが、それで許されると思うのは人間の自己満足である。どっちにしろ殺される事には変わりない。</font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">殺される生き物は人間に食べて欲しくて生まれてきたわけではない。出来るなら生まれた場所で必死に生きて死にたいと思っているはずだ。</font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">動物の命を糧として生きる人々は反論する際に必ず、"では家畜の命は奪っていいのか?"と聞いてくる。</font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">出来れば殺すことはしたくはない。しかし家畜はどこで生まれるのか?</font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">それは人間が育て増やしている動物なのだから人間が責任を持ちどうするべきかという問題は人間の手中にある。</font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">家畜を殺して食べるのなら、せめて生まれてから死ぬまでの間自由に幸せに育て、死ぬときは恐怖や苦しみを与えない事が人間の家畜への責任である。</font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">では中国韓国の犬や猫食はどうかと言うとこれらの動物は家畜として生まれたわけではない。遠い昔人間と共存するために人の手で作られたペットである。本来なら人を助けながら生きる動物だが現在はほとんど愛玩動物である。だからこれも食べたり増えすぎたから殺すべきではない。人間の作った生き物なのだから人間が保護する責任がある。</font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">しかし野生生物は人間の手中にはない。彼等は自然の中で生きるように生まれてきた。自然の中で共存していない人間にとっては国境の向こうの生き物たちでなのである。</font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4"><br></font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">日本の人々は"クジラ肉は食文化である"、"肉食はどこの国にもあり、日本はたまたま鯨も食していたから"と理由にする。</font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">それを妨害しようとする者は、"水銀が多量に含まれる"、"絶滅機種である"などお互いに様々な理由をつけて譲り合うことはない。</font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">アメリカでは太地が漁をする度にニュースで報道される。</font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">学校では環境保護、自然保護、動物保護の教育にザ・コーブを上映し生徒たちが日本は捕鯨国である事を知る。</font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">親達は鯨の神秘的な美しさを子供達に教える。</font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">今世界中の人々があの小さな漁村の太地を注目しているのだ。</font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">誰が、どっちが野蛮だなどと言うことは全く意味がない。</font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">日本はテクノロジーなどでは先進国だが、自然や動物保護への考え方についてはとても遅れをとっている。</font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">動物が下等なもの、人間のために全てが存在するという誤った意識を持っている人々がまだ多い。</font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">アナログからデジタル、ガソリンから電気へと時代が変わる様に、食文化も変わるべきである。</font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">現在は遠い昔の狩猟時代ではないのだから、狩をして生きるのはわずかに残る狩猟民族だけで十分である。</font></b></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4"> 〜ケイコ・オールズ〜</font></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4"><div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDOAnh464gVD19WUo9OVZdssrzlK7DhPzhVuH2U6Ow4LqihYL21Gvv9503OCWAykZUbIzF9xU2ngJ5rWsKg0bWUdISaJQoLi3f-3euLCKgdTaeWuq4aKe49iCqVBGAV-3lqe-CXvSUlbA/s640/blogger-image-1060750947.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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<span class='st_email_large' displayText='Email'></span></div>Keiko T. Oldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859488789054287551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537383451156444426.post-58061796037690176432016-03-02T22:08:00.001-06:002023-03-30T23:13:01.143-05:00PICTURE BOOK - A CAT WISH TO EAT WHALE MEAT - Talking about Whaling BY
Kamekujiraneko<div><div style="text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="text-align: start; clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><b>| </b></font><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/05/home.html" id="id_791f_794_848_a030">HOME</a><font><b> | </b></font><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2016/02/table-of-contents.html" id="id_7e00_593b_8e94_2b1f">TABLE CONTENTS</a><font><b> | </b></font></span></div></div><div style="text-align: start;"><p align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font color="#000000" style="text-align: center; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5MZBd1qA3BEZpIH3DiPAfVaqGGjo59Rr8MdHXNKjfg8mQoIOewThlYlbNGrRceqy1qTJVfyyQs7ZNPjcTJObLiZocJqaFkdKeAxkzGJ9ayzt4sqojt7pd22twUl6qJ1WWKPfei0FNZN4/s640/blogger-image--935423708.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="text-align: center; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5MZBd1qA3BEZpIH3DiPAfVaqGGjo59Rr8MdHXNKjfg8mQoIOewThlYlbNGrRceqy1qTJVfyyQs7ZNPjcTJObLiZocJqaFkdKeAxkzGJ9ayzt4sqojt7pd22twUl6qJ1WWKPfei0FNZN4/s640/blogger-image--935423708.jpg" id="id_f3d5_c39a_f12b_a3a" style="width: 456px; height: auto;"></a></font></p><p align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font size="6" face="Arial" color="#ffff00"><b style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 184);"> Talking about Whaling </b></font><font size="5" face="Arial" style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></font></p><p align="center" style="text-align: start;"><font size="5" face="Arial" style="text-align: center;"><b> <font color="#0000b8"> </font></b></font><span style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="7" face="Copperplate"><b>KAMEKUJIRANEKO </b></font></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5" face="Arial"><b> Author of Whales' Fantasy</b></font>. </span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: center;"> </span><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: center;">Twitter @kamekujiraneko</b></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Kamekujiraneko is my friend. He is against whaling and supports protection of other sea animals. </b></font></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>He writes fictional story books about Whales and whaling. </b></font></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>There are many people who are against this person and is attacked from everywhere. </b></font></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>The stories he writes are fiction but demonstrates in his words how humans are ignorant. </b></font></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>He displays the beauty of sea animals by using his words and pictures. </b></font></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>I hope that this story will touch the hearts of many adults and children all around the world. </b></font></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>〜Keko Olds〜</b></span></font></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Arial;">READ MORE➡︎ <a href="http://www.kkneko.com/english/index.htm" id="id_4e61_fe69_e3ee_ee8">http://www.kkneko.com/english/index.htm</a></b></p><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b> <a href="http://www.kkneko.com/english/novele.htm#summary" id="id_f4fd_3a81_d568_256e">http://www.kkneko.com/english/novele.htm#summary</a></b></font></p><p align="center" style="text-align: start;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="3"> </font></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="3"> </font></span><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4">日本語・Japanese ⬇︎</font></b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="3"> </font><font size="4"> </font></span><font size="4"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></font><b> </b></p><p align="center" style="text-align: start;"><b> <font size="4"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2016/03/blog-post.html">http://www.littlecrows.com/2016/03/blog-post.html</a></font></b></p><p align="center" style="text-align: start;"><b><br></b></p><p align="center" style="text-align: start;"><b><br></b></p><h1><b style="text-align: -webkit-center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="7" face="Helvetica" color="#ffffff"><i style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> A CAT WISH TO EAT WHALE MEAT </i></font></b></h1><div style="text-align: start; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></div></div></div><div><center></center></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhztpGrbqcRjeM89CLCKRzcaf13z2YbntYpj5bSzNqz1SuX1D3JgY3iCSu8q52RHt0fImsZ5C0Dn79uJHPv5htViHp3PO5fiTegJ3GMoKk3raN-0qmj2NvoSEml2QQkiktPlWALWf4vHck/s640/blogger-image--1752397984.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhztpGrbqcRjeM89CLCKRzcaf13z2YbntYpj5bSzNqz1SuX1D3JgY3iCSu8q52RHt0fImsZ5C0Dn79uJHPv5htViHp3PO5fiTegJ3GMoKk3raN-0qmj2NvoSEml2QQkiktPlWALWf4vHck/s640/blogger-image--1752397984.jpg" id="id_433e_6585_4e3c_c5f9" style="width: 922px; height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></span></div><font face="Arial" color="#0000b8" size="4"><b>Waves splashed against the side of the ship. Some of them came over the railing, leaving foam bubbling on the metal deck.<br>About a dozen people on board were leaning over the railing expectantly gazing at the sea. <br>What in the world were they looking for on the vast expanse of the ocean? </b></font></span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" color="#0000b8" size="4"><b>They were looking for whales! In fact, they were on a whale watching ship. </b></font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" color="#0000b8" size="4"><b>Whales, as you know, are huge mammals that live in the ocean. </b></font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" color="#0000b8" size="4"><b>They are the largest animals in the ocean. <br><br> Among those who came to watch the whales was a cat with eyes glistening like two glowing emeralds! He was a large gray and white cat named Junior.<br>He was sitting on the foredeck at the very front of the ship, gazing as intently at the ocean as any of the humans present.<br>Just like the people, he had come on board to watch whales, but he had another reason too!<br>Truth to tell, he had a secret desire to eat a whale!</b></font></span><div><font color="#0000b8" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><b><br></b></span></font><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsR5vstbOuGTrqDoQMsaI5tmGmQDhUBh8izU70GtehpaNiPf4MBElQHD3djbGVYvGvzZpgKCrv4CvKTWF5tj9IT4HbbwbvPKaSq88SzQ96avym-eV_pJYE9q_sOV28wQHzQ1AZhiKdlk4/s640/blogger-image-325717889.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsR5vstbOuGTrqDoQMsaI5tmGmQDhUBh8izU70GtehpaNiPf4MBElQHD3djbGVYvGvzZpgKCrv4CvKTWF5tj9IT4HbbwbvPKaSq88SzQ96avym-eV_pJYE9q_sOV28wQHzQ1AZhiKdlk4/s640/blogger-image-325717889.jpg" id="id_bacd_1e6d_ea24_a1f0" style="width: 917px; height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><font face="Arial" color="#0000b8" size="4"><b>Of course, as you know, all cats love fish, and Junior was no exception! (He thought whales were very large fish!)<br>He really loved fish -- fresh, fried, or broiled, and he turn up his nose at canned fish either! Actually-he was a glutton!<br>He had heard that whale meat was delicious, and he dreamed of having a chance to taste it. <br>Imagine-how many cans of whale meat could you get from one whale? A hundred? A thousand? Or many more, too numerous for even him to eat? With that many cans he could feast for a whole year and have plenty left to share with his friends.<br>Sad to say, there are still some people who like to eat whale meat, but nobody had ever given the cat any. Therefore he had made up his mind to go on a whale watching ship to catch a whale!<br>That is how he ended up on this ship.<br><br> He had heard that this rather large ship used to be a whaling ship that sailed the seas of the world searching for whales to catch-going as far as the freezing Antarctic waters at the bottom of the world. <br>The seas used to be teeming with whales, but humans had caught so many whales, that there are very few left in the oceans. <br>Therefore this ship was no longer a whale-catching ship, but a whale watching ship for tourists.</b></font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial" color="#0000b8"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7dU7wrVaS1DwnGKSps9orn7LTwxjTo_XewEHYRW-c0EtR_WnJnk_dQXncUfZ1O6RZQSHL1jtNtA26edFJtPYPSkIsoK7omOl2K0j-ftOWP_Ql1BQ62M9vQtZN4GStalAx-mtdbUKCPSQ/s640/blogger-image-687163749.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7dU7wrVaS1DwnGKSps9orn7LTwxjTo_XewEHYRW-c0EtR_WnJnk_dQXncUfZ1O6RZQSHL1jtNtA26edFJtPYPSkIsoK7omOl2K0j-ftOWP_Ql1BQ62M9vQtZN4GStalAx-mtdbUKCPSQ/s640/blogger-image-687163749.jpg" id="id_953a_4106_469e_cef7" style="width: 920px; height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <font size="4" face="Arial" color="#0000b8"><b>The ship's guide had brought recording equipment aboard, and he lowered a microphone overboard in order to try to record whale songs.<br>The tourists gathered around the equipment speakers with their ears straining to catch the sounds from the sea. <br><br> "Woo-ru, Woo-ru, Woo-ru" <br><br> The people were enchanted with these mysterious sounds coming out of the speaker. They had never heard such songs before-they seemed to be music from another world.<br><br> Junior came close and listened intently. These songs were nothing like the love songs of cats! Such beautiful songs coming from the whales must mean that whales are very delicious to eat, he thought. His mouth watered.<br><br> The whale songs were so loud that Junior and the tourists thought that a whale must be nearby. They again started to scan the horizon. Some of the tourists were using binoculars, and the others shaded their eyes with their hands to see better. Everyone was eagerly looking for whale blows. Unfortunately, Junior could not see any signs of whales at all.</b></font></span><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial" color="#0000b8"><b><br></b></font></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdaMuWXsonwE5XDEYhyphenhyphenqgVC4VaVNwRK5TXikQunNKxbhz3umVq8-9UhArr80a4ASvEG_VfZ_DcZGTU2v6YhNk_h9IaqrY-5AEz8aBjk8VsWUAzUHp5JBkRE6wv4FDlPlQZxxfbu8LZguQ/s640/blogger-image-1131222784.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdaMuWXsonwE5XDEYhyphenhyphenqgVC4VaVNwRK5TXikQunNKxbhz3umVq8-9UhArr80a4ASvEG_VfZ_DcZGTU2v6YhNk_h9IaqrY-5AEz8aBjk8VsWUAzUHp5JBkRE6wv4FDlPlQZxxfbu8LZguQ/s640/blogger-image-1131222784.jpg" id="id_6404_f51c_3c01_b90" style="width: 931px; height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div> <font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b>Junior's eyes hurt because of the strong light from the sun reflecting on the mirror-like sea. He squinted to protect his eyes from the glaring light. His irises became mere slits. His fur was salty and moist from the misty sea water.<br><br> He patiently watched the sea for a sign of whales and then--<br><br> "Oh, look there, a blow!" a cry arose.<br><br> He looked in the direction the people's fingers were pointing at, and saw something black emerging from the sea. <br>He saw the water and mists spouting out of a whale's blowhole. After a few blows, the whale dove back into the sea.<br><br> By that time, the ship had slowed to a stop. After a while, a group of three or four whales appeared. They swam together playfully. <br>One of them started to jump above the sea. He raised the upper half of his body, made a slight twist, and plunged back into the water, flapping his tail on the ocean's surface. <br>A roar of sound reached the ship. Then, a column of water spewed out into the air -- it was magnificent to look at.<br><br> One whale after another followed suit. "Were they engaged in a water blowing competition?" Junior thought to himself. All the tourists on the ship were excited and entertained by this spectacular whale play!</b></font></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK-ADD5AiipLgz4nvzWMmIb5VdPXhCNbhIdM2JJy8CrP7Ok127sEror8wwV2URUkOgvTEtmOcG3Uepf_-tqKrAnyQufFSP5dHlSreTyqMe7tdYLzok37sr-czFhKnW7rDIIn6UkgTCSOQ/s640/blogger-image-74748931.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK-ADD5AiipLgz4nvzWMmIb5VdPXhCNbhIdM2JJy8CrP7Ok127sEror8wwV2URUkOgvTEtmOcG3Uepf_-tqKrAnyQufFSP5dHlSreTyqMe7tdYLzok37sr-czFhKnW7rDIIn6UkgTCSOQ/s640/blogger-image-74748931.jpg" id="id_59a8_8bb_7b20_fe1" style="width: 937px; height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><font size="4" face="Arial" color="#0000b8"><b>The whales started to move away. The ship's engine started with a roaring noise; the chase began. The ship increased speed and pushed its way forward, making water splash onto the deck.<br>Junior clenched his teeth and tried hard to hold himself steady on the deck. Probably having noticed the chase, the whales swam faster. They moved faster and faster while making giant leaps above the water's surface.<br><br> All of a sudden, a large swell hit the ship sideways surging over the rails. In an instant the swell hurled Junior off the ship into the sea! It was so sudden that he had no way to prevent it.<br>A moment later, he found himself in the midst of a swirl of boiling ocean. Loud, deafening noises terrified him and he couldn't help swallowing some water.<br>He felt salty water coming into his nostrils and ears.<br><br> "Help, help, I'm drowning!" he cried with muffled voice; he suffered terribly from the water he had swallowed.<br>In order to breathe, he desperately tried to get out of the water, moving all four legs as fast as he could. Fear and suffocation struck him and he thought he was dying. He ceased to fight -- and the sea became calm, turning blue all around him.</b></font></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi36vk7HZW_-x5ArV69x6Fu38z58lyIETBCJSuRzF-scnPbryhzV2cg16d4SJNX5VuVJkdZ3_xEcSRNDAFkvzIUL0PyhzxZUIgVK5rBHNN9Z7UKot905Ts_-m4IjLmQmLg8NY4lFi4wdh4/s640/blogger-image--1416588966.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi36vk7HZW_-x5ArV69x6Fu38z58lyIETBCJSuRzF-scnPbryhzV2cg16d4SJNX5VuVJkdZ3_xEcSRNDAFkvzIUL0PyhzxZUIgVK5rBHNN9Z7UKot905Ts_-m4IjLmQmLg8NY4lFi4wdh4/s640/blogger-image--1416588966.jpg" id="id_ecaf_70cd_783d_d3af" style="width: 923px; height: auto;"></a></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b>Junior drifted in the blue ocean. To his surprise he no longer felt suffocated; the pain was gone, and he was now able to breathe normally. He felt, however, numb in his limbs. He was astounded to find himself without legs! Instead, there were fins where his legs used to be.<br><br> "Well", he thought "there is no use mourning the loss of my legs -- fins are more useful than legs in the ocean!" The fins felt familiar -- had he once lived before in this aquatic world?<br><br> The sun was no longer visible; but light seemed to come from all directions as in a kaleidoscope. The world where he used to walk on his four legs was unreal -- this dream world was real, he thought.<br>He felt delighted and happy here.<br><br> Suddenly a dark shadow appeared above him and made him awake from his dream-like state. With noises hissing and water vibrating, it started spreading around him. He recognized it as a fishing net.<br>The net covered him. Thrashing desperately, he tried to get out of it as hard and as fast as he could before he became trapped and immobile.<br>The harder he tried to escape, the more he seemed to be trapped in the net. If he were lifted up while being trapped in the net, he feared he would surely die.<br><br> He called for help as loudly as he could.<br><br> "Help, help!"</b></font></span><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqKMXpx3k0c_HLrIRLQKyi3rPQZ9ELczyGnEsozTxaNiVK3lNukFHUdRaQA6zBqSC1qHkzcjSEk5c-jnIeIceRSgwop7c-K2UceVewFxztm1hblVXW2Ysf1e25L0-GEa7lJjT2qgQPb5c/s640/blogger-image-115970016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqKMXpx3k0c_HLrIRLQKyi3rPQZ9ELczyGnEsozTxaNiVK3lNukFHUdRaQA6zBqSC1qHkzcjSEk5c-jnIeIceRSgwop7c-K2UceVewFxztm1hblVXW2Ysf1e25L0-GEa7lJjT2qgQPb5c/s640/blogger-image-115970016.jpg" id="id_5a29_bacb_9608_97e9" style="width: 925px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b>Junior opened his eyes slightly and saw the sun shining brightly.<br>He was alive, he thought, and he seemed to be in the open air and was breathing all right. He saw his usual legs and fur. His heart was ticking, too.<br><br> Still feeling dizzy, he slowly looked around to see where he was.<br>In front of him he saw the vast ocean reaching to the horizon.<br>His memory started to come back to him, and he now recalled what had happened to him earlier. He remembered he had been thrown off the ship and had almost drowned in the ocean. <br>The place around him was not familiar. He wondered where he was now. Was he washed up on a remote island? The spot on which he was sitting seemed to be moving up and down.<br><br> While he was trying to figure out his whereabouts, a geyser of water burst into the air with a loud roar. He saw two hollow cavities nearby, which were larger than his body. Through them clouds of water were spurting out, like a fountain, spreading mists all around.<br>It smelled so bad that he gagged! Soon a small rainbow formed in the sky.<br><br> "Are you awake?" He heard a voice coming from somewhere. He looked around, but he found nobody nearby.<br><br> "Here, here. Just under your feet!" the voice spoke.<br><br> He started to move closer to where the voice seemed to have come from.</b></font></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWXyvcfhjbxcrD9VPzwnCvAgAWJ99LQzSJmGKKrSsrFI0-hGqRQrIFIAeO1No-Z_Mm-xwnLhKNs1e-TiNe0aENrLWW8SiUGE2Ezu-86XN3sFGQqL-DHVGRGB5iUAL6njYIZNClfmTaBY/s640/blogger-image-194231093.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWXyvcfhjbxcrD9VPzwnCvAgAWJ99LQzSJmGKKrSsrFI0-hGqRQrIFIAeO1No-Z_Mm-xwnLhKNs1e-TiNe0aENrLWW8SiUGE2Ezu-86XN3sFGQqL-DHVGRGB5iUAL6njYIZNClfmTaBY/s640/blogger-image-194231093.jpg" id="id_612b_6488_d7a5_f81f" style="width: 925px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b> "Wow!" Junior cried. A gigantic creature with huge eyes was gazing up from the water at him. It was a whale. He realized that he was standing on its back. <br>While on the ship, he had gathered that whales were big, but he did not understand how huge they were until he was standing on one of them.<br><br> "Gee, this whale will make about a thousand cans of meat -- no, much much more," he blurted out. Realizing he had made a stupid remark, he immediately shut his mouth fearing that the whale might have heard his words. If it got angered, he feared the whale would swallow him in a gulp. In an attempt to appease him, he licked the whale's back several times in spite of the whale's bitter, salty taste. Then he felt a jolting sensation. The whale was chuckling.<br><br> "You are the one who saved my life?" he timidly asked the whale.<br><br> "No, I did nothing much," the whale replied. "I saw you floating in the ocean, and I just gave you a ride on my back. You were lucky. A god, I say, the god of the cats protected you. But I don't think I can help you any more. I am so exhausted and weak." <br><br> Now the whale's voice sounded feeble.</b></font></span><br></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicAVvj9E-6XTI0Ksk1S8pBqncy-FhSiNkWrsKLZ12gP_7UoLLWp04G3jruhuqA6lt6i8mCzZRNt0OLTqofy_XzpexwNvwt0243iGnOf-9d5xeOG3B83rexCC8n1fdMIH3nDOkyukfhH24/s640/blogger-image--2025811883.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicAVvj9E-6XTI0Ksk1S8pBqncy-FhSiNkWrsKLZ12gP_7UoLLWp04G3jruhuqA6lt6i8mCzZRNt0OLTqofy_XzpexwNvwt0243iGnOf-9d5xeOG3B83rexCC8n1fdMIH3nDOkyukfhH24/s640/blogger-image--2025811883.jpg" id="id_aac0_6a4e_1846_dcf1" style="width: 929px; height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); clear: both;"><br></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b>What is the trouble?" asked Junior.<br><br> "I am trapped in a net." the whale replied.<br><br> Puzzled, he walked along the whale's nostrils toward the front of his whale's head. As the whale had said, he found the net, some of its strands ripped, wrapped around the whale from his head to his breast fins. The net seemed to be tightly attached to him.<br><br> The whale explained his predicament. "I tried to get out of the net. The more I tried, the tighter the net wrapped itself around me, so tight that I can hardly move my body. My fins are damaged. I am losing strength and can't swim fast. It's been almost ten days since I have been like this."<br><br> "Did you say ten days?" Junior cried and said, "How did you manage to eat?"<br><br> "During summer time, we eat a lot and make a lot of blubber inside our bodies. That blubber will keep us alive without eating for a long time."<br><br> Junior felt sad for the whale who had saved his life, and he wanted to free him from the net. He put a strand of the net in his mouth and tried to bite it through. Though he was proud of his sharp teeth, the strand was too strong for him to cut. <br>He tried and tried until his mouth began to hurt. He finally said haltingly, "It is too tough. Humans make too strong a net. I cannot cut you loose."</b></font></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg9pUtoSHpw4zLuT03Yc3_9b3WqxvLi2rV9A_F0iLgU8lkVfBtOpreiVWcjQKE-l0mFqTxHTKqTsn6t6oYvh7aGwSjCKsZ7njWbfCp6nqRi409RcCtyBeY2_1dFFP_oV2ryM2Kukd4FrU/s640/blogger-image--858014200.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg9pUtoSHpw4zLuT03Yc3_9b3WqxvLi2rV9A_F0iLgU8lkVfBtOpreiVWcjQKE-l0mFqTxHTKqTsn6t6oYvh7aGwSjCKsZ7njWbfCp6nqRi409RcCtyBeY2_1dFFP_oV2ryM2Kukd4FrU/s640/blogger-image--858014200.jpg" id="id_c57e_86fd_7e8d_79f0" style="width: 930px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b>Junior tried again to free the whale without success. He gave it up, and then there was nothing to do but watch the open sea.<br><br> After a while he got bored watching the sea, and he asked the whale, "Sir, how do you like living in the ocean all the time? On the land, there are woods, forests, rivers and the like, but what about in the ocean?"<br><br> "Well, well. I don't know anything on the land as I have never been there, but the ocean is, I think, as fascinating as the land." "For one thing, there are currents of sea water similar to rivers on land. A current carries warm or cold water in a certain direction."<br><br> "And there are woods of coral reefs and forests of sea weeds. There are so many different kinds of creatures living in the sea!<br>Some of them swim, and others float. And some crawl along the sea beds, while others seldom move at all. Some are huge in size just like I am, while others are tiny, too small to even see. Some have beautiful decorations and patterns. Some are poisonous. Some live in groups, while others live by themselves. There are friendly ones and fierce ones. There are cowards who are always on the run, and others are fighters. Oh, yes! And you know, the ocean is filled with many kinds of sounds. Do you know, we pass messages to each other through different sounds?"</b></font></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBIfpd6klrdGwDVAd3PIOjWdpS9NmXE5XkQUeMIW63-ubPhv9JscrsPQ_lCbTQlrPw4_zK5kdWwDV9HQQqVATLizQCKu8OlSVvRq72Im0tyJ3AINH1RRdKRHn2ua-BYSleLiYIxJrP3UU/s640/blogger-image--1990615044.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBIfpd6klrdGwDVAd3PIOjWdpS9NmXE5XkQUeMIW63-ubPhv9JscrsPQ_lCbTQlrPw4_zK5kdWwDV9HQQqVATLizQCKu8OlSVvRq72Im0tyJ3AINH1RRdKRHn2ua-BYSleLiYIxJrP3UU/s640/blogger-image--1990615044.jpg" id="id_3ae1_4215_c5ab_5f94" style="width: 932px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b>It seems an interesting world, thought Junior, though he did not know any of the creatures the whale had mentioned.<br><br> "What is your name, little fellow?" asked the whale.<br><br> "They call me Junior--and you?"<br><br> "Well, Junior, why don't you call me Senior for the time being?" chuckled the whale.<br><br> "I'll tell you about my folks", Senior continued. "Every year we travel between the south and north, just like migratory birds. As they fly from one continent to another when the seasons change, we likewise follow the seasons from one part of the ocean to another. In summer there are a lot of plankton, small fish and shrimps in the cold arctic seas. We feed on them. And when winter comes we head back south to the Antarctic."<br><br> "When we have babies we all move to a warmer area to raise our children." <br>Seemingly lost in memories of his past, he talked slowly and intimately to Junior. Each word sounded grave and touching.<br><br> "Some get lost on their way and stray off the regular course.<br>I wanted to go with my folks this time too, but how could I with a net <br>around me like this ... Even though I am here now, my heart is with them."<br><br> His voice was filled with sadness. Then he added, "We travel along the coast lines. We remember the bays and capes we've passed before, so we can reach our destination safely and easily."</b></font></span></div></div></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-USTzXIr6vIEIm2xH4YVbwhwK68SrtKJ7VBZ49O0ZsBiTQxKZePvIw_HpaNW2hjF4rqYN42M3s9K_jE-h2uHAqyATkjVlXZQ1QOfzQrGD3pJAFyrUB6uFrvOjMLGfe96G7yPE4NlGBIc/s640/blogger-image--1044874209.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-USTzXIr6vIEIm2xH4YVbwhwK68SrtKJ7VBZ49O0ZsBiTQxKZePvIw_HpaNW2hjF4rqYN42M3s9K_jE-h2uHAqyATkjVlXZQ1QOfzQrGD3pJAFyrUB6uFrvOjMLGfe96G7yPE4NlGBIc/s640/blogger-image--1044874209.jpg" id="id_e6a7_ad3b_85e1_b8cf" style="width: 923px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b> "Look! Here come some interesting creatures," said the whale. Junior looked around to find out what was so interesting. <br>He saw some strange-looking fish with big fin wide open like wings. They flew across over the crests of the waves. They darted in and out of the water.<br><br> "Fish flying!" cried Junior.<br><br> "They are indeed called flying fish." explained Senior.<br><br> "I never imagined that some fish can fly like birds!" Junior exclaimed. "The fish must have learned how from them."<br><br> Senior looked in the distance and spoke. <br>"Well, it may sound strange but we whales are mammals like land animals, although we live in the sea. Are you surprised at that too?"<br><br> "You must be kidding. You are not a fish but an animal?"<br><br> "Yes, I am an animal", Senior replied."<br><br> Junior was taken aback by that; he was at a loss for words. <br>He was not convinced yet, but he thought it was possible that the two holes he was sitting near could be nostrils such as large animals on land had. He had been sure that Senior was a big fish. <br>Embarassed, he covered his face with his paws.<br><br> Senior explained to him: "Our ancestors came from the land and chose the sea to live. So, Junior, we are sort of distant cousins."<br><br> Upon hearing the words, "distant cousins", Junior forgot any doubts he had had, and his curiosity overcame his timidity. He now wanted to know about the whale.</b></font></span><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiloHCbgcG_9wmY8GRrNsMoPN3N99_4uEEK4-fvtGfkFUdkC5SgFFEFVD6x-xJcZ37gfL3AsR2BdcXiLjlr8_zdebotJeeYINa3HmFrsjRn-nJyHnU99MhuPLhHE7G3mN1jEtVhK4X8V8I/s640/blogger-image-345252545.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiloHCbgcG_9wmY8GRrNsMoPN3N99_4uEEK4-fvtGfkFUdkC5SgFFEFVD6x-xJcZ37gfL3AsR2BdcXiLjlr8_zdebotJeeYINa3HmFrsjRn-nJyHnU99MhuPLhHE7G3mN1jEtVhK4X8V8I/s640/blogger-image-345252545.jpg" id="id_c3f3_c4a6_e584_7be3" style="width: 928px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="EN-US"> <font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b>He asked Senior, "Do you like to sing songs and jump in midair?"<br><br> "Yes. I am a humpback whale. Among all the species of whales we are the best singers and jumpers."<br><br> "Well, can I ask another question?"<br><br> "Go ahead."<br><br> "How come you can jump in midair when you weigh so much?"<br><br> He had seen the whales jumping when he was on the ship, but he still could not believe that a whale as big as Senior could jump so well. <br>"How can a whale, as big and heavy as you are, lift your own body out of the water? It seems impossible to me."<br><br> Senior paused and said as if to assure himself.<br>"My friends help. We give each other the signal to start. We swim faster and faster, building up our speed. Then we dart upwards breaking the water's surface, into the air. After pushing our bodies up out of the water, we lower our heads and dive back into the sea while banging our tails on the water's surface. It's fun and gives me a thrill. We sometimes compete to see who are the best and longest jumpers. You are a cat, Junior, so you probably don't understand what a pleasure it is."<br><br> It was hard for Junior to imagine jumping out of the water as play. He hated water! He was light and he had easily chased rolling balls, and leapt up into the air to catch flying insects.<br>Whales could do big things with their big bodies, he thought.</b></font></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUFNKkiL9OUirC3apVIGVzdRQm41gqGtISVZLg1DY-TigBSXUrliOSsYIL4VF0n2ty_TAqvFjwDpSAhg5vfUgCZvKkFj6PL9APDEeMwnT0c0gjA3W7gssc1yaVb7qde_GL63f8INVnPo8/s640/blogger-image--1125373909.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUFNKkiL9OUirC3apVIGVzdRQm41gqGtISVZLg1DY-TigBSXUrliOSsYIL4VF0n2ty_TAqvFjwDpSAhg5vfUgCZvKkFj6PL9APDEeMwnT0c0gjA3W7gssc1yaVb7qde_GL63f8INVnPo8/s640/blogger-image--1125373909.jpg" id="id_61cf_8f69_78b5_e613" style="width: 923px; height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); clear: both;"><br></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b> "Junior, have you ever seen us jump from the water and sing songs?" asked Senior.<br><br> "Yeah, not long ago I was watching you guys from the ship with all the humans on board." he replied.<br><br> "Well, then ..."<br><br> After hearing the word humans, the tone of Senior's voice became bitter. Sensing the change in the tone of his voice, Junior thought it wise to change the subject to whale singing.<br><br> "When it comes to music, you whales have beautiful voices. When I heard you sing I was very touched".<br><br> Junior flattered him. A bit exaggerated his praise may have been, but his words were not totally untrue. Senior seemed to be pleased with Junior's compliments.<br><br> "Thank you for saying so. Let me tell you, Junior, a little about our songs. For different events, we have different tunes and melodies.<br>We sing combat songs before fighting against rivals, though I would not say I am a fighter. We serenade our loved ones. The better you can sing, the more you'll be loved. Before setting out to fish, we sing our prayers for good catches. We have many more songs."<br><br> Junior was impressed by how important songs were for the whales.</b></font></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjZU2Ufpmue1SC8JBgWQFkKjIAhY8i1q4fkUOIZUAMc7Z-7muvgH9HxznRI6QV0OO33qiTZFWku2-JbbhxcNy0ZLalzmJoKV7i79X8zQZ4DxrhVM_NezLJKWwMZgMD_CNd1FeVLNNIU0A/s640/blogger-image-1169953415.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjZU2Ufpmue1SC8JBgWQFkKjIAhY8i1q4fkUOIZUAMc7Z-7muvgH9HxznRI6QV0OO33qiTZFWku2-JbbhxcNy0ZLalzmJoKV7i79X8zQZ4DxrhVM_NezLJKWwMZgMD_CNd1FeVLNNIU0A/s640/blogger-image-1169953415.jpg" id="id_2cf2_f21f_f335_fa79" style="width: 920px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></span></span></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b> "You said you went fishing, but please tell me how you whales catch fish," Junior asked.</b></font></span><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> "We use nets."</span><br><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> "You mean nets like the one around you ..." Junior asked, pointing at the mesh of the net on Senior's head. He wondered how the whales could make such a net. Senior did not seem to have any tools but his fins that might be useful in making nets. He did not seem very dexterous, either.</span><br><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> "We don't use harmful nets like the one on me," said Senior. "We whales are gifted with natural nets. It's a god-send, as you may say.</span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When we spot a school of small fish like herrings and sardines, we first swim deeper and get underneath them. We puff out air at them. The air becomes bubbles forming air nets. We swim in a circle below the trapped fish. When the fish clump together in panic, we swoop up and gulp them."</span><br><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Junior was amazed at the thought of such a scene. What powerful methods the whales possessed. Thinking of fish, his belly growled with hunger.</span><br><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> "You seem hungry," said Senior with a chuckle.</span></b></font></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></b></font></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></b></font></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibm1EdwsK11IYN9tEm7oBE_zwt2wXW3hD0xvpN-4xz3MplAbPeJsbglZMtod5nq5lpOYMLA72AU3rdtfL_IQWxoS3OXPplzGexFHiui9qq93OpX-6shmAT7lUnxkTMg-PKcvAiCryUGGU/s640/blogger-image--1625053521.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibm1EdwsK11IYN9tEm7oBE_zwt2wXW3hD0xvpN-4xz3MplAbPeJsbglZMtod5nq5lpOYMLA72AU3rdtfL_IQWxoS3OXPplzGexFHiui9qq93OpX-6shmAT7lUnxkTMg-PKcvAiCryUGGU/s640/blogger-image--1625053521.jpg" id="id_97ed_ef2f_8858_ebab" style="width: 923px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b> "That was a good story you told me. Thanks! Yes, I am getting hungry now," said Junior. He regretted he had not eaten enough before boarding the ship, but it was too late to cry over this oversight.<br>The flying fish flashed into his mind. There were plenty of them, and they could have satisfied his hunger, he thought. Now there was nothing to eat that he could find here in the open sea.<br><br> "Junior, look down in the water," said Senior.<br><br> Junior had been thrown into the water and had almost drowned. The memory was so fresh that he could not make himself get closer to the water. Senior extended one of his breast fins and invited him to hop onto it. Unable to refuse his kind offer, Junior got onto it and from there looked down into the water. He saw many kinds of fish, both small and large. He was astonished to find them, right under his nose, gliding here and there.<br><br> "Junior," said Senior. "Small fish like to stick around a mammoth like me. It is like hiding under a floating raft. They want protection from predators. We try to live in peace together."</b></font></span><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCqFs5w3VbrX26qPAb-LKoNB4jJXCPgotgPzHmuDtJyBiIoLsm9O9Fi3Arpg76LN91v448vVHEyK0EiZZ6FMAN0J5Oatt7EHVAghgq5YEJ70vJFnW5zq2MIomMNjVC-Fq9qgS2RQkBUcY/s640/blogger-image-433417732.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCqFs5w3VbrX26qPAb-LKoNB4jJXCPgotgPzHmuDtJyBiIoLsm9O9Fi3Arpg76LN91v448vVHEyK0EiZZ6FMAN0J5Oatt7EHVAghgq5YEJ70vJFnW5zq2MIomMNjVC-Fq9qgS2RQkBUcY/s640/blogger-image-433417732.jpg" id="id_ad80_148e_f59c_64f8" style="width: 922px; height: auto;"></a></div></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b>Junior could see some fish almost within his paw's reach. The fish right under his nose whetted his appetite, but he could not think of any method of catching them.<br><br> As if he had read Junior's mind, Senior said to him,<br>"Why don't you ask the God of the cats how to catch them?"<br><br> Encouraged, Junior racked his little brains hard for a while.<br>A bright idea flashed into his mind. "Senior said he has air-nets -- I'll try a fishing pole." He moved to the edge of the fins, turned his back toward the sea, and dropped his tail into the water.<br>He jiggled the end of his tail the way his mother used to do with her tail to keep him calm when he was a kitten.<br><br> He had never used his tail to catch fish this way, but he hoped this impromptu method would work somehow.<br>A while later he felt a fish snap at the tip of his sensitive tail. No sooner had he sensed the bite than he jerked his tail out of the water. To his amazement, he saw a fish of medium size dangling from his tail. That would be plenty for his supper tonight, he thought.<br><br> "I got it, I got it!"<br><br> "Excellent, Junior!"</b></font></span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3_o4QbcCFg6ynETNi7f0ULnWM6saBk3nSqP4BJZa7oHVjpz5UKkt0vjOXV0XcSVgBFK4Joqi4vlm8rjX5onBtAERMaK8Alto0qr0YzKMIbutZujmtYD9zzzIZvy_SfaeJSC3vqqWvOFw/s640/blogger-image-565642476.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3_o4QbcCFg6ynETNi7f0ULnWM6saBk3nSqP4BJZa7oHVjpz5UKkt0vjOXV0XcSVgBFK4Joqi4vlm8rjX5onBtAERMaK8Alto0qr0YzKMIbutZujmtYD9zzzIZvy_SfaeJSC3vqqWvOFw/s640/blogger-image-565642476.jpg" id="id_9b7a_6b14_9852_9632" style="width: 921px; height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><span lang="EN-US"> <font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b>Junior felt a little guilty at having such a feast while sitting on the whale who was unable to eat. But, since Senior told him to help himself to the catch, he took the liberty of eating it by himself.<br><br> His stomach full, Junior posed a puzzling question to Senior.<br>"I wonder why you whales eat only small fish. Your mouth is big enough to swallow bigger fish as large as myself."<br><br> "Yes, our mouths are large--but instead of teeth we have something called baleen plates that filter our food, and we can only eat small fish and plankton."<br><br> On occasion, Junior had eaten canned tuna fish and mackerel. They had tasted delicious to him. But whales, he thought, did not seem to be interested in such fish, which abounded around them. <br>It seemed a shame to him that the whales, though their bodies were so big, could only eat small fish and plankton.<br><br> "You did not seem pleased when I told you I had been on a ship with humans. You hate humans, don't you?" asked Junior.<br><br> "Hum ..." Senior groaned.</b></font></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7K3vBZE31Ze-1sTOLMlEcqeYKRs7_K11Yb1lTJu8H3gDuEFEVZbCeSEuF_8fhxB_hB1Y71dGL1ZhOPK3bDeYZPQkm6qmmL051LFHg1nvZScONQH8yF0C-mzua3DNDZvYo9Nrx4q3-ah0/s640/blogger-image--1977374683.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7K3vBZE31Ze-1sTOLMlEcqeYKRs7_K11Yb1lTJu8H3gDuEFEVZbCeSEuF_8fhxB_hB1Y71dGL1ZhOPK3bDeYZPQkm6qmmL051LFHg1nvZScONQH8yF0C-mzua3DNDZvYo9Nrx4q3-ah0/s640/blogger-image--1977374683.jpg" id="id_55c4_1816_f96c_c7b8" style="width: 922px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b>Junior thought that Senior's grudge against humans could be caused partly by the fishing net in which he was entangled now. <br>At any rate, Senior seemed to dislike humans whatever the real reasons were. In spite of Senior's huge size, his talents in singing and jumping, and his vast knowledge of the sea, he would be no match against brutal humans, Junior thought.<br><br> "It's not that I hate humans so much because they killed us," Senior continued. "While we are growing up or when we get weak from illness, we have other enemies like sharks and orcas who will kill us. The orca is a killer whale. We and the orcas have the same ancestors.<br>They are the fierce and clever hunters of the sea. They are smaller in size than we are, but for all I know, they are the best hunters in the sea. When hunting, they work together well and share their catches.<br>They are not merely feared by others but are also admired as well.<br>They don't try to wipe us all out, though."<br><br> "Well, I didn't know that you, the king of the sea, have an enemy".<br><br> "We live on fish, but in the sea, we are no better than the fish.<br>We and the fish live in a balanced state. No species flourishes better than any other. If so, that would cause trouble for the others. It seems that the sea was created that way. We don't have so many enemies, and so we don't have many baby whales."</b></font></span><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNsg9E6YJnOJSIV-vts1bo75SzPa7SWqigpp7Gj8J2pX-ljJ1UiMbedEYEZcJLjKTmljRzPn01T63kYF5FxeNMyvffaEY8Ah7168ZjGICWatJMSiErzadB_36Kot3EyKvxgGb6zr9LmNc/s640/blogger-image--281186040.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNsg9E6YJnOJSIV-vts1bo75SzPa7SWqigpp7Gj8J2pX-ljJ1UiMbedEYEZcJLjKTmljRzPn01T63kYF5FxeNMyvffaEY8Ah7168ZjGICWatJMSiErzadB_36Kot3EyKvxgGb6zr9LmNc/s640/blogger-image--281186040.jpg" id="id_a127_e9a9_bee5_6a65" style="width: 918px; height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b>Senior went on. "We catch fish, but we catch them with our own natural tools. We catch them following our inborn instincts and knowledge learned from our parents. Hunting, searching for places to stay, and self-protection, they are all done with what we are given by God. The orcas, for instance, use their sharp teeth and their ability to swim fast."<br><br> "However, humans use powerful tools like nets and boats to easily catch us who are much larger than they are. I was stupid enough to be caught by a drifting net which probably some fishermen discarded.<br>I could hardly see the net's thin strands and got caught in the head while swimming through. Our nets are air bubbles and they disappear soon after they are made, but humans' nets, unlike ours, won't vanish with time. They drift like ghosts and trap living creatures to die.<br>Many whales and dolphins have fallen victims to them and so have other fishes, sea birds, turtles and seals. My heart aches when I think of our young ones who are subject to such traps. We often have to come out of the water to the surface to breathe fresh air, and there is danger when their nets are floating around. Little ones are especially vulnerable, and are likely to die because they haven't gained enough strength to rid themselves of a net, once trapped. Of course, there are some fortunate ones who manage to escape from the nets."</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOiy50x8vUWDeowVZG26S71RWCQ0nS3qh-vf6UVP5Qsg_J2Nx8sRtGnREA-tFA3lketGfLO7hC8GWLQUC-AYzofGy0t-bphf2eoGy68yoilHd4HkbogLXoIHB6tqrJDdJfNjE1qnsQ378/s640/blogger-image--1326126336.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOiy50x8vUWDeowVZG26S71RWCQ0nS3qh-vf6UVP5Qsg_J2Nx8sRtGnREA-tFA3lketGfLO7hC8GWLQUC-AYzofGy0t-bphf2eoGy68yoilHd4HkbogLXoIHB6tqrJDdJfNjE1qnsQ378/s640/blogger-image--1326126336.jpg" id="id_95cf_f34b_2edc_a831" style="width: 923px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b> "How come human tools are so different from ours?" Junior asked.<br><br> "I don't know it for sure, but they may have super-natural powers." <br><br> "By the way, there is an ocean full of ice far down in the south."<br><br> "I have heard of it before. It's called something like A<span lang="EN-US">nta</span>rctic Ocean, right?" Junior said.<br><br> "Right. You heard of it before? Actually, it's called the Antarctic Ocean. A legend says that the whales lived there in peace for a long time. One day, many years back, all of a sudden, one big ship after another came there. Our ancestors were chased, caught, and killed by the ship people by some method unknown to them."<br><br> "It did not take too long before most of the whales had vanished from the rich, icy ocean. The 'singing tribe' and the large whales are all gone. Instead, all that are left there now are the smallest and swiftest whales. It's ironic that they were saved by their size. The ship people did not care too much for the small ones ... because they got less meat and blubber from them. They are, I should say, about one half of my size. Now that the big brothers are gone, minke whales, the smaller whales are getting the humans' attention."<br><br> "They are now the targets of the whale ships." Senior continued. "If they should vanish from that paradise, that's the end of the world.<br>In Antartica live penguins, seals and many kinds of fish. They all live according to their rules and roles. Each one is given his or her role by the God of the sea. If the whales perish from there, there would be no fish that could play the role of the whale, and <span lang="EN-US">the God of the sea</span>would be at a loss as to what to do next."</b></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZCZeeYBkH7OzOy1igowgVKRvyo5ItX_QkzGKNwWFVyUBcjN0oEw_SLLC5YRui_28wlIvsB4azWpzwa9Rl695mA18qc_1c9aRcRTLnRRgbDqMPtXCGV3a_UIXm7RsdCWTkEqSlcu1ueJE/s640/blogger-image--52047058.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZCZeeYBkH7OzOy1igowgVKRvyo5ItX_QkzGKNwWFVyUBcjN0oEw_SLLC5YRui_28wlIvsB4azWpzwa9Rl695mA18qc_1c9aRcRTLnRRgbDqMPtXCGV3a_UIXm7RsdCWTkEqSlcu1ueJE/s640/blogger-image--52047058.jpg" id="id_a6c5_89db_7cd7_f8fd" style="width: 921px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b>It occurred to Junior that that was why there was not as much whale meat in the stores as before.<br><br> Senior said: "You know the humans cannot swim long distances. I was told that they use burning fuel to propel their ships. Humans call it oil, though. It comes from the bodies of creatures that lived long ago, lying deep under the ocean -- for many a century. Humans dig the sea beds and siphon off the oil. They use it for moving boats and ships in the sea. They are probably using it for other purposes on land. They carry the oil in huge tankers."<br><br> "The oil is the problem; it causes us a lot of troubles. Do you know why? Tankers sometimes run aground. And oil gets spilled all over once there is an accident. You cannot imagine the problems the oil spills cause!!. Our fins get darkened and tarred. Once it gets in the wings of a sea bird, he cannot fly again no matter how hard he flaps his wings. Some fish die after swallowing the oil spilt from shipwrecks. Many suffer from stomach illnesses. Seals' and otters' furs get damaged and some die from the freezing cold weather because their fur can't protect them well enough. I have seen many, many dead fish at the bottom of the sea who had lost their lives because they could not swim or breathe for whatever the reason might be. I'd be in big trouble, too, if I could not find small fish."</b></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoAVMUZ5YmEQk0ZwEa8r4eH6Dc5fqW2vwOOCSxbnI0aSOmBi8DdK-ored00dOAII1SSNH8SJW_SohPw6zkETVCZkNLaCVriCUOsKorJLw9o8NUj9s5IUxBXiB0I-_iVVBx9Qti6nR8XQs/s640/blogger-image-1657052188.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoAVMUZ5YmEQk0ZwEa8r4eH6Dc5fqW2vwOOCSxbnI0aSOmBi8DdK-ored00dOAII1SSNH8SJW_SohPw6zkETVCZkNLaCVriCUOsKorJLw9o8NUj9s5IUxBXiB0I-_iVVBx9Qti6nR8XQs/s640/blogger-image-1657052188.jpg" id="id_fabc_2b5_5593_1641" style="width: 922px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b>Senior continued speaking. "Talking about debris, near the bays and coasts there are lots of soft, fluffy things drifting on the surface of the sea. They look just like jellyfish and some sea turtles eat them by mistake and suffer."<br><br> What Senior had just said to him rang a bell for Junior. Was he talking about the plastic bags people used to bring back groceries from the stores?<br><br> "The sea water nowadays is not like it used to be before. It is filthy and makes the fish become sick. It's all because of the humans dumping poisons in the water. The tiniest fish eat the toxins, tiny fish eat them, small fish eat the tiny fish, a little bigger fish eat the small fish, bigger fish eat less bigger fish ... The strange thing is the toxins don't go away. On the contrary, they get more and more toxic.<br>They get stronger as they pass through the fishes' bodies. More and more fish get sick and die because of those poisons. We, the biggest ones, who live on fish suffer a lot. Some of my friends have died from mysterious diseases. Many more are probably dying because of the wastes the humans dump. When you eat fish, Junior, you'd better be careful about what part of the fish you are eating ... Ha, ha, ha ..."<br><br> Senior was getting ill-tempered, Junior thought. If what the whale had said was true, he thought to himself, that would be no laughing matter.<br><br>Sounding more normal, Senior added, "The humans treat the sea as a dumping site. It's deplorable ..."</b></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieDqJG4nnsFDXUU5VE7UZ69ouefEQavwgT3cQ_Oi89XMWtWLuo8VJ5ba9pjJZ-Rhk5wDElYdUVnQYczqTFTXVPS-ZOHupGpiEk5ZdNMwY5WUKe_jWFCMgID2WyQAMoGBEsD2ZIYvZFkoU/s640/blogger-image--1399902971.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieDqJG4nnsFDXUU5VE7UZ69ouefEQavwgT3cQ_Oi89XMWtWLuo8VJ5ba9pjJZ-Rhk5wDElYdUVnQYczqTFTXVPS-ZOHupGpiEk5ZdNMwY5WUKe_jWFCMgID2WyQAMoGBEsD2ZIYvZFkoU/s640/blogger-image--1399902971.jpg" id="id_56ed_1506_e68_4fb7" style="width: 924px; height: auto;"></a></div></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b>Junior was sunk in deep thought. His memory of the past began to return to him. The humans he had lived with had a comfortable house and fed him delicious food. <br>He thought his life would have been harder without relying on them. Without them, he would have spent lots of time looking for food himself. If he were lucky, he could have found enough for a day or two, but, he wondered if he could have found enough day after day without going hungry all the time. <br>There were rain storms and bitter cold days outside. It would be terribly miserable, he thought, if he had had to live outside. He dared not live outside his humans' house.<br><br> What he did not understand was how the humans were able to live in such nice houses and with plenty of food. They had transformed the whole town into a wonderful place to live and had made it look very pretty.<br>They rode in mobile machines, and used tools run by electric power.<br>How did they accomplish those things? He could not understand it at all.<br><br> Anyway, they were smart creatures, he thought, though they usually behaved as if they were kings, the masters of the universe. They were quite different and not like whales in any way. He did not understand. If what Senior had said was true, why were the humans, who were so smart, causing so many problems for the fish and whales?<br><br> Senior, meanwhile, seemed to be having the same train of thought.</b></font></span><br></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi03WoPKTMJJQK5up6Ckx7_UV5vODAbya6ScVPtWztFgLmVgOdg_zlGM-_4UNjveRLfDplY9X6m69hizfRunzhKkk69TkWOJPhnzct9A_1b0wRlP_vQ8lK6AGQ7xrC3HEwQS6bbFuK6nhY/s640/blogger-image--1288748641.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi03WoPKTMJJQK5up6Ckx7_UV5vODAbya6ScVPtWztFgLmVgOdg_zlGM-_4UNjveRLfDplY9X6m69hizfRunzhKkk69TkWOJPhnzct9A_1b0wRlP_vQ8lK6AGQ7xrC3HEwQS6bbFuK6nhY/s640/blogger-image--1288748641.jpg" id="id_34cc_7148_fe5f_b052" style="width: 917px; height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b> "Didn't it ever occur to the humans," Senior blurted out, " if they become too greedy catching too many fish, or if they dump waste in the sea, it's themselves that will suffer in the end because there will be no more fish left for them? I wonder if they have more brains than we do."<br><br> Woods had been cut down, mountains flattened out, and more and more houses and buildings were being built everywhere. All problems a growing number of humans were creating, Junior thought. The humans were acting like reckless tigers not only on the land, but also in the sea.<br><br> "I wish the humans would pay more respect to other creatures," Senior said. "While travelling to and from the sea in the south, I can feel something is changing every year. I have seen many bays and coastal wetlands being reclaimed and new land being made, pushing out into the sea. Near the coasts, some fish lay eggs. There fish are born and grow up. The coastal sea is precious to all of us living in the sea, including deep sea fish. Whales used to play in the bays with their babies. The bays are no longer like the ones I used to know. It seems they are now off limits to us."<br><br> "I wonder where the life of whales began, on land or in the sea? What I do know is that the whale used to be a land animal and came into the sea. So we are connected to both land and sea. Anyway, the ocean is precious to us. I wish the humans would take good care of it ..."</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYCi22FuzBH7pCiwH4b50CrLRDJ6HrS-BhMfKG0he4Or83Aj6VEnFMFDG4HyMzS1cS_PLDlIXA2X00HW_QOhXsJppw1Uv3O8l7LKrjtXjeQlUzz8p-sSCz_9XEJFMT1x_CWECDqlJ2sYg/s640/blogger-image--1692514333.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYCi22FuzBH7pCiwH4b50CrLRDJ6HrS-BhMfKG0he4Or83Aj6VEnFMFDG4HyMzS1cS_PLDlIXA2X00HW_QOhXsJppw1Uv3O8l7LKrjtXjeQlUzz8p-sSCz_9XEJFMT1x_CWECDqlJ2sYg/s640/blogger-image--1692514333.jpg" id="id_d4e7_b2e7_3ee8_41b2" style="width: 926px; height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b>Senior became agitated. "Once in a while I come across a strange ship, not like a whale ship. It moves under the water and stays submerged for a long time. It has strange screws that make groaning noises. I have seen ships like this several times. It is rumored that they are destroyers, engaged in killing other ships. Some of them look like us, and some whales mistook them for our friends, went too close to them, and got killed."<br><br> Besides these ships, you can see many other kinds of ships lying on the sea floor. They are dead ships. It is said they are haunted. They are not a place to play inside ..."<br><br> Junior recalled that he had seen a war movie on television. The ship Senior had just talked about, he thought, was perhaps the submarine used to fight the war in the movie he saw. <br><span lang="EN-US">He did not understand wars anyway. </span>It was cruel things in which innocent people and all creatures were killed in droves. In contrast, he thought, the whales were peace-loving creatures. They liked to sing and jump instead of fighting. The humans were strange animals, Junior said to himself.</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghor_8e9M7yNR4KLA0ftB6muaqzYVukzNKRHfzBriLALo14hW-Tos60EYegamEX_4XEs9nGbvritfBTCt6-XE5usYkdy_S11AkN8njjvUNSY5ART084NSneQLWSKgEi7E1vnZGEBOgq4M/s640/blogger-image--1897266573.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghor_8e9M7yNR4KLA0ftB6muaqzYVukzNKRHfzBriLALo14hW-Tos60EYegamEX_4XEs9nGbvritfBTCt6-XE5usYkdy_S11AkN8njjvUNSY5ART084NSneQLWSKgEi7E1vnZGEBOgq4M/s640/blogger-image--1897266573.jpg" id="id_192c_b9ba_1f50_8b65" style="width: 921px; height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b> "We're going to part soon," Senior said, his voice feeble and trembling, "My time is drawing near. If I am destined to die, I don't want to die in a miserable condition like this, being bound by a net."<br><br> Hearing that, Junior again felt sorry for him -- and worried about himself, too. If Senior were to die in the sea, he would be drowned and die also. Junior shed tears, which trickled down from his eyes to his whiskers.<br><br> "Oh, don't cry like that, Junior. Your body will run out of water."<br><br> Junior tried to regain control, and said with a forced cheerfulness, "Senior, don't you cry when you are sad?" <br><br> "Have you seen me cry?" Senior retorted. "What is the difference between your salty tears and the salty sea?"<br><br> "Is that so?" said Junior.<br><br> "Don't worry too much ... I'll carry you near the shore."<br><br> The moment he said that, Senior flung his tail fins as hard as he could. Junior was startled and held tightly on to the whale's back.<br>The water swirled and white foam formed on the waves. <br>Senior turned his direction toward the land and headed for the horizon studded with dim lights.<br><br> A short while later, he stopped and said to Junior. "Junior, you can get off me now. The tide of warm current will carry you to the shore safely."<br><br> It was getting dark now, and though some lights were visible, Junior could not clearly tell the boundary between the land and sea. <br>He knew, however, he would reach the land if he went toward the lights that perhaps were coming from some town.</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9cMRcM9o6GPbp7LfMYodEOxNag1PubqZ0q053Qq_nX4XcKG_zhZsPaudR8rGRqXxP1MT3Mh2lP8YN_INqWhl5ivQVIpWeJKnKwb_4f1nM3sXBhqJSS37RFHEyjiPjlukMxvpKiwHc-LA/s640/blogger-image--1398054601.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9cMRcM9o6GPbp7LfMYodEOxNag1PubqZ0q053Qq_nX4XcKG_zhZsPaudR8rGRqXxP1MT3Mh2lP8YN_INqWhl5ivQVIpWeJKnKwb_4f1nM3sXBhqJSS37RFHEyjiPjlukMxvpKiwHc-LA/s640/blogger-image--1398054601.jpg" id="id_a1a5_d0fe_399d_b730" style="width: 916px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></span></div></span></span></span></span></span><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Land animals should live and die on the land when their day comes," Senior said in a grave yet feeble voice.<br><br> "Then you are going to die on land, too?"<br><br> "No, we whales don't come out of the water and die on the land!" <br>"But wait a second. Some whales were washed ashore and died there. A legend says that when a whale died on land -- that was at a time when the humans did not yet possess supernatural powers -- humans held a festive ceremony. They were thankful and prayed to the God of the sea, to the God of the human beings, and to the God of the Whales.<br>The meat of the dead whale was dedicated to the deities, and then the pieces of the meat were given to the people of the village. Nothing else was wasted including the blubber, fins, and bones. All were useful to the villagers."<br><br> Senior fell into a deep silence.<br><br> Junior anxiously waited. A long time passed and no words were heard from the whale. He wondered whether Senior had passed on.<br>He opened his mouth out of concern.<br><br> "Senior ..."</span><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></b></font></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3TFI-o-nITBzY6ueSEGl4aa7Lrsxyc9DpEL_gdZNrx9Z7LQXSO4NTR0-1e0_4MmAtn8pb1KmU8UIjyvRFP2dVhMJDY3X5b-UID7n8I6o12arYoMACMsj1kBq2FVYOF4HXE5ufJVmhxE4/s640/blogger-image--104019853.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3TFI-o-nITBzY6ueSEGl4aa7Lrsxyc9DpEL_gdZNrx9Z7LQXSO4NTR0-1e0_4MmAtn8pb1KmU8UIjyvRFP2dVhMJDY3X5b-UID7n8I6o12arYoMACMsj1kBq2FVYOF4HXE5ufJVmhxE4/s640/blogger-image--104019853.jpg" id="id_fb2f_e16f_a90f_2d80" style="width: 918px; height: auto;"></a></div></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br> <font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b> "To think of it ..." Senior opened his mouth, his voice heavy and grave. It seemed as if he had found the solution to the riddle of human beings hard to crack.<br><br> "To think of it, the humans nowadays are no longer content with what they have been given by the Gods. "They are no longer satisfied with their own gifts, and are stepping out of the bounds of the roles assigned to them. They want more and more ... more spacious and comfortable housing, more delicious food and drinks they have never tasted before. They want tools that help them to get those things.<br>With no regard to other species they have modified the nature of the earth".<br><br> "They ignore the other beings living on the earth, not only us whales, but also the fishes, birds, insects, and other animals.<br>The rivers, mountains, water, sea and sky -- everything had been given equally to all the creatures. All the gods had agreed with each other as to how much to give each of the creatures. The peace has been held for a long time on this beautiful planet ... but now the humans are ignoring the rules of the Gods -- live and let live in peace. They have lost the belief in what they had pledged. The gods will soon turn their backs on the humans and leave them alone."<br><br> Junior listened to the whale attentively.</b></font></span><br style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); font-family: -webkit-standard; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqiDive__RHeiR8qXAb7s7QistwO3PES_6Gg7KARyZ8b70WyuiZY_OuP_iYzv4TinRDoVmOAR07nBIBLHOz6Flnye6UUREqV4ueB2GNYEhezLcsAvphQqPaHLT58zwLYVSN7fgRvXQ_Ec/s640/blogger-image-781267683.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqiDive__RHeiR8qXAb7s7QistwO3PES_6Gg7KARyZ8b70WyuiZY_OuP_iYzv4TinRDoVmOAR07nBIBLHOz6Flnye6UUREqV4ueB2GNYEhezLcsAvphQqPaHLT58zwLYVSN7fgRvXQ_Ec/s640/blogger-image-781267683.jpg" id="id_9bfb_fb49_e483_dd73" style="width: 916px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b> "I wouldn't mind being eaten by the humans if I could be useful to them. Rather, I would be glad to sacrifice myself to them. Every creature in one way or another should contribute to some useful cause."<br><br> "I have a favor to ask you, Junior. I want you to do one thing when you arrive on the land. Please have a bite of my meat and prove to the others that I did not die a worthless death. It would make me more than happy to know that I would be of some help to others' living."<br><br> Junior was aghast by what Senior had just said. How could he eat the meat, even a piece, of the friendly whale he had come to know ... even if he was not alive? It was true, though, that he had wished to try whale meat. However, Senior appeared not to be joking this time.</b></font></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZx0Klkz7bAMDv_8Ckiv8b-dqDNhKqdZeXZ7vryQcO04pvwZLUs7X_eUzybf4lsEI23NbwrLLvynDx4DiWnMfychvS2iS-reBXBrnIVm6K8DjZmqGaAqJuASuBqvaP_kd41IOyZ8dERy4/s640/blogger-image--1952560874.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZx0Klkz7bAMDv_8Ckiv8b-dqDNhKqdZeXZ7vryQcO04pvwZLUs7X_eUzybf4lsEI23NbwrLLvynDx4DiWnMfychvS2iS-reBXBrnIVm6K8DjZmqGaAqJuASuBqvaP_kd41IOyZ8dERy4/s640/blogger-image--1952560874.jpg" id="id_2787_3b57_1f82_9d4e" style="width: 913px; height: auto;"></a></div></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br> <font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b> Night came and a cold wind started to blow. Junior curled up in a tight ball to keep himself warm.<br><br> Senior said to him: "You must be tired. Go to sleep. I'll sing a lullaby for you. It is a song my Mother used to sing for me when I was young. I remember it vividly even now."<br><br> "Do you know how we grow up? It may be interesting for you to know.<br>A mother whale gives birth to a single baby at a time. She feeds him or her with her milk. It takes many years for a whale to grow up. While they are growing, their mothers take good care of them. They teach their youngsters many skills and everything they need to know to live in the sea. Meanwhile, the youngsters are very close to their mothers, and depend on them a lot. Mothers often sing lullabies to their babies." <br><br> Junior closed his eyes and lay his head down on Senior's back. He could hear Senior's heart ticking at regular intervals like a clock. The heartbeats were much slower than his own. He felt safe and happy. It reminded him of his infant days when he used to sleep next to his mother.<br><br> The sky was clear and the sea still. The light from the Milky Way and some bright stars were reflected on the sea's surface. Junior started to fall asleep while listening to the song Senior was singing for him.</b></font></span><br style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); font-family: -webkit-standard;"></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY6WQMDj7UWqKDiquEJcjUi483ZNLbQ0siWYQwDeRasWHxDvBgYH-pi-5pX86IYPCRA8nkbUet2mbLUZqVFFa1bFpDyTPok0KoM4tbukQ6Zzsgk5P4znws18CrO4RHxbH7_ht5ppNLAro/s640/blogger-image-186128258.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The sea is full of treasures, filled with</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">joy, pleasure and beauty.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It sometimes shows its angry face, yet</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">it is a wonderful place to live.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Listen to the melody of the sea, and</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You'll feel happy and peaceful.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You will know how wonderful it is to be alive.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This world of the sea belongs to all of us.</span></div></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It awaits you day in, day out</span></div></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After tonight's hardships, the sun will rise in glory tomorrow morning</span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The adventurer from the land, and the best swimmer in the sea:</span></div></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sleep well, and you both will have a beautiful day tomorrow.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></span></b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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He found himself still on Senior's back.<br>He did not see the vast sea and rolling waves. There was a shore of white sand in front of him. In the east, the sky, a little reddish, showed the sun was about to rise.<br><br> "Senior, we are on the shore at last. Thank you, thank you, I don't know how to thank you for saving my life."<br><br> There was no reply from the whale. Junior jumped up and down on his back in an attempt to wake him up and he yelled, but the whale lay still and did not move an inch. No longer breathing, his body stayed motionless. He would no longer sing beautiful songs, jump up and down in the waves, or swim in the ocean.<br><br> On the sand Junior sat beside Senior, a large still body now. He was speechless from grief. Though he had spent only one day with him, it seemed as if he had known him for many years, and he started to cry remembering his friend. He kissed Senior's body. It tasted of tears and salty water.</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ROJSx_sta4ZPAzV-k9NROZof9XU2hrJT7KREZ6mD_L1URUUV2lnaOQpaf_q7VnkRVgIViwc5ApxpPgZKvdTIC3019vYR7N6cuD2t0NJ79M5F4ixdc2OlOiVQbScdXc6GcfuJfo5JJ78/s640/blogger-image-1698247128.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ROJSx_sta4ZPAzV-k9NROZof9XU2hrJT7KREZ6mD_L1URUUV2lnaOQpaf_q7VnkRVgIViwc5ApxpPgZKvdTIC3019vYR7N6cuD2t0NJ79M5F4ixdc2OlOiVQbScdXc6GcfuJfo5JJ78/s640/blogger-image-1698247128.jpg" id="id_e7c2_f7c_118e_65f5" style="width: 921px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b>A ray of sun peeked over the horizon. A moment later, more light appeared. The sun began to rise up from the sea. The sky turned from black to purple to red to light blue as the day broke gradually. A panoramic view unfolded.<br><br> Then the unimaginable happened: A giant whale leapt out of the sea into the sky, and rose higher and higher toward the heavens.<br>The water splashed and sparkled with light from the just risen sun. The light from the sun reflected on the whale in a prism of colors.<br>How could he forget this unworldly scene, Junior thought. It was an absolutely unparalleled experience!<br><br> The sky became brighter, and Senior's spirit was now nowhere to be seen in the sky. Where in the world did Senior's spirit go, Junior wondered. He must have set forth for a long journey that is far beyond the vast sea and the blue sky. His spirit must have reached a paradise like the ice-filled Antarctic sea, where he could play with many of his friends from the past. <br>Where else he could be other than in a blissful paradise like that, Junior mused.</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidIakCXK0muM_0lGdBZn7zV-mbE8ObcbE5alinP0vJT-1JafOtqUeE1Q9sBGi481cKaerbU_Ur8R_6mIUC-bqQOfv919WhoDBJiIaIM4-iZfDvvZtKxefPUnLzEeVtOZU0v91XwuWO1R8/s640/blogger-image--2126415682.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidIakCXK0muM_0lGdBZn7zV-mbE8ObcbE5alinP0vJT-1JafOtqUeE1Q9sBGi481cKaerbU_Ur8R_6mIUC-bqQOfv919WhoDBJiIaIM4-iZfDvvZtKxefPUnLzEeVtOZU0v91XwuWO1R8/s640/blogger-image--2126415682.jpg" id="id_9c4d_3d4_843_bb3d" style="width: 920px; height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial" color="#0000b8"><b>Soon Junior found his way back home.<br><br> After the day of his encounter with Senior, he stopped eating meat from cans and tried his best to catch food by himself. At any rate, he was endowed with his own legs, paws, claws, and fangs, which were given him by the God of the cats for hunting purposes.<br><br> He yearned to see Senior again and chat with him: he wished to see him jump in midair from the sea and to listen to his enchanting melodies. And above all, he wished to hear more of Senior's stories again that he had enjoyed so much on that magic day and night not long ago.</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial" color="#0000b8"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="6" color="#0000b8"><b><u>END</u></b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#0000b8"><br></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-right; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial Narrow" color="#0000b8"><b>Translated by Tad Iwanaga</b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-right; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div style="text-align: start;"><font size="4" face="Arial Narrow" color="#0000b8"><b>Revised by Nora Iwanaga</b></font></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); clear: both;"><br></div><br></div><br></span></div> <a href="http://www.kkneko.com/english/index.htm" id="id_fb16_d8ee_3e91_18f4"><font size="5" face="Arial"><b><font color="#0000b8">BY Kamekujiraneko </font></b></font>http://www.kkneko.com/english/index.htm</a><font color="#0000b8" face="Arial" size="5"><b> </b></font></div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgONkLmTbZldNp9aYb-6xU0eDw5yhpjRkffuK5aIBZxIuKkpOFOobzFBRpenwSIgnmEoPXQBR7-bXW9aplilY8A4CZ1rL1geI9EPiLBM0Gv9If__kSawVZ4seC_SwGV1Q0Gv6qd2KBpIRw/s640/blogger-image-143224575.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgONkLmTbZldNp9aYb-6xU0eDw5yhpjRkffuK5aIBZxIuKkpOFOobzFBRpenwSIgnmEoPXQBR7-bXW9aplilY8A4CZ1rL1geI9EPiLBM0Gv9If__kSawVZ4seC_SwGV1Q0Gv6qd2KBpIRw/s640/blogger-image-143224575.jpg" id="id_ae5d_ddb2_8f36_a251" style="width: 587px; height: auto;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;"><a href="http://youtu.be/bW9fOEJ0vEs">http://youtu.be/bW9fOEJ0vEs</a></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;"><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: start; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><b><font color="#248f24" style="font-size: xx-large;"> </font><font size="5">Please visit this page </font><font color="#248f24" style="font-size: xx-large;">Dirty Fishing" Emptying Oceans </font><font size="6">+ Petition</font></b></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-align: start; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> <a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2016/03/dirty-fishing-emptying-oceans.html" id="id_506e_2298_b2f9_89cc">http://www.littlecrows.com/2016/03/dirty-fishing-emptying-oceans.html</a></div></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;"><br><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bW9fOEJ0vEs" width="976" height="549" id="y_id_98d2_bd13_1565_34d5" frameborder="0"></iframe><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both;"><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: start;"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Georgia">Whales arrived on land about 50 million years ago. Then, about 30 millions ago, they returned to the sea. This rapid evolution is mind boggling and to think they are living to this day is quite an extraordinary thought. Mankind has arrived 40-50 thousand years ago, but compared to whales, humans has significantly below the times of whales. </font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Georgia">Whales are a living fossil, and has lived thousands of years. It has owned the ocean ecosystem.</font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Georgia">The same as human beings have been living in the land, sea organisms have been living in the sea.</font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Georgia">Similar family life of people, education, joy, sadness and drama of the whales is not visible to humans because we treat them as a meat source. </font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Georgia">Animals and nature has increased people to notice and should not be destroyed by human beings. </font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Georgia">Wild animals is something to protect as well as the natural environment rather than treat it as human resources.</font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Georgia">Just because people say Dolphins and whales eat too much of their fish, it is not our decision to determine the population of these animals and attempt to control it.</font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Georgia">Nature is to be kept by the power of nature. It will balance by its self. Even if it increases in population, it will go back to normal. Before human appearance, it has always kept the earth populations under control.</font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Georgia">Whales obviously relies on the ocean for their food source. Humans should not forcefully take from the sea, claiming it is their own. People should share the seas with the whales and dolphins and take only what the sea allows. </font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Georgia"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Georgia"><br></font></span></div><div><b><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" size="4" face="Georgia">Whales and dolphins want to also live long as human beings, they want to fulfill their life.<br>That can be said for any creature.<br>Man takes the lives of animals, but even if they to eat while thanking the life they had taken, even if they try to use without waste, the bone and skin, I think humans are doing this to satisfy their lust. You do not change the fact that it is killed anyway. Animals were not raised to be eaten by humans. They should live and die near their own birthplace. Those whom eat animals and take their life, question "then it is ok to take the lives of the livestock?".<br><br>If possible, it would be amazing if we do not kill livestock. But where are these livestock born? They are a production of human selection. Humans are responsible to determine the purpose of the livestock, and the power is in their hands. If you eat livestock meat, it is important for them to live in harmony and in peace in which they were born in until they die. When they die, it is necessary for the humans to bear responsibility and the ability to end the life of the livestock peacefully. In Korean and Chinese culture, is it ok for them to eat cats and dogs? This is a bad thing, for they are not livestock, but a animal that coexists with humans since the past ages. But animals that helps human beings are considered as family. So therefore, they should not be killed because of their population increase. They are human creations, therefore they are the human's responsibility to take care of them well. <br>But wildlife is not in the hand of man. They were born to live in nature. For human beings that do not co-exist in nature is of the other side of the border of creatures.<br><br>For the people of Taiji, whale meat is a food of culture. Meat is consumed anywhere in any country but Japan is the reason that included whale meat in the food "pool".<br>A person who intends to interfere with it, they argue that mercury is contained in the meat in a large amount, or a risk of extinction, they will not be admitted to each other with a variety of reasons.<br>In the United States. it is reported in the news every time Taiji enforces the fishing.<br>Environmental protection is exposed in schools as well as nature conservation. Students were shown the "The Cove" in education of animal protection and to inform that Japan a whaling country.<br>Parents teach the mystical beauty of the whale to children.<br>Right now, people around the world are watching little fishing village of Taiji.<br>To determine whom are barbaric and lash out to the whaling and those whom do not, does not matter to the situation. <br>Japan is a developed country in advances of technology, but The concept of nature and animal protection have not advanced in the minds of Japan. <br>Many people think that any organism are a lower form of themselves. Non-intelligent and barbaric. <br>From digital, as age is changing from gasoline to electric analog, it should also change the food culture.<br>And because the age of hunting is now over in developed countries, leave the hunting and gathering to the indigenous people whom actually need this resource and sustain wildlife properly. </font></b></div><div><b><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" size="4" face="Georgia"><br></font></b></div></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Georgia">〜Keiko Olds〜</font></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Georgia"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Georgia"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZnKBaUIzAlUbxVYrdaCxbRu4oFyaNWUtj-vC9Vj9fFTGEJ69NPDAfO-uz3zwHerpWZ7q2vQOo6eJQy2w_6WTYwRa5ZPA040MakM_koqLUl03jHPPrqEKUCrF_YE45N6E01CmH2HlJfsk/s640/blogger-image--386415068.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZnKBaUIzAlUbxVYrdaCxbRu4oFyaNWUtj-vC9Vj9fFTGEJ69NPDAfO-uz3zwHerpWZ7q2vQOo6eJQy2w_6WTYwRa5ZPA040MakM_koqLUl03jHPPrqEKUCrF_YE45N6E01CmH2HlJfsk/s640/blogger-image--386415068.jpg" id="id_5fbc_b66e_c393_20ed" style="width: 640px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></font></span></div></div><br></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><span class='st_sharethis_large' displayText='ShareThis'></span>
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ThanksGivingDay Turkey</font></font></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2015/07/usa-world-traditional-killing-animal.html" id="id_784b_f174_d35d_974d">http://www.littlecrows.com/2015/07/usa-world-traditional-killing-animal.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><font size="4"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇲🇽</font></span><font face="Arial">Mexico : World Traditional Animal killing festival Kots Kaal Pato in Yucatán</font></font></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2015/07/mexico-world-animal-killing-festival.html" id="id_2892_325a_1c24_c42f">http://www.littlecrows.com/2015/07/mexico-world-animal-killing-festival.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><font size="4"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇪🇸</font></span><font face="Arial">SPAIN : World Traditional Animal Killing Festivals Bullfights</font></font></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2015/07/spain-world-traditional-animal-killer.html" id="id_1bed_4ef7_af03_503">http://www.littlecrows.com/2015/07/spain-world-traditional-animal-killer.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><font size="4"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🎪 </font></span><font face="Arial">#FreeBaliDolphins Bogus ‘Rescue’ Behind Cruel Dolphin Circuses</font></font></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2015/01/freebalidolphins.html" id="id_c07d_1299_b973_5d2f">http://www.littlecrows.com/2015/01/freebalidolphins.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><font size="4"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇷🇴</font></span><font face="Arial">ROMANIA !! Stop Killing Dog!!!</font></font></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/12/romania-dog-stop-killing.html" id="id_5d32_29b_f2aa_7549">http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/12/romania-dog-stop-killing.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇺🇸</font></b><b><font face="Arial">Help Save 10 Dolphins From Captivity in Las Vegas Mirage Hotel Swimming Pools</font></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/07/help-save-10-dolphins-from-captivity-in.html" id="id_e8bb_3e91_4d81_351b">http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/07/help-save-10-dolphins-from-captivity-in.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><font size="4"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇦🇺</font></span><font face="Arial">STOP KILLING WESTERN AUSTRALIAN SHARKS</font></font></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/04/stop-killing-of-western-australian.html" id="id_a648_a8fe_1103_6eeb">http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/04/stop-killing-of-western-australian.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇫🇷</font></span>BAN FOIE GRAS:WORLD NO.1 GORGEOUS AND HORRIBLE FOOD</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/04/ban-foie-grasworld-no1-gorgeous-and_7.html" id="id_86c9_16f9_a8a1_2334">http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/04/ban-foie-grasworld-no1-gorgeous-and_7.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇩🇰</font></span>DANISH ZOOKEEPERS KILL HEALTHY BABY GIRAFFE, THEN FEED TO THE LIONS</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/02/petition-danish-zookeepers-kill-healthy_28.html" id="id_a83d_fa5c_1165_eb55">http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/02/petition-danish-zookeepers-kill-healthy_28.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇨🇦</font></span>CANADA STOP SEAL HUNT!</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/03/petition-canada-stop-seal-hunt.html" id="id_45f7_f2ee_7af7_430e">http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/03/petition-canada-stop-seal-hunt.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font face="Arial" size="4"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇦🇷</font></span>ARTURO, ARGENTINA'S DEPRESSSED POLAR BEAR, HOPE GO TO CANADA</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/07/arturo-argentina-depresssed-polar-bear.html" id="id_c138_aa74_e584_1382">http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/07/arturo-argentina-depresssed-polar-bear.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇺🇸</font></span>HELP DEFEND WILD HORSES AGAINST LEGAL ASSAULT SEEKING THEIR SLAUGHTER( by:AWHPC )</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/02/many-petition-help-defend-wild-horses.html" id="id_e35c_4dcc_ca11_c7a8">http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/02/many-petition-help-defend-wild-horses.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇺🇸</font></span>NRDC vs. U.S.NAVY HELP STOP THE NAVY’S ASSAULT ON WHALES!</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/02/yes-or-no-help-stop-navys-assault-on.html" id="id_725a_417f_c392_79b7">http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/02/yes-or-no-help-stop-navys-assault-on.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇮🇳</font></span>VICTORY!! FREE SUNDER INDIAN ELEPHANT</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/02/free-sunder-indian-elephantpetition.html" id="id_f954_c9fe_7753_ba02">http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/02/free-sunder-indian-elephantpetition.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇺🇸🇩🇪🇬🇧</font></span>Hunting fox Ireland, Germany, England and U.S.A.</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/02/stop-hunting-fox-ireland-and-world.html" id="id_5422_c34d_a3b4_98bb">http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/02/stop-hunting-fox-ireland-and-world.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇺🇸</font></span>YES OR NO? NY HORSE CARRIAGES.</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/02/nyc-horse-drawn-carriage-cruelty.html" id="id_21ee_c929_d89f_ea2">http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/02/nyc-horse-drawn-carriage-cruelty.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇷🇺</font></span>SOCHI poisoning stray dogs before Olympics and Danish zookeepers kill healthy baby giraffe</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/02/petition-sochi-poisoning-stray-dogs.html" id="id_1c2b_912c_69d8_d6b8">http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/02/petition-sochi-poisoning-stray-dogs.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇦🇺</font></span>BAN ANIMAL LIVE EXPORT and STOP HORRIBLE SLAUGHTER AND SACRIFICE OF ANIMAL</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/02/ban-animal-live-export-and-stop_8.html" id="id_6610_8f31_f4d4_b399">http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/02/ban-animal-live-export-and-stop_8.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇯🇵</font>PETITION/FOR THE DEER IN MIYAJIMA,TO RESTORE THR HEALTH OD THE MOUNTAIN,TO CONTROL THEBIRTH OF DEER, AND AVOID FROM STARVING THEM, PLEASE PROTECT THEM.</font></span></h3></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/07/petitioning-hiroshima-miyajima.html" id="id_42d_d0bf_e2c2_e33d">http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/07/petitioning-hiroshima-miyajima.html</a></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇫🇷</font>BAN FOIE GRAS:WORLD NO.1 GORGEOUS AND HORRIBLE</font></span></h3></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/04/ban-foie-grasworld-no1-gorgeous-and_7.html" id="id_d389_219a_d08f_dd70">http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/04/ban-foie-grasworld-no1-gorgeous-and_7.html</a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇺🇸</font>USA FUR FARMING LIST(Opossum, Raccoon, Mink, Red & Gray Fox, Beaver, Muskrat, Badger, River Otter and Weasels,mink and fox)</font></span></h3><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/06/elmore-farm-1400-hwy-96-w-ar-72944.html" id="id_bf3d_a960_71ee_99b9">http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/06/elmore-farm-1400-hwy-96-w-ar-72944.html</a></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; margin: 0px; position: relative; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🌎</font>STOP FUR. NO MORE KILL ANIMAL TO FASHION</font></span></h3><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/06/stop-fur-no-more-kill-animal-to-fashion.html" id="id_447a_545f_bca0_526a">http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/06/stop-fur-no-more-kill-animal-to-fashion.html</a></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><br></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;" color="#b2b200">▶︎🇺🇸</font><font size="4" face="Arial">SAVE and PROTECT THE WOLVES. STOP WOLF HUNTING</font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/06/save-and-protect-wolves-stop-wolf.html" id="id_3081_8edd_84bd_6a54">http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/06/save-and-protect-wolves-stop-wolf.html</a></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; margin: 0px; position: relative; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇺🇸</font>SAVE, PROTECTION WOLVES!!</font></span></h3><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/06/many-petitionsave-protection-wolves.html" id="id_53d5_2538_1a7f_c118">http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/06/many-petitionsave-protection-wolves.html</a></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; margin: 0px; position: relative; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🌎</font>PROTECT SEA TURTLE +ART</font></span></h3><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/06/protect-sea-turtle-art.html" id="id_43d0_4c7e_82a3_1193">http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/06/protect-sea-turtle-art.html</a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">▶︎🌎</font><font face="Arial">END TO BRUTAL SHARK FINNING</font></span></h3></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/05/sharks-and-jellyfish.html" id="id_e2c8_9eb7_779_819e">http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/05/sharks-and-jellyfish.html</a></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇪🇬</font>A 10,000 YEAR HISTORY OF Domestic/Farm Animal / Stop Factry Farm</font></span></h3><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 17px;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/06/a-10000-year-history-of-domesticfarm.html" id="id_f2e7_f239_8c1_89ac">http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/06/a-10000-year-history-of-domesticfarm.html</a></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 17px;">Japanese日本語 ▶︎ <a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/06/blog-post.html" id="id_be75_a74c_1c3d_ff36">http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/06/blog-post.html</a></div></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇺🇸</font>STOP WOLF HUNT Adelheid Adelliam</font></span></h3></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 17px;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/05/stop-wolf-hunt-adelheid-adelliam.html" id="id_f201_4b11_c383_908b">http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/05/stop-wolf-hunt-adelheid-adelliam.html</a></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 17px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 17px;"><br></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="6" color="#ffffff" style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" face="Arial"><b> CHINA, KOREA </b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇨🇳</font></span>China : World Traditional Animal Killing. BEAR BILE FARMING</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2015/07/china-world-traditional-animal.html" id="id_b290_f29e_bc71_a102">http://www.littlecrows.com/2015/07/china-world-traditional-animal.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇨🇳</font></span>#StopYulin2016 Dog and Cat Meat Festival - 停止榆林狗與貓肉節2016</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2015/06/stopyulin2015-dog-and-cat-meat-festival_82.html" id="id_cc36_ec28_872d_7c08">http://www.littlecrows.com/2015/06/stopyulin2015-dog-and-cat-meat-festival_82.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇯🇵🇨🇳🇰🇷</font></span>STOP HORRIBLE SLAUGHTER SACRIFICE OF ANIMAL JAPAN DPLPHIN SOUTH KORIA CHINA</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/02/stop-horrible-slaughter-sacrifice-of.html" id="id_f466_cbfc_1c8a_f301">http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/02/stop-horrible-slaughter-sacrifice-of.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="6" face="Arial" color="#ffffff"><b style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> WHALE & DOLPHIN HUNT OF JAPAN </b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇯🇵</font><font color="#454545">PICTURE BOOK - A CAT WISH TO EAT WHALE MEAT - Talking about Whaling BY Kamekujiraneko </font></font></span></h3></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; line-height: normal;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> 英語版 / クジラをたべたかったネコ </span></font></h3></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2016/03/picture-book-cat-wish-to-eat-whale-meat.html" id="id_bf9c_c3bc_9cb2_ab47">http://www.littlecrows.com/2016/03/picture-book-cat-wish-to-eat-whale-meat.html</a></div></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇯🇵</font></span><font size="4"><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ク</span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ジラをたべたかったネコ 作: カメクジラネコ (捕鯨の話) </span></font></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Japanese version / </span><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">PICTURE BOOK - A CAT WISH TO EAT WHALE MEAT</span></font></h3></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2016/03/blog-post.html" id="id_6743_e89d_bdaf_d6e0">http://www.littlecrows.com/2016/03/blog-post.html</a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇯🇵</font></span>Watch Video and Read Story "Ties of the dolphins" by Satoshi Komiyama of Flippers Japan E/J Bilingual #Taiji</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2015/03/blog-post.html" id="id_2791_e83f_80f0_63ec">http://www.littlecrows.com/2015/03/blog-post.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇯🇵</font></span>Taiji, Japan and Kaikoura, New Zealand BY SHAUN O'DWYER 日本語付き</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2015/02/taiji-japan-vs-kaikoura-new-zealand.html" id="id_1ab6_f46e_3714_4745">http://www.littlecrows.com/2015/02/taiji-japan-vs-kaikoura-new-zealand.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇮🇳</font>#FreeBaliDolphins Bogus ‘Rescue’ Behind Cruel Dolphin Circuses</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2015/01/freebalidolphins.html" id="id_2bf9_fa7_c824_cf67">http://www.littlecrows.com/2015/01/freebalidolphins.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇯🇵</font></span><u><i>Part 1.Let's Defend Together. Whales Remain in Nature.Dolphin Remain Free. </i></u></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b> ❶Taiji, Whale:Message to the World from Japanese Activist【E/J Bilingual】 </b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/10/taiji-blog.html" id="id_1b05_cc9_d210_d0a">http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/10/taiji-blog.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇯🇵</font></span><i><u>Part 2. Let's Defend Together. Whales Remain in Nature. Dolphin Remain. </u></i></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b> ❷Activist of World. What they has to say. Wakayama prefecture Senator and Mayyor of TAIJI【E/J Bilingual】</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/11/part-2-whales-remain-in-nature-dolphin.html" id="id_9109_df60_137d_a671">http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/11/part-2-whales-remain-in-nature-dolphin.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇯🇵</font></span><u><i>Part 3. <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Let's Defend Together. Whales Remain in Nature. Dolphin Remain.</span></i></u></b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span>To Taiji dolphin activists, a message to you.</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b> ❸Taiji, Whale:We don't need anymore Dolphins show, Aquarium. Message to the World from Japanese Act.</b></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/11/part-3-let-defend-together-whales.html" id="id_3862_47c7_f651_2c2">http://www.littlecrows.com/2014/11/part-3-let-defend-together-whales.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b2b200">▶︎🇯🇵</font></span>"THE COVE" Full Movie"The Cove"Japanese Dubbing version. 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<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Syria’s civil war is the worst humanitarian crisis of our time: now in its fourth year, it has cost over 200,000 lives, while at least 7.6 million people are internally displaced and another 4 million have become refugees in other countries, half of them under the age of 18. They are fleeing the fighting between government and disparate non-state armed groups that continues to rage across the country.</b></span></span></address>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">Syria has a rich history, going back thousands of years; in fact archaeologists believe the country was home to one of the most ancient civilizations on earth. Subsequently the area known as Syria has been taken over by many ancient empires, including the Egyptians, Sumerians, Phoenicians, Persians and the Greeks.</b></address>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>So Syria, just like its neighbors Iraq and Lebanon was a country created artificially by Britain and France. Also as in both of those countries, the western colonial powers created an ethnically divided society. About 70 percent of the population of Syria is Sunni, about 15 percent are Alawites (a Muslim sect with Shia links), and there are also several smaller groups, including ethnic Kurds and Christian Arabs.</b></span></span></address>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: normal;">◎ Parties to the conflict should abide by international human rights law (IHRL) and international humanitarian law (IHL), cease attacks on schools and hospitals, and end the use of explosive weapons with wide-area effects in populated areas.</span></b></div>
<span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">◎The UNSC and UN member states with influence in Syria should take immediate steps to hold accountable those responsible for breaches of IHRL and IHL.</span></b></span><br>
<span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">◎Transfers of arms and ammunition to parties which have used them to commit war crimes should be halted.</span></b></span><br>
<span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">◎UN agencies and NGOs should significantly scale-up protection activities inside Syria, particularly from neighbouring countries. </span></b></span><br>
<span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">◎Parties to the conflict should: facilitate humanitarian access to all parts of Syria; end attacks on humanitarian workers; and remove administrative barriers to aid, including Syrian government restrictions on travel </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">and working with Syrian organizations.</span></b><br>
<span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">◎Influential governments should press countries bordering Syria to facilitate cross-border aid delivery, including by streamlining administrative processes for aid agencies and maintaining timely access through border crossings. </span></b></span><br>
<span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">◎Donorsshouldfullyfundtheresponse and support international aid agencies to build the capacity of Syrian NGOs, </span></b></span><b style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">while also increasing funding to support refugees and poor local populations in countries neighbouring Syria. </span></b><br>
<span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">◎Wealthy countries should scale up resettlement and humanitarian admissions programmes to ensure that at least 5% of refugees are able to access protection outside the region in 2015.19</span></b></span><br>
<span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">◎Partiestotheconflictshouldendthe fighting and enter into meaningful, inclusive peace talks that respect the rights and aspirations of the Syrian people.</span></b></span><br>
<span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">◎The UNSC and governments with influence should put urgent emphasis on finding a political solution and support the efforts of the UN Special Envoy to secure a freeze in the fighting in the city of Aleppo. </span></b></span><br>
<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #0000b8; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;">Please Read More➡︎</span> </span></b><a href="http://www.savethechildren.org/atf/cf/{9def2ebe-10ae-432c-9bd0-df91d2eba74a}/FAILINGSYRIA_REPORT_MARCH2015.PDF" id="id_619_9f7_bef5_3aab">http://www.savethechildren.org/atf/cf/%7B9def2ebe-10ae-432c-9bd0-df91d2eba74a%7D/FAILING SYRIA_REPORT_MARCH2015.PDF</a><br>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: rgb(36 , 143 , 36);">Islam is the religion of mercy.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: rgb(36 , 143 , 36);">We must not animal torture.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: rgb(36 , 143 , 36);">Because this is the commandment of the Prophet Mohammed.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: rgb(36 , 143 , 36);">Our religion, a religion of compassion.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: rgb(36 , 143 , 36);">This is what is happening in Syria and Iraq, was killed by Shiite regime.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: rgb(36 , 143 , 36);">I do not know why there is murder of Muslims. We want peace and goodness.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: rgb(36 , 143 , 36);">Many children, women and elderly civilians have died.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: rgb(36 , 143 , 36);">Shiite Iran and manages these battles against Sunni Muslims.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: rgb(36 , 143 , 36);">Human rights did not stop this killing of Muslims.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: rgb(36 , 143 , 36);">نريدنا of the world that the stop this murder for our families.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: rgb(36 , 143 , 36);">Shiite Iran and manages these battles against Sunni Muslims.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: rgb(36 , 143 , 36);">Russia and Iran are involved in the murder of our families in Syria aircraft.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: rgb(36 , 143 , 36);">Because we are Muslims , the world is watching the killing that occurs and does not stop it.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: rgb(36 , 143 , 36);">Russia must stop the aircraft and the Army of Iran for the killing of our children and our mothers.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: rgb(36 , 143 , 36);">I hope that you deploy clips of innocent civilians who have been killed.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: rgb(36 , 143 , 36);">Thank you Kthira.ajb that peace prevails in my Arab for They are sad and hungry.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: rgb(36 , 143 , 36);">Because our children are being killed without guilt and this injustice and God does not like Criminals.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●31 January 2015</span> <b><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;">Kenji Goto</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"> Unknown (ISIL)</span> <span style="font-size: medium;">Japanese freelance video journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[4]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">●25 September 2014 Unidentified member of Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Raqqa<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> Name withheld for security reasons; date is reported date<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[5]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●10 September 2014</span><b><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;">Mohamed Al Qasim</span></b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Idlib</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Reporter for Syrian radio station Rozana</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[6]r</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●2 September 2014</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><b><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;">Steven Joel Sotloff</span> </b><span style="font-size: medium;">Unknown (ISIL)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">American freelance photographer</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[7]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●19 August 2014 </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>James Wright Foley</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span> <span style="font-size: medium;">Unknown (ISIL)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">American freelance photographer</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[8]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●27 May 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span> <span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Yara Abbas</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Homs (Dabaa airport)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Reporter for Syrian News Channel (al-Ikhbariyah)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[9]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●1 April 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span> <b><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;">Abdul Raheem Kour Hassan</span> </b><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Radio director for Watan FM</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[10]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●15 March 2013</span> <b><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;">Ahmed Khaled Shehadeh</span> </b><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus (Daraya)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Editor-in-chief at the newspaper Anab Balady</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●10 March 2013 </span><b><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;">Ghaith Abd al-Jawad</span> </b><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus</span> <span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist working for the Qaboun Media Center</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[11]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●10 March 2013</span> <b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b20000;">Amr Badir al-Deen</span> </span></b><span style="font-size: medium;">Junaid (aka Abu Ameer)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus</span> <span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist working for the Qaboun Media Center</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[12]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●3 March 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span> <b><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;">Walid Jamil Amira</span></b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus</span> <span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist working for the Jobar Media Center</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[13]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●25 February 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Wael Abdul Aziz</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Homs (Baba Amr)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●24 February 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Olivier Voisin</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Idlib Governor Ate (wounded in Syria and died in Turkey)</span> <span style="font-size: medium;">French freelance photographer; injured near Idlib, died in Turkey</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[14]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●19 February 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Adnan Abu Abdo</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Daraa</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●17 February 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mohamed Mohamed</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●17 February 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mohammed Saeed Al-Hamwi</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus (Qaboun)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●15 February 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><b><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;">Yousef Adel Bakri</span></b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Aleppo</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist with the Aleppo News Network</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●12 February 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Hamada Abdel-Salam Al-Khatib</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Homs</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●11 February 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Zaid Abu Obeida</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●6 February 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #b20000;">Mohammed Kurdi</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●3 February 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Abdul Latif Khalil Khuder</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●2 February 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Nabil Al-Nabulsi</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Daraa Izra</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●24 January 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mohamed Abd Al-Rahman</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Sports journalist for pro-government news website Syria News</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[15][16]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●18 January 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mohammed al-Masalmeh</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">, a.k.a. </span><b><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;">Mohamed al-Hourani<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Basri Al-Hariri</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;">, Daraa Governorate</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Al Jazeera TV reporter</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[17][18][19]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●18 January 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Amjed Al-Sayoufi</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Saqba (east of Damascus)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[16][19]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●18 January 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Hossein Al-Qadri</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Saqba (east of Damascus)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[16]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●17 January 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #b20000;">Yves Debay</span> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">(French Belgian)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Aleppo<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Assaut (French magazine) (founder and journalist)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[17][19][20]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●15 January 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Ahmed Assaad Al-Shahab</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Homs</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist who was executed in a beheading by Syrian forces</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[16][19]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●13 January 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Bassem Fawaz Al-Za'bi</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Tafas (near Deraa)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[16][19]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●4 January 2013</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Suhail Mahmoud Al-Ali</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus or Aleppo</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Addounia TV</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[21][21][22][23][24]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●22 December 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #b20000;">Haidar Smoudi</span> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">(also transliterated al-Sumudi)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Damascus<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[1][25]</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●13 December 2012 - 17 December 2012</span> <span style="color: rgb(178 , 0 , 0); font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Richard Engel </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Ma’arrat Misrin</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">NBC TV. American TV reporter, producer, camera operator, and two crew were abducted after an ambush and held captive for 5 days until rebels freed the team from the group of Syrian loyalists known Shabiha.</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[123]</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">●12 December 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><b>Anmar Yassin Mohammad</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Damascus (Mezzeh)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">pro-gov Syrian News Center</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">[26][27]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●6 December 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mohamed Khair Sheikh Qwaider</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Arbin (east of Damascus)</span> <span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●4 December 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Naji Assaad</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus (Tadamon)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Tishreen</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[28]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●30 November 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><b><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;">Marwan Hamid Charbaji</span></b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus (Daraya)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●29 November 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mohammad Koraytem</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus (Daraya)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●25 November 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mohamed al-Khal</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Deir ez-Zor</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Shaam News Network</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[29]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●21 November 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Basel Tawfiq Yussif</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus (Tadamon)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Journalist for Syria's Public Authority for Radio and Television (Syrian state TV)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[29][30][31]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●20 November 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Huzan Abdul Halim Mahmoud</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Al-Hasaka (Ras al-Ayn)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●19 November 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mohammed Al-Zaheer Al-Naim</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>i</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damasacus (Al-Bouaida)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●18 November 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mohammed Al-Khalid</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Aleppo</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Media activist executed by the Free Syria Army</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●17 November 2012</span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Abdullah Hassan Kaaka</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Unknown</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist tortured by the government</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●16 November 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mustafa Kerman</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Aleppo</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●5 November 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Samer Khrayshi</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Arbin (east of Damascus)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●2 November 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Hassan Haidar Al Sheikh</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> Hammoud<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Homs<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Citizen journalist<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[1]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●1 November 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mohammad Khalil Al-Wakaa</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Deir ez-Zor</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●23 October 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Anas Al-Ahmed</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Unknown</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1][32]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●20 October 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Omar Abdul Razik Lattouf</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> (uncle)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Aleppo<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Citizen journalist<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[1]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●20 October 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mohammed Jumaa Abdul Karim Lattouf</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> (nephew) Aleppo<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Citizen journalist [1]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●10 October 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mohammad Al-Ashram</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Deir ez-Zor</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Syrian News Channel (Al-Ikhbariyah TV)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[33]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●3 October 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(178 , 0 , 0); font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Mona Bakkour</span><span style="color: rgb(178 , 0 , 0); font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Aleppo</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> (Saadallah Al-Jabri Square)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thawra<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[1]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●2 October 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Ahmed Ali Saada</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus</span> <span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist and worked for the Syrian National Council</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●27 September 2012</span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mohamad Fayad Askar</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Deir ez-Zor (Al Kousour)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●26 September 2012</span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Abdul Aziz Ragheb Al-Sheikh</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Deir ez-Zor (Al Jabla)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist for Shaam News Network</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●19 September 2012 </span><span style="color: rgb(178 , 0 , 0); font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Abdul Kareem Al Okdah</span><span style="color: rgb(178 , 0 , 0); font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Hama</span> <span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist for Shaam News Network</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●9 September 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Tamer Al-Awam</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Aleppo</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Freelance filmmaker</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[34]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●6 September 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Anas Al-Abdullah</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●6 September 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Tahseen Al-Toum</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●6 September 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Nawaf Al-Hindi</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●4 September 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mohamed Badeer Al-Qasim</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Homs</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist who started a media center in Deir ez-Zor</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●22 August 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Maya Nasser</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Press TV (Iran)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[35]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●22 August 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Omar Hamed al Zanil</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> (also transliterated </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><b>Omar Al Hamed Al-Zamel</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Al-Hirak, Izra' District, Daraa Governorate<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Citizen journalist<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[1][36]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●22 August 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Musab al-Odallah</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Naher Aisha, Damascus</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Tishreen</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[36][37][38][39][40]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●20 August 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mika Yamamoto</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> (Japanese)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Aleppo<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Japan Press<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[41][42]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●11 August 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(178 , 0 , 0); font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Ali Abbas</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="color: rgb(178 , 0 , 0); font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Jdaidet Artouz</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> (town), southwest of Damascus<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Journalist for SANA who was killed at his home<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[43][44][45][46]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●11 August 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Bara'a Yusuf al-Bushi</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Al-Tall</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[43][45]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●10 August 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Hatem Abu Yehya</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Al-Tall</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Syrian News Channel (Al-Ikhbariyah TV)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[43][47][48]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●3 August 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mohammed al-Saeed</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Jdaidet Artouz, southwest of Damascus</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">SANA TV presenter who was kidnapped and executed</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[43][44][49]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●3 August 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Ahmad Salam</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●3 August 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Zuhair Muhammed Al-Shaher</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Deir ez-Zor</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●22 July 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mahmoud Sudqi</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Idlib Governorate</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[50]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●19 July 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mohamed al-Hosni</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Al-Qusayr, Homs Governorate</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist and director of the Media Centre in Al Qusour</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1][51]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●18 July 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Ali Juburi al-Kaab</b></span></span><span style="color: #b20000; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><b>i</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> (Iraqi)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Damascus<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Al Roaa (Iraq)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[52][53]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●18 July 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Falah Taha </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">(Iraqi)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Damascus<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Al Roaa (Iraq)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[52][53]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●12 July 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Ihsan al Buni</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> (also transliterated Ihssan Al-Binni)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Damascus (Daraya)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Al-Thawra<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[1][54][55]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●4 July 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Suhaib Dib</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[56][57]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●4 July 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Alaa Umar Jumaa</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Kansaba</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[58]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●2 July 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mohamed Hamdo Hallaq</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Azaz (near Aleppo)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[56][57]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●28 June 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mohammed Ali Al Haymad</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus (Daraya)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●28 June 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Samer Khalil Al-Sataleh</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> (Al-Salta), aka Abou Yasser</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damscus (Douma)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1][56][57]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●27 June 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mohammad Shamma</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus (Drousha)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Syrian News Channel (Al-Ikhbariyah TV)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[59][60]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●27 June 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Zaid Kahel</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus (Drousha)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Syrian News Channel (Al-Ikhbariyah TV)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[59][61]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●27 June 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Sami Abu Amin</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus (Drousha)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Syrian News Channel (Al-Ikhbariyah TV)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[59][61]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●26 June 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Wael Omar Barad</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Jarjaraz</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●25 June 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span></b></span></span><span style="color: #b20000; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><b>Ghias Khaled Al-Hmouria</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Damscus (Douma)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">[56][57]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●21 June 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Hamza Mahmoud Othman</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Homs</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1][62]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●21 June 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span> <span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Omar Al-Ghantawi</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Homs</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[56][57]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●16 June 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Ahmed Hamada</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Homs (Baba Amr)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[63]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●15 June 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(178 , 0 , 0); font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Bassim Barakat Darwish</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="color: rgb(178 , 0 , 0); font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Al-Rastan</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">, Homs Governorate<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Citizen journalist & founder of the Rastan Media Center<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[64]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●13 June 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Ayham Youssef Al Hariri</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Houran</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●10 June 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Khaled Al-Bakir</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> (Al-Bakr)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Al-Qusayr, Homs Governorate<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Citizen journalist & founder of Alaasi Revolution News Network<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[63][65][66]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●31 May 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Abdulhameed Idriss Matar</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Al-Qusayr, Homs Governorate</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●28 May 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Bassel Shehadeh</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Homs</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[67][68][69]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●28 May 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Ahmed Al Assam</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Homs</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[69][70]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●27 May 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Ammar Mohamed Zado</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> (also transliterated Amar Mohamed Souheil Zada)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Damascus (Al-Midan)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>director of Shaam News Network<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[1][69][71][72]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●27 May 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Ahmed Adnan Al-Ashlaq</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus (Al-Midan)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Shaam News Network</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[69][71][73]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●27 May 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Lawrence Fahmy Al-Naimi</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus (Al-Midan)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Shaam News Network</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[69][71][74]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●17 May 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Hasan Azhari</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Lattakia</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist who was arrested, tortured, and killed in Damascus at The Military Security prison (Branch 215)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●4 May 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Abdul Ghani Kaakeh</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Aleppo (Salah Al-Din)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[75][76][77]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●17 April 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Khaled Mahmoud Kabbisho</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Idlib</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[69][78][79]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●17 April 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Alaa al-Din Hassan al-Douri</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Hama Governorate</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[69][78][79]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●14 April 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Sameer Shalab al-Sham</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Homs</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[69][79][80]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●14 April 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Ahmed Abdollah Fakhriyeh</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Dumeir (northeast of Damascus), Rif Dimashq Governorate</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[69][79]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●6 April 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Anas Al-Houlani</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Homs</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●29 March 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Ahmed Mohamed</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> Djibril<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Idlib<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Citizen journalist who was 17 years old at the time he was shot and killed<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[1][81]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●26 March 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Walid Bledi</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> (Algerian/British)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Darkush (near the Turkish border)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>U.K. freelance journalist<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[82][83][84][85][86]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●26 March 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Naseem Intriri</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> (Algerian/French)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Darkush (near the Turkish border)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>U.K. freelance journalist<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[82][83][84][85][86]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●26 March 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Jawan Mohammed Qatna</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Al-Hasakeh (Ad Darbasiyah)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Kidnapped (Kurdish) citizen journalist for Free Derbassiyeh Coordination Committee whose body was later discovered</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[82][86]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●9 March 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Amr Kaaka</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Doma (near Damascus)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●24 February 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Abdullah Khaled Awad</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Al-Qusayr, Homs Governorate</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●24 February 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Anas al-Tarsha</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Homs (Qarabees)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[69][87]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●22 February 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Remi Ochlik</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> (French)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Homs<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>French freelance photographer for IP3 Press photo agency<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[88][89][90]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●22 February 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Marie Colvin</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> (American)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Homs<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Sunday Times (UK)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[88][91][92][93]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●21 February 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Rami al-Sayed</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Homs (Baba Amr)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[69][94][95][96]</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●16 February 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Anthony Shadid</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> (American)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Syrian-Turkish border<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>An award winning New York Times reporter who died from an asthma attack while reporting in Syria.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[119][120]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●7 February 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Mazhar Tayyara</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> (also transliterated </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><b>Madhar Amr Tayara</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Homs<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Freelance journalist for Agence France-Presse (France), The Guardian (UK), Die Welt (Germany)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[97][98][99][100][101]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●5 February 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Saleh Samih Murjan</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Karm Zeitun (near Homs)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●27 January 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Usama Burhan Idriss</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Homs (Inshaatt)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●11 January 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Gilles Jacquier</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"> (French)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Homs<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>France 2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[102][103][104][105]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●2 January 2012</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Shoukri Ahmed Ratib Abu Bourghou</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">l (also transliterated </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><b>Shukri Ratib Abu Burghol</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Damascus (Daraya)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>al-Thawra (daily) and Radio Damas<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[106][107][108][109]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●28 December 2011</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(178 , 0 , 0); font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Muawiya Ibrahim Ayoub</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="color: rgb(178 , 0 , 0); font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Al-Rastan</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">, Homs Governorate<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Citizen journalist<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[1]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●27 December 2011</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Muatassim Al-Saleh</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Hama</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●27 December 2011</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Basil al-Sayed</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Homs (Baba Amr)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist/videographer</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[110][111]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●21 December 2011</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Rami Ismail Iqbal</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">a Syrian prison</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1][62]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●15 December 2011</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Bilal Jibss</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Idlib (Kafr Tkharam)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●15 December 2011</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Hamza Khalid Amer</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Shamseen (near Homs)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●6 December 2011</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Firas Barshan</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Homs</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●26 November 2011</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Nizar Adnan Humsa</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Homs (Al Bayada)</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist who died while in custody of the Syrian intelligence agency</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●20 November 2011</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Ferzat Jarban<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Al-Qusayr</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">, Homs Governorate<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Freelance TV camera operator<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[112][113][114]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●5 May 2011</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Ahmed Souleymane Daheek</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Homs</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Citizen journalist</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[1]</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">●29 April 2011 - 18 May 2011</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: #b20000; font-size: large;"><b>Dorothy Parvaz</b></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Damascus</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Al Jazeera. She carries Iranian, Canadian and U.S. passports.</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">[121][122]</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: medium;"><b><u><i>My name is Feryal. I live in Lincoln, Nebraska, but I grew up in a small town in Iraq called Sinjar. Last August, ISIS kidnapped thousands of women and girls from my hometown. For a year, ISIS has tortured and raped them. Many are teenagers just like me.</i></u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><u><i>Please urge President Obama to help save 3,200 women and children from my community -- some as young as 11 -- who were captured by ISIS, and have been raped and tortured for the past year.</i></u></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">It does, however, apply remarkably well to the way many Americans think about that broader form of love we call patriotism. With rare exceptions, like the 1988 <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/08/09/210138278/japanese-internment-redress" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">congressional act</a> that apologized to and compensated the Japanese-American victims of World War II internment, when it comes to the brute exercise of power, true patriotism has above all meant never having to say you’re sorry. The very politicians who criticize other countries for not owning up to their wrong-doing regularly insist that we should never apologize for anything. In 1988, for example, after the U.S. Navy <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2014/07/the_vincennes_downing_of_iran_air_flight_655_the_united_states_tried_to.1.html" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">shot down</a> an Iranian civilian airliner over the Persian Gulf killing all 290 passengers (including 66 children), Vice President George H.W. Bush, then running for president, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10qatUWwIeg" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">proclaimed</a>, “I will never apologize for the United States. Ever. I don’t care what the facts are.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">It turns out, however, that Bush’s version of American remorselessness isn’t quite enough. After all, Americans prefer to view their country as peace-loving, despite having been at war constantly since 1941. This means they need more than denials and non-apologies. They need persuasive stories and explanations (however full of distortions and omissions). The tale developed to justify the bombings that led to a world in which the threat of human extinction has been a daily reality may be the most successful legitimizing narrative in our history. Seventy years later, it’s still <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0521566827/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">deeply embedded</a> in public memory and <a href="http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201408090032" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">school textbooks</a>, despite an ever-growing pile of evidence that contradicts it. Perhaps it’s time, so many decades into the age of apocalyptic peril, to review the American <em>apologia</em> for nuclear weapons — the argument in their defense — that ensured we would never have to say we’re sorry.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">On August 9, 1945, President Harry Truman delivered a <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=12165&st=&st1=" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">radio address</a> from the White House. “The world will note,” he said, “that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians.” He did not mention that a second atomic bomb had already been dropped on Nagasaki.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">Truman understood, of course, that if Hiroshima was a “military base,” then so was Seattle; that the vast majority of its residents were civilians; and that perhaps 100,000 of them had already been killed. Indeed, he knew that Hiroshima was chosen not for its military significance but because it was one of only a handful of Japanese cities that had not already been firebombed and largely obliterated by American air power. U.S. officials, in fact, were intent on using the first atomic bombs to create maximum terror and destruction. They also wanted to measure their new weapon’s power and so selected the “virgin targets” of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In July 1945, Secretary of War Henry Stimson <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=bcRWmE8KUDQC&pg=PA296&lpg=PA296&dq=Truman+laughed+and+said+he+understood&source=bl&ots=SqxR1_uW_9&sig=O59BexccYyLCyv7NJQ5CDeP6c9w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDAQ6AEwBmoVChMIk8671sCDxwIVTHg-Ch0AAg9Z#v=onepage&q=Truman%20laughed%20and%20said%20he%20understood&f=false" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">informed Truman</a> of his fear that, given all the firebombing of Japanese cities, there might not be a target left on which the atomic bomb could “show its strength” to the fullest. According to Stimson’s diary, Truman “laughed and said he understood.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">The president soon dropped the “military base” justification. After all, despite Washington’s effort to censor the most graphic images of atomic annihilation coming out of Hiroshima, the world quickly grasped that the U.S. had destroyed an entire city in a single blow with massive loss of life. So the president focused instead on an apologia that would work for at least the next seven decades. Its core arguments appeared in that same August 9th speech. “We have used [the atomic bomb] against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor,” he said, “against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">By 1945, most Americans didn’t care that the civilians of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had not committed Japan’s war crimes. American wartime culture had for years drawn on a long history of “yellow peril” racism to paint the Japanese not just as inhuman, but as subhuman. As Truman put it in his diary, it was a country full of <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5FZGAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA244&dq=Truman+%22savages,+ruthless,+merciless,+and+fanatic%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDcQ6AEwBGoVChMI_eaQ28GDxwIVCj8-Ch1j1w8M#v=onepage&q=Truman%20%22savages%2C%20ruthless%2C%20merciless%2C%20and%20fanatic%22&f=false" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">“savages”</a> — “ruthless, merciless, and fanatic” people so loyal to the emperor that every man, woman, and child would fight to the bitter end. In these years, magazines routinely <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0394751728/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">depicted</a> Japanese as monkeys, apes, insects, and vermin. Given such a foe, so went the prevailing view, there were no true “civilians” and nothing short of near extermination, or at least a powerful demonstration of America’s willingness to proceed down that path, could ever force their surrender. As Admiral William “Bull” Halsey <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-VYEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Life+Magazine+January+24,+1944&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAGoVChMI4I3V2sODxwIVTKoeCh1ZTQlt#v=onepage&q=Life%20Magazine%20January%2024%2C%201944&f=false" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">said</a> in a 1944 press conference, “The only good Jap is a Jap who’s been dead six months.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">In the years after World War II, the most virulent expressions of race hatred diminished, but not the widespread idea that the atomic bombs had been required to end the war, eliminating the need to invade the Japanese home islands where, it was confidently claimed, tooth-and-nail combat would cause enormous losses on both sides. The deadliest weapon in history, the one that opened the path to future Armageddon, had therefore saved lives. That was the stripped down mantra that provided the broadest and most enduring support for the introduction of nuclear warfare. By the time Truman, in retirement, published <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/156852062X/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">his memoir</a> in 1955, he was ready to claim with some specificity that an invasion of Japan would have killed half-a-million Americans and at least as many Japanese.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">Over the years, the ever-increasing number of lives those two A-bombs “saved” became a kind of sacred numerology. By 1991, for instance, President George H.W. Bush, praising Truman for his “tough, calculating decision,” <a href="http://japanfocus.org/site/view/2479" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">claimed</a> that those bombs had “spared millions of American lives.” By then, an atomic massacre had long been transformed into a mercy killing that prevented far greater suffering and slaughter.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">Truman went to his grave insisting that he never had a single regret or a moment’s doubt about his decision. Certainly, in the key weeks leading up to August 6, 1945, the record offers no evidence that he gave serious consideration to any alternative.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">Twenty years ago, the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/080504387X/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">planned an ambitious exhibit</a> to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. At its center was to be an extraordinary artifact — the fuselage of the <em>Enola Gay</em>, the B-29 Superfortress used to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. But the curators and historical consultants wanted something more than yet another triumphal celebration of American military science and technology. Instead, they sought to assemble a thought-provoking portrayal of the bomb’s development, the debates about its use, and its long-term consequences. The museum sought to include some evidence challenging the persistent claim that it was dropped simply to end the war and “save lives.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">For starters, visitors would have learned that some of America’s best-known World War II military commanders opposed using atomic weaponry. In fact, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Untold-History-United-States/dp/1451613520/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438283221&sr=1-1&keywords=untold+history+of+the+united+states+oliver+stone" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">six of the seven</a> five-star generals and admirals of that time believed that there was no reason to use them, that the Japanese were already defeated, knew it, and were likely to surrender before any American invasion could be launched. Several, like Admiral William Leahy and General Dwight Eisenhower, also had moral objections to the weapon. Leahy considered the atomic bombing of Japan “barbarous” and a violation of “every Christian ethic I have ever heard of and all of the known laws of war.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">Truman did not seriously consult with military commanders who had objections to using the bomb. He did, however, ask a panel of military experts to offer an estimate of how many Americans might be killed if the United States launched the two major invasions of the Japanese home islands scheduled for November 1, 1945 and March 1, 1946. Their figure: 40,000 — far below the half-million he would cite after the war. Even this estimate was based on the dubious assumption that Japan could continue to feed, fuel, and arm its troops with the U.S. in almost complete control of the seas and skies.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">The Smithsonian also planned to inform its visitors that some key presidential advisers had <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316831247/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">urged</a> Truman to drop his demand for “unconditional surrender” and allow Japan to keep the emperor on his throne, an alteration in peace terms that might have led to an almost immediate surrender. Truman rejected that advice, only to grant the same concession <em>after</em> the nuclear attacks.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">Keep in mind, however, that part of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/067976285X/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">Truman’s motivation</a> for dropping those bombs involved not the defeated Japanese, but the ascending Soviet Union. With the U.S.S.R. pledged to enter the war against Japan on August 8, 1945 (which it did), Truman worried that even briefly prolonging hostilities might allow the Soviets to claim a greater stake in East Asia. He and Secretary of State James Byrnes believed that a graphic demonstration of the power of the new bomb, then only in the possession of the United States, might also make that Communist power more “manageable” in Europe. The Smithsonian exhibit would have suggested that Cold War planning and posturing began in the concluding moments of World War II and that one legacy of Hiroshima would be the massive nuclear arms race of the decades to come.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">In addition to displaying American artifacts like the Enola Gay, Smithsonian curators wanted to show some heartrending objects from the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, including a schoolgirl’s burnt lunchbox, a watch dial frozen at the instant of the bomb’s explosion, a fused rosary, and photographs of the dead and dying. It would have been hard to look at these items beside that plane’s giant fuselage without feeling some sympathy for the victims of the blast.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">None of this happened. The exhibit was canceled after a storm of protest. When the Air Force Association leaked a copy of the initial script to the media, critics denounced the Smithsonian for its “politically correct” and “anti-American” “revision” of history. The exhibit, they claimed, would be an insult to American veterans and fundamentally unpatriotic. Though conservatives led the charge, the Senate unanimously passed a <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1994-09-19/html/CREC-1994-09-19-pt1-PgS48.htm" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">resolution</a> condemning the Smithsonian for being “revisionist and offensive” that included a tidy rehearsal of the official apologia: “The role of the Enola Gay… was momentous in helping to bring World War II to a merciful end, which resulted in saving the lives of Americans and Japanese.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">Merciful? Consider just this: the number of civilians killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki alone was more than twice the number of American troops killed during the entire Pacific war.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">In the end, the Smithsonian displayed little but the <em>Enola Gay</em> itself, a gleaming relic of American victory in the “Good War.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;"><strong>Our <em>Unbroken</em> Faith in the Greatest Generation</strong><strong> </strong></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">In the two decades since, we haven’t come closer to a genuine public examination of history’s only nuclear attack or to finding any major fault with how we waged what Studs Terkel famously dubbed <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1565843436/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">“the Good War.”</a> He used that term as the title for his classic 1984 oral history of World War II and included those quotation marks quite purposely to highlight the irony of such thinking about a war in which an estimated 60 million people died. In the years since, the term has become an American cliché, but the quotation marks have disappeared along with any hint of skepticism about our motives and conduct in those years.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">Admittedly, when it comes to the launching of nuclear war (if not the firebombings that destroyed <a href="http://www.ditext.com/japan/napalm.html" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">67 Japanese cities</a> and continued for five days after “Fat Man” was dropped on Nagasaki), there is some evidence of a more critical cast of mind in this country. <a href="http://www.pewglobal.org/2015/04/07/americans-japanese-mutual-respect-70-years-after-the-end-of-wwii/" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">Recent polls</a>, for instance, show that “only” 56% of Americans now think we were right to use nuclear weapons against Japan, down a few points since the 1990s, while support among Americans under the age of 30 has finally fallen below 50%. You might also note that just after World War II, 85% of Americans supported the bombings.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">Of course, such pro-bomb attitudes were hardly surprising in 1945, especially given the relief and joy at the war’s victorious ending and the anti-Japanese sentiment of that moment. Far more surprising: by 1946, millions of Americans were immersed in John Hersey’s best-selling book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0679721037/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;"><em>Hiroshima</em></a>, a moving report from ground zero that explored the atomic bomb’s impact through the experiences of six Japanese survivors. It began with these gripping lines:</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">“At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;"><em>Hiroshima</em> remains a remarkable document for its unflinching depictions of the bomb’s destructiveness and for treating America’s former enemy with such dignity and humanity. “The crux of the matter,” Hersey concluded, “is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result?”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">The ABC Radio Network thought Hersey’s book so important that it hired four actors to read it in full on the air, reaching an even wider audience. Can you imagine a large American media company today devoting any significant air time to a work that engendered empathy for the victims of our twenty-first century wars? Or can you think of a recent popular book that prods us to consider the “material and spiritual evil” that came from our own participation in World War II? I can’t.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">In fact, in the first years after that war, as Paul Boyer showed in his superb book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0807844802/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;"><em>By the Bomb’s Early Light</em></a>, some of America’s triumphalism faded as fears grew that the very existence of nuclear weapons might leave the country newly vulnerable. After all, someday another power, possibly the Soviet Union, might use the new form of warfare against its creators, producing an American apocalypse that could never be seen as redemptive or merciful.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">In the post-Cold War decades, however, those fears have again faded (unreasonably so since even a South Asian nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India could throw the whole planet into a version of <a href="http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/RobockToonSciAmJan2010.pdf" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">nuclear winter</a>). Instead, the “Good War” has once again been embraced as unambiguously righteous. Consider, for example, the most recent book about World War II to hit it big, Laura Hillenbrand’s <em>Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption</em>. Published in 2010, it remained on the <em>New York Times</em> best-seller list in hardcover for <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/the-unbreakable-laura-hillenbrand.html" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important; transition: 0.2s;">almost four years</a> and has sold millions of copies. In its reach, it may even surpass Tom Brokaw’s 1998 book, <em>The Greatest Generation</em>. A Hollywood adaptation of <em>Unbroken</em>appeared last Christmas.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">Hillenbrand’s book does not pretend to be a comprehensive history of World War II or even of the war in the Pacific. It tells the story of Louis Zamperini, a child delinquent turned Olympic runner turned B-24 bombardier. In 1943, his plane was shot down in the Pacific. He and the pilot survived 47 days in a life raft despite near starvation, shark attacks, and strafing by Japanese planes. Finally captured by the Japanese, he endured a series of brutal POW camps where he was the victim of relentless sadistic beatings.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">The book is decidedly a page-turner, but its focus on a single American’s punishing ordeal and amazing recovery inhibits almost any impulse to move beyond the platitudes of nationalistic triumphalism and self-absorption or consider (among other things) the racism that so dramatically shaped American combat in the Pacific. That, at least, is the impression you get combing through some of the astonishing 25,000 customer reviews <em>Unbroken</em>has received on Amazon. “My respect for WWII veterans has soared,” a typical reviewer writes. “Thank you Laura Hillenbrand for loving our men at war,” writes another. It is “difficult to read of the inhumanity of the treatment of the courageous men serving our country.” And so on.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;"><em>Unbroken</em> devotes a page and a half to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, all of it from the vantage point of the American crew of the <em>Enola Gay</em>. Hillenbrand raises concerns about the crew’s safety: “No one knew for sure if… the bomber could get far enough away to survive what was coming.” She describes the impact of the shockwaves, not on the ground, but at 30,000 feet when they slammed into the <em>Enola Gay,</em> “pitching the men into the air.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">The film version of <em>Unbroken</em> evokes even less empathy for the Japanese experience of nuclear war, which brings to mind something a student told my graduate seminar last spring. He teaches high school social studies and when he talked with colleagues about the readings we were doing on Hiroshima, three of them responded with some version of the following: “You know, I used to think we were wrong to use nukes on Japan, but since I saw<em>Unbroken </em>I’ve started to think it was necessary.” We are, that is, still in the territory first plowed by Truman in that speech seven decades ago.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">At the end of the film, this note appears on the screen: “Motivated by his faith, Louie came to see that the way forward was not revenge, but forgiveness. He returned to Japan, where he found and made peace with his former captors.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">That is indeed moving. Many of the prison camp guards apologized, as well they should have, and — perhaps more surprisingly — Zamperini forgave them. There is, however, no hint that there might be a need for apologies on the American side, too; no suggestion that our indiscriminate destruction of Japan, capped off by the atomic obliteration of two cities, might be, as Admiral Leahy put it, a violation of “all of the known laws of war.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">So here we are, 70 years later, and we seem, if anything, farther than ever from a rejection of the idea that launching atomic warfare on Japanese civilian populations was an act of mercy. Perhaps some future American president will finally apologize for our nuclear attacks, but one thing seems certain: no Japanese survivor of the bombs will be alive to hear it.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: x-small;">While devastation and suffering came from those two awful bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a nuclear abolition movement was born that still wages a peaceful campaign to eliminate these weapons.</span></h2>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Published: August 6, 2015 | Authors: <a class="author-name" href="http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/author/amy-goodman/" rel="author" style="outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important;">Amy Goodman</a> | <a href="http://www.nationofchange.org/" style="outline: none !important; text-decoration: none !important;">NationofChange</a> </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The world changed irrevocably 70 years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, when the United States dropped the first nuclear weapon in history on the civilian population of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, the second and, to date, final atomic weapon used against human targets was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Hundreds of thousands were killed. Many were horrifically burned, and thousands suffered the long-term impacts of radiation poisoning. Survivors of those two horrible blasts, called “hibakusha” in Japanese, still live, and still recount their experiences. While the world has avoided nuclear attacks since those two days in 1945, the potential for nuclear devastation is forever hanging over us. Born from the ashes of those two awful bomb blasts, however, was a nuclear abolition movement that still wages a peaceful campaign to eliminate these weapons.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I was a child at the age of 10 … when Japan experienced the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” Kenzaburo Oe told me in Tokyo last year. Now 80 years old, Oe is the 1994 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and is one of Japan’s most highly respected intellectuals and humanitarians. “At the time, what was a great shock to me, but also my mother, our families, all the people at that time, was of course the atomic bomb. This was a greater catastrophe than anything we had ever known.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For all of his great writings, known around the world, Oe said it is his greatest shame that he never wrote a novel about the atomic bombings. He gives great credit to the wounded survivors for keeping the stories alive: “Japan was under [U.S. military] occupation, and at that time it was not possible for the hibakusha, which is what we call the survivors of the atomic bombs, to create any kind of organization of their own. And five years following the bombings was when they were first able to create their own organization. At that time, their lone slogan was to never allow this to be repeated, never to allow any more hibakusha to be created.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The hibakusha have served as the core of the Japanese peace movement ever since, taking as their symbol the origami peace crane. Sadako Sasaki was a 2-year-old girl when Hiroshima was leveled by the bomb. Sadako lived, but at the age of 12 was diagnosed with leukemia, one of the diseases caused by the bomb’s lingering radiation. A friend in the hospital told her that if she folded 1,000 origami cranes, she would be granted a wish. Hoping to defeat her disease, she began making the intricate paper cranes. She died on Oct. 25, 1955.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The peace movement in Japan still lives, though, as people there organize to abolish nuclear weapons, but also to eliminate nuclear power plants. Oe told the French newspaper Le Monde, ““Hiroshima must be engraved in our memories: It’s a catastrophe even more dramatic than natural disasters, because it’s man-made … by showing the same disregard for human life in nuclear power stations, [it] is the worst betrayal of the memory of the victims of Hiroshima.” The movement to permanently shut down Japan’s fleet of nuclear power plants seemed on the verge of success after the Fukushima disaster in March 2011. The conservative government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that came to power after the disaster, however, has vowed to revive nuclear power there, restarting dormant plants and even building new ones.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Across the world, at Los Alamos, New Mexico, the birthplace of the atomic bomb, research is still conducted on making newer and “better” nuclear weapons. To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, peace activists are holding a conference in nearby Santa Fe, as well as vigils at the gates of the top-secret national nuclear-weapons research laboratory in Los Alamos. As organizer and longtime peace activist Father John Dear says, “We said to God, what it took you 15 billion years to make, we can end in 15 minutes.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dear’s words echo those of one of the bomb’s architects, J. Robert Oppenheimer. He was a physicist and leader of the Manhattan Project, the massive U.S. project that built the bombs. The first atomic detonation happened on July 16, 1945 in the New Mexico desert, at a test site called Trinity. Watching the blast and the ensuing mushroom cloud, Oppenheimer recalled the words of Vishnu from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita:</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hiroshima stands as a monument to the madness of nuclear weapons. Last year, walking the grounds of the Hiroshima Peace Museum, we saw the Children’s Peace Monument, in honor of Sadako Sasaki and the thousands of child victims of the blasts. The monument is adorned with thousands of paper cranes. Engraved at its base is a plea to us all:</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“This is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace in the world.”</span></div>
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<i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Denis Moynihan contributed to this column.</i></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRnKcxrwCZWXNVMVNOyQCokJobrInF3I9DhyuNZmtMFlrrswOblQ5FYZzVJ5vEdoBwynV6JBp7zI0zsNpPipJguTe54GAkQ-I8nZRd4IwbnFWrfB00OjS51We5mcP2PZTQuP_-Sv4h47g/s640/blogger-image-960847803.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRnKcxrwCZWXNVMVNOyQCokJobrInF3I9DhyuNZmtMFlrrswOblQ5FYZzVJ5vEdoBwynV6JBp7zI0zsNpPipJguTe54GAkQ-I8nZRd4IwbnFWrfB00OjS51We5mcP2PZTQuP_-Sv4h47g/s320/blogger-image-960847803.jpg" width="239" id="id_ee8_4e71_63f4_426f" style="width: 239px; height: auto;"></a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“No one outside this tiny, rural village of 1,800 people had ever paid much attention to the Holley Fire Department’s annual Hazzard County Squirrel Slam fundraiser before now,” wrote Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reporter David Andreatta, covering protests led by Animal Advocates of Western New York, Animal Allies of Western New York, and Friends of Animals. This year, however, the seventh year of the Squirrel Slam, Andreatta noted that “at least 40,000 people signed various online petitions” against it, and about 100 demonstrators picketed the firehouse.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Squirrel Slam participants bought tickets, shot up to five squirrels each, and brought them back to the firehouse to be skinned and served at a community dinner. “Normally 200 [Squirrel Slam] tickets are sold each year. This year, 1,000 were sold,” reported Christina Noce of YNN-Rochester.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRbr4QYleHVIKDbvwxugEfw7Jk4Fms3o2mHmxwEmK1z4yE8pvzStpLleu-3RNkXqt6cQ3OmVLQu3ktEXSbJbAX595ByQGGwCxIjvRfA5m3p1gL195EVxcJzCo0KYWVbMICU1muU1MC_dA/s640/blogger-image-867512900.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRbr4QYleHVIKDbvwxugEfw7Jk4Fms3o2mHmxwEmK1z4yE8pvzStpLleu-3RNkXqt6cQ3OmVLQu3ktEXSbJbAX595ByQGGwCxIjvRfA5m3p1gL195EVxcJzCo0KYWVbMICU1muU1MC_dA/s320/blogger-image-867512900.jpg" width="212" id="id_a1f9_d795_acdb_2b73" style="width: 212px; height: auto;"></a>For no apparent reason, the town has, for the last six years, held an annual fund raising event sponsored by the local fire department, in which local residents--adults and children--compete to kill as many squirrels as possible. The seventh annual "Hazzard County Squirrel Slam" will offer cash prizes up to $200, in adult and youth categories, to those who kill the most and the largest squirrels on February 16. There is also a drawing to give away several guns, including an AR-15 assault rifle. Scores of squirrels will be killed, not for food, but simply for "entertainment." Many more will be injured, maimed, and left to die slowly and in pain. http://newsforsquirrels.blogspot.com/2013_01_01_archive.html</div>
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It's hard to imagine what could be so different about these two towns, what could make one town seek to embrace, protect, and celebrate its squirrel population, while the other takes pleasure in causing pain, suffering, and death among its squirrels. On the surface they both seem like mainstream, working-class American towns the likes of which can be found throughout the United States. I suppose if we look deep enough we could uncover some demographic, economic, and social differences that would explain this vast gulf between the attitudes and outlooks of these communities.</div>
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I say that if I had to decide which of these communities to settle in, the decision to me would be clear: the town that embraces life or the one that embraces death; compassion or suffering; comfort or pain; light or darkness.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Physical Address<br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">7-10 THOMAS ST<br style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Holley, NY 14470 </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Also email the mayor of Holley: <a href="mailto:mayor@villageofholley.org" rel="nofollow" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">mayor@villageofholley.org</a></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn’t until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In September 1620, a small ship called the Mayflower left Plymouth, England, carrying 102 passengers—an assortment of religious separatists seeking a new home where they could freely practice their faith and other individuals lured by the promise of prosperity and land ownership in the New World. After a treacherous and uncomfortable crossing that lasted 66 days, they dropped anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, far north of their intended destination at the mouth of the Hudson River. One month later, the Mayflower crossed Massachusetts Bay, where the Pilgrims, as they are now commonly known, began the work of establishing a village at Plymouth.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Throughout that first brutal winter, most of the colonists remained on board the ship, where they suffered from exposure, scurvy and outbreaks of contagious disease. Only half of the Mayflower’s original passengers and crew lived to see their first New England spring. In March, the remaining settlers moved ashore, where they received an astonishing visit from an Abenaki Indian who greeted them in English. Several days later, he returned with another Native American, Squanto, a member of the Pawtuxet tribe who had been kidnapped by an English sea captain and sold into slavery before escaping to London and returning to his homeland on an exploratory expedition. Squanto taught the Pilgrims, weakened by malnutrition and illness, how to cultivate corn, extract sap from maple trees, catch fish in the rivers and avoid poisonous plants. He also helped the settlers forge an alliance with the Wampanoag, a local tribe, which would endure for more than 50 years and tragically remains one of the sole examples of harmony between European colonists and Native Americans.</span><br>
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In November 1621, after the Pilgrims’ first corn harvest proved successful, Governor William Bradford organized a celebratory feast and invited a group of the fledgling colony’s Native American allies, including the Wampanoag chief Massasoit. Now remembered as American’s “first Thanksgiving”—although the Pilgrims themselves may not have used the term at the time—the festival lasted for three days. While no record exists of the historic banquet’s exact menu, the Pilgrim chronicler Edward Winslow wrote in his journal that Governor Bradford sent<br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pilgrims held their second Thanksgiving celebration in 1623 to mark the end of a long drought that had threatened the year’s harvest and prompted Governor Bradford to call for a religious fast. Days of fasting and thanksgiving on an annual or occasional basis became common practice in other New England settlements as well. During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress designated one or more days of thanksgiving a year, and in 1789 George Washington issued the first Thanksgiving proclamation by the national government of the United States; in it, he called upon Americans to express their gratitude for the happy conclusion to the country’s war of independence and the successful ratification of the U.S. Constitution. His successors John Adams and James Madison also designated days of thanks during their presidencies.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In many American households, the Thanksgiving celebration has lost much of its original religious significance; instead, it now centers on cooking and sharing a bountiful meal with family and friends. Turkey, a Thanksgiving staple so ubiquitous it has become all but synonymous with the holiday, may or may not have been on offer when the Pilgrims hosted the inaugural feast in 1621. Today, however, nearly 90 percent of Americans eat the bird—whether roasted, baked or deep-fried—on Thanksgiving, according to the National Turkey Federation. Other traditional foods include stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. Volunteering is a common Thanksgiving Day activity, and communities often hold food drives and host free dinners for the less fortunate.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Parades have also become an integral part of the holiday in cities and towns across the United States. Presented by Macy’s department store since 1924, New York City’s Thanksgiving Day parade is the largest and most famous, attracting some 2 to 3 million spectators along its 2.5-mile route and drawing an enormous television audience. It typically features marching bands, performers, elaborate floats conveying various celebrities and giant balloons shaped like cartoon characters.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Beginning in the mid-20th century and perhaps even earlier, the president of the United States has “pardoned” one or two Thanksgiving turkeys each year, sparing the birds from slaughter and sending them to a farm for retirement. A number of U.S. governors also perform the annual turkey pardoning ritual.</span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For some scholars, the jury is still out on whether the feast at Plymouth really constituted the first Thanksgiving in the United States. Indeed, historians have recorded other ceremonies of thanks among European settlers in North America that predate the Pilgrims’ celebration. In 1565, for instance, the Spanish explorer Pedro Menéndez de Avilé invited members of the local Timucua tribe to a dinner in St. Augustine, Florida, after holding a mass to thank God for his crew’s safe arrival. On December 4, 1619, when 38 British settlers reached a site known as Berkeley Hundred on the banks of Virginia’s James River, they read a proclamation designating the date as “a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some Native Americans and others take issue with how the Thanksgiving story is presented to the American public, and especially to schoolchildren. In their view, the traditional narrative paints a deceptively sunny portrait of relations between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people, masking the long and bloody history of conflict between Native Americans and European settlers that resulted in the deaths of millions. Since 1970, protesters have gathered on the day designated as Thanksgiving at the top of Cole’s Hill, which overlooks Plymouth Rock, to commemorate a “National Day of Mourning.” Similar events are held in other parts of the country.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Although the American concept of Thanksgiving developed in the colonies of New England, its roots can be traced back to the other side of the Atlantic. Both the Separatists who came over on the Mayflower and the Puritans who arrived soon after brought with them a tradition of providential holidays—days of fasting during difficult or pivotal moments and days of feasting and celebration to thank God in times of plenty.</span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As an annual celebration of the harvest and its bounty, moreover, Thanksgiving falls under a category of festivals that spans cultures, continents and millennia. In ancient times, the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans feasted and paid tribute to their gods after the fall harvest. Thanksgiving also bears a resemblance to the ancient Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. Finally, historians have noted that Native Americans had a rich tradition of commemorating the fall harvest with feasting and merrymaking long before Europeans set foot on their shores.</span><br>
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<b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">5 Facts That Will Make You Want to Hug a Turkey, Not Eat One, This Thanksgiving</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br> <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/5-facts-that-will-make-you-want-to-hug-a-turkey-not-eat-one-this-thanksgiving.html#ixzz3hP1l2GDY">http://www.care2.com/causes/5-facts-that-will-make-you-want-to-hug-a-turkey-not-eat-one-this-thanksgiving.html#ixzz3hP1l2GDY</a></span></span></b><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is a sad and horrific time of year for millions of turkeys being slaughtered for holiday meals. To be more <span class="s1">exact</span>, just for Thanksgiving alone, approximately 46 million turkeys are killed per year.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These smart and intrinsic animals are so much more special than society gives them credit for, and therefore should be left off of your serving platters. From their astute social connections to the fact that you can determine a turkey’s gender by taking a quick glance at their poop, these fine feathered friends are highly intelligent and interesting animals.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Since there are too many neat details about these wonderful birds to list, we chose the most riveting of them all that truly stand out. Once you learn these five enthralling turkey details, you will want to be their pal rather than put them on your plate. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yes, you read that right. A fascinating fact that many people do not know about our turkey friends is in their <span class="s1">doo doo</span>. The shape of a turkey’s turd tells you if they are a lord or a lady. A male turkey’s droppings are in the shape of a spiral and the waste of a female turkey is shaped like the letter J. That remarkable tidbit alone makes turkeys way too cool to eat.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: #783f04;"><b>2. Turkeys wear mood rings… called their faces.</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As if pooing specific shapes isn’t clever enough, turkeys step up their game by being the living embodiment of the <span class="s1">mood ring</span>. Yep, these groovy birds wear their mood on their heads and throats, and you guessed it, the color red means stressed out. As a turkey’s mood changes throughout the day, their colors switch as well. Turkeys are just too colorful to be on the menu.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: #783f04;"><b>3. Male turkeys go cruising for lady turkeys, together as a group.</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When turkeys go out in search for that significant someone, they do it just like us humans – with a little <span class="s1">help</span> from their friends. For instance, a group of brothers will make an event of going out and putting the charm on a turkey of the opposite sex. However, in the end, only the dominant male will mate with that special female turkey. I wonder if they get into any wild antics with their pals along the way. Maybe it’s like “The Hangover” for turkeys.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: #783f04;"><b>4. Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to replace the eagle as America’s national bird.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); color: #783f04;"><b>5. Turkeys have their own unique language.</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Turkeys have their own unmistakable form of <span class="s1">communicating</span> with one another. In fact, they can even recognize each other’s individual voices. Researchers have even found over 30 distinct vocalizations amongst turkeys in the wild. These smooth talking birds sure do have a way with “<span class="s1">words”</span> – or gobbles, putts, purrs and cackles, rather.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As you can see, turkeys are so much more than just a dish to be served at the holiday dinner table. Let one go free as a bird this year, and opt for a tofu turkey or any one of the other many delicious vegan options that are availabl</span><u style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">e.</u></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Read more: <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/5-facts-that-will-make-you-want-to-hug-a-turkey-not-eat-one-this-thanksgiving.html#ixzz3hP2ZrX8h">http://www.care2.com/causes/5-facts-that-will-make-you-want-to-hug-a-turkey-not-eat-one-this-thanksgiving.html#ixzz3hP2ZrX8h</a></span></div>
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<strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">interest in Farm Sanctuary’s <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Adopt a Turkey Project</em>. This program runs from October until Thanksgiving. You can sponsor one of our sanctuary residents for the entire year through our <a href="http://www.farmsanctuary.org/giving/adopt-a-farm-animal/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Adopt a Farm Animal Program"><em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Adopt a Farm Animal Project</em></a>. <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Adopt a Farm Anima</em>l sponsorship make great gifts! The 2015 <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Adopt a Turkey Project</em> will start in October of 2015.</strong></h4>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Since 1986, Farm Sanctuary’s </span><em style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Adopt a Turkey Project</em><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> has encouraged people to save a turkey at Thanksgiving through sponsorships that help us rescue animals and provide care for them at our sanctuaries, as well as educate and advocate for turkeys and other farm animals everywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For a one-time donation gift of just $30, anyone can sponsor a turkey. As a turkey sponsor, you will receive a special <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Adopt a Turkey</em> certificate with a color photo of and fun details about your new friend.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Turkey sponsorships also make perfect gifts, so make an even greater impact this holiday season by sharing the love with others. For a gift of $210, you can sponsor the whole flock and have adoption certificates sent to family and friends!</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: #783f04;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">November 15, 2015</strong><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Feed the Turkeys</strong></span><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #783f04;">Acton, CA</span></strong>Every Thanksgiving, Farm Sanctuary offers opportunities to celebrate a compassionate Thanksgiving holiday. This event will feature open-barn time to meet the Farm Sanctuary animal residents and our famous turkey-feeding ceremony –help us treat our beloved turkeys to a feast of squash, cranberries, and pumpkin pie! Our turkeys are thankful for your friendship, love, and support. This event will also include light refreshments and presentation by Farm Sanctuary’s National Shelter Director Susie Coston. We encourage you to help us celebrate this year! Please check back for additional information and registration.</span></div>
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Consider this: unlike your unlucky bird, Anne and Jessica – ‘Turkey’ – are spending their Thanksgiving being pampered, and that’s not a euphemism for being baked in the oven!</div>
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Named after Hollywood’s lovely and vocal vegans Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain – the two feathery fowls were rescued from certain death by Southern California animal rights activist Karen Dawn who took them to her house for a little bit of pampering and holiday appreciation!</div>
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While other turkeys get plucked and roasted, Karen treated Anne and Jessica to a not-so-broiled bath and blow dry: fluffing their feathers just in time for an elegant, ‘turkey-less’ Thanksgiving feast! They’re even topping the evening off with a bottle of Wild Turkey Bourbon!</div>
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“I do this as a fun way to send a serious message,” Dawn said.</div>
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“Most people would be unaware that most animal cruelty laws exempt farm animals and turkeys are not even covered under federal humane slaughter laws -- so their lives and deaths for our holiday celebration are unconscionably painful.</div>
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Dawn says she planned this unusual occasion to show that ‘turkey day’ is a lot more fun when turkeys are ‘alive and well.</div>
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After Thanksgiving, she says Anne and Jessica will head to Animal Place in Grass Valley Northern California to live out their lives as turkey ambassadors.<br>
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<em>Visit the <a href="http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/karendawn/turkeyrescue2013" style="cursor: pointer;">Animal Place fundraising page</a></em><em>.</em></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">More than 10,000 bears are kept on bile farms in China, and official figures put the number suffering the same fate in Vietnam at 1,245. The bears are milked regularly for their bile, which is used in traditional medicine.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bile is extracted using various painful, invasive techniques, all of which cause massive infection in the bears. This cruel practice continues despite the availability of a large number of effective and affordable herbal and synthetic alternatives.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Most farmed bears are kept in tiny cages. In China, the cages are sometimes so small that the bears are unable to turn around or stand on all fours. Some bears are put into cages as cubs and never released. Bears may be kept caged like this for up to 30 years. Most farmed bears are starved, dehydrated and suffer from multiple diseases and malignant tumours that ultimately kill them.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bear bile has been a popular ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine for 3,000 years. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">UDCA has proven to be effective, although medical practitioners now often claim that its effectiveness has been overrated. Veterinarians examining bile from farmed bears have also discovered that it is often contaminated with pus as a result of the conditions on bear farms. Further, both synthetic and herbal alternatives exist that are cheaper and more readily available. Synthetic UDCA is sometimes used in the West as an alternative to surgery for the treatment of gallstones, primary cirrhosis, autoimmune hepatitis, and colon cancer.Many practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine prefer to use one of the fifty-four herbal alternatives, such as sage, rhubarb or dandelion, to cure various ailments. </span></div>
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Bear bile has been used in traditional Asian medicine for thousands of years. It contains high levels of ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) known to be useful for treating liver and gall bladder conditions. However, there are now many readily available herbal and synthetic alternatives with the same medicinal properties. Traditional medicine practitioners agree, nobody’s health will suffer due to a lack of bear bile.</div>
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The extraction of bear bile from live bears causes unimaginable suffering and long term health problems for these physically and psychologically damaged animals.</div>
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A number of techniques exist, all of which are particularly gruesome. While the techniques vary between Vietnam and China, each involves bears being kept in tiny cages. Extraction methods range from “free drip” where the bear suffers a hole in their gall bladder, to the insertion of permanent catheters.</div>
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Crush cages and bears locked into metal jackets have now been made illegal in China – but are likely to still be used in poorer farms. Bears literally grow up in tiny cages to the point where their bodies have contorted to fit the bars. Most have few teeth left due to literally trying to chew their way out.</div>
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In China some farms have breeding programmes, but also rely on these being added to by poaching bears from the wild. Many bears can be caged as cubs and never released, suffering up to 30 years of continuous torture by bile extraction.</div>
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Most farmed bears however are starved, dehydrated and suffer from multiple diseases and malignant tumours that ultimately kill them.</div>
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A 2011 poll by Animals Asia found that a staggering 87% of Chinese people interviewed disagree with the cruel practice of bear bile farming.</div>
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The medical community too is shunning bear bile farming, with thousands of pharmacies recently pledging never to stock bile products as part of Animals Asia’s Healing Without Harm programme.</div>
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This year the owners of Nanning Bear Bile Farm asked us to take over and convert it into a sanctuary. They were in agreement that the industry must end – because, in their words, bear bile farming is both cruel and hopeless.</div>
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Meanwhile Kai Bao, the biggest single buyer of bear bile, recently announced they were pursuing research into bear bile alternatives with government backing. The suggestion remains that the market is reducing.</div>
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Unfortunately, bear bile farming is still completely legal in China – albeit with regulations aimed at curbing the worst cruelty of the industry. Regulations that are circumvented or ignored time and again – so far, with no prosecutions being made.</div>
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In Vietnam, bear bile farming has been technically illegal since 1992, but it wasn’t until 2005 that species-specific legislation was introduced banning the exploitation of these endangered animals. Sadly, bear bile farming persists in the country due to legal loopholes as well as the fact that demand still exists.</div>
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5. We won’t stop fighting until bear bile farming is ended for good</div>
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Since being set up in 1998 Animals Asia has continuously campaigned to end bear bile farming in China and Vietnam. Thanks to the staunch support of people all over the world, we have been able to take bear bile farming from a dark secret to an international outrage. We have rescued more than 500 bears in Vietnam and China from the cruelty of bear bile farms and are absolutely committed to ending this cruel trade.</div>
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But we can’t do it alone. We need your help and the help of everyone you know to condemn this barbaric industry to the history books. So please, tell your friends, share this article and support our work. Together we can end the cruelty.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The demand for rhinoceros horns in traditional Chinese medicine has led not only to the poaching of the endangered animals, but the <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/rhino-horns-stolen-from-museums-sold-on-black-market-in-asia.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">theft of horns from animals in museums</a>. Bile from bears is also an ingredient used in Chinese medicine, as a fever suppressant. The bile is cruelly extracted from bears in cages via holes punched in their bodies, a “harvesting technique” that is approved by the Chinese government.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/rhino-horns-stolen-from-museums-sold-on-black-market-in-asia.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Guardian</a> reports that practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine are now joining with animal rights activists to call for an end to bear-bile farming.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuxW_29ZnuHryh3MHRRztG32WxCfAmINUveTPXTjfV3o02OfEOnw7hK-lYmB02oMYxfhc1r__Wwy9kMBMiTh-rcVfAK5qG_XqqGlHt-g5edkIXvVY_Hkn0WXZa5SVcf6vBjaXabQmkg7k/s640/blogger-image--889301296.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="240" id="id_66f4_a8f8_d0cb_f66" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuxW_29ZnuHryh3MHRRztG32WxCfAmINUveTPXTjfV3o02OfEOnw7hK-lYmB02oMYxfhc1r__Wwy9kMBMiTh-rcVfAK5qG_XqqGlHt-g5edkIXvVY_Hkn0WXZa5SVcf6vBjaXabQmkg7k/s400/blogger-image--889301296.jpg" style="height: auto; width: 400px;" width="400"></a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">About 242 types of medicine, including <em>tanreqing</em> for lowering fever in children, are produced from bear bile. The bear-bile industry is described as secretive though there are an estimated to 96 farms in China, with about 10,000 to 20,000 bears. One bear produces about 6 1/2 pounds of bile per year, which is worth about 12,000 yuan or just under $2,000 at wholesale prices, or more when marketed directly to hospitals and buyers. One company, the Shanghai-based <a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=300039:CH" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Kaibao</a>, is thought to take about half of all the bile.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bear-bile farming began in North Korea in the 1980s before spreading to China and Vietnam. After an international outcry, it was banned in Vietnam in 2005 but has taken root in Laos, one of the poorest countries in southeast Asia. The <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/laos/7950161/Inside-a-bear-bile-farm-in-Laos.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Telegraph</a> describes the conditions of the bears on one farm:</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSDS6Ok405Rjc4-gnH857Bu7-KjTOLKrzPRHeaMZbxeMtlJJhW30lO_PjOU_c8QJLhtdhtNIQVfXQvv5-BBWZZN4GFiPy7IdtRXl1rLUE91wON8GufAQDcrurmKBhfwsE5r0QE7WpmXEs/s640/blogger-image-1918677732.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: start;"><br></a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br>In the wild an adult black bear would roam across a territory 100 square miles in size, but here, in the Luang Prabang farm, they are confined in barred enclosures measuring 15 sq ft. Some of the animals cannot stand fully upright and some display the repetitive swaying movements of severe stress. Most also have mange, and scratch incessantly at their patchy fur. Despite the 100F heat outside, there is no water in any of the cages.</span></div>
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Disturbing as all this is to witness, these bears are luckier than others. In some bile farms the bears live with a catheter inserted into their gall bladder. To enable farmers to extract the bile without risk of attack, the animals are often confined in ‘crush cages’ so tight that they can hardly move at all. A bear in a well-run zoo or safari park can live for up to 35 years. Most bile-farm bears are unlikely to survive much beyond eight years, according to <a href="http://www.freethebears.org.au/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Free the Bears</a>.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSDS6Ok405Rjc4-gnH857Bu7-KjTOLKrzPRHeaMZbxeMtlJJhW30lO_PjOU_c8QJLhtdhtNIQVfXQvv5-BBWZZN4GFiPy7IdtRXl1rLUE91wON8GufAQDcrurmKBhfwsE5r0QE7WpmXEs/s640/blogger-image-1918677732.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" id="id_9160_a2ae_7a1c_6854" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSDS6Ok405Rjc4-gnH857Bu7-KjTOLKrzPRHeaMZbxeMtlJJhW30lO_PjOU_c8QJLhtdhtNIQVfXQvv5-BBWZZN4GFiPy7IdtRXl1rLUE91wON8GufAQDcrurmKBhfwsE5r0QE7WpmXEs/s400/blogger-image-1918677732.jpg" style="height: auto; width: 400px;" width="400"></a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gao Yimin, a professor at Capital Medical University, is quoted by the <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/rhino-horns-stolen-from-museums-sold-on-black-market-in-asia.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Guardian</a> as saying that synthetic materials are similarly effective and even safer than bear bile, and that the cruel technique used to obtain it “actually reduces the effectiveness of the gall and is harmful to human health.” Toby Zhang, external affairs director of an NGO, cites research by Chengdu military scientists that “found that 100% of farmed bears were suffering from infections and other ailments despite being pumped full of antibiotics.” In addition, more than a third of the bears who are rescued die of liver cancer, meaning that the bile may contain carcinogens.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There are thousands of drug stores in China; about forty have agreed to stop stocking medicines made from bear bile and join campaign against its use. This support is a “major step forward,” as Jill Robinson, the founder of <a href="http://www.animalsasia.org/index.php?UID=2J0NIOGTVCWA" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Animals Asia</a>, says. She has been campaigning to end bear-bile farming since 1995. It remains unclear if the Chinese government will respond to the campaign, as Chinese authorities have a “long-standing desire to protect traditional medicine” and are concerned about the consequences of closing the industry, from finding “vast shelters or mass euthanasia” for the bears to new jobs for the workers.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But read the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/laos/7950161/Inside-a-bear-bile-farm-in-Laos.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Telegraph</a>‘s description of how the bile is taken from anesthetized bears and it becomes all too clear why bear-bile farming should be banned in Laos, in China and everywhere.</span></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;"><br><br>Read more: <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/ban-bear-bile-farming-in-china.html#ixzz3h9CBZkRm" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.care2.com/causes/ban-bear-bile-farming-in-china.html#ixzz3h9CBZkRm</a></span><br>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.animalsasia.org/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Animals Asia</a> received six bears last week </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">after the Sichuan Forestry Department removed them from an illegal farm in China where their bile was being harvested.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The bears were <a href="http://www.animalsasia.org/index.php?UID=NSLWICXPOQT" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reportedly</a> in rough shape and understandably grumpy when they were taken in by their rescuers. Some had facial injuries from banging their heads on the bars of their cages, another was starving with bile leakage, while yet another will require major abdominal surgery.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“If you’ve seen the paws of the bears it’s obvious they haven’t stood on solid ground for years,” <a href="http://www.animalsasia.org/index.php?UID=NSLWICXPOQT" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a> Jill Robinson, CEO and Founder of Animals Asia.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fortunately for these six bears, they will be treated for injuries and illnesses and have a chance to live free from the tiny cages that had confined them, but their rescue has once again brought to light the suffering of bears who are still being kept on bile farms and regularly “milked” with catheters or by a technique known as “free-dripping,” which involves creating an open hole in their abdomens through which bile drips out.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5MKMpmMAj9Ut5HuD2dbqKy4Qu7lM9kfsY6t4rkNwsT8HqmOePoWZ3R0umiuUOnRDQbyQgOeRg3xKCJvXrowodGgNbTxhBqmYX2wrB1VPyDNWpp8zXjturmmNlvcnhAP5ihsUm1wN_vk4/s640/blogger-image--1393489610.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" id="id_ca3_c97f_98cd_9249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5MKMpmMAj9Ut5HuD2dbqKy4Qu7lM9kfsY6t4rkNwsT8HqmOePoWZ3R0umiuUOnRDQbyQgOeRg3xKCJvXrowodGgNbTxhBqmYX2wrB1VPyDNWpp8zXjturmmNlvcnhAP5ihsUm1wN_vk4/s400/blogger-image--1393489610.jpg" style="height: auto; width: 390px;" width="390"></a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The bears’ gall bladders are severely damaged from being repeatedly jabbed every few weeks and the process also leads to the dangerous leakage of bile into the body. In some cases, the result of this leakage is a slow, agonizing death from peritonitis. The wounds from the unsterilized needles cause massive and painful abscesses and the bears suffer severe joint and muscle ailments from their inability to move freely. Their physical pain is compounded with the mental stress that this horrific situation causes and many bears end up psychologically damaged,” <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/saving-bears-from-the-cruelty-of-bile-farming.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a> Robinson.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many of the bears used in bile farming are Asiatic black bears, also known as moon bears because of the crescent-shaped marking on their chests, who are listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Under the Convention of the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), the commercial export of bear parts is illegal, including gall bladders and bile.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The bears produce bile with high concentrations of Ursodeoxycholic Acid (UDCA), which is used in traditional Chinese medicine. However, UDCA can be synthetically produced without the use of animals and there are more than 50 herbal alternatives available that are affordable and effective.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Unfortunately, proponents of this insidious industry continue to insist that it’s humane.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzSBF3O7APbm7i3cUWMmrGvt3pT4EZpA6AbC1KNWxuq-39-Vq6zg3v_lXsRihWqEwVLZMkjiM1tU89kmL7KCnnOD16zOKw065fmBu6mM2qt1BbCi3FzLuy1zPwBZQuW40OGfKnkFLQ1tE/s640/blogger-image--505191174.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="288" id="id_b947_8790_461f_ef81" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzSBF3O7APbm7i3cUWMmrGvt3pT4EZpA6AbC1KNWxuq-39-Vq6zg3v_lXsRihWqEwVLZMkjiM1tU89kmL7KCnnOD16zOKw065fmBu6mM2qt1BbCi3FzLuy1zPwBZQuW40OGfKnkFLQ1tE/s400/blogger-image--505191174.jpg" style="height: auto; width: 400px;" width="400"></a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The process of extracting bear bile was as easy, natural and painless as turning on a tap,” <a href="http://www.animalsasia.org/index.php?UID=FEJP2BB8YOO" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a> Fang Shuting, head of China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine at a press conference in February.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“When they say they have better, more humane ways of extracting the bile, it’s rubbish. You can’t surgically extract the bile and say it’s humane – it’s offensive,” <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2013/0110/1224328627822.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said</a> Robinson.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fortunately, public awareness of the plight of bears on bile farms is growing. In the past decade a number of farms have been shut down and this rescue saw the 285th bear saved and released to Animals Asia’s Moon Bear Rescue Centre in Sichuan.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“In Vietnam it’s illegal and the number of bears has reduced from 4,000 to 2,400. Today in China there are a minimum of 10,000 in bear bile farms. The positive thing in China is the rise in public outrage about bear-bile farming. At one stage it was the second-most searched term after Jeremy Lin,” Robinson <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2013/0110/1224328627822.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">told</a> the Irish Times.</span></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Read more: <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/6-bears-rescued-from-bile-farm.html#ixzz3h9EXr6yZ" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.care2.com/causes/6-bears-rescued-from-bile-farm.html#ixzz3h9EXr6yZ</a></span></div>
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Every year, without fail, the locals in the Yucatán city of Citilcum,celebrate a tradition known as Kots Kaal Pato. Basically, it's a day when the whole town puts on their best clothes, gathers around a huge city center scaffolding and then proceed to kill a whole bunch of innocent animals, mostly for the lols.</div>
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Kots Kaal Pato isn't actually that different from the Mexican tradition of piñatas, only instead of filling colorful paper-mache figures with candy, people fill them them with live animals—or vermin, as they're called—that the town's children have rustled up. For the most part that means iguanas, but the game's most sought-after stuffing is an endangered marsupial called an opossum.<br>
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Then, just like with a regular piñata, people take turns at beating the holy crap out of the toy with sticks. Unfortunately, the animal that survive the initial shovel whacking don't tend to last much longer. If they somehow miraculously escape the festive deathtrap, the crowd will catch them and trample them to piece.</div>
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After they've exhausted their opossum supply, the people of Citilcum bring out a duck, the day's guest of honor. The bird is tied up and hung from a makeshift wooden structure so contestants can clamber over each other in an attempt to try and grab it. Whoever manages to catch it wins.</div>
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"We don't know where this tradition comes from. I was taught by my parents, and my parents from their parents and so on. It used to be done in a large kapok tree nearby, but in 2002—when Hurricane Isidore hit Yucatan—the tree fell," recounted Idelfonso Tec, an elderly gentleman who was born and raised in Citilcum.</div>
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Freddy Poot Sosa, a Mayan culture researcher, seemed equally confused by the event. "I had no clue that such a celebration existed, I guess it must be a very local and exclusive tradition," he told me.</div>
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Nobody may know where this all started, but one thing is for sure—Kots Kaal Pato is something still happening in 2015.</div>
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Iguanas, opossums and ducks are killed mercilessly as part of "traditional festivities"</div>
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Mérida.- The Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (Profepa) issued a recommendation to the mayor of Izamal, Yucatan state to prevent further sacrificing animals in a ritual called "Kots Kaal Duck".</div>
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Every year on February 1 in Tlacotalpan—a city in the Mexican state of Veracruz—bulls are horrifically tortured during the “Fiesta de la Virgen de la Candelaria” festival. Liquor is poured down the bulls’ throats, and the animals are tied to boats and dragged across a river before being set loose in the streets. Participants then chase and beat the terrified animals and stab them with bats and knives. The torture continues for hours as drunken residents throw bricks and trash at the animals, kick and punch them, and cut off their ears. Surviving bulls are then turned out to pasture, no doubt left to suffer from their injuries. For photos of this barbaric event. The festival runs through February 9 and also includes gruesome chicken fights and horse races.</h3>
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<b>BanderillasIt seems hard to believe that in this so-called civilised age, a most vicious and cruel spectacle of blood continues to flourish in Spain and certain other countries. Bullfighting is barbaric and should have been banned long ago, as bear-baiting was. It is difficult to understand how crowds of people will pay money and take pleasure in watching one lone creature – who has never done them any harm — getting hacked to death. How can anyone with an ounce of compassion, cheer and chant olé as a banderilla or lance is thrust into the animal’s pain-racked body?</b></div>
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<b>Bullfighting has a very glorified public image — it is presented as a contest between the brave matador, who boldly risks life and limb to tackle a mad and ferocious beast. The matador is always dressed in a traditional costume of brilliant colours: the bullfight is seen by many as the mysterious ritual between man and beast, which is an integral part of Spanish culture and custom. For this reason, many tourists who visit Spain feel that seeing a bullfight is a necessary part of their holiday, just as tourists visiting Britain go to see the Tower of London.</b></div>
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<b>The bull is not an aggressive animal, and the reason he is angry and attempts to charge at the matador whilst in the bullring is mainly because he has been horrendously abused for the previous two days. In fact, what spectators see is not a normal, healthy bull, but a weakened, half-blinded and mentally destroyed version, whose chances of harming his tormentors is virtually nil. The bull has wet newspapers stuffed into his ears; vaseline is rubbed into his eyes to blur his vision; cotton is stuffed up his nostrils to cut off his respiration and a needle is stuck into his genitals. Also, a strong caustic solution is rubbed onto his legs which throws him off balance. This also keeps him from lying down on the ground. In addition to this, drugs are administered to pep him up or slow him down, and strong laxatives are added to his feed to further incapacitate him. He is kept in a dark box for a couple of days before he faces the ring: the purpose of this is to disorientate him. When he is let out of the box, he runs desperately towards the light at the end of the tunnel. He thinks that at last his suffering is over and he is being set free — instead, he runs into the bullring to face his killers and a jeering mob.</b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8tpbhUISbzQet9kk3ia_Z070XW8gYeX8PS1mADfV0fXujGCsQMCP1ixKCU2KjsFMVBlM8ao46pNaqW-FWRN5qnIiOWd3AAkVovS6PK2hdnYYbcVhQRAjX_eeTed9YXmuxo7qUQcSrDQ4/s640/blogger-image-1344952176.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" id="id_7fac_e3d2_85e4_dc4a" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8tpbhUISbzQet9kk3ia_Z070XW8gYeX8PS1mADfV0fXujGCsQMCP1ixKCU2KjsFMVBlM8ao46pNaqW-FWRN5qnIiOWd3AAkVovS6PK2hdnYYbcVhQRAjX_eeTed9YXmuxo7qUQcSrDQ4/s640/blogger-image-1344952176.jpg" style="height: auto; width: 640px;" width="640"></a></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The widely circulated photograph displayed above purports to have captured Múnera at the very moment, in the middle of a bullfight, when he came to the realization that what he was doing was an injustice to animals and decided to henceforth campaign against bullfighting. Although Múnera did undergo such a conversion, this photo doesn't depict the instant of his change of heart, for a number of reasons:</span><br>
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<li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The posture shown in the photograph is not one of a torero collapsing or expressing contrition; rather, it's a common posture of desplante (defiance), a bit of showmanship in which the torero indicates his total domination of the bull by taking up what appears to be a dangerous position in front of the animal's horns. (Also, the quotation that accompanies the photograph was not spoken by Múnera; it is the work of Spanish writer Antonio Gala, who was not himself a torero.)</span></li>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As detailed at The Last Arena blog, this photograph isn't a picture of Múnera at all, but rather a photo of some other torero.</span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="boldtext" style="font-weight: bold;">Q: Did you ever think of quitting bullfighting before that bull confined you to a wheelchair?</span>A: Yes, there were several critical moments. Once I killed a pregnant heifer and saw how the fetus was extracted from her womb. The scene was so terrible that I puked and started to cry. I wanted to quit right there but my manager gave me a pat on my back and said I shouldn’t worry, that I was going to be an important bullfighting figure and scenes like that were a normal thing to see in this profession. I’m sorry to say that I missed that first opportunity to stop. I was 14 and didn’t have enough common sense. Some time later, in an indoor fight, I had to stick my sword in five or six times to kill a bull. The poor animal, his entrails pouring out, still refused to die. He struggled with all his strength until the last breath. This caused a very strong impression on me, and yet again I decided it wasn’t the life for me. But my travel to Spain was already arranged, so I crossed the Atlantic. Then came the third chance, the definitive one. It was like God thought, “If this guy doesn’t want to listen to reason, he’ll have to learn the hard way.” And of course I learned.</span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A: When I went to the U.S. [for medical treatment], where I had to face an antitaurine society that cannot conceive how another society can allow the torture and murder of animals. It was my fellow students, the doctors, nurses, the other physically disabled people, my friends, my North American girlfriend, and the aunt of one of my friends, who said I deserved what happened to me. Their arguments were so solid that I had to accept that it was me who was wrong and that the 99 percent of the human race who are firmly against this sad and cruel form of entertainment were totally right. Many times the whole of the society is not to blame for the decisions of their governments. Proof of this is that most people in Spain and Colombia are genuinely anti-bullfighting. Unfortunately there’s a minority of torturers in each government supporting these savage practices.</span></div>
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Every year from July 7th-14th thousands pack into Pamplona to start Spain's most famous bull-running fiesta to honour Navarre capital's patron saint, San Fermin. Spain stages more than 3,000 fiestas (festivals) each year but the 7 days of bull-running are the favourite in terms of spectacle and excitement.</div>
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After the daybreak of July 7th, runners (mainly young men) gather at the bottom of Santo Domingo, which is the starting line. They crowd together and sing to the image of San Fermin which is placed in a niche on a wall. The song goes: "A San Fermín pedimos, por ser nuestro patrón, nos guíe en el encierro dándonos su bendición" ("We ask San Fermín, as our Patron, to guide us through the Bull Run and give us his blessing.")</div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then, as a rocket goes off, a number of fighting bulls are let out onto the streets. A second rocket is then let off to make sure everyone knows the bulls are loose in the street. The bulls run along the narrow street 825 metres (half a mile) to a bull ring. The runners dash along in front of the bulls, aiming to feel the breath of the bull on their backs, getting as close as possible - all whilst trying to avoid getting gored by their sharp horns.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The supposed way to do this is to start off slowly when the bulls are quite a distance behind. Then as they get nearer start running like hell! You can then go near them for a short time, as near as you are prepared to risk it, and then quickly get out of the way. Runners look for a gap in the fence to slip through or jump over, or a space against the wall of the street.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The tradition is said to have come from practicality when, in 1591 residents merely had to herd the bulls to the bull-fighting arena. At first only the drovers were used to lead the bulls. But it seems that at some date, the butchers guild, who had the responsibility of buying the bulls, began to join in with the drovers and began to chase behind the bulls and heifers up to the bull-ring from Santo Domingo street - the starting point of the run.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As time passed the event became more and more popular and some people began to run in front of the bulls and not behind them, as the drovers do. In 1852, a new bull-ring was built and a new route - becoming much shorter also, because as from 1899, it was decided to bring the bulls up to a small corral in Santo Domingo street the night before they fight in the ring.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Originally only a few daring souls ran with the bulls but the adrenaline rush of running in front of a 1500lb bull has since caught on. People now journey from all around the world to run with the bulls.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In many villages, bulls are tied up and their horns set on fire, burning the bulls’ faces and rendering them blind. These bulls run into walls and stumble over things just to entertain people. After hours of torture, the bulls all die and their bodies are cut apart and distributed amongst the participants. Sometimes the bulls are burned alive. At others, bulls are tortured until they jump in the water to escape, some of whom drown. In Peñalsordo, Extremadura, Spain, six young cows are tortured to death, four in the makeshift plaza and two released to be tormented in the streets, all witnessed by children. To soften up bulls before bull fights and festivals, they often have substances rubbed into their eyes to blur their vision, cotton balls inserted in their nose to weaken their respiration, and a needle stuck into their genitals.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These fiestas are defended, and actively promoted, by the Spanish government as being part of their cultural heritage. As a lawyer involved with the media, I know many experts say that people who enjoy inflicting such savage violence onto animals, or even watching it, are a potential danger to other people, especially children, something tourists are entitled to know about.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Understandably such cruelty is causing outrage among millions of people all over the world, as the publicity of these shocking events spreads in the media and internet.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many have said they would expect a travel company to forewarn them of such events and if they accidentally stumbled across such an event without having been warned they would take some sort of action against the travel company. They have also said they would be alarmed at the risk of coming across such people while on holiday.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Millions of people all over the world care deeply about animal welfare, and as publicity of animal abuse grows hugely, increasing numbers are saying they would favour and publicise travel companies who advised people about animal abuse issues as it is so important to them. Powerful animal charities should also publicise travel companies who promote, and do not promote, animal welfare.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Make the right choice – for those that say it’s entertainment, that really is a load of bull.</span></div>
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<span class='st_email_large' displayText='Email'></span></div>Keiko T. Oldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859488789054287551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537383451156444426.post-79887366043971902172015-07-12T16:37:00.001-05:002023-03-30T21:40:48.875-05:00Trophy hunting<div class="addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_top" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;">
<div class="addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_top" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;">Trophy hunting is the selective hunting of wild game for human recreation. The trophy is the animal or part of the animal kept, and usually displayed, to represent the success of the hunt. The primary game sought is usually the oldest and most mature animal from a given population.</div><div class="addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_top" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;">Trophy hunting - Wikipedia</div><div class="addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_top" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></div></div><div class="addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_top" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_top" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;">Prince William Defends Trophy Hunting</div><div class="addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_top" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;">03.15.2016</div><div class="addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_top" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/15/prince-william-defends-trophy-hunting.html</div></div><div class="addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_top" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLJI8Fklu7ipbkxTWc-zklzLCvzLG-D-EaK1krZzuYg7cfoDJFRq-ZplV74Lg4aO46mPZ6_lDOq4FiPO5H2bYHytyyq9AXM-mN4X0JfohGxG3Gcjm41bRl7k0VY_4-tbMYP3pMkbXYm90/s640/blogger-image--994777583.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLJI8Fklu7ipbkxTWc-zklzLCvzLG-D-EaK1krZzuYg7cfoDJFRq-ZplV74Lg4aO46mPZ6_lDOq4FiPO5H2bYHytyyq9AXM-mN4X0JfohGxG3Gcjm41bRl7k0VY_4-tbMYP3pMkbXYm90/s640/blogger-image--994777583.jpg" id="id_55f3_1ca1_9020_46ad" style="width: 757px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></div><div class="addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_top" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></div><div class="addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_top" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px;"><br></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Every year, trophy hunters kill thousands of exotic wild animals, representing hundreds of different species, in foreign countries, primarily in Africa. They prefer to kill the most beautiful, the biggest and the rarest.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wealthy trophy hunters pay big bucks to local cash-stripped governments for permits that grant them a choice of which animal to kill—Donald Trump’s two sons just killed several wild animals, including a giraffe and an elephant in Zimbabwe. The list of “huntable” species is usually very long and includes more common species such as impala, black bears, common zebra, giraffes, and baboons, but also endangered species such as elephants, leopards and white rhinos (the Western African black rhino was recently officially declared to be “extinct”).</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There is also no regard for species protected under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) such as the African elephant or leopards. In fact, the more rare the animal, the more thrill to kill for the “big game” hunters, and the higher the price for the permit.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="background-image: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Competition and Bragging rights</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Trophy hunters do not care about conservation, the struggle for survival of many animals. What they care about is killing the biggest and the best, and bringing home full trophy mounts or body parts. Heads, horns, tusks, and other body parts of most of these animals are legally, and sometimes illegally, imported as trophies to the United States by the hunters.</span></div><div style="background-image: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px;"><img src="webkit-fake-url://0ba0895c-6e02-4f2c-a870-6779b3a870fe/imagejpeg" id="id_11a2_9146_446c_799" style="width: 20px; height: auto;"></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="background-image: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Trophy hunting hurts conservation</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The mantra of trophy hunters is that their killing “benefits conservation”, but not only are individual animals brutally sacrificed, trophy hunting poses a significant threat to the very survival of African lions. Similarly, considering that African elephants are already endangered— by some estimates facing extinction in 50 years—it is ludicrous to argue that trophy hunting benefits elephants.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The ESA allows importation of endangered species only for scientific research, enhancement of propagation, or survival of the species. However, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), which implements the ESA, has broadly interpreted the term “enhancement” to include trophy hunting of protected species, and trophy hunters often take advantage of the loopholes to find ways to take “their trophies” across the U.S. border, under the guise of scientific research and other permits for exemption.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In 1997, Kenneth Behring, millionaire, trophy hunter and former president of the Safari Club International (SCI), paid the government of Kazakhstan to allow him to shoot an endangered Kara Tau argali sheep, of which only 100 individuals were left. He then donated $100 million to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and solicited the help of the museum for an import permit. A public outcry ensured and USFWS withdrew the permit. This is not an isolated case and the reality is that many museums have been involved in facilitating the killing and import of endangered species by trophy hunters in the past.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.idausa.org/campaigns/wild-free2/habitats-campaign/anti-hunting/the-safari-club-international-sci/" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong style="background-image: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Safari Club International (SCI)</strong></a><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Trophy hunting is an elitist hobby for those excited to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a safari with the goal of killing a beautiful, large or rare exotic animal. Many trophy hunters are members of powerful and wealthy organizations such as the Safari Club International (SCI), which promotes competitive trophy hunting throughout the world, even of rare and sensitive species, including in cowardly “canned hunts”, through an elaborate awards program.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="background-image: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Killing contests</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SCI members kill particular species of animals to win so-called ‘Grand Slam’ and ‘Inner Circle’ titles. The list of macabre ‘contests’ include the Africa Big Five, (leopard, elephant, lion, rhino, and buffalo); the North American Twenty Nine (all species of bear, bison, sheep, moose, caribou, and deer); and the Antlered Game of the Americas, among many other contests. SCI members take short cuts in their hurry to beat competitors by killing captive and defenseless animals in canned hunts, both in the United States and in other countries. Corruption and unethical behavior is rampant in this bloodthirsty competition. “Hunters” lure animals to their guns with bait, shoot them from helicopters or vehicles with spotlights, or in or near national parks. There are 29 awards in all, and in order to win all of them, at the highest level, a hunter would have to kill 322 animals of different species or subspecies.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="background-image: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The “Holy Grail” for SCI members</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The “Holy Grail” for SCI members is the club’s record book, a three-volume compendium of thousands of pages listing names of who killed what animal, where and when. The list spans more than 1,100 species, some of which have since become extinct. Meticulous scores and rankings are recorded for the biggest tusks, horns, antlers, skulls and bodies, with photographs of grinning men and women posing with their high powered rifles or archery gear next to dead animals, often holding the animals heads up to display their “prize”.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SCI contributes large sums to mostly Republican candidates, and supports those who are eager to help further the club’s shameful agenda to weaken and to circumvent the intent of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) and to legally import once-banned trophies of endangered and threatened wildlife.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Examples of the SCI’s efforts to derail wildlife protection include fighting a current petition to protect the African lion under the ESA. Along with the National Rifle Association (NRA), SCI intervened with a law that directed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove the Northern Rocky Mountain wolves from the endangered species list. In 2007, SCI testified at a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service hearing opposing the proposed listing of polar bears as a “threatened” species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The SCI continues to create and feed a culture glamorizing death and violence globally, across political lines, international borders, and against wildlife and even people. Fortunes are made on the back of millions of animals whose lives are taken by trophy hunters for the sake of killing in an endless spiral of competition.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And while most empathic people prefer to simply watch these magnificent animals, already struggling to survive in human-dominated landscapes, trophy hunters fulfill their lust to kill the largest animals and the most exotic animals to rack up SCI awards. Underlying these actions are futile efforts to transcend weak character, arrested emotional development, narcissism, sexual perversion, anger and finally, a misguided attempt to overcome their own disconnect to nature.</span></div>
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<span class='st_email_large' displayText='Email'></span></div>Keiko T. Oldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859488789054287551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537383451156444426.post-72734485878935479832015-04-25T00:38:00.001-05:002023-04-04T23:28:27.006-05:00WAZA. The World’s Top Zoo Association Suspends Japan. English/Japanese 日本語まとめ付き<div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font style="text-align: center;"><b>| </b></font><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/05/home.html" id="id_791f_794_848_a030" style="text-align: center;">HOME</a><font style="text-align: center;"><b> | </b></font><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2016/02/table-of-contents.html" id="id_7e00_593b_8e94_2b1f" style="text-align: center;">TABLE CONTENTS</a><font style="text-align: center;"><b> | </b></font></span></div><div> <img id="id_22ed_8b70_fc02_be23" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nnhyByEmjzI/VTsoRytxVYI/AAAAAAABQYo/FNjkyH5OgDo/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 875px; height: auto;"><br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">breaking news</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><img id="id_3b3a_b8fc_2524_a635" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cp_uMKImKis/VWxpa98yCHI/AAAAAAABSb8/k4PvlKAj_Mg/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 479px; height: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#248f24" face="Arial" size="6"><b>Japan Prince Akishino Supports JAZA Decision!</b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Georgia" size="4">Japan’s Emperor and his royal family are still very much revered in Japan. However, it is a surpris<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">e to hear one speak out on an issue publicly, and now Japan’s Prince Akishino has stated his support for the Japan Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA) ending the buying of dolphins from Taiji’s bloody dolphin hunts.</span></font></span></p><div class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Georgia" size="4"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;">Prince Akishino is the second son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, and so second in line for the Japanese Chrysanthemum Throne. Prince Akishino studied law and biology in Gakushuin University, and went on to specialize in fish biology at Oxford University, but received his PhD in ornithology. According to Wikipedia, he introduced the fish tilapia to Thailand for aquaculture. Along with many other honors, he is President of JAZA. </p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;">According to Kyodo News: “On the first day of the meeting, Prince Akishino, who serves as president of the association, expressed concern over expected hardships for aquariums with dolphins, but he also said JAZA's decision is likely to generate positive consequences in the future.” Reportedly, participants were taken aback by Prince Akishino’s outspokenness on the issue.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;">According to the story, JAZA held a two-day annual meeting in Osaka. Despite rumors beforehand, none of JAZA’s member aquariums quit the organization over the decision at the meeting, although several have expressed concern that they will have trouble getting more dolphins for their aquariums as their current animals die off.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;">JAZA was suspended in April by the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) over its continued flaunting of WAZA’s code of ethics, which opposed buying dolphins from Taiji caught in the cruel drive hunts. WAZA’s decision to take action came after many organizations and thousands of individuals have urged WAZA to dump JAZA. In 2004, Earth Island Institute’s Save Japan Dolphins Campaign and the Elsa Nature Conservancy of Japan revealed the role of aquariums in buying live Taiji dolphins at high prices, an order of magnitude more than a dolphin could be sold for meat, resulting in a huge subsidy of the dolphin hunters by the captivity industry. JAZA held a vote last week, with a majority agreeing to end buying dolphins from Taiji and remain members in good standing with WAZA.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;">Prince Akishino’s support for JAZA’s decision is the most important support we have yet seen in Japan for the dolphins. Perhaps he and the royal family are getting fed up with the Japan Fisheries Agency making the country a global pariah over whale and dolphin policies? He and the royal family can help Japan move away from the dolphin and whale slaughter and towards a more scientific and supportive function for Japan in the global community around marine mammals.</p></font></div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6" color="#ff0000" face="Arial"><b> Taiji dolphin fishermen vow to continue slaughter</b></font></span></div><div> <img id="id_1eca_c75b_a41d_fe45" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wSvpeQ2qAJ0/VWZ4fEZfbWI/AAAAAAABSZM/rwlXueZtH50/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 548px; height: auto;"><br></div><div> Matsumoto (left) and Yoshifumi Kai speak to the media during a news conference on Wednesday in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, about their plan to continue dolphin hunting. | KYODO</div><div><br></div><div><b><font face="Arial" size="5">Taiji dolphin fishermen vow to continue slaughter</font></b></div><div><a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/27/national/taiji-dolphin-fishermen-vow-to-continue-slaughter/#.VWZ10nA8KrW" id="id_c1f0_18ea_f56a_cddb">http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/27/national/taiji-dolphin-fishermen-vow-to-continue-slaughter/#.VWZ10nA8KrW</a></div><div>MAY 27, 2015</div><div><br></div><div>Fishermen in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, vowed Wednesday to continue their dolphin hunt, despite a pledge by zoos and aquariums not to buy animals caught with the controversial method.</div><div><br></div><div>“We will never stop it,” Yoshifumi Kai of the local fisheries cooperative told reporters.</div><div><br></div><div>The news conference came a week after Japan’s zoos and aquariums voted to stop using dolphins caught by the so-called “drive hunt” method, as demanded by the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA).</div><div><br></div><div>Some dolphins are captured alive and sold to aquariums, fetching about ¥1 million ($8,300) each.</div><div><br></div><div>The vote was prompted by WAZA’s move to suspend the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA) last month over the issue.</div><div><br></div><div>WAZA regards drive hunt fishing — where pods of cetaceans are herded into a bay by a wall of sound before being butchered — as “cruel”, a charge local fishermen reject.</div><div><br></div><div>“It’s unclear which part of the drive hunt WAZA considers cruel,” Kai said.</div><div><br></div><div>“We used to harpoon dolphins but that’s several decades ago. Now we sever the spinal cord in a moment and there is not much blood.”</div><div><br></div><div>Shuichi Matsumoto, head of another local fisherman’s group, said they “have not broken any rules,” adding the group wants to continue the tradition and pass it on to future generations.</div><div><br></div><div>Taiji came to worldwide attention after the Oscar-winning 2009 documentary “The Cove” showed pods of the animals forced into a bay and slaughtered with knives, in a mass killing that turned the water red with blood.</div><div><br></div><div>Animal rights activists continue to protest in the town, despite hostility from locals who say they are victims of anti-Japanese bias.</div><div><br></div><div>Many of the dolphins are butchered for food, but campaigners claim there is insufficient demand for their relatively unpopular meat to make the hunt economically worthwhile.</div><div><br></div><div>They charge that the high prices live animals fetch when sold to aquariums and dolphin shows is the only thing that sustains the hunt.</div><div><br></div><div>Despite the overwhelming vote last week by JAZA to abandon the Taiji hunt, five aquariums are reportedly considering leaving the organization so they can continue to source dolphins from the town.</div><div><br></div><div>However, the vote has left aquariums with the problem of how to continue to stock their facilities — only 12 to 13 percent of dolphins at Japanese aquariums are captive-bred, compared with 70 percent in the United States, according to JAZA.</div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.45em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff"><font size="7"> </font><font size="6">WAZA</font></font><font size="6"><font face="Arial" color="#ff0000"> Statement regarding </font><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff">JAZA</font><font face="Arial" color="#ff0000"> </font></font></span></h1><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.45em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" color="#ff0000" size="6"> decision to prohibit its members </font></span></h1><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.45em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6"><font face="Arial" color="#ff0000"> from acquiring dolphins from </font><font face="Arial" color="#0000b8">Taiji</font></font></span></h1><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6"><font face="Arial" color="#0000b8"><br></font></font></span></div><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Date:</b><font size="5" face="Arial"><b> </b></font></span><font size="5" face="Arial"><b>2015/05/20 by WAZA </b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.waza.org/en/site/pressnews-events/press-releases/waza-statement-regarding-jaza-decision-to-prohibit-its-members-from-acquiring-dolphins-from-taiji" id="id_2563_268c_615e_dda5">http://www.waza.org/en/site/pressnews-events/press-releases/waza-statement-regarding-jaza-decision-to-prohibit-its-members-from-acquiring-dolphins-from-taiji</a></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) was pleased to be informed today by the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA) that the organization formally announced their decision to officially ban all members from acquiring dolphins from the Taiji dolphin drive fisheries.</b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b> </b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Gland, Switzerland - 20 May 2015 - </span>The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) was pleased to be informed today by the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA) that the organization formally announced their decision to officially ban all members from acquiring dolphins from the Taiji dolphin drive fisheries.<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></em><br>The decision was made one day before the end of the 30-day grace period after the suspension in accordance with WAZA bylaws. WAZA Council voted unanimously to impose the suspension in Gland Switzerland on 22<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">nd</span> April "2015, based on a determination that JAZA was in violation of WAZA's code of ethics and animal welfare. JAZA board members then discussed the recent WAZA suspension of JAZA in Tokyo at an emergency session.<br> </b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>"The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums praises JAZA's decision to prohibit members from acquiring dolphins from Taiji," said Gerald Dick, WAZA Executive Director. "Today's actions reaffirm WAZA's well-considered approach of working collaboratively with international partners to improve the wellbeing and conservation of global wildlife."<br><br></b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>WAZA has been engaged in dialogue with JAZA to stop the collection of animals from the Taiji drive fisheries for more than ten years. The drives have drawn international attention and criticism for the killing and capture of dolphins and WAZA has previously joined other organizations in speaking out against the practice. As part of the WAZA decision last month, Council also re-affirmed its position that members of WAZA must confirm that they will not acquire dolphins from the Taiji fishery.</b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b> </b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>WAZA considers JAZA's decision to be a welcome break-through and looks forward to receiving further details from JAZA in order to fully appreciate the implications of today's decision.</b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b> <br><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">To view the full PDF of the letter sent to WAZA from JAZA: <a href="http://www.waza.org/files/webcontent/1.public_site/4.press_news_events/press_releases/JAZA%20letter.pdf" title="JAZA Letter" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">CLICK HERE</a><br></span></b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b> </b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Background</b></font></em></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b> </b></font></em></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) is a global organisation that strives to harmonise the principles, policies, practices and strategy for zoos and aquariums worldwide. Via member regional associations WAZA reaches over 1,300 leading Zoos and Aquariums. WAZA is the unifying representative of the global zoos and aquarium community and works in partnership with international conservation organisations such as IUCN and other non-government organisations to advocate for high standards of animal welfare and to achieve conservation in Zoos and Aquariums and in nature www.waza.org<br><br></b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b> </b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b> </b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>WAZA Facts and Figures<br><br></b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Attracting more than 700 million visitors a year, the world zoo and aquarium community has the unique potential to attract, inspire and mobilise public engagement for species and habitat conservation. The <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Biodiversity is Us</span>campaign allows visitors to make a direct connection between people and wildlife. Zoos and aquariums educate the public on biodiversity conservation, and hence promote environmentally sustainable development and social and political change. Some of the revenue produced by the zoos and aquariums is dedicated to field conservation projects around the world. Collectively, the amount contributed to these efforts by zoos and aquariums matches or surpasses the contributions of other leading global conservation organisations.</b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b> </b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>With 70% of the world's population living in cities by 2030, zoos and aquariums offer a vital connection to the importance of biodiversity in our lives</b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b> </b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Contact:</b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b> </b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Hyatt Antognini Amin, Communications Executive for WAZA</b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>hyatt.antogniniamin@waza.org</b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="tel:(0041) 22 999 07 93" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Arial"><b>(0041) 22 999 07 93</b></font></a></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial"><b> </b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" color="#b20000"><b>Taiji town mayor Sangen said that He will protect the dolphin hunt which fishermen have legal rights. The town will not be shaken by the decision.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" color="#b20000"><b>Taiji Whale Museum needs to consider withdrawal or expulsion from JAZA said the Director of Taiji Whale Museum. He also said that he will keep telling JAZA about local effort until the dolphin hunt season starts in September.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" color="#b20000"><b>8 hours ago, the news broke in Japan that JAZA agreed not to take Dolphins from the hunt</b></font></p></div><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 184); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="5">全国の水族館、追い込み漁のイルカ入手不可能に</font></b></span><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 184); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5"> イルカショーに支障も WAZAの改善勧告受け入れへ </font></span></h1><div> <font size="4"><b>2015年5月20日</b> <a href="http://www.sankei.com/life/news/150520/lif1505200024-n1.html" id="id_7aab_6e0d_9e32_3cb0">http://www.sankei.com/life/news/150520/lif1505200024-n1.html</a></font></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> 和歌山県太地町の伝統追い込み漁で捕獲したイルカの水族館展示をめぐり、世界動物園水族館協会(WAZA、本部スイス)が内部の倫理規範に違反するとして、日本動物園水族館協会(JAZA)に改善・除名通告を行っていた問題で、JAZAは20日、都内でWAZA加盟継続の賛否を問う会員投票を行い、WAZA残留の投票が多数を占めた。関係者が明らかにした。</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> 投票結果を受け、JAZAは協会に残留する意向をWAZAに報告する。WAZAの倫理規範に従い、JAZA加盟の施設は今後、追い込み漁で捕獲したイルカの入手をやめるとみられる。</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> JAZAに加入しているのは動物園89、水族館63の計152施設。このうち、太地町からイルカの供給を受けていたのは約30の水族館で、これらの施設はイルカの獲得が困難となることから、子供たちに人気のイルカショーなどの運営に支障が出る恐れがある。</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> 一方、WAZAに残留を決めたことで、JAZA加盟の動物園はWAZAを通じた世界的なネットワークでライオンやキリンなどの飼育や展示を続けることができる。</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> 太地町のイルカ漁をめぐっては、シー・シェパードをはじめとする世界の反捕鯨団体や動物愛護団体が漁師らに悪質な嫌がらせを続けている。</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> この問題について、和歌山県の仁坂吉伸知事は「世界中からのいじめみたいな気がする」と述べ、不快感を示す一方、「『イルカがかわいそう』などの議論があるが、水族館では捕ってきた魚などを多く展示している」と反論していた。</span></p></div><div class="socialbutton clearfix" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul class="socialBox" style="margin: 6px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; display: inline-block; float: left; height: 24px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><li id="blogQuotationWrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; width: 140px; height: 24px; position: relative;"></li></span></ul></div></div><div><font size="6" color="#0000b8"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font color="#0000b8"><b><font size="6"> </font><font size="5">世界トップクラスの動物園協会WAZAは、太地のイルカ虐殺を</font></b></font></div><div><font color="#0000b8" size="5"><b> 停止する事が出来なかった為に日本での活動を中断した。</b></font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Arial"><b>JAZA(日本動物園水族館協会)は、日本の太地の入り江でのイルカ殺害を停止を拒否したため、WAZA(動物園水族館協会世界連盟)は今週、日本動物園水族館協会の会員資格を停止した。</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b>何年もの間、動物の権利活動家は太地のイルカ猟でイルカを毎年 数百頭殺すだけでなく、入り江で捕獲された動物の多くは世界中の水族館にプレミアムで販売されている。WAZAはそうした動物園と水族館を制裁するために圧力をかけている。</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b>WAZAは、全てのメンバーが、野生の動物を捕獲後、残酷で非道徳的に扱う事を禁止するポリシーに従うことを必要とする。WAZAは「しかしJAZAは倫理と動物福祉のWAZA規範に違反した」と声明で述べた。</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b>2000年以来、9月から始まる毎年恒例のイルカ猟でおよそ18000頭のイルカの死んだ。イルカは高い水銀濃度にもかかわらず、ほとんどがイルカ肉のために虐殺されている。子供のイルカは死を免れ、ロシア、中東、ラテンアメリカ、カリブ海地域、および東アジアの海洋哺乳動物施設に販売されている。これらのイルカは最高125000ドルで売られていく。</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b>今までWAZAは太地のイルカ猟を非難していたが、日本のグループに対して直接行動を取ることを拒否していた。</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b>2014年にWAZAから、問題を解決するため2年間にわたりモラトリアムを実施することをJAZAに提案を試みたと述べた。 しかしJAZAは、アイデアを拒否した。</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b>「これはWAZAが独自の倫理とコードを強制できる事を承認される非常に有望なステップである」とサラ·ルーカス、イルカのためのオーストラリアの最高経営責任者(CEO)は述べている。イルカへの残酷は 金属棒を使用して、刺し殺されている。何100等というイルカが捕獲され、見世物の為に世界中に出荷してきた。70年間で、百万以上のイルカと小型クジラが日本で狩られ殺害されたと推定されます。</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b>海外では象を連鎖し、暴行などの動物虐待の恐ろしい行為を世界中から無くさなければならない事は言うまでもありません。</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b>インドの棒で殴られるゾウの赤ちゃん、インドネシアの汚いプールで芸をさせられるイルカ、クマの赤ちゃんが韓国のテレビ放映スタントとしてライオンのケージに入れられ恐怖にさらされた。</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b>"我々は、倫理と動物福祉のコードを強制できる事をWAZAを求めている、とルーカスは述べる。「世界中の残酷さや怠慢に罹患している数千の動物達に利益をもたらすだろう。」</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b>現時点では、JAZAだけ中断されます。それは世界的な非難と共にその行為をクリーンアップされ、世界中の除名を避けたいメンバーは太地のイルカの購入を停止しなければならない。</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b>問題は今、この決定はJAZAに影響があるかどうかだ。それは組織へのモーニングコールとして機能するか。日本の政府と産業界の指導者たちは真剣に取り組むか。太地の漁師が世間の厳しい目に晒されるのか?それとも彼らは利益と言う名の下に、イルカを殺し続けるのか。</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b>時間だけが教えてくれるだろう。JAZAや日本政府、太地の漁師の上に継続的な圧力がかかり続ける事は間違いない。</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b>JAZAが資格を取り消されても、なんら改善しない場合はでも世界有数の動物園が密接にそれらを監視しているだろう。</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b>WAZAは動物園と水族館の欧州連合を含む20以上の準会員、ならびにロンドン動物園、サンディエゴ、トロント動物園、ブロンクス動物園、メルボルン動物園の動物学会を含む300個々の動物園のメンバーを持つ。</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b>大きな事は、ついにWAZAが行動をとる為に働いたすべての人に感謝する。</b></font></div></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><u><b>まとめ翻訳 ケイコ・オールズ</b></u></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><u><b>Transrated to Japanese by Keiko Olds</b></u></font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Arial" size="6" color="#0000b8"><b>...............................</b></font></div><div><div id="ArticleH1Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="NewsTitle" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6" color="#0000b8" face="Arial">Japanese aquariums to stop acquiring Taiji drive hunt dolphins</font></span></h1><span style="font-size: x-large; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6" face="Arial Narrow"><b>May 21. 2015</b></font><font size="5" style="font-weight: bold;"> </font></span><b style="font-size: x-large;">Mainichi News</b></div><div id="ArticleH1Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20150520p2g00m0dm039000c.html" id="id_3a48_461d_c_f07a">http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20150520p2g00m0dm039000c.html</a></div><div id="ArticleH1Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div><br></div><div><font size="5"><b><br></b></font></div></div><div class="NewsBody clr" style="margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="PhotoRight" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(237, 237, 237); outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; float: right; text-align: center; min-width: 150px; clear: right; width: 274px;"><div class="PhotoRightWrap" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 12px 11px 6px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><figure style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: start;"><a href="http://mainichi.jp/graph/2015/05/20/20150520p2g00m0dm039000c/001.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: inherit; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"></font></a></div><figcaption style="margin: auto; padding: 0px;"><div class="caption" style="margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This Sept. 16, 2014, file photo shows drive fishing off Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture. (Mainichi</span></div></figcaption></figure><div id="20150520p2a00m0na020000c" class="PhotoBtn" style="margin: 10px auto 11px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgb(254, 254, 254) 0%, rgb(233, 233, 233) 100%); max-width: 130px; border-top-left-radius: 1px; border-top-right-radius: 1px; border-bottom-right-radius: 1px; border-bottom-left-radius: 1px;"><br></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">JAZA reached the decision as majority of its members -- consisting of 89 zoos and 63 aquariums -- voted to remain part of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums. But its chairman Kazutoshi Arai noted that the outcome did not mean the Japanese organization "rejects drive hunts, which have been promoted by the government."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We do not think it is cruel to take wild dolphins...but as we have reached this kind of conclusion in relation to WAZA, we need to steer (our policy) toward breeding," Arai told a press conference in Tokyo, admitting that being a member of the global body is especially important for domestic zoos to acquire animals through its network.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If expelled, zoos and aquariums in Japan would have faced difficulty in seeking overseas cooperation for breeding rare animals and other issues.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But remaining in the global body and halting the acceptance of Taiji dolphins is also an issue of vital importance for smaller aquariums that cannot breed dolphins on their own.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dolphins bred in captivity represent only around 12 or 13 percent of those in Japanese zoos and aquariums, compared with about 70 percent in the United States, according to Arai.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With the life span of dolphins around 30 years, some aquariums could eventually face difficulty operating as they may not be able to find an alternative source of dolphins for their shows. A total of 34 JAZA member facilities rear dolphins, of which at least more than half rely on Taiji as a supplier.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Arai said he estimates it could take roughly "five years or more" to establish breeding skills in the country.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the vote, in which 142 votes were valid, a total of 99 JAZA members supported remaining in the world body against 43 that voted to leave.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The world association, with a membership comprising over 50 countries and territories, requires all members to "adhere to policies that prohibit participating in cruel and non-selective methods of taking animals from the wild."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Following years of negotiations over the dolphin acquisition issue, the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums suspended JAZA's membership last month, citing violation of the global body's "Code of Ethics and Animal Welfare." It also said the Japanese body would be expelled unless the situation is improved by Thursday.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Arai said JAZA will ask the global body to restore its membership now that it has announced that it will "prohibit its members to acquire wild dolphins caught by drive fishing in Taiji and to take part in their export and sale."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In drive hunting, fishermen capture dolphins by herding them into coves as they bang metal poles against their fishing boats. The practice, however, has spurred international controversy, especially after the Oscar-winning 2009 U.S. documentary film "The Cove" showed the actual slaughter of dolphins during a drive hunt.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Taiji officials have said the method employed has changed since the film was released so as not to cause excessive suffering to dolphins. Local fishermen have also taken steps to address the situation, such as by separately capturing dolphins for edible use and those for aquarium use so that the latter will be caught without being hurt.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But concerns have remained. In January last year, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy said on Twitter that she was "deeply concerned by inhumaneness of drive hunt dolphin killing" and that the U.S. government opposes such activities.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Taiji Mayor Kazutaka Sangen on Wednesday criticized the global association's labeling of the drive hunt as contravening ethics, saying it has "no clear scientific grounds."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.9em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It is extremely deplorable that the international organization notified the Japanese association about the expulsion. We will continue to preserve our traditional fishery activities by cooperating with related organizations," he said in a statement.</span></p></div><p class="Credit" style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">May 20, 2015(Mainichi Japan)</span></p><aside style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="AdGraph clr" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 20px 6px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both;"></div></aside></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><h1 class="node__title node-title" itemprop="headline" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.411764706em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6" color="#0000b8" face="Arial">Japanese Aquariums' Link to the Dolphin Slaughter at Taiji</font></span></h1><h2 class="field field-name-field-article-subhead field-type-text field-label-hidden" itemprop="description" style="margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-weight: 100; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span class="field-items" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="3">A survey shows that half the dolphins in Japanese facilities are taken from the annual hunts at the cove.</font></span></h2></div><div><div>May 19, 2015 By David Kirby</div><div><br></div><div>David Kirby has been a professional journalist for 25 years. His third book, Death at Seaworld, was published in 2012.</div><div>full biofollow me </div><div>Nearly half of the dolphins in Japanese aquariums may have been taken from the dolphin hunts in Taiji, according to a survey in The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, which reported that a lack of breeding facilities is fueling demand for the mammals.</div><div><br></div><div>The newspaper surveyed 33 of the 54 Japanese aquariums that keep dolphins and found that 18 of them bought animals from the Taiji drives. Eight aquariums refused to respond.</div><div><br></div><div>“The 33 aquariums keep at least 352 dolphins, of which 158 were captured through drive fishery,” The Yomiuri Shimbun reported. “Some aquariums said all the dolphins they keep are from drive fishery.”</div><div><br></div><div>An additional 68 dolphins were captured after being snagged “in a fixed net by accident,” according to the newspaper, while only 42 were bred at aquariums. The article did not specify how the remaining dolphins were acquired.</div><div><br></div><div>Critics of the drives say the aquariums are sustaining the Taiji hunt, where entire pods are forced into a small cove and then slaughtered, released, or captured and sold to aquariums in Japan and around the world.</div><div><br></div><div>But is captive breeding the best way to reduce demand for live dolphins?</div><div><br></div><div>The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums has long demanded that the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums put an end to buying live-caught dolphins, and last month it suspended JAZA’s membership for refusing to do so.</div><div><br></div><div>Even zoos belonging to JAZA have criticized the country’s aquariums and said that captive breeding is the way to end the drives.</div><div><br></div><div>“Zoos stopped obtaining and exhibiting wild animals some time ago,” one unidentified zoo director told The Yomiuri Shimbun. “We’ve made efforts to breed animals. I think the time has come for aquariums to also change their way of thinking.”</div><div><br></div><div>But Ric O’Barry, director of Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project and star of the Oscar-winning documentary on Taiji, The Cove, said captive breeding “is not the solution.”</div><div><br></div><div>“One can clearly see that dolphins and other whales suffer and die in captivity,” O’Barry said in an email. “It does not matter if the dolphin was captured from the wild or born in captivity. They suffer equally. The captive dolphins die from the same stress-related diseases whether they were born in captivity or captured from the wild.”</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Even if Japanese aquariums wanted to breed dolphins, most of them lack the space for a breeding pool, where mothers can nurse their calves.</div><div><br></div><div>As Naomi Rose, marine mammal scientist at the Animal Welfare Institute, pointed out, if aquariums are too small for breeding, they are, by the industry's own standards, too small for dolphins.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div>Japan Dolphin Hunt Dealt Big Blow</div><div><br></div><div>“Rather than recognize that there must be a problem with their facilities, they simply think they should be allowed to continue to source from the drives because otherwise they couldn’t have dolphins,” Rose, who opposes captive breeding, said in an email.</div><div><br></div><div>Courtney Vail, program and campaigns manager at Whale and Dolphin Conservation, said changing the way Japanese aquariums operate would be difficult.</div><div><br></div><div>“Unless standards improve in Japan, breeding success will be limited,” Vail said in an email. “Anything that removes the incentive for the hunts to continue is a step in the right direction. Of course, we have to be concerned that captures will occur elsewhere around Japan through other methods. Any capture operation is inhumane.”</div></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><h1 id="articleContentHeaderH1" style="margin: 0px 8px 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;"><font size="5"><span itemprop="headline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); background-position: 0px 0px;"><font face="Arial" color="#0000b8">Aquariums reveal dolphin sources / </font></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 184); font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">18 obtained dolphins via drive fishery</span></font></h1></div><div><font size="4"><a href="http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0002155975" id="id_63ee_58a0_6543_13e5">http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0002155975</a></font></div><div><br></div><div><div id="articleContentBodyFirstBlock" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;"><span class="credit" style="margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; display: block; background-position: 0px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Yomiuri Shimbun</span></span><span class="credit" style="margin: 0px 0px 2.2rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; display: block; background-position: 0px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At least 18 aquariums nationwide have obtained dolphins captured through drive fishery, a practice that led the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) to suspend the membership of a Japanese industry association last month, a Yomiuri Shimbun survey has found.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The survey indicated that many aquariums in the nation rely on drive fishery, as 33 aquariums keep dolphins nationwide.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Drive fishery involves banging on metal poles in fishing boats and herding sound-sensitive dolphins into coves. WAZA forbids capturing wild animals through brutal means, and concluded that keeping and exhibiting dolphins taken through drive fishery in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, violates its code of ethics.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">WAZA therefore suspended on April 21 the membership of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA), which comprises 89 zoos and 63 aquariums. If WAZA believes there is no sign of improvement in the situation, it will expel JAZA from the organization as early as Friday. </span></p></div><div id="articleContentFigureItemWrapper" class="ready" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 16px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; position: relative; width: 287.546875px; float: left; min-width: 200px; max-width: 319px; background-position: 0px 0px;"><section id="articleContentFigureItem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 1px solid rgb(198, 198, 198); outline: 0px; height: auto; background-position: 0px 0px;"><div id="articleContentFigureListHeaderWrapper" style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; position: absolute; top: 200px; left: 0px; width: 303.546875px; background-position: 0px 0px;"><header id="articleContentFigureListHeader" style="margin: 16px 32px 16px 16px; padding: 8px 0px 0px; vertical-align: top; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(198, 198, 198); outline: 0px; visibility: visible; background-position: 0px 0px;"><h1 id="articleContentFigureListHeaderH1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: top; border: 0px; outline: 0px; float: left; background-position: 0px 0px;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SLIDE <span id="slideCurrent" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;">1</span> OF 1</span></font><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Yomiuri Shimbun</span></h1></header></div></section></div><div id="articleContentBodySecondBlock" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;">Many JAZA officials are concerned about the possible effects of expulsion, as many of them obtain rare animals from foreign countries through their membership in the association. If JAZA decides to take action to avoid expulsion, it is highly likely the nation’s aquariums will no longer be able to obtain dolphins captured through drive fishery.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;">The Yomiuri Shimbun surveyed JAZA member aquariums about the number of dolphins they keep and how they acquired them. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;">Of 33 aquariums that keep dolphins, 18 said they purchased dolphins from drive fishery, according to the survey. Eight aquariums refused to answer the question, citing such reasons as “we could be negatively affected if we answer that question.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;">The 33 aquariums keep at least 352 dolphins, of which 158 were captured through drive fishery. Some aquariums said all the dolphins they keep are from drive fishery.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;">Sixty-eight dolphins were captured after they were caught in a fixed net by accident, and 42 were bred at aquariums, according to the survey.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;">When asked about the pros and cons of breeding and exhibiting dolphins captured through drive fishery, many surveyed aquariums appeared to choose their words carefully before answering. “We can’t easily draw a conclusion about this matter, which could lead to political problems, just like the whaling issue,” said a director at an aquarium in western Japan.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;">Meanwhile, an official at an aquarium in the Tohoku region insisted on the validity of the fishery method.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;">“Drive fishery is Japanese culture that has been going on since the olden days. It is the right way, approved by the government,” the official said.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;">Many facilities avoided making a definite statement over whether they would continue to exhibit dolphins if they became unable to purchase animals obtained through drive fishery.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;">JAZA is now holding a vote among its member facilities on whether to keep its WAZA membership. Voting will close Tuesday, and JAZA will make its decision, based on the results, at a board meeting Wednesday.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;">Zoos urge breeding</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;">Numerous zoos in JAZA have called for aquariums to obtain dolphins without depending on drive fishery.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;">A zoo director in the Chubu region said: “Zoos stopped obtaining and exhibiting wild animals some time ago. We’ve made efforts to breed animals. I think the time has come for aquariums to also change their way of thinking.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;">Another zoo director said: “Beyond exhibiting living creatures, zoos and aquariums are also expected to work to conserve species through breeding.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;">An official at a Chubu aquarium that does not keep dolphins said the fundamental nature of aquariums has been thrown into question. “I wonder whether it’s OK for aquariums to just be ‘show tents’ featuring a dolphin show,” the official said.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;">Overseas aquariums in WAZA breed dolphins by themselves, in principle.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;">However, this is difficult financially for small and midsized aquariums in Japan, as special facilities are needed for breeding. One aquarium official said they had tried breeding eight times in the past 30 years but succeeded only once.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;">An aquarium director in the Tohoku region said: “It’s important to think about new ways of breeding, such as having dolphins breed at large aquariums equipped with facilities and providing newborn dolphins to small aquariums nearby.” <a class="speechControll" data-speech="321565" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://the-japan-news.com/modules/img/icon_audio_get.gif); display: inline-block; width: 15px; text-indent: -9999px; background-position: 50% 3px;">Speech</a></p></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.45em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6" face="Arial" color="#0000b8"> WAZA Council votes to suspend Japanese </font></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 184); font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-large; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Association </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 184); font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-large; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">of </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 184); font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-large; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA)</span></h1><div><a href="http://www.waza.org/en/site/pressnews-events/press-releases/waza-council-votes-to-suspend-japanese-association-of-zoos-and-aquariums-jaza" id="id_eb64_fe70_1b0e_9373">http://www.waza.org/en/site/pressnews-events/press-releases/waza-council-votes-to-suspend-japanese-association-of-zoos-and-aquariums-jaza</a></div><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Date: </strong>2015/04/22</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Following years of negotiations over animal acquisition policies, WAZA Council voted unanimously this week to suspend membership of JAZA.</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) Council voted unanimously this week to suspend the membership of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA). The decision comes after WAZA and JAZA could not reach agreement on issues involving JAZA member zoos and aquariums taking dolphins from the Japanese drive fishery. <br><br>WAZA requires all members to adhere to policies that prohibit participating in cruel and non-selective methods of taking animals from the wild. <br><br>For a number of years, WAZA has attempted to work collaboratively with JAZA and its members to stop the collection of animals from the Taiji drives fisheries. Annually the drives draw international attention and criticism for the killing of dolphins and WAZA has previously joined other organizations in speaking out against the practice. <br><br>WAZA made ongoing attempts to negotiate the issues including during a meeting in Tokyo last year when WAZA proposed that JAZA enforce a two-year moratorium on taking animals from the drive by its members. The moratorium was rejected by JAZA. The issue was discussed again at WAZA's international conference in November with a goal to influence change in JAZA's position on members accepting animals from the drive fisheries. JAZA responded by proposing some guideline changes that would put restrictions on the method of capturing dolphins and improving animal care, but because it did not restrict taking animals from the drive, WAZA Council concluded that a satisfactory agreement could not be reached and voted to suspend the Japanese association’s membership. <br><br>The basis for the suspension is a determination that JAZA has violated the WAZA Code of Ethics and Animal Welfare. Moreover, WAZA Council re-affirmed its position that members of WAZA must confirm that they will not acquire dolphins from the Taiji fishery. <br><br>WAZA’s mission is to serve as the voice of a worldwide community of zoos and aquariums and a catalyst for their joint conservation action. One of the ways WAZA accomplishes this mission is through promoting cooperation between national and regional associations. It is important to note that WAZA still remains committed to continuing discussions with JAZA and its members in an effort to end the loss of animal life through the drive fisheries.</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><header class="article-header"><h1 class="node__title node-title" itemprop="headline" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.411764706em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="7" face="Arial" color="#0000b8">Japan DolphinHunt Dealt Big Blow</font></span></h1><div><a href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/04/23/dolphin-cove-hunters-dealt-blow-zoos?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2015-04-23" id="id_95ad_2e58_6c5c_a01d">http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/04/23/dolphin-cove-hunters-dealt-blow-zoos?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2015-04-23</a></div><h2 class="field field-name-field-article-subhead field-type-text field-label-hidden" itemprop="description" style="margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span class="field-items" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5">The world’s top zoo association suspends Japan for not stopping the Taiji dolphin slaughter. </font></span></h2></header><aside class="social social-vertical stick" style="height: auto; border: none; width: 40px; float: left; padding-bottom: 5px;"></aside><div id="article-content" style="margin-left: 53px;"><div class="field field-name-field-article-main-image field-type-media field-label-hidden"><figure class="landscape" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px;"><span style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; width: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><figcaption><div class="field field-name-field-media-caption field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i> </i><u>Fishermen in wetsuits hunt dolphins at a cove in Taiji, Japan. </u></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><u>(Photo: Adrian Mylne/Reuters)</u></span></p></div></div></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div>April 23, 2015 <font size="4" face="Arial"><b>By David Kirby</b></font></div><div><br></div><div>David Kirby has been a professional journalist for 25 years. His third book, Death at Seaworld, was published in 2012.</div><div>full biofollow me </div><div>The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums Council this week suspended the membership of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums because the organization has refused to stop the annual killing of dolphins at the cove in Taiji, Japan.</div><div><br></div><div>For years, animal rights activists have pressured WAZA to sanction Japanese zoos and aquariums because the Taiji hunt not only kills hundreds of dolphins each year but also fuels the <a href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/09/11/aquariums-around-world-alter-coves-killing-calendar" id="id_32d5_6142_3f7b_9a83">captive dolphin industry</a>. The animals captured at the cove are often sold at a premium to aquariums<a href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/04/23/dolphin-cove-hunters-dealt-blow-zoos?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2015-04-23" id="id_b9c1_46f8_30ab_71a3"> around the world</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>“WAZA requires all members to adhere to policies that prohibit participating in cruel and non-selective methods of taking animals from the wild,” WAZA said in statement. “JAZA has violated the WAZA Code of Ethics and Animal Welfare. “</div><div><br></div><div>Since 2000, the annual hunt, which runs from September through mid-April, has caused the deaths of roughly 18,000 dolphins. Most are butchered on-site for food, despite the <a href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/02/11/revealing-cove-dolphins-toxic-secrets" id="id_bd0d_2e26_7e7a_49a3">high mercury</a> concentrations found dolphin meat. The youngest and cutest are spared death but sold to marine-mammal facilities in Russia, the Middle East, Latin America, the Caribbean, and East Asia. These dolphins can fetch upwards of $125,000 each.</div><div><br></div><div>Although WAZA has<a href="http://us.whales.org/blog/2014/08/waza-and-jaza-to-meet-in-japan-ahead-of-upcoming-drive-hunt-season" id="id_158d_47c3_3267_ecb1"> officially condemned</a> the Taiji dolphin hunts for years, until now it had declined to take direct action against the Japanese group.</div><div><br></div><div>WAZA officials said there have been ongoing attempts to resolve the issue, including a proposal put to JAZA in 2014 that it enforce a two-year moratorium on taking Taiji dolphins. JAZA, however, rejected the idea.</div><div><br></div><div>The announcement took many animal-rights activists by surprise.</div><div><br></div><div>“We congratulate and applaud WAZA Council for doing the right thing,” Ric O’Barry, star of the documentary The Cove and head of Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project, said in a statement. “Their credibility with their peers has been destroyed. This is a big win for all wild dolphins swimming past the shores of Taiji.”</div><div><br></div><div>“Now that JAZA has been suspended and isolated from their own industry, they will be reduced to renegades if they continue to traffic in dolphins,” O’Barry said in an email.</div><div><br></div><div>Ric O'Barry leads a protest at the WAZA headquarters in Switzerland, demanding the group suspend JAZA for allowing the dolphin drive to continue. </div><div>The Dolphin Project was the first to demand that WAZA enforce its own code of ethics, O’Barry said. Last year, he and Sakae Hemmi, of the Japanese conservation group Elsa Nature Conservancy, met with Gerald Dick, WAZA’s executive director, about suspending JAZA’s membership status. Those talks ended in a stalemate.</div><div><br></div><div>The Taiji dolphin <a href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/09/14/seaworlds-convoluted-logic-taijis-dolphin-slaughter" id="id_19d_fe33_c123_498d">slaughter</a> has received global condemnation over the years, including from the Caroline Kennedy, the United States ambassador to Japan. In January 2014, Kennedy tweeted, “Deeply concerned by inhumaneness of drive hunt dolphin killing. USG [U.S. government] opposes drive hunt fisheries.”</div><div><br></div><div> The Unseen Slaughter Under the Sea</div><div><br></div><div>Despite JAZA’s suspension, it was not immediately clear whether the Japanese group will take action to end the Taiji dolphin drives and cut off the supply of live animals to aquariums, many of them in Japan.</div><div><br></div><div>But that certainly remains a possibility.</div><div><br></div><div>“It is important to note that WAZA still remains committed to continuing discussions with JAZA and its members,” WAZA said, “in an effort to end the loss of animal life through the drive fisheries.”</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font size="6" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b> Japanese zoo association suspended by world body </b></font></div><div><font size="6" color="#0000b8" face="Arial"><b> over Taiji dolphin hunts</b></font></div><div><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/23/japanese-zoo-association-suspended-world-body-dolphin-hunts" id="id_cedf_d47f_7b18_4001">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/23/japanese-zoo-association-suspended-world-body-dolphin-hunts</a></div><div><p class="byline" data-link-name="byline" data-component="meta-byline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-weight: bold; padding-top: 0.25rem; min-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><span itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemprop="author" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a rel="author" class="tone-colour" itemprop="url name" data-link-name="auto tag link" href="http://www.theguardian.com/profile/oliver-milman" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Oliver Milman</a> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wednesday 22 April</span></p></div><div><br></div><div>World Association of Zoos and Aquariums takes action against Japanese member representing aquariums that take dolphins from Taiji hunt</div><div><br></div><div>The world’s leading zoo organisation has suspended its Japanese member over its involvement in the controversial dolphin hunts in Taiji.</div><div><br></div><div>The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (Waza) has suspended the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (Jaza) following a unanimous vote by its council.</div><div><br></div><div>As revealed by the Guardian last month, Waza has been targeted in a court action launched by conservationists who accuse it of effectively approving the dolphin hunts, where animals are forced into shallow waters and some slaughtered or picked for public display in aquariums.</div><div><br></div><div>The Taiji dolphin hunts gained notoriety through the documentary The Cove. Jaza, which represents Japanese aquariums that have taken dolphins from the hunt, rejected a Waza proposal for a two-year moratorium on the practice.</div><div><br></div><div>“Jaza responded by proposing some guideline changes that would put restrictions on the method of capturing dolphins and improving animal care, but because it did not restrict taking animals from the drive, Waza council concluded that a satisfactory agreement could not be reached and voted to suspend the Japanese association’s membership,” Waza said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>“The basis for the suspension is a determination that Jaza has violated the Waza code of ethics and animal welfare. Moreover, Waza council reaffirmed its position that members of Waza must confirm that they will not acquire dolphins from the Taiji fishery.”</div><div><br></div><div>Over the past five years, observers say, more than 5,000 dolphins have been killed at Taiji, with a further 750 captured for aquariums. Since a August 2014 agreement that put in place a one-month moratorium on the killings, 751 dolphins have been killed, with 41 bottlenose dolphins captured.</div><div><br></div><div>The suspension has been welcomed by conservationists, who claim Jaza has been acting as a rogue member while Waza stood on the sidelines despite publicly opposing dolphin hunts. Waza has also come under pressure from several of its zoo members over the issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Australia for Dolphins has lodged court action in Geneva, where Waza has its headquarters, in an attempt to force the organisation to sanction members in Japan and Korea accused of taking dolphins from the drive hunt.</div><div><br></div><div>“This is a very promising step and an acknowledgement that Waza needs to enforce its own code of ethics,” said Sarah Lucas, chief executive of Australia for Dolphins.</div><div><br></div><div>“Jaza are suspended rather than expelled but the threat of expulsion will be looming over them and they will know the world’s leading zoos body will be watching them closely if they don’t improve.”</div><div><br></div><div>“We want Waza to enforce that code of ethics across the board so we’ll be continuing the legal action. We also want Waza to take action against zoos that are abusing animals, such as chaining and beating elephants. The reputation of Waza has been hurt by this and I hope this is a start of a new era for them.”</div><div><br></div><div>Waza has more than 20 associate members, including Jaza and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria, as well as 300 individual zoo members, including London Zoo, the Zoological Society of San Diego, Toronto Zoo, Bronx Zoo and Melbourne Zoo.</div><div><br></div><div>A spokeswoman for Melbourne Zoo said the organisation condemned the Taiji dolphin hunts.</div><div><br></div><div>“Those bodies that are in some way linked to the slaughter, either as customers for the meat, or for the live animals themselves, are complicit in the slaughter,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>“We welcome the suspension of Jaza from the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums. We acknowledge the efforts of the Waza council in trying to convince Jaza to stop their involvement in Taiji. We also call on Jaza members to cease any involvement in the Taiji hunt.”</div><div><br></div><div>Marine conservation activists Sea Shepherd also welcomed the suspension of Jaza for its “role in Taiji’s horrific massacre of wild cetaceans”.</div><div><br></div><div>A statement on Sea Shepherd’s website said: “While we are elated to hear this long-overdue announcement, we also stand in firm opposition to the confinement of highly intelligent and socially complex whales and dolphins in captivity at Waza aquariums, swim-with-dolphin programs and other captive facilities that continue to drive the demand for captive dolphins, and the wild captures still occurring around the world.</div><div><br></div><div>“These highly intelligent, sentient and socially complex marine mammals belong in the open ocean where they can engage in their natural behaviours and live in their natural family groups – not performing tricks for food in concrete bathtubs while being subjected to loud music and noisy crowds.”</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div></div><div><font face="Arial" color="#0000b8" size="6"><b>YES! World Zoo Association Ends Japan’s Membership </b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" color="#0000b8" size="6"><b>Over Connection to Dolphin Hunts</b></font></div><div><a href="http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/world-zoo-association-ends-japans-membership-over-connection-to-dolphin-hunts/" id="id_cd18_a6f4_5156_ccf9">http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/world-zoo-association-ends-japans-membership-over-connection-to-dolphin-hunts/</a></div><div><div style="text-align: start;"><b><font style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.00392157) 1px 1px 1px; padding-bottom: 3px; text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">April, </font><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">24, 2015 </span></b><font color="#000000" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.00392157) 1px 1px 1px; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 3px; text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a rel="author" href="http://www.onegreenplanet.org/author/angie_plummer" class="authormeta" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.00392157) 1px 1px 1px; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 3px; text-align: center; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Angie Plummer </a></font></div></div><div><br></div><div>A few short weeks ago Japan’s aspirations to re-commence “scientific” whaling in the Southern Ocean suffered a setback. The IWC rejected its proposal, claiming there was inadequate justification for lethal research.</div><div><br></div><div>Now the nation has suffered another major international embarrassment. It has been thrown out of the world’s leading zoo association over its connection to dolphin hunting.</div><div><br></div><div>As a result of legal action initiated last month by animal welfare charity Australia for Dolphins, the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) has suspended its Japanese member (JAZA) for allowing aquariums to purchase dolphins from the Taiji dolphin hunts.</div><div><br></div><div>The Power of Activism to Help Dolphins</div><div><br></div><div>Advocates are heralding this latest win as the beginning of the end for dolphin hunting in Japan.</div><div><br></div><div>According to the CEO of Australia for Dolphins, Sarah Lucas, “The suspension of JAZA following AFD’s legal action is great news. It is a significant first step towards ending the horrific annual dolphin hunts in Taiji.</div><div><br></div><div>“Up to 40 percent of total demand for Taiji dolphins comes from WAZA network aquariums. This is a major blow to the world’s largest dolphin trade, and another nail in the coffin for the Taiji hunts,” according to a press release issued by WAZA, the decision to suspend JAZA was the result of a unanimous vote. “The basis for the suspension is a determination that JAZA has violated the WAZA Code of Ethics and Animal Welfare.The decision comes after WAZA and JAZA could not reach agreement on issues involving JAZA member zoos and aquariums taking dolphins from the Japanese drive fishery. WAZA requires all members to adhere to policies that prohibit participating in cruel and non-selective methods of taking animals from the wild.”</div><div><br></div><div>And cruel is definitely an apt word to describe what goes on in Taiji, where scores of dolphins are brutally stabbed to death using metal rods every year. In the last 70 years, it is estimated that over a million dolphins and small whales have been killed in direct hunts in Japan – while hundreds more have been captured and shipped all around the world for display.</div><div><br></div><div>Australia for Dolphins insists that in spite of this win, legal action against WAZA will continue to go ahead as planned. The first hearing is due to take place next month.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope for Other Animals</div><div><br></div><div>“This is only the first step,” states Lucas. “WAZA needs to do more. It still has members in Korea that source dolphins from the Taiji drive hunts. Not to mention other members around the world that engage in terrible acts of animal cruelty, such as chaining and beating elephants.”</div><div><br></div><div>The above allegations are reflective of a steady stream of photos and videos showing shocking neglect and abuse at WAZA member zoos, which has emerged following legal action against the organization.</div><div><br></div><div>The footage includes a baby elephant being beaten with a stick in India, dolphins performing tricks in a filthy green pool in Indonesia, and a terrified baby bear being placed in a lion’s cage in South Korea as part of a televised stunt.</div><div><br></div><div>“We’re asking WAZA to enforce it’s own Code of Ethics and Animal Welfare across the board,” states Lucas, “which would benefit thousands of animals suffering from cruelty and neglect all around the world.”</div><div><br></div><div>At the moment, JAZA is only suspended. It will need to clean up its act and stop members purchasing Taiji dolphins if it wants to avoid expulsion, along with global condemnation.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_af6a_8bb8_d69b_4074" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fkfzFFUu7cI/VTvP8vG5qJI/AAAAAAABQaU/QJL4-YjV6qU/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 508px; height: auto;"><br></div><div><font color="#0000b8" size="6"><b>WAZA FINALLY KICKS JAZA OUT</b></font></div><div><a href="http://savejapandolphins.org/blog/post/waza-finally-kicks-jaza-out" id="id_37e_52ad_c91a_ee4">http://savejapandolphins.org/blog/post/waza-finally-kicks-jaza-out</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>April 22, 2015 by Mark Palmer, Save Japan Dolphins</b></div><div><b>By Mark J. Palmer</b></div><div>Associate Director</div><div>International Marine Mammal Project</div><div>Earth Island Institute</div><div><br></div><div>The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) announced today that they have expelled the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums due to JAZA's insistence on sourcing dolphins for their aquariums from the horrific drive hunts in Taiji, as depicted in the hit documentary The Cove.</div><div><br></div><div>Earth Island’s Save Japan Dolphins Campaign and many other organizations have been pushing WAZA for years to enforce its so-called Code of Ethics and Animal Welfare. Recently, our colleagues with Australia for Dolphins filed a lawsuit in Switzerland against WAZA for falsely claiming it opposed the practice when its associate member JAZA was blatantly violating the welfare of dolphins. </div><div><br></div><div>This is a big victory for the supporters of ending the dolphin drive hunts, which are heavily subsidized by the sale of “show quality” dolphins from the hunts to aquariums throughout Japan and in many other countries as well. The Taiji Whale Museum, owned by the town government of Taiji and a principle exporter of Taiji dolphins, is a member of JAZA.</div><div><br></div><div>WAZA, in a press release, stated that they had negotiated for many years with JAZA to end the practice of catching live dolphins from the Taiji dolphin drive hunt, but finally concluded they could not reach agreement with JAZA on the issue.</div><div><br></div><div>It has been many years since groups and individuals across the globe have been demanding that WAZA dump members like JAZA who are acting in ways that violate WAZA's Code of Ethics. Despite WAZA member aquariums' continued exploitation of captive cetaceans, it is at least acting to reverse the linking of catching cetaceans in the wild to bloody dolphin drive hunts that kill thousands of dolphins. It is an important step for WAZA, and let us hope it will mean more reforms to end the killing, captures, and captivity of dolphins for good.</div><div><br></div><div>The question now is whether this decision will have any affect on JAZA? Will it serve as a wake-up call to the organization? Will the Japanese government and industry leaders take a serious look at the hunts, now that WAZA has condemned them as cruel? Will the Taiji hunters face increased scrutiny? Or will they dig in their heels and continue to destroy entire families of dolphins, all in the name of profit?</div><div><br></div><div>Only time will tell. Continued pressure is needed on JAZA, on the Japanese government, and on the Taiji dolphin hunters.</div><div><br></div><div>A BIG THANK YOU to all who worked to see WAZA take action at last.</div></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Arial" color="#0000b8" size="7"><b>Taiji dolphin culls dealt setback</b></font></div><div><a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/25/national/taiji-dolphin-culls-dealt-setback/#.VTxY2nA8KrX" id="id_1342_6dba_2a3d_8c">http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/25/national/taiji-dolphin-culls-dealt-setback/#.VTxY2nA8KrX</a></div><div><b>BY ROB GILHOOLY</b></div><div><b>SPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMES</b></div><div><b>APR 25, 2015</b></div><div><br></div><div>The world’s leading zoo organization last week announced it has lost patience with Japan’s continued use of dolphins from the fisheries drives at Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, and suspended its Japanese member from its roster.</div><div><br></div><div>The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) has made numerous attempts to stop Japanese aquariums from taking cetaceans from the Taiji drives, which are undertaken for several months each fall and frequently garner international criticism.</div><div><br></div><div>As recently as last summer, WAZA officials made an appeal in Tokyo, recommending its Japanese member implement a two-year moratorium on member organizations taking from the drives. The issue was discussed again during WAZA’s annual international conference in November.</div><div><br></div><div>While the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA) has since proposed restrictions on the method of capturing dolphins, it has not restricted its members from taking animals from the drive, WAZA said.</div><div><br></div><div>“WAZA council concluded that a satisfactory agreement could not be reached and voted to suspend the Japanese association’s membership,” said Hyatt Antognini Amin, a WAZA spokesman. “The council also reaffirmed its position that WAZA members must confirm they will not acquire dolphins from the Taiji fishery.”</div><div><br></div><div>The governing body of zoos worldwide requires “all members to adhere to policies that prohibit participating in cruel and nonselective methods of taking animals from the wild.”</div><div><br></div><div>The dolphin hunts were brought to international attention in 2009 following the release of “The Cove,” a documentary that went on to win a best Oscar gong in 2010. In recent years, the killing activities have been shielded from public view.</div><div><br></div><div>The Taiji culls are widely considered to be both cruel and selective. The method used involves banging metal pipes underwater from fishing boats to confuse the animals’ sensitive sonar.</div><div><br></div><div>Species more prized as “show dolphins” for aquariums, which can fetch tens of thousands of dollars, are trapped in nets, while the remainder are impaled with metal spears behind the blowhole to sever the spinal cord.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2010, a Japanese study claimed this method was more humane than the more random hurling of harpoons from fishing boats employed previously in Taiji’s drive hunts. In 2013, however, a study by scientists in Britain and the U.S. refuted those claims, saying that analysis of the method showed it failed to “fulfill the internationally recognized requirement for immediacy.”</div><div><br></div><div>JAZA’s Kensho Nagai said the organization has explained its “circumstances” in some detail, but WAZA “has not been able to fully comprehend them.”</div><div><br></div><div>“The method being employed in Japan to catch dolphins is recognized by the Japanese government and it is from places following government-ratified fishing methods that aquariums are buying dolphins,” Nagai said.</div><div><br></div><div>The method used to catch dolphins that are used in aquariums and zoos nationwide is very different than the one used to catch dolphins that are used for food, he added. “Despite this,” he said, “the two methods are seen as being one and the same thing.”</div><div><br></div><div>Dolphins fished for aquariums “are handled with extreme care” and “are exposed to zero stress” by the Taiji fishermen, Nagai said.</div><div><br></div><div>WAZA failed to respond to a request for comment on Nagai’s claims.</div><div><br></div><div>What impact the suspension will have is uncertain, especially due to a seeming lack of concern about the Taiji drives in Japan.</div><div><br></div><div>Toshiaki Morioka, a member of nongovernment organization Action For Marine Mammals, said “most Japanese don’t know the facts” about the slaughters.</div><div><br></div><div>“If they did, I think most would be against it,” Morioka said. “It is symbol of a pathology in Japanese society that this news is rarely mentioned in the Japanese media.”</div><div><br></div><div>Morioka says JAZA ignores the global trend to reduce numbers of both dolphins and aquariums, but hopes the suspension will serve as a wake-up call for JAZA to reconsider the way the animals are handled, distributed and sold.</div><div><br></div><div>Asked if JAZA would consider pushing member aquariums to purchase dolphins from places other than Taiji, Nagai pointed to a dearth of alternatives.</div><div><br></div><div>“The chances of that happening are next to zero,” he said.</div></div><div> <br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Fishermen corner dolphins in a bay near the town of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, in 2011. | KYODO</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><h1 id="article_title" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5" face="Arial" color="#248f24">Victory! World’s Top Zoo Association Kicks Japan Out Over Cruel Dolphin Drives</font></span></h1><div><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/victory-worlds-top-zoo-association-kicks-japan-out-over-cruel-dolphin-drives.html" id="id_195f_c5f4_bef2_27e9">http://www.care2.com/causes/victory-worlds-top-zoo-association-kicks-japan-out-over-cruel-dolphin-drives.html</a></li></ul></div><div class="image_share contain_floats" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="image" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">by <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/author/amgraef" title="Posts by Alicia Graef" rel="author" style="text-decoration: none;">Alicia Graef</a>. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">April 24, 2015</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><br></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><br></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;">Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/victory-worlds-top-zoo-association-kicks-japan-out-over-cruel-dolphin-drives.html#ixzz3YThFvY9x</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;">This week, animal advocates are celebrating news that the world’s top zoo association has finally suspended its Japanese member over its ties with the brutal dolphin drives that take place every year in Taiji.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><br></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;">Conservationists have been working for years to get the World Association for Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) to take a meaningful stand against member facilities that support the live capture of dolphins, but it had yet to take any real action until now.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><br></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;">WAZA announced that after failing to reach an agreement regarding its policies addressing the acquisition of animals, it voted unanimously to suspend the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA) because of its continued involvement with controversial drive hunts.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><br></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;">Whale and dolphin advocates have brought these hunts into the public’s view, most notably with the award-winning documentary “The Cove,” and have raised international outrage over the mass slaughter and captures of dolphins that continue to take place annually.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><br></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;">While thousands are butchered and sold for their meat, more are torn from their families and sold to zoos and aquariums for public display. Many have continued to argue that if it weren’t for the money brought in by sales for captivity, the drives would have ended by now.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><br></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;">WAZA has said it condemns the drives and is not involved in any way, but it had continued to allow JAZA to violate its Code of Ethics and Animal Welfare without consequence. Now JAZA is finally being held accountable.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><br></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;">WAZA said in a statement that it “requires all members to adhere to policies that prohibit participating in cruel and non-selective methods of taking animals from the wild.” It added: “The basis for the suspension is a determination that JAZA has violated the WAZA Code of Ethics and Animal Welfare. Moreover, WAZA Council re-affirmed its position that members of WAZA must confirm that they will not acquire dolphins from the Taiji fishery.”</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><br></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;">“We congratulate and applaud WAZA Council for doing the right thing,” said the Dolphin Project‘s Ric O’Barry. “Their credibility with their peers has been destroyed. This is a big win for all wild dolphins swimming past the shores of Taiji.”</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><br></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;">The suspension also comes on the heels of a lawsuit that was filed last month by Australia for Dolphins (AFD), which hoped to get WAZA to uphold its Code of Ethics, or give JAZA the boot.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><br></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;">“The suspension of JAZA following AFD’s legal action is great news. It is a significant first step towards ending the horrific annual dolphin hunts in Taiji,” said Sarah Lucas, CEO of AFD. “Up to 40% of total demand for Taiji dolphins comes from WAZA network aquariums. WAZA’s decision to suspend its Japanese member for involvement in the hunts is a major blow to the world’s largest dolphin trade.”</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><br></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;">According to AFD, JAZA facilities are home to more than 600 dolphins, while more half of JAZA’s 65 members acquire dolphins from the Taiji drive hunts. Whale and Dolphin Conservation, which is also applauding the move, added that since 2004, over 1,200 dolphins caught in the hunts have been sent to dolphinaria in Japan and other countries, including the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, China, Iran, Palau, the Philippines and Turkey.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><br></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;">AFD says it will continue with its legal action on behalf of dolphins who end up in other countries and, following the exposure of other serious abuses last month, hopes to get WAZA to enforce its animal welfare policies at all of its member facilities.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><br></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;">While the announcement is a huge step towards ending the drive hunts, captivity itself is still a major problem for dolphins and cetaceans. The demand won’t end until we stop supporting facilities that keep them.</li><li></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><br></li></ul><div class="fb_article_like" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div></div></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Read more: <a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/victory-worlds-top-zoo-association-kicks-japan-out-over-cruel-dolphin-drives.html#ixzz3YTfM2Z4s" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.care2.com/causes/victory-worlds-top-zoo-association-kicks-japan-out-over-cruel-dolphin-drives.html#ixzz3YTfM2Z4</a></span><a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/victory-worlds-top-zoo-association-kicks-japan-out-over-cruel-dolphin-drives.html#ixzz3YTfM2Z4s" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: none;">s</a><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div class="padding_block" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; width: 634.859375px;"><div class="meta single_block" style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; width: 143.34375px; float: right; margin-bottom: 0.875em !important;"><aside class="meta_extras" role="contentinfo" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0.625rem; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none;"><li class="post_time" style="margin: 0.3125em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; float: left; position: relative; width: 143.34375px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div class="post_history" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border-right-style: none; height: auto; float: none;"><br></div></li></ul></aside></div><div class="entry" id="jtarticle" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; position: relative; width: 471.015625px; float: left;"><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><b>Now that JAZA has been expelled by WAZA for violating their code of ethics as they continue to source dolphins from the cruel Taiji hunts, we call on the Japanese government to disallow the transportation of any dolphins from Taiji to JAZA facilities. We demand the Japanese government to permanently halt both the slaughter and trade in live dolphins, release the dolphin Angel into a seapen, and stop insisting that the hunts are a cultural tradition, as this has been proven false.</b></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><b> WAZA - STOP Supporting Facilities Involved in Animal Cruelty</b></font><br> <br></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><font color="#ff0000" size="7">♥︎</font><font size="6" style="color: rgb(36, 143, 36);">WAZA, Thank you action to Dolphins and all Animals</font><font size="7" color="#ff0000">♥︎</font></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><span class='st_sharethis_large' displayText='ShareThis'></span>
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Oldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859488789054287551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537383451156444426.post-56225462171121841262015-03-22T14:51:00.001-05:002022-12-15T15:50:36.192-06:00Watch Video and Read Story "Ties of the dolphins" by Satoshi Komiyama of Flippers Japan E/J Bilingual #Taiji<div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><b>| </b></font><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/05/home.html" id="id_791f_794_848_a030">HOME</a><font><b> | </b></font><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2016/02/table-of-contents.html" id="id_7e00_593b_8e94_2b1f">TABLE CONTENTS</a><font><b> | </b></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#b20000"><br></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#b20000">This video was unpublished, it will be the world's first time </font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#b20000">being </font></b><b><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#b20000">published on the net with </font></b><b><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#b20000">the permission of Flipper's Japan </font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#b20000">Representative Satoshi Komiyama. It was posted on YouTube for this blog. </font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial" color="#248f24">Please watch the video while following along with the story.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial" color="#248f24"> I hope that you think about this carefully by ruminating this video in your mind. </font></b></div><div style="text-align: start;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial" color="#248f24"> </font><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#b2b200">Plus </font></b><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5" color="#b2b200"> Doolin's Story ( Animation video )↓bottom of post.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Arial" color="#248f24">April 12. 2015 Keiko Olds</font></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <img id="id_ba9e_3379_1a18_af3f" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-CsBOsZQmc_w/VSs3d3ZLfLI/AAAAAAABPUU/6dFFt2eprUI/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="text-align: start; width: 748px; height: auto;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <font size="4" face="Copperplate"><b>ART BY Keiko Olds</b></font></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font color="#248f24"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" color="#b20000">この動画は未公開でしたが、フリッパーズジャパンの小宮山聡さんがこのブログのために</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" color="#b20000">許可を得て</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4" color="#b20000"><b>Youtubeに載せていただき、世界で初めてネット公開されました。</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font color="#248f24">どうかストーリーと合わせてご覧ください。</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font color="#248f24">そしてあなたの心の中で反芻してジックリと考えていただければ幸いです。</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font color="#b2b200"><b>下の方に太地のアニメーションもありますのでご覧下さい。</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 143, 36);">2015年4月12日ケイコ・オールズ</span></div><div><br></div><div><b><font size="6"> </font><font size="5">A dolphin that does not leave behind the rest. (Bottlenose dolphin)</font></b></div><div><b><font size="4"> 一頭で逃げることの無いイルカ(ハンドウイルカ)</font><br></b> <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/S_9tQNhnEow" width="500" height="281" id="y_id_2926_de33_8663_3d79" frameborder="0" style="height: 510px; width: 906px;"></iframe><br></div><div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Play time「0:01」「0:13」「0:31」「0:37」 </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> On Upper-right corner of the screen, </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You can see the appearance of dolphins </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> on the outside of </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">the net.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Those dolphins did not leave until the remaining dolphins in the net was released. </span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <u>Video Footage Recorded on January 21, 2014</u></span></div></div><div style="text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> 再生時間「0:01」「0:13」「0:31」「0:37」</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> 画面右上辺り、網の外側にイルカの姿を確認することができます。</span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> 網の中のイルカ達が解放されるまで離れることなく泳いでいました。 </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><u>2014年1月21日撮影</u></span></div></div><div><br></div><p><font size="7"><b><i> <font color="#0000ff">〜Ties of the dolphins〜</font></i></b></font></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial">In this video's group of bottlenose dolphins in captivity where a rare albino was spotted. </font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial">This time, 233 bottlenose dolphins are captured, Selection is carried out over a period of five days. </font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial">47 dolphins live capture and 46 dolphins have been killed on last day.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial">This video is the killing of the remaining dolphins and the footage was taken just prior to release.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial">Suddenly, One dolphin escaped out of the net.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial">The Dolphins were out of the nets, but did not run away, </font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial">Dolphins swam to the side of the family that captivity.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial">In the second half the video, the dolphin that is shifted out of the net is trying to breathe. </font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial">This can be found in the upper right corner of the screen.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial">Some of caught dolphins where physically hurt and some dolphin had no energy to swim. </font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial">Some of them immediately faced upside down.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial">But, I saw many times that dolphin is upside down, the dolpins came beneth them to support their buoyancy.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial">This picture is a dolphin that's upside down.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial">Group of 233 bottlenose dolphins was spent in the cove for 5 days without food.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial">And they can see that their family are captured, Slain, with the Smell of blood wafting Up their nose, </font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial">and hearing family's scream inside the same cove.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial">The surviving dolphins will receive a lot of stress.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial">Dolphin hunting is a simple sentence to say, but such a story about dolphins in captivity </font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial">for </font></b><b><font size="4" face="Arial">their meat and forced into aquarium dolphin show.</font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="4" face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font face="Arial" size="5"><u>Flipper's Japan Representative </u></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><font face="Arial" size="5"><u>Satoshi Komiyama</u></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">Translate to English</div><div style="text-align: center;">Keiko and Ann Olds</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: start; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6" color="#ff0000">Doolin's Story ( Animation video )</font></b><br><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/exkiPj59oQc" width="900" height="506" id="y_id_120_6c06_e8f8_672a" frameborder="0"></iframe><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="7" color="#0000ff"><b>「イルカの絆」</b></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>この動画に写っている、捕らわれているイルカの群は、</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>アルビノのハンドウイルカがいた群です。</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>この時、約233頭のハンドウイルカが捕獲され、</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>5日間にわたり選別が行われ47頭が生体捕獲、</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>最終日に46頭が捕殺されました。</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>動画は捕殺後、残ったイルカ達を</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>解放する直前に撮影したものです。</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>ふとしたきっかけで、</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>一頭のイルカが網の外に出てしまいました。</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>しかし、網の外に出たイルカは、逃げることは無く、</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>捕らわれた群れのそばをずっと泳いで いました。</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>動画では、網の外に出てしまったイルカが、</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>呼吸する姿が画面右上の方で確認できます。</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>捕まったイルカの中には、コンディションが悪いイルカもいて、</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>力なく泳ぎ、すぐに裏返しになってしまうイルカもいました。</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>しかし、そのイルカが裏返しになるとすぐに、他のイルカ達が下に回りこみ、</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>身体を支えもとの状態に戻すというような場面が、何度かありました。</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>写真中央のイルカは、裏返しになってしまったイルカです。</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>この約233頭のハンドウイルカの群れは、捕獲された時から</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>5日間エサを与えられることも無く、入り江の中ですごしました。</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>そして、同じ入り江の中で仲間達が、</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>生体捕獲されたり、殺されたりしているので、</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>その鳴き声や、 血のにおいを感じているはずです。</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>生き残ったイルカ達は、</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>相当なストレスをうけたことが予測されます。</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>イルカ猟といえば一言で、終わりますが、</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>このようなドラマの中で、食肉用や、水族館用に、</b></div><div 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Oldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859488789054287551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537383451156444426.post-25368870052058340592015-03-10T21:01:00.001-05:002023-03-30T21:51:48.953-05:00Development of Wind Energy and New Wind Turbine System<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; position: relative; font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="7" color="#0000b8"> </font></span><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font style="text-align: center;"><b>| </b></font><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2013/05/home.html" id="id_791f_794_848_a030" style="text-align: center;">HOME</a><font style="text-align: center;"><b> | </b></font><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2016/02/table-of-contents.html" id="id_7e00_593b_8e94_2b1f" style="text-align: center;">TABLE CONTENTS</a><font style="text-align: center;"><b> | </b></font></span></font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 184); 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position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="text-align: start; font-style: italic; clear: both;"><img id="id_50dc_a9fe_d5c0_bfa3" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eD_gCPwQaJQ/VQEXM2I2Q4I/AAAAAAABNBM/ne3aNSaqp6U/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 922px; height: auto;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: start; font-style: italic; clear: both;"> Art by Keiko Olds</div><br><font face="Arial" color="#248f24" size="6"><b>Wind Power in KyushuUniversity Japan, Yuji Ohya professor.</b></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8251824125576676965" itemprop="description articleBody" style="width: 988px; position: relative;"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vQexzNg_e9A" width="900" height="506" id="y_id_265e_cc2a_c2cc_cb8e" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8251824125576676965" itemprop="description articleBody" style="width: 988px; position: relative;"><br></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8251824125576676965" itemprop="description articleBody" style="width: 988px; position: relative;"><font size="6" color="#248f24"><b>Wind Power: The Truth</b></font></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8251824125576676965" itemprop="description articleBody" style="width: 988px; position: relative;"><b>Wind Power Facts video is packed with interesting and current facts about wind power, and is a great learning resource about wind energy.</b><br><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8btlmWn0xdY" width="897" height="504" id="y_id_f56f_2141_5700_74ff" frameborder="0"></iframe><br></div> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5" face="Arial">List of facts included in the <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Wind Power Facts</em> video</font> </strong><div> <a href="http://www.ascrenewables.com/content/wind-power-facts.aspx" id="id_d594_169d_d0f_2538">http://www.ascrenewables.com/content/wind-power-facts.aspx</a><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8251824125576676965" itemprop="description articleBody" style="width: 988px; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="font-style: italic; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><br></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="font-style: italic; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: start; font-style: italic; clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5"><b> </b></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: start; font-style: italic; clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="font-style: italic; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>In order to protect the animals, we must protect the environment as well. If the environment were to crumble then nature will fall as well. The Polar Ice caps are melting rapidly, causing the weather to become corrupt. The main reason is our release of Carbon Dioxide. Burning coal, gasoline, oil are the cause behind these excess gas. If we were not to burn these fossil fuels, the world environment will improve immensely. </b></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><br></b></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>In Kyuushu University, they invented and introduced a new, effective wind power addition called, "Kaze Lens", which means "Wind Lens". It is now internationally tested. I interviewed the president of the project, Yuji Ohya, who is a professor and environmentalist.<br><br></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br></b></div></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4"><b><font color="#ff0000">Q </font>: Are you able to attach these new Wind Lens to current wind power fans? </b></font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4"><b><font color="#248f24">Ohya</font> : We can. But, foreign wind power blades are slightly different. If we were to attach the Wind Lens, it will slightly loose power from the rate it creates energy. but still improves 1.6-2 times higher energy production. In Japan, the Lens will created three times more energy verses non-lensed wind power plants. </b></font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4"><b><font color="#ff0000">Q </font>: Is it safe for flying birds and surrounding nature?<br></b></font></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font size="4"><b><br></b></font><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW1nEpMVlsth0XGulap1rfxX8BqzxagQimotbmqlhb3XFkiQo2SxYikEfsxidgzUdBgDePnasSfT4uv0B2sCncSWyJ4BUg9nGcTYjtFhrT0sfg-HNRHJPOBqdS5HB-FBdJ44klWaMJv4c/s1600/0C5398A1-7A33-4737-ADFC-EF64B9E86AAC.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="text-align: start; text-decoration: none; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><font color="#000000" size="4"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><br></b></span></font></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW1nEpMVlsth0XGulap1rfxX8BqzxagQimotbmqlhb3XFkiQo2SxYikEfsxidgzUdBgDePnasSfT4uv0B2sCncSWyJ4BUg9nGcTYjtFhrT0sfg-HNRHJPOBqdS5HB-FBdJ44klWaMJv4c/s1600/0C5398A1-7A33-4737-ADFC-EF64B9E86AAC.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="text-align: start; text-decoration: none; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><font color="#000000" size="4"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><br></b></span></font></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW1nEpMVlsth0XGulap1rfxX8BqzxagQimotbmqlhb3XFkiQo2SxYikEfsxidgzUdBgDePnasSfT4uv0B2sCncSWyJ4BUg9nGcTYjtFhrT0sfg-HNRHJPOBqdS5HB-FBdJ44klWaMJv4c/s1600/0C5398A1-7A33-4737-ADFC-EF64B9E86AAC.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="text-align: start; text-decoration: none; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><font color="#000000" size="4"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><br></b></span></font></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW1nEpMVlsth0XGulap1rfxX8BqzxagQimotbmqlhb3XFkiQo2SxYikEfsxidgzUdBgDePnasSfT4uv0B2sCncSWyJ4BUg9nGcTYjtFhrT0sfg-HNRHJPOBqdS5HB-FBdJ44klWaMJv4c/s1600/0C5398A1-7A33-4737-ADFC-EF64B9E86AAC.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="text-align: start; text-decoration: none; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><font color="#000000" size="4"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><br></b></span></font></a></div></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4"><b><font color="#248f24">Ohya</font> : The Lens is quiet large, birds are most likely to avoid it. We have many wind power plants with Wind Lenses attached, but there hasn't been a case of bird strike for 6 years.</b></font></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Already it was installed, </span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Dozens in Japan, UK, Canada WEICAN (National Canada wind Institute), China. </span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Next year install in Thailand.</span></div><div><span style="font-style: italic; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><b style="font-style: italic; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5" face="Arial">If you are interested, please click the link below to a English-translated Kyuushu University page. </font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><font face="Helvetica" color="#248f24" size="6"><b>Welcome to Wind Engineering Section </b></font></span></span><b style="color: rgb(36, 143, 36); font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6">at Kyushu University </font></b></div><div><b style="color: rgb(36, 143, 36); font-family: Helvetica; text-align: -webkit-auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6"> research institute for applied mechanics (RIAM). </font></b></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br><font style="text-decoration: none;"> <a href="http://www.riam.kyushu-u.ac.jp/windeng/en_index.php" style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" id="id_ced6_9c80_323d_a2dc">http://www.riam.kyushu-u.ac.jp/windeng/en_index.php</a></font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" style="text-decoration: none;"><b> <a href="http://dl.gov-online.go.jp/public_html/gov/book/hlj/20110701/m/index.html#page=1" style="text-decoration: none;" id="id_2ef4_1bb6_bf33_c434">http://dl.gov-online.go.jp/public_html/gov/book/hlj/20110701/m/index.html#page=1</a></b></font><br><br><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ6RCq3ZuET5_WfVip3Z017SlIRUMpZMOh3h4U7Gio8oMnn5g7UKztWQZqHUHNOtSIYjdFGLNW2AERTE4ZbsE2i8-818sPW94nszUOkyDI14lPnfXN9b9pNHjd2pQHAkBaPbXpULcXS0g/s200/BE7AABB7-A0A6-4263-88AB-F1003068BEFD.JPG" height="200" width="200" style="text-align: center; width: 254px; height: auto;" id="id_7394_5d6b_b849_469"> </span></font></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6" color="#0000ff"><font><b> Professor Yuji Ohya</b></font> </font></span><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5"><b>President of The Project, </b></font></span></font><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5">Kyushu University</font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="4"><b><i><br></i></b></font></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="4"><b><i> Wind Engineering Section</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> at Kyushu University research institute for applied mechanics (RIAM)</span></b></font></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><h2 style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; 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-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5"><b> Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Interdisciplinary Graduate </b></font></span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5"><b> School of Engineering Sciences KYUSHU UNIVERSITY </b></font></span><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" color="#b2b200"> </font></b></p><p style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><img id="id_7801_678c_d91e_24d5" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2eWdi7xjts0/VTHOZqejevI/AAAAAAABP00/u7J4pow30Is/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 354px; height: auto;"> <img id="id_2190_89c8_f395_72fd" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-k5obfRk30cY/VTHOb9wsK7I/AAAAAAABP08/jGwgld1U1jE/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 582px; height: auto;"></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Global energy issues and demands for CO2 reduction have further attracted interests in development of new energies. As drastic reviews are on-going on the safety understanding and the next scenarios of the nuclear power generation, safe natural energies </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">such as solar, geothermal, hydro, tidal as well as wind energies should be seriously challenged for each effective and practical utilization.</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Japan is sometimes mentioned with its small land and lack of natural resources, but </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">the total area of territorial waters and exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is the 6th </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">largest in the world. Kyushu University is currently challenging for development of new energies including one with novel high power efficiency Wind-lens turbines. The challenge is on-going with an outlook on realising High Density Off-Shore Electric Power Generation Farm utilizing very wide Japanese EEZ. </span></p><img id="id_f19d_6445_ecce_fa30" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iY9Ie9EHXQs/VTHPaxyooFI/AAAAAAABP1E/dJqLGDd3st8/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 407px; height: auto;"> <img id="id_3fea_d993_336f_e5f0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M_8YKAwvoOI/VTHPiPApJrI/AAAAAAABP1M/xa0_U1x9lyE/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 480px; height: auto;"><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Here, Integrated Off-Shore Electric Power Generation Farm“ means an off-shore energy farm on floating bodies with combined power generation systems such as wind, solar, tidal, wave, tension power applied to the anchoring wire, etc.</span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="5"><b>Stage I</b></font></span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The first step has started towards Hybrid Off-Shore Electric Power Generation Farm with system development for off-shore wind power generation using 3kW Wind-lens turbines that have been developed by Wind-lens Research Team of Kyushu University. The plan in 2011 includes launching the floating body of ~18m diagonal in the east part of Hakata bay with two 3kW Wind-lens turbines. </span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For preparation, in March 2011, a large wave tank in Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, was used for the theoretically- scaled model experiments for investigating motions of the float responding against high waves and strong winds. </span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">During the test experiments in the wave tank, a harsh conditions was generated corresponding to a wave height of 6m and a wind speed of 30m in the natural condition, and the stable behaviour of the floating body against the condition was confirmed.</span></p><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><img id="id_de24_929c_6a4b_3f9a" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TxoDGtnBgAY/VTHQpx-tRzI/AAAAAAABP1U/F_LJ4urIC-4/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 525px; height: auto;"> <img id="id_20bd_14d4_b716_aff4" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kZqQEDleTvE/VTHQxMLuxCI/AAAAAAABP1c/QkC8OZ4YPOg/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 386px; height: auto;"></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><b style="font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5">StageII (plan)</font></b></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the next stage for constructing the floating body in Hakata Bay, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">an Integrated Off-shore Floating Energy Farm (1-2MW) is being planned with connecting 100m size large floating bodies in the off-shore area in Japan. This farm will accommodate medium size (300kW at a wind speed of 12m/s) Wind-lens turbines according to the current plan.</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A prototype of the medium 100kW Wind-lens turbine can be seen in Kyushu University Ito Campas.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><span style="width: 492px; height: auto;"> <img id="id_a50_52e5_18ff_da4" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Tupjl3ApZ5c/VTHSnXzeyxI/AAAAAAABP1o/Q4HJpJrFEhk/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 435px; height: auto;"></span></font></span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="5">Stage III (plan)</font></b></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Challenges for further scaling-up in future of Wind-lens turbine (1MW class) and Off-shore Energy Farm are on-going through researches on improving structural materials, supporting structure of the wind-lens, etc.</span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.riam.kyushu-u.ac.jp/windeng/index.php" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">http://www.riam.kyushu-u.ac.jp/windeng/index.php</a><br>Dec 2011 Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, KYUSHU UNIVERSITY</span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">CG supplied by Kyushu University, Off-Shore Floating</span></p></div></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: start; 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font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><font face="Arial"><font size="7" color="#32cd32">C</font><font size="7" color="#248f24">O</font><font size="7" color="#b2b200">S</font><font size="7" color="#32cd32">Y</font><font size="7" color="#248f24">S</font><font size="7" color="#b2b200">T</font><font size="7" color="#32cd32">E</font><font size="7" color="#248f24">M</font></font></b><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254)" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"> </span></font><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>E</b><b>COSYSTEM</b> <b>E</b><b>COSYSTEM</b> <b>E</b><b>COSYSTEM</b> </span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 1.5em 0px;">The climate changes the planet is currently undergoing, and the threats posed by greenhouse gases, all interlink with the entire planet's ecosystems which have been carefully balanced for millennia. Since the industrial age, this has changed, and the way we now exploit the Earth's resources affect everything in the chain. Forests, wetlands and oceans have absorbed carbon forever - now with mining, eradicating forests for agriculture etc., these gasses are building in the atmosphere and can endure there for a century permitting ever-increasing rises in temperature, which in turn leads to ice-melt and rising sea-levels. While world governments and individuals confront how to reduce energy levels which result in CO2 emissions, the ecosystems also need to be considered. Deforestation alone can add more of a threat to global warming than all the cars on the planet's roads. It's unfortunately a very complex subject, difficult to summarize in a few short paragraphs. It has been necessary for us, then, to give more attention to each of the major ecosystem issues where we can learn what went wrong, and what must be done to mitigate a looming crisis. Read more <a href="http://www.thinkglobalgreen.org/ECOSYSTEMS.html" style="font-style: italic;">http://www.thinkglobalgreen.org/ECOSYSTEMS.html</a></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 1.5em 0px;"> <br></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 1.5em 0px;"> <br></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 1.5em 0px;"><br></p><p style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 1.5em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="7" face="Arial" color="#b2b200"><b> ◆CARBON DIOXIDE CO2◆</b></font></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="7" face="Arial" color="#b2b200"><b> </b></font></span><a href="http://www.thinkglobalgreen.org/CARBONDIOXIDE.html">http://www.thinkglobalgreen.org/CARBONDIOXIDE.html</a></p><p style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 1.5em 0px;"><b style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">With CO2 now being declared a danger to human health by the US EPA , its significant threat as a greenhouse gas is given added importance as the leading cause of climate change and rising temperatures on the planet. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere caused by the combustion of fossil fuels (coal, gas, & oil) has increased by around 40% since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. As the level increases in the atmosphere and the oceans, we're getting further away from the solution. How much we can safely emit is in conflict with how very much more we produce - especially in North America. It's a problem that will be with us, and we need to understand why it's planet Earth's greatest threat. The planet will survive somehow, but will humanity? </font></b></p><p style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-style: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); margin: 1.5em 0px;"></p> </span><img id="id_7c45_d8ea_8788_bb94" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-VLTTJK8tCTA/VSYBXJY2BVI/AAAAAAABPN4/WwUfXJektS8/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 513px; height: auto;"><p style="font-style: normal; margin-left: 0px; width: 540px;"><small><small><big><big><big style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="3"> </font></big></big></big></small></small><font face="Arial" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><b><font size="6">●●●●</font><font color="#ff0000" style="font-size: xx-large;">●●●</font><font color="#b20000" style="font-size: xx-large;">●●</font><font color="#ff0000" size="7">Coal</font></b></font><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><font size="7"> </font></span><font face="Arial" style="font-size: xx-large; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><b><font color="#b20000">●</font><font color="#737373">●●●</font><font color="#c0c0c0">●●●○○○</font></b></font></p><p style="font-style: normal; margin-left: 0px; width: 540px;"><a href="http://www.thinkglobalgreen.org/COAL.html" id="id_b52c_d50_f928_7127">http://www.thinkglobalgreen.org/COAL.html</a></p><p style="font-style: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 1.5em 0px;"><font size="4"><b>According to EPA, American coal plants produce 386,000 tons of hazardous air pollutants per year. Coal-fired electric power generation emits around 2,000 pounds of CO2 for every megawatt-hour generated. The toxins they release, hazardous chemicals that can lead to disease, brain damage and premature death, affect every part of the human body. Arsenic, chromium and nickel cause cancer; lead damages the nervous system; acid gases irritate the nose and throat; dioxins affect the reproductive endocrine and immune systems; and volatile organic compounds weaken lungs and eyes. link The global dominance of industrial interests dependant on cheap energy sourced from coal means that climate change is inevitable. Unfortunately, there is enough cheap coal around to power ever-higher emissions for at least another century. The world will inevitably become much warmer. </b></font></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 1.5em 0px;"></p><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-style: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5" face="Arial" color="#0000b8">Can We Replace U.S. Coal Power with Clean Energy?</font></span></h1><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 1.5em 0px;">Coal electric power generation is under enormous regulatory pressure to substantially reduce stack emissions. The EPA requires huge reductions in most coal plant emissions including carbon dioxide (CO2). As a result, most new coal power plant projects are being cancelled and many existing coal plants are expected to shutdown prematurely. </p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 1.5em 0px;">Coal accounts for 42% of total U.S. net power generation today. A very feasible strategy to quickly and substantially reducing U.S. CO2 emissions is replacing most or all of the coal consumed within the Electric Power Sector. The Power Sector consumes the vast majority of U.S. coal in about 600 power plants across the U.S. Replacing coal power with clean energy or clean power also provides an excellent synergy for reducing future Transportation Sector CO2 emissions. For future EV’s to eventually become ‘zero emission vehicles’ (ZEV’s) requires substantial reductions in fossil fuels used to generate U.S. electric power. Replacing all coal with clean power facilitates the actual development of future ZEV fleets.</p><div style="font-style: italic;">Reed more ⇒ <a href="http://theenergycollective.com/jemillerep/98281/costs-replace-us-coal-power-clean-energy" id="id_a22e_1bc1_5dfb_6f3b" style="font-style: normal;">http://theenergycollective.com/jemillerep/98281/costs-replace-us-coal-power-clean-energy</a></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><h1 class="title" itemprop="headline" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: auto; font-style: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5" face="Arial" color="#737373">Officials: Unsafe levels of arsenic from Duke Energy coal ash dump pouring into rive</font></span></h1><h1 class="title" itemprop="headline" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: auto; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></font></h1></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><p class="image-caption" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding-top: 5px; font-style: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In this Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, photo, Jenny Edwards, program manager for Rockingham County with the Dan River Basin Association, scoops coal ash from the banks of the river as state and federal environmental officials continued their investigations of a spill in Eden, N.C. Duke Energy estimated that up to 82,000 tons of ash was released from a break in a 48-inch storm water pipe at the Dan River Power Plant. <span class="image-credit " style="font-weight: 700;"> GERRY BROOME, AP</span></span></p></div><div style="font-style: italic;">Read more <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/officials-unsafe-levels-of-arsenic-from-duke-energy-coal-ash-dump-pouring-into-river/" id="id_f892_922c_683f_64e8">http://www.cbsnews.com/news/officials-unsafe-levels-of-arsenic-from-duke-energy-coal-ash-dump-pouring-into-river/</a></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><font size="6">●●●●●●●●●</font><font color="#b20000" size="7">O I L </font><font color="#b20000" size="6">Off Shore Drilling</font><font size="6">●●●●●●●●●●</font></b></font></div></div><div><div><a href="http://www.thinkglobalgreen.org/OFFSHOREDRILLING.html" id="id_2a02_8a37_5644_3927">http://www.thinkglobalgreen.org/OFFSHOREDRILLING.html</a></div><div><b><font size="4">Much of the world runs on oil, most from land, but some from ocean drilling. Given the locations of the remaining oil, the costs have been far higher, though technology has made it more accessible. Canada's tar sands are becoming a serious issue, and with the Arctic ice melting, oil companies are racing to drill there with serious environmental issues involved. </font></b></div><div><b><font size="4">The Earth has been accumulating oil and natural gas for about a billion years or so. Humans have been drilling and burning crude and gas in significant amounts for only the last 156 years, since the 1859 birth of the oil industry in Pennsylvania. Since 1980, the world has burned nearly 40 trillion gallons. Since 1980, the amount found, but not yet produced, has more than doubled. The world's proven reserves are now 71 trillion gallons, up from 683 billion barrels in 1980. That's part of what worries climate scientists so much. Burning the oil and gas that we've already found, never mind what we haven't yet, will lead to dangerous and possibly catastrophic changes in the earth's climate, they say. </font></b></div></div><div><h1 style="outline-style: none; margin: 10px 0px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6" face="Arial" color="#b20000"> Shell's profit comes at our expense</font></span></h1></div><div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><div class="button-holder" style="outline-style: none; width: 607px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 8px;"><span class="caption" style="outline-style: none; float: left; margin: 9px 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="green1" style="outline-style: none;">Blogpost</span> by <span class="green1" style="outline-style: none;"><strong style="outline-style: none;">Isadora Wronski</strong></span> - 2 April, 2015 </span></span><span class="caption" style="outline-style: none; float: left; margin: 9px 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span><span class="caption" style="outline-style: none; float: left; margin: 9px 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></div><div class="button-holder" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); outline-style: none; width: 607px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 8px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Read more <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/save-the-arctic/blog/52497/" id="id_c002_abf6_5fc4_367b" target="_self">http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/save-the-arctic/blog/52497/</a><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/save-the-arctic/blog/52497/" id="id_5e7a_970f_46b0_97fc">http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/save-the-arctic/blog/52497/</a></span></div></div><div class="button-holder" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); outline-style: none; width: 607px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 8px;"><br></div><div class="button-holder" style="outline-style: none; width: 607px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 8px;"><br> </div><div class="button-holder" style="outline-style: none; width: 607px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 8px;"><br></div><div class="button-holder" style="outline-style: none; width: 607px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 8px;"><font size="6"><font color="#ffff00">●●●●●●●●●</font><b><font face="Arial" color="#b20000">NUCLEAR</font></b><font color="#ffff00">●●●●●●●●●</font></font></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><br></div><div><font size="4">There are currently about 437 commercial nuclear power reactors operating in 31 countries around the world, producing 13.5% of the world’s energy - 372,000MW. Sixteen countries depend on nuclear power for at least a quarter of their electricity. France gets around three quarters of its power from nuclear energy - the USA almost one fifth. link Safety, massive cost overruns and building delays are major problems for any future projects which would require huge government subsidies. No nuclear reactor has ever been built anywhere in the world without substantial government subsidy, and no reactor ever will be built without substantial government funding in future. Also private investors are not enamoured by nuclear power because construction risks are too high (with cost overruns and substantial delays all but guaranteed), and the political risks (with governments constantly changing their mind about levels of support) even higher. [The 104 nuclear reactors currently operating in the United States use between 25,000 and 27,500 tons of uranium oxide per year.] Thorium is considered a safer and cheaper alternative.</font></div></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><font size="6">○○○○○○○○○<b><font face="Arial" color="#b20000">Natural Gas</font></b>○○○○○○○○○○</font><font size="7"> </font></div><div><a href="http://www.thinkglobalgreen.org/NATURALGAS.html" id="id_e2ea_e3bf_e5e_d415">http://www.thinkglobalgreen.org/NATURALGAS.html</a></div><div><font size="4"><b>Natural gas is a combustible gaseous fossil fuel. While contributing less CO2 to the atmosphere than other fuels, it is still a serious greenhouse gas. (The average U.S. natural gas plant emits 800 to 850 lbs of CO2 per megawattt.whereas coal plants emit an average 1,768 llbs of CO2 per megawatt.)</b></font></div><div><font size="4"><b>Transporting natural gas by tanker can involve similar risks to transporting oil by sea. With its cost receding in recent years, more attention is being paid to its commercial uses. The main products of the combustion of natural gas are CO2 and water vapor. B</b></font><b>ut the problem of "fracking" has serious.</b></div></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div><font size="4">◎◎◎◎◎◎◎◎◎</font><font size="6" color="#b20000">METHANE</font><font size="4">◎◎◎◎◎◎◎◎◎◎</font></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><b>Methane (CH4) is by far the most important non-CO2 greenhouse gas - a relatively potent greenhouse gas responsible for nearly as much global warming as all other non-CO2 greenhouse gases put together. Methane is created naturally near the Earth's surface by microorganisms by the process of methanogenesis and carried into the stratosphere by rising air in the tropics. It is important because of the potential harm it has for global warming, but it also has value as an energy source. There is much less methane in the atmosphere than CO2: about 1800 parts per billion (ppb), compared with an estimated 390 parts per million of CO2. However its potential for global warming has been estimated at 25 times greater than CO2 . While CO2 emissions are estimated to contribute 75% to global warming effects, methane is a distant second at 15%. And as with other greenhouse gases, methane levels have been rising; they are now more than twice what they were in the early 1800s when methane levels were closer to 715ppb. Half of current emissions is human-related which includes landfills, agriculture and coal mining.</b></font></div><div><font size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div><img id="id_3862_e55c_bbfa_ff0c" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ZI52PcunUmE/VR9plpA717I/AAAAAAABOxQ/KJGcsz5BzEg/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 437px; height: auto;"> </div></div><div> </div><div class="separator" style="font-style: italic; clear: both;"><div class="info" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/Media-Center/News-by-Topic/Global-Warming/2015/03-11-15-Report-NY-Leaders-Can-Reduce-Cost-of-Harnessing-States-World-Class-Offshore-Wind.aspx " id="id_8508_b8e5_deec_c2f1">http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/Media-Center/News-by-Topic/Global-Warming/2015/03-11-15-Report-NY-Leaders-Can-Reduce-Cost-of-Harnessing-States-World-Class-Offshore-Wind.aspx</a></div><div class="info" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div class="info" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div class="info" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal;"><b><font size="4">△▽△▽△▽</font><font size="6" color="#b20000">ETHANOL and BIOFUELS</font><font size="4">△▽△▽△▽△▽△▽</font></b></div><div class="info" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal;"><font size="5"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="info" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal;"><div class="info" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font size="4"><b>Since the early 2000's, ethanol and other biofuels have been seen as a solution to our dependence on oil. This has proven not simply a misguided course, but brought with it unintended consequences to the world's food supply. It has been a distraction from focusing on clean energy sources as a means of powering our transport needs in the future. While corn ethanol was originally believed to be a promising alternative to petroleum, it has been largely discredited on several counts. 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Oldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859488789054287551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537383451156444426.post-80495840696130501322015-03-05T20:41:00.001-06:002023-04-04T23:34:32.159-05:00National Ringling Bros. to phase out elephants by 2018<div><a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2015/03/table-of-contents.html" id="id_f69_e865_7f0_6a25"><img id="id_5778_ede6_48c4_1524" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-I6_WBrbMbA8/VQ3FL1rJKsI/AAAAAAABNns/TQpZogt8XLE/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 449px; height: auto;"></a></div><div><h1 class="single-title"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6" face="Arial" color="#0000b8"> Ringling Bros. to phase out elephants by 2018</font></span></h1></div><div><div id="attachment_115860" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em auto 0px; max-width: 100%; clear: both; width: 716px;"><font size="5" face="Arial" color="#b20000"><b> Draw My Life: Elephant Edition</b></font><br><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/R4aI-egE7Fo" width="500" height="281" id="y_id_e04e_80f0_f2e2_a67" frameborder="0" style="height: 384px; width: 682px;"></iframe><br></div><div id="attachment_115860" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em auto 0px; max-width: 100%; clear: both; width: 716px;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br></span><img src="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/WEB_331897.jpg" alt="African elephants, Loxodonta africana, are led by their matriarch in Maasai Mara, Kenya. Photo by © naturepl.com/Andy Rouse/WWF-Canon" width="716" height="800" class="size-full wp-image-115860" scale="0" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; width: 673px;" id="id_467c_3c8d_992d_7e5e"><p class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin: 3px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; max-width: 96%;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey will stop using elephants during their shows in the next three years. Photo by © naturepl.com/Andy Rouse/WWF-Canon.</span></p><p class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin: 3px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; max-width: 96%;"><br></p><p class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin: 3px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; max-width: 96%;"></p></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/ringling-bros-phase-elephants-2018/" id="id_ef3d_176e_a884_e73b">http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/ringling-bros-phase-elephants-2018/</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced that beginning in 2018, elephants will no longer be a part of the circus act.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Feld Family, the Ringling Bros. parent company, <a href="http://www.feldentertainment.com/PressRoom/DisplayPressRelease/75870/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">announced in a press release today</a> that the 13 elephants currently traveling with the circus will move to Florida to join the 40 elephants currently located at the Ringling Bros. Center for Elephant for Conservation.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The move, the company said, is due to concerns over the treatment of the animals and will allow the Feld family to focus on its Asian elephant conservation program. None of the other animals in the circus will be affected.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“This is the most significant change we have made since we founded the Ringling Bros. Center for Elephant Conservation in 1995,” chairman and CEO of Feld Entertainment Kenneth Feld said in the release. “When we did so, we knew we would play a critical role in saving the endangered Asian elephant for future generations, given how few Asian elephants are left in the wild.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/05/390951839/ringling-bros-says-no-more-circus-elephants-by-2018" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">According to NPR</a>, Feld Entertainment has come under scrutiny for the company’s treatment of the animals, which led to the creation of Ringling Bros. Center for Elephant for Conservation, a 200-acre facility in Polk City, Florida. Humane Society CEO Wayne Pacelle told NPR this news is “almost like the [fall of] the Berlin Wall within the animal welfare [community.]”</span></font></p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Stop Circus Suffering, USA<br><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><h3 class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6" face="Arial" color="#248f24">Ringling Bros. to give up elephant acts in 3 years</font></span></h3></div><div><a href="http://www.fox19.com/story/28268916/ringling-bros-phasing-out-iconic-elephant-acts-by-2018" id="id_3afc_ef13_3d35_fd50">http://www.fox19.com/story/28268916/ringling-bros-phasing-out-iconic-elephant-acts-by-2018</a></div><div><font size="6"><b>Fox19 News</b></font></div><div><span style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By TAMARA LUSH<br>Associated Press</span><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">POLK CITY, Fla. (AP) - The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus says the "Greatest Show on Earth" will go on without elephants.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Animal rights groups took credit for generating the public concern that forced the company to announce its pachyderm retirement plan on Thursday. But Ringling Bros.' owners described it as the bittersweet result of years of internal family discussions.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It was a decision 145 years in the making," said Juliette Feld, referring to P.T. Barnum's introduction of animals to his "traveling menagerie" in 1870. Elephants have symbolized this circus since Barnum brought an Asian elephant named Jumbo to America in 1882.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kenneth Feld - whose father bought the circus in 1967 and who now runs Feld Enterprises Inc. with his three daughters - insisted that animal rights activists weren't responsible.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We're not reacting to our critics; we're creating the greatest resource for the preservation of the Asian elephant," Kenneth Feld told The Associated Press as he broke the news that the last 13 performing elephants will retire by 2018, joining 29 other pachyderms at the company's 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation in central Florida.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But Feld acknowledged that because so many cities and counties have passed "anti-circus" and "anti-elephant" ordinances, it's difficult to organize tours of three traveling circuses to 115 cities each year. Fighting legislation in each jurisdiction is expensive, he said.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"All of the resources used to fight these things can be put toward the elephants," Feld said.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Los Angeles prohibited the use of bull-hooks by elephant trainers and handlers last April. Oakland, California, did likewise in December, banning the devices used to keep elephants in control. Last month, the city of Asheville, North Carolina nixed wild or exotic animals from performing in the municipally-owned, 7,600-seat U.S. Cellular Center.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's been somewhat of a mood shift among our consumers," said Alana Feld, the company's executive vice president. "A lot of people aren't comfortable with us touring with our elephants."</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ingrid E. Newkirk, the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, says her group made that happen.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"For 35 years PETA has protested Ringling Bros.' cruelty to elephants," she wrote in a statement. "We know extreme abuse to these majestic animals occurs every single day, so if Ringling is really telling the truth about ending this horror, it will be a day to pop the champagne corks, and rejoice. ... If the decision is serious, then the circus needs to do it NOW."</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Carol Bradley, the author of the book "Last Chain on Billie: How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top," which is about a non-Ringling circus elephant, said she believes the Feld family "realized it was a losing PR battle."</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"This is an enormous, earth-moving decision," she said. "When I heard the news, my jaw hit the floor. I never thought they'd change their minds about this."</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bradley wondered if the Feld family's decision had anything to do with the fallout over "Blackfish," a documentary exploring why the orca Tilikum killed SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The documentary argues that killer whales in captivity become more aggressive to humans and each other. Since it aired, several entertainers pulled out of performances at SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. parks, and Southwest Airlines ended its marketing partnership.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ringling also has been targeted by activists who say forcing animals to perform is cruel and unnecessary.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In 2014, Feld Entertainment won $25.2 million in settlements from groups including the Humane Society of the United States, ending a 14-year legal battle over allegations that circus employees mistreated elephants.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The initial lawsuit was filed by a former Ringling barn helper who accepted at least $190,000 from animal-rights groups. The judge called him "essentially a paid plaintiff" who lacked credibility and standing to sue, and rejected the abuse claims.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kenneth Feld testified about the elephants' importance to the show during that 2009 trial.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The symbol of the 'Greatest Show on Earth' is the elephant, and that's what we've been known for throughout the world for more than a hundred years," he said.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Asked by a lawyer whether the show would be the same without elephants, Feld replied, "No, it wouldn't."</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Asked again this week, Feld said, "Things have changed."</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pat Cuviello, a San Mateo, California-based animal activist who has protested and videotaped Ringling's animals since 1988, said he was ecstatic to hear the news.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I hope at some point they get rid of all the animals in all the circuses," he said.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For now, animals remain part of this circus: Tigers, dogs and goats are still performing, and a Mongolian troupe of camel stunt riders joined its Circus Xtreme show this year. But audiences can expect more motorsports, daredevils and feats of human physical capabilities to be showcased in the future.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In 2008, Feld acquired motor sports properties including monster truck shows, motocross and the International Hot Rod Association, which promotes drag races and other events. In 2010, it created a theatrical motorcycle stunt show called Nuclear Cowboyz. Roughly 30 million people attend Feld's 5,000 live entertainment shows every year.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ringling's popular Canada-based competitor, Cirque du Soleil, features human acts and doesn't use wild animals.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But elephants are still being used by smaller circuses in the U.S., and in places like Russia, France and Thailand.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With a total of 43 elephants, Feld owns the largest herd in North America, and spends about $65,000 yearly to care for each one. New structures will be needed to house the retiring elephants at the rural center, which is close enough to Orlando to attract tourists eventually if that's what Feld decides to offer.</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kenneth Feld said initially the center will be open only to scientists and others studying the Asian elephant, but he "hopes it expands to something the public will be able to see."</span></p><p style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6" face="Arial"><b>Washingtonpost News</b></font><br></span><div><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ringling-bros-to-retire-its-elephants-ending-a-tradition/2015/03/05/28b2a504-c377-11e4-a188-8e4971d37a8d_story.html" id="id_4a63_87c9_ec37_79">http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ringling-bros-to-retire-its-elephants-ending-a-tradition/2015/03/05/28b2a504-c377-11e4-a188-8e4971d37a8d_story.html</a></div></div><br><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2015 file photo, four-year-old Asian elephant April rings bell during Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circuspre-show at Knoxville Civic Coliseum, Knoxville, Tenn. The circus will phase out the show’s iconic elephants from its performances by 2018, telling The Associated Press exclusively on Thursday, March 5, 2015 that growing public concern about how the animals are treated led to the decision. (The Daily Times, Mark A. Large/Associated Press)</span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br></span><div><br><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">POLK CITY, Fla. — Elephants have always been part of The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, ever since showman P.T. Barnum brought Jumbo, “a massive 12-foot African elephant,” to America in 1882 to star in the “Greatest Show on Earth.” Whenever the circus came to town, parades of pachyderms heralded its arrival, drawing patriotic crowds that boosted sales and even attracted vote-hungry politicians. Feld Entertainment, which owns the circus, still keeps 43 elephants, 13 of which are performing. But years of pressure from activists alleging abuse have caused a “mood shift” among consumers, circus executive Alana Feld told The Associated Press, and the Feld family would rather spend money on elephant care than lawyers. The Felds say they’ll phase out elephant acts by 2018 as the remaining performers retire to their 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation in centr</font></b></span></p><h1 class="story-heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5" face="Arial" color="#248f24"><br></font></span></h1><div><br><br></div><h1 class="story-heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5" face="Arial" color="#248f24">Ringling Bros. to give up elephant acts in 3 years</font></span></h1><div><a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/df575148221544f4adaf3bea2adbb635/apnewsbreak-ringling-bros-eliminating-elephant-acts" id="id_6022_c7da_b02d_9925">http://bigstory.ap.org/article/df575148221544f4adaf3bea2adbb635/apnewsbreak-ringling-bros-eliminating-elephant-acts</a></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">FILE - In this March 19, 2013 file photo, a performer waves as elephants with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey show, pause for a photo opportunity in front of the Capitol in Washington, on their way to the Verizon Center, to promote the show coming to town. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will phase out the show's iconic elephants from its performances by 2018, telling The Associated Press. exclusively that growing public concern about how the animals are treated led to the decision. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">POLK CITY, Fla. (AP) — The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus says the "Greatest Show on Earth" will go on without elephants.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">Animal rights groups took credit for generating the public concern that forced the company to announce its pachyderm retirement plan on Thursday. But Ringling Bros.' owners described it as the bittersweet result of years of internal family discussions.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">"It was a decision 145 years in the making," said Juliette Feld, referring to P.T. Barnum's introduction of animals to his "traveling menagerie" in 1870. Elephants have symbolized this circus since Barnum brought an Asian elephant named Jumbo to America in 1882.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">Kenneth Feld — whose father bought the circus in 1967 and who now runs Feld Enterprises Inc. with his three daughters — insisted that animal rights activists weren't responsible.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">"We're not reacting to our critics; we're creating the greatest resource for the preservation of the Asian elephant," Kenneth Feld told The Associated Press as he broke the news that the last 13 performing elephants will retire by 2018, joining 29 other pachyderms at the company's 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation in central Florida.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">But Feld acknowledged that because so many cities and counties have passed "anti-circus" and "anti-elephant" ordinances, it's difficult to organize tours of three traveling circuses to 115 cities each year. Fighting legislation in each jurisdiction is expensive, he said.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">"All of the resources used to fight these things can be put toward the elephants," Feld said.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">Los Angeles prohibited the use of bull-hooks by elephant trainers and handlers last April. Oakland, California, did likewise in December, banning the devices used to keep elephants in control. Last month, the city of Asheville, North Carolina nixed wild or exotic animals from performing in the municipally-owned, 7,600-seat U.S. Cellular Center.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">"There's been somewhat of a mood shift among our consumers," said Alana Feld, the company's executive vice president. "A lot of people aren't comfortable with us touring with our elephants."</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">Ingrid E. Newkirk, the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, says her group made that happen.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">"For 35 years PETA has protested Ringling Bros.' cruelty to elephants," she wrote in a statement. "We know extreme abuse to these majestic animals occurs every single day, so if Ringling is really telling the truth about ending this horror, it will be a day to pop the champagne corks, and rejoice. ... If the decision is serious, then the circus needs to do it NOW."</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">Carol Bradley, the author of the book "Last Chain on Billie: How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top," which is about a non-Ringling circus elephant, said she believes the Feld family "realized it was a losing PR battle."</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">"This is an enormous, earth-moving decision," she said. "When I heard the news, my jaw hit the floor. I never thought they'd change their minds about this."</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">Bradley wondered if the Feld family's decision had anything to do with the fallout over "Blackfish," a documentary exploring why the orca Tilikum killed SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">The documentary argues that killer whales in captivity become more aggressive to humans and each other. Since it aired, several entertainers pulled out of performances at SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. parks, and Southwest Airlines ended its marketing partnership.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">Ringling also has been targeted by activists who say forcing animals to perform is cruel and unnecessary.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">In 2014, Feld Entertainment won $25.2 million in settlements from groups including the Humane Society of the United States, ending a 14-year legal battle over allegations that circus employees mistreated elephants.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">The initial lawsuit was filed by a former Ringling barn helper who accepted at least $190,000 from animal-rights groups. The judge called him "essentially a paid plaintiff" who lacked credibility and standing to sue, and rejected the abuse claims.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">Kenneth Feld testified about the elephants' importance to the show during that 2009 trial.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">"The symbol of the 'Greatest Show on Earth' is the elephant, and that's what we've been known for throughout the world for more than a hundred years," he said.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">Asked by a lawyer whether the show would be the same without elephants, Feld replied, "No, it wouldn't."</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">Asked again this week, Feld said, "Things have changed."</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">Pat Cuviello, a San Mateo, California-based animal activist who has protested and videotaped Ringling's animals since 1988, said he was ecstatic to hear the news.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">"I hope at some point they get rid of all the animals in all the circuses," he said.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">For now, animals remain part of this circus: Tigers, dogs and goats are still performing, and a Mongolian troupe of camel stunt riders joined its Circus Xtreme show this year. But audiences can expect more motorsports, daredevils and feats of human physical capabilities to be showcased in the future.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">In 2008, Feld acquired motor sports properties including monster truck shows, motocross and the International Hot Rod Association, which promotes drag races and other events. In 2010, it created a theatrical motorcycle stunt show called Nuclear Cowboyz. Roughly 30 million people attend Feld's 5,000 live entertainment shows every year.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">Ringling's popular Canada-based competitor, Cirque du Soleil, features human acts and doesn't use wild animals.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">But elephants are still being used by smaller circuses in the U.S., and in places like Russia, France and Thailand.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">With a total of 43 elephants, Feld owns the largest herd in North America, and spends about $65,000 yearly to care for each one. New structures will be needed to house the retiring elephants at the rural center, which is close enough to Orlando to attract tourists eventually if that's what Feld decides to offer.</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4">Kenneth Feld said initially the center will be open only to scientists and others studying the Asian elephant, but he "hopes it expands to something the public will be able to see."</font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><font size="4"><br></font></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In this Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015 photo, elephant Angelica is seen at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation, in Polk City, Fla. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus said it will phase out its iconic elephant acts by 2018. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In this Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015 photo, a male elephant scratches on the bars of his pen at the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation in Polk City, Fla. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus said it will phase out its iconic elephant acts by 2018. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 11px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In this Jan. 3, 2015 photo provided by Feld Entertainment Inc., elephants perform at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus said it will phase out its iconic elephant acts by 2018. 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<span class='st_email_large' displayText='Email'></span></div>Keiko T. Oldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859488789054287551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537383451156444426.post-16962181244345553532015-01-24T21:42:00.001-06:002023-03-30T23:05:36.277-05:00#FreeBaliDolphins Bogus ‘Rescue’ Behind Cruel Dolphin Circuses<div><br></div><div><font size="7"><b><font color="#0000ff"> ~~~~~~</font><font color="#0000b8">FREE Bali Dolphins</font><font color="#0000ff">~~~~~~</font></b></font></div><div><b><font color="#0000ff" size="5"> バリのイルカに自由を</font></b></div><div><img id="id_9432_24c1_6ed4_a928" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aaSviwP2LNE/VTRzOOgmCRI/AAAAAAABP_I/lR6x-fKiPIk/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 974px; height: auto;"><b><font color="#0000ff" size="5"><br></font></b></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><span style="font-style: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> </span></span></font></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: center; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><span style="font-style: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> </span></span></font></span><font face="Arial"><b><font size="4" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 0);"> </font><font size="7" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 0);">TWEET SHEET</font><font size="4" style="color: rgb(178, 0, 0);"> </font><font size="6" color="#248f24"> ▶︎</font></b></font><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b> </b></span><font size="4"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/corruptioncrueltycaptivity" id="id_373e_9e77_828c_56b7">https://sites.google.com/site/corruptioncrueltycaptivity</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">/</span></font><b style="color: rgb(178, 0, 0); font-family: Arial;"> </b></div><div><br></div><div><div><font size="6"><b><font color="#0000b8"> </font></b></font></div><div><b><font size="5"><font color="#b2b200"> ♦︎♦︎♦︎♦︎</font><font color="#0000b8" face="Arial">Bogus ‘Rescue’ Behind Cruel Dolphin Circuses</font><font color="#b2b200">♦︎♦︎♦︎♦︎♦︎</font></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Copperplate" style="font-size: xx-large;"> <font color="#0000ff"> </font></font><font face="Arial"><font size="5">By Jools Orca</font><font size="6"> </font></font></b></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-family: Arial;">Dolphins have evolved over millions of years. Intelligent, social and self-aware with a high level emotion makes us fall in love with them, but also exploit them worldwide — including Indonesia.</b></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>It is impossible to assure the welfare of captive marine mammals. Many die prematurely and that's if they survive the brutal and traumatic capture process.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Around seventy wild caught dolphins are currently suffering in traveling circuses and tiny pools in hotels and also beachside.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>In 2010, local group Jakarta Animal Aid Network (JAAN) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indonesian National Forestry Commission. A large number of illegally kept dolphins were to be rescued, rehabilitated and released from private businesses in Java and Bali. Only two months after the agreement there was a change of director who did not support the program, yet supported businesses like Taman Safari and Wersut Seguni Indonesia (WSI) who catch and keep dolphins.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>WSI is a holding center for dolphins in Central Java province. Dolphins are illegally caught from the Java Sea by local fishermen, employed and equipped by those making huge profits from captive dolphin attractions.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>In order to avoid existing laws prohibiting the deliberate capture of dolphins, this practice is done at night and the fishermen claim the dolphins were tangled in fishing nets thus exploiting a loophole in the law.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>These "rescued" dolphins are taken to WSI for "treatment" and the Forestry Department issues a temporary permit to keep the dolphins "until healthy and ready for release." To date not one dolphin has been released back into the wild and a 90-meter (approx. 295 feet) sea pen built by Earth Island Institute and JAAN, under the supervision of Ric O'Barry, lies empty in Karimum Jawa National Park.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <font size="5" color="#ff0000">There are many Japanese tourists visiting</font></b></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#ff0000" size="4"> そこにはたくさんの日本人観光客が訪れます</font></b></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <img id="id_b0d6_f603_6d11_1ee9" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LTQ79F8GnNU/VMSAo1J__9I/AAAAAAABIsA/PVjShsROSDA/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 788px; height: auto;"></span></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>So what of these places where dolphins are forced to suffer unimaginable cruelty on a daily basis? Many of the 70-plus captive dolphins are forced to perform in traveling circuses which continue to be extremely popular in Indonesia — even broadcast on television.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Kept in tiny containers of water, they spend hours traveling from village to village on bumpy roads. Many die during transport and WSI simply replaces them with new wild-caught dolphins (once again exploiting the "rescued" loophole). All this under the authorization of the Central Java Forestry Department and the Bali Forestry Department Offices.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>In May 2012 the head of the Central Java Department was changed. Traveling circus owners organized and paid for his leaving party.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Despite a ban on travel shows in August 2013 by the then-Forestry Minister Mr. Zul Hasan, the travel circus continues to perform, showing that local department won't even take orders from its own Minister, but prioritize a business exploiting dolphins.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Dolphins have evolved over millions of years. Intelligent, social and self-aware with a high level emotion makes us fall in love with them, but also exploit them worldwide — including Indonesia.</b></font></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>It is impossible to assure the welfare of captive marine mammals. Many die prematurely and that's if they survive the brutal and traumatic capture process.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Around seventy wild caught dolphins are currently suffering in traveling circuses and tiny pools in hotels and also beachside.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>In 2010, local group Jakarta Animal Aid Network (JAAN) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indonesian National Forestry Commission. A large number of illegally kept dolphins were to be rescued, rehabilitated and released from private businesses in Java and Bali. Only two months after the agreement there was a change of director who did not support the program, yet supported businesses like Taman Safari and Wersut Seguni Indonesia (WSI) who catch and keep dolphins.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>WSI is a holding center for dolphins in Central Java province. Dolphins are illegally caught from the Java Sea by local fishermen, employed and equipped by those making huge profits from captive dolphin attractions.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>In order to avoid existing laws prohibiting the deliberate capture of dolphins, this practice is done at night and the fishermen claim the dolphins were tangled in fishing nets thus exploiting a loophole in the law.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>These "rescued" dolphins are taken to WSI for "treatment" and the Forestry Department issues a temporary permit to keep the dolphins "until healthy and ready for release." To date not one dolphin has been released back into the wild and a 90-meter (approx. 295 feet) sea pen built by Earth Island Institute and JAAN, under the supervision of Ric O'Barry, lies empty in Karimum Jawa National Park.</b></font></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>So what of these places where dolphins are forced to suffer unimaginable cruelty on a daily basis? Many of the 70-plus captive dolphins are forced to perform in traveling circuses which continue to be extremely popular in Indonesia — even broadcast on television.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Kept in tiny containers of water, they spend hours traveling from village to village on bumpy roads. Many die during transport and WSI simply replaces them with new wild-caught dolphins (once again exploiting the "rescued" loophole). All this under the authorization of the Central Java Forestry Department and the Bali Forestry Department Offices.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>In May 2012 the head of the Central Java Department was changed. Traveling circus owners organized and paid for his leaving party.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Despite a ban on travel shows in August 2013 by the then-Forestry Minister Mr. Zul Hasan, the travel circus continues to perform, showing that local department won't even take orders from its own Minister, but prioritize a business exploiting dolphins.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Photo: Jakarta Animal Aid Network</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Indeed a dolphin pool opened in July last year in the very popular Bali resort of Keramas where four wild-caught juveniles now suffer in a tiny pool — the opening of this pool was attended by the local Forestry Department.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>This pool was opened to compete with the notorious Melka Dolphin Resort Hotel whose website proudly boasts "Dolphin Show," "Swimming with Dolphins" and that money-induced myth "Dolphin Therapy." What they don't boast here is a high mortality rate amongst its dolphins, nor the fact that frustrated dolphins have been known to "rape" paying guests.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>There is a floating sea pen just off the Bali coast in Sanur, but it's just an excuse for more exploitation and more money. The dolphins here weren't "rescued," nor will they ever be "released," which is what visitors are told as they hand over their money.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>A change of government in October last year was hoped to bring change, but Indonesia continues to have a very big and serious problem with the dolphin trade.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b>Neglected by the authorities, it is having a big impact on the region's biodiversity and indeed the reputation of Indonesia itself. </b></font></div><div><a href="https://www.thedodo.com/community/Jools_Orca/the-exploitation-of-dolphins-i-1028273863.html?utm_campaign=RebelAlerts&utm_medium=email&utm_source=rebelmouse" id="id_2330_3bf9_a893_9a9f">https://www.thedodo.com/community/Jools_Orca/the-exploitation-of-dolphins-i-1028273863.html?utm_campaign=RebelAlerts&utm_medium=email&utm_source=rebelmouse</a></div><div><br></div></div><div> <br></div><div><div><font size="6"><b><font color="#b2b200"> ♦︎♦︎♦︎</font><font color="#0000ff">残酷なイルカショーの裏に隠された偽りの“保護”</font><font color="#b2b200">♦︎♦︎♦︎</font></b></font></div><div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5"><font> By Jools Orca</font><font> </font></font></b></div><div><br></div><div><b><font face="Arial">イルカは、何100万年もかけて進化してきた。</font></b></div><div><font face="Arial"><b>彼らの優れた知性、社会性、そして、高いレベルの情緒を伴う自己意識が、彼らを愛すべき存在にしているのだが、同時に</b><b>インドネシアを含む、世界中でいるかが利用されている原因にもなっている。</b></font></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">捕獲された海洋哺乳類の快適な生活を保証することは不可能である。多くは、もし残酷で、心的外傷になるような、捕獲のやり方に耐えられたとしても、長くは生きられない。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><font face="Arial"><b>2010年には、地元のグループジャカルタアニマルエイドネットワーク(JAAN)はインドネシア国家林業委員会との条件に署名した。</b><b>多くの違法に捕獲されたイルカは吸湿され、リハビリを受け、ジャワやバリの民間企業から開放されることになっていた。 </b></font></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><font face="Arial"><b>WSIはジャワ州中部でのイルカの保持センターです。</b><b>イルカは、地元の漁師によってジャワ海から違法に捕獲されている。</b></font></div><div><b><font face="Arial">そういった漁師は捕獲されたイルカから巨額の利益を得る企業によって雇われ、捕獲に必要なものを提供されている。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">悪質なイルカ捕獲を禁止する法律を避けるために捕獲は夜行われ、漁師は "漁網に絡まった" と主張し法の抜け穴を悪用している。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">これらの救出されたいるかたちは、WAIに、治療のために連れて行かれる。そして、森林局は彼らがリリースされるほどに健康になるまで、イルカを一時的に維持できる許可を与える。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">が、これまでのところ、一頭のイルカも野生には戻されていない。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">また、リック・オバリーの監督の下、アースアイランド研究所とJAANによって作られた Karimum ジャワ国立公園の幅90メートル(約295フィート)の海の囲いも空っぽのままである。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">日々、想像を絶する残酷さに苦しむことを余儀なくされている場所はなんだろう?</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">捕獲された70頭以上の中の多くは、移動サーカスで、芸をすることを強制されている。それは、インドネシアでは、とても人気があり、テレビで放映されることもある。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">イルカは水の入った小さなコンテナに入れられ、デコボコ道を何時間もかけて走り村から村へ移動する。輸送中に多くのイルカが死亡するが、WSIは単に新しい野生捕獲イルカ(もう一度 "救出"抜け穴を悪用して)に置き換えられる。全てが中部ジャワ森林局とバリ林業局事務所の許可の下で行われている。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">2012年5月にはジャワ中部のリーダーが変わり、移動サーカスの所有者たちが団結し、彼の送別会の費用を出した。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">2013年8月当時、農林大臣ズル ハサンにより、移動ショーが禁止されたにもかかわらず移動サーカスは継続しているのは、地元の団体が自分達のイルカを悪用したビジネスを優先順位付けし、大臣からの命令ですら聞こうとしなかった。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">実際、昨年7月にバリのKaramasで人気の高いリゾートで、イルカのプールがオープンし、捕獲した野生のイルカが今も小さなプールで苦しんでいる - このプールのオープニング式典には、地元の森林局が出席しました。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><font face="Arial"><b>このプールは「イルカと泳ぐ」「イルカショー」また客寄せの目玉「ドルフィンセラピー」などウェブサイトで誇らしげに自慢する、悪名高いメルカドルフィンリゾートホテルと競争するために開設されました。しかし彼等が決してウェブサイトで公表しない事は、「イルカの高い死亡率」と、お金を払った上イルカに「レイプ」ごっこされた観光客が不愉快な思いで失望したという有名な出来事である。</b><b>あるいは、いらだったイルカがお金を払ったお客を襲ったことも、公表はされていない。</b></font></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">バリ沿岸部サヌールのバリ沿岸近くの海に浮いたイルカの囲いがあるが、これはさらなるイルカの搾取と、お金を求めるための口実にすぎない。ここにいるイルカが救出された事もないし、今後も開放されることもない。ここを訪れる観光客は、お金を支払うときに、そのように説明される。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">昨年10月の政権交代は変化をもたらすために期待されていたが、インドネシアはイルカ取引は非常に深刻な問題を持ち続けている。</font></b></div><div><b><font face="Arial">当局によって無視されていることで、それは確実に地域の生物多様性やインドネシア自体の評判に大きな影響を及ぼしている。</font></b></div></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><font size="4"><i>Transrate to Japanese by Keiko Olds and Love Cat</i></font></b></div><div><b><font size="4"><i><br></i></font></b></div><div><font face="Arial" color="#ff0000"><b>METRO TV: INDONESIAN DOLPHIN TRAVELING CIRCUS <font size="5">PART 1</font> <font size="4"> And</font><font size="5"> PART 2</font></b></font><br><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/r2EWCdVmEgY" width="898" height="505" id="y_id_2da9_1d30_6d5c_135c" frameborder="0" style="height: 251px; 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-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Miami, Florida リック・オバリーからの嘆願書</span></div><div class="_52jc _52j9 _52jg"><br></div><div class="_52jc _52j9 _52jg" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We have all heard of those traveling circuses that transport their captive animals from city to city, forcing them to perform in an endless cycle of depressing servitude.</b></div><div class="_52jc _52j9 _52jg"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>What you probably haven’t heard of is dolphins being featured as the main act.</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>As hard as it is to believe, dolphin traveling circuses are a big hit in Indonesia. There are three separate companies running these inhumane operations, much to the delight of the uninformed spectators who pay pennies each to see the dolphins perform. There are <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">72 dolphins</span> currently enslaved in Indonesia illegally, many of which are in captivity in these three traveling circuses.</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>The Ric O'Barry Dolphin Project staff have been working closely with the <a href="http://jakartaanimalaid.com/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Jakarta Animal Aid Network (JAAN)</a> to lobby the Indonesian government to release the dolphins, many of whom were illegally poached from their ocean homes. JAAN and Dolphin Project have constructed a sea pen, where the dolphins would be rehabilitated and released back to the wild.</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>However, the government has not issued promised permits to JAAN and Dolphin Project for these illegal dolphins, despite a previous agreement to turn over these abused animals. Read more about the ongoing situation here. JAAN and Dolphin Project are pursuing legal efforts and media attention to put pressure on the government to take action.</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>You can help. Urge the President of Indonesia to provide the captive dolphins to Jakarta Animal Aid Network and Dolphin Project, which are the ONLY organizations in Indonesia with the expertise, equipment, facilities and proven ability to care for, rehabilitate, and release captive dolphins back into the wild.</b></span></p></div></div><div class="_52jc _52j9 _52jg" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><font size="5" color="#b2b200"><b> +++Message about captive dolphins from Dame Dr. Jane Goodall+++</b></font><br> <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_aHidHMpJ6U" width="778" height="437" id="y_id_2987_e200_fb4c_b436" frameborder="0" style="height: 362px; width: 644px;"></iframe><br></div><div class="__cz _42ef" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); overflow: hidden;"><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961);"><br></div></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6" color="#0000ff"><b>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</b></font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6" color="#0000ff"><b><br></b></font></span></div><img id="id_f86d_17c5_2356_8090" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-x72qItTq2Ig/VMhzAKJI0jI/AAAAAAABIuU/GuHiSgaZ6y0/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 249px; height: auto;"><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br></span><div><font face="Arial"><b><font size="7"><font color="#ff0000"> </font>$$$ <font color="#ff0000">Melka Dolphin Resort Hotel </font>$$$</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="5"><b> ¥¥¥<font color="#ff0000">メルカいるかリゾートホテル</font>¥¥¥</b></font></div><div><div><div class="_mwj" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><h1 class="_micb" style="margin: 0px 14px 0px 0px;"><span class="_myz" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#b20000" face="Arial" size="7"> </font><font size="5" color="#b20000" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">BAWA Bali - Bali Animal Welfare Association</font></span></h1></div><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dWe-eSY6gy0" width="893" height="502" id="y_id_84de_dfd5_b3bf_bfe0" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div><br></div><div><div class="_mwj" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><h1 class="_micb" style="margin: 0px 14px 0px 0px;"><span class="_myz" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5" color="#b20000">Дельфины в Melka Excelsior Hotel (Бали) / Dolphines @ Melka Excelsior Hotel (Bali)</font></span></h1></div><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iQBqrqpDiw4" width="900" height="506" id="y_id_c15f_71a9_47c2_bde3" frameborder="0"></iframe><br></div><div><br></div><div><h1 class="_mhcb" style="margin: 0px 14px 0px 0px;"><div class="_mwj" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div></h1><h1 class="_micb" style="margin: 0px 14px 0px 0px;"><span class="_myz"><span class=""><font size="5" color="#b20000"> Bali captive dolphins 2011</font></span></span></h1><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8WKef9OkJUk" width="898" height="505" id="y_id_2fee_8077_26f_b980" frameborder="0"></iframe><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><h2 class="entry-title" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(203, 203, 203); padding: 0px !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5" color="#ff0000">Please Shut Down The Traveling Dolphin Circus</font></span></h2><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/29454682?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;badge=0" width="900" height="506" id="v_id_b26a_c36f_fc4a_c34d" frameborder="0" style="height: 506px; width: 900px;"></iframe><br></div><div><br></div><div><font size="5" color="#b20000"><b>Dolphins at the Melkior Hotel in Lovina, Northern Bali, Indonesia</b></font><br><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-Ev1BNLVNW8" width="891" height="501" id="y_id_dfc5_3948_9715_c37f" frameborder="0"></iframe><br></div><div><br></div><div><font size="5" color="#b20000"><b>The Captivated Smile Ext</b></font><br><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NvQpqchUop8" width="895" height="503" id="y_id_aa02_e2be_761_a87" frameborder="0"></iframe><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><b><font size="6" color="#0000b8">==================================================</font></b></div><div><font size="7" color="#0000ff"><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ric O'Barry </span>BLOG </b></font><font size="5" color="#0000b8"><b>| Dolphins Made and Wayan in Bali Kidnapped! </b></font></div><div><a href="http://dolphinproject.org/blog/post/dolphins-made-and-wyan-in-bali-kidnapped" id="id_c088_17fe_2fa9_1737">http://dolphinproject.org/blog/post/dolphins-made-and-wyan-in-bali-kidnapped</a></div><div><font color="#0000b8">February 24, 2013 by Ric O'Barry, Earth Island Institute</font></div><div><font color="#0000b8">By Ric O’Barry</font></div><div><font color="#0000b8">Director</font></div><div><font color="#0000b8">Dolphin Project</font></div><div><font color="#0000b8">Earth Island Institute</font></div><div><br></div><div><b>Things are continuing to get complicated in Indonesia. I was supposed to go home last week, but I stayed here in Bali anticipating a move of two dolphins, named Made and Wayan, who are kept in a small filthy swimming pool at a local café for the tourists. We had the Minister of Forestry himself come to see these dolphins, and he announced their treatment was inhumane and he would seize them with our help and move them to our sea pen for rehabilitation and release.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Well, last night the dolphins were spirited away from Bali and the café, being driven in a truck into the teeth of a typhoon to get them away from us. It is still not clear what the outcome will be. Below are the details by our friends from Jakarta Animal Aid Network http://jakartaanimalaid.com .</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>I will remain here in Bali until this can be sorted out, but we urge the Forestry Minister to take action. You can too (see the Twitter link below). – Ric O’Barry</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Illegally Captive Dolphins in Bali Kidnapped!</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Under an otherwise sunny and peaceful day on the southern beaches of Bali, Indonesia, another dark shadow is cast over the captive dolphin industry and the lack of government enforcement</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>The public, local, national, and regional press is outraged at the direct and blatant breach of contract, breach of commitment, breach of national laws and regulations regarding captive dolphins, Made and Wayan, being displayed at the Akame Restaurant in Benoa Harbor, Bali, Indonesia.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>After openly admitting to the public and the press that Made and Wayan were being kept and commercially exploited illegally and that he would himself ensure the facility was closed down and Made and Wayan delivered immediately to a rehabilitation center that has been specifically designed for their rehabilitation, care, and release back into their natural habitat. But it appears the public announcements and promises provided care of the Mister of Forestry, Minister Zul Hasan, may have been lip service.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Following public meetings and forums during the first week of February in Jakarta questioning the captive dolphin industry and exploitation of dolphins for commercial use, the head of the Ministry of Forestry of Indonesia, Minister Zul Hasan, flew personally to Bali on the 13th of February to witness first hand one of the many locations in Bali and throughout Indonesia known to be holding two male dolphins, Made and Wayan, purchased illegally and held in captivity without legal permits being openly used for commercial exploitation in extremely inadequate and in many cases life-threatening conditions. In front of the international press, NGO’s, and general public, the Minister directly stated in a groundbreaking milestone and a shining ray of hope for the widespread need for strict enforcement of illegal animal trade and captivity in Indonesia, that he would personally oversee the closing of the facility, transport, and release of Made and Wayan to a facility built in 2010 specifically for the purpose of assisting the Government to properly care, rehabilitate and release the dolphins back to their natural habitat. During his visit the Minister claimed the Akame Restaurant facilities in Bali were “cruel and unacceptable”, and since the Jakarta Animal Aid Network (JAAN) and Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project had built a fully functional rehabilitation center in Karimun Jawa ready to receive them, Made and Wayan could be transported humanely and released directly into the sea-pen where the healing process could begin.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>This all in following an MOU that was signed between JAAN, Dolphin Project and the Forestry Department dating back to October 2010 to rehabilitate the widely uncovered and documented illegal captive dolphins in Indonesia, which were found and documented to be kept in centers in Java and then shipped in grossly inadequate trucks and containers around the world’s largest island archipelago, in the world’s last remaining traveling Dolphin Circus.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>However, following the signing of the MOU in 2010, the rehabilitation center has remained empty and the Minister had achieved no positive progress or action up until the direct public announcement and claim of enforcement responsibility on the 13th of February 2013, in Bali. This past lack of progress in enforcement of this illegal trade is likely due to pressure from the captive dolphin industry to influence various factions of the Ministry against following through on their responsibilities for law enforcement.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><br></div><div><b><font face="Arial">A dolphin in the last traveling dolphin circus in the world jumps through a flaming hoop. Photo by Kate Tomlinson.</font></b></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><b>When the Minister finally heard about all of these problems and directly addressed the Indonesian public and media starting the first week of February 2013 at the @America Center in Jakarta, and his subsequent declaration of justice in Bali on the 13th of December, daily media articles, news, and social media flooded the airwaves. The Minister was publicly applauded by a wide audience, both nationally and internationally, for his direct and open address to the public and commitment to proper law enforcement. The news that these dolphins would be released enlightened many people, including those tourists who had reported about the poor conditions of the dolphins and were appalled that a tourism destination such as Bali would allow such cruel and blatant exploitation.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><a href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/bali-daily/2013-02-14/minister-shuts-down-dolphin-attraction.html" id="id_64dc_5c1e_84b5_df1a"><b>http://www.thejakartapost.com/bali-daily/2013-02-14/minister-shuts-down-dolphin-attraction.html</b></a></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><a href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/bali-daily/2013-02-15/activists-praise-minister-closing-dolphin-attraction.html" id="id_c17e_90b5_ff0f_ad62"><b>http://www.thejakartapost.com/bali-daily/2013-02-15/activists-praise-minister-closing-dolphin-attraction.html</b></a></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>However, for ten days following this public announcement, the Akame Restaurant continued to hold its commercial dolphin shows and no subsequent action was taken. This lead to a local protest at the site on Friday 22nd February, attended by concerned citizens who alerted the media to question the lack of follow-up enforcement and to question the commitments made to immediately release the dolphins to their rightful natural habitat.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Now, all our equipment and a helicopter have been prepared for the transfer of Made and Wayan to the sea pen from Bali. Groups and experts have been mobilized, flown in from around the world, and prepared in urgency to assist the Minister with his admirable commitment to relocate these Made and Wayan to Karimun Jawa rehabilitation center, constructed by Earth Island Institute Dolphin Project’s world famous dolphin activist Ric O’Barry and JAAN. </b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>As the team was on standby in Bali for the relocation exercise, the news that the two dolphins left Akame Restaurant clandestinely on Saturday 23rd February at approximately 17:00 came as a shock and direct breach and conflict to the commitments that had been made to date. The dolphins are now currently on a truck, to be transported inhumanely over 20 hours or more to be put in a condition even worse than that noted by the Minister as being “cruel and unacceptable”. They are understood to be headed back to the original dolphin captivity center for the traveling Circus in Weleri, Central Java. The owner of the travel show has his holding station there, and it is widely documented that this is the where Made and Wayan were originally kept and sold to unlicensed commercial exploitation facilities around the country.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>This transport should not have been allowed. Further acknowledging the lack of care of these animals, it is clear no one has checked with the meteorology center of Indonesia – Made and Wyan are heading into a tropical depression with heavy rain and sustained winds up to 40 knots predicted for the next 4-5 days. It is likely that marine transportation in Indonesia crossing islands could be halted or considered extremely dangerous with small and large craft advisories in place, further jeopardizing the safety of Made and Wayan in the current makeshift transportation vehicle. The transportation of these animals overland, and across public ferries, in inadequate trucks with inadequate health and safety considerations, back to their original captive location where they were originally sold illegally, is in breach of all commitments, laws, and regulations as openly recognized by those responsible for both creating and enforcing the laws pertaining to this subject, the Ministry of Forestry as representative of the Indonesian Government. </b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Instead the dolphins should have been, as promised, transported by helicopter and expert team that were pre-arranged, who have been waiting voluntarily and patiently in Bali for more than 10 days, on a journey that would have taken only three hours, and would have brought the animals home, to be nursed and released to their families and their natural environment, where they so rightfully belong. The current transport violates national and international laws and regulations, by-laws, and treaties and must be stopped immediately.</b></div><div><br></div><div><font size="5" face="Arial"><b>You can help: </b></font></div><div><a href="http://dolphinproject.org/blog/post/dolphins-made-and-wyan-in-bali-kidnapped" id="id_ad2c_bc25_9114_2df0"><font size="5">http://dolphinproject.org/blog/post/dolphins-made-and-wyan-in-bali-kidnapped</font></a></div><div><br></div><div><b>JAAN and the Dolphin Project have issued an urgent call to action for the public to tweet the Forestry Minister @Zul_Hasan and ask him to stop the truck and release the dolphins as promised.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b> Photos by Kate Tomlinson.x</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><font size="6" color="#b20000"><b>Indonesia Travel Circus Fuels Illegal Dolphin Trade</b></font><br><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5NjzKP3iXtI" width="902" height="507" id="y_id_410f_e254_1621_477e" frameborder="0"></iframe><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><font size="6" color="#ff0000">♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎</font><font size="5" style="color: rgb(36, 143, 36);">(⌒▽⌒)</font><font size="5" color="#0000b8" face="Arial Narrow"><b>This is right way. 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height: auto;"></div><div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><img id="id_6156_6a04_ec08_526b" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-8-6pkg2iiOg/VMWqfQmpRSI/AAAAAAABIsQ/hDWjqQFyxCU/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 764px; height: auto;"><br><h1 class="entry-title" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; font-weight: normal;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SWIMMING WITH DOLPHIN</span></font></h1><div>http://www.melkahotelbali.com/dolphin-attractions/swimming-with-dolphin/</div><div>Bali Dolphin http://www.balidolphins.com</div><a href="http://dolphinproject.org/blog/post/dolphins-made-and-wyan-in-bali-kidnapped" id="id_c65d_782e_914c_fd7f">http://dolphinproject.org/blog/post/dolphins-made-and-wyan-in-bali-kidnapped</a><a href="http://dolphinproject.org/blog/post/dolphins-made-and-wyan-in-bali-kidnapped" id="id_3625_ba37_9789_e669">http://dolphinproject.org/blog/post/dolphins-made-and-wyan-in-bali-kidnapped</a><a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/989/113/176/close-the-dolphin-resort-hotel-in-bali/#bbtw=792951071" id="id_26c5_3cfe_a304_85e5">http://www.thepetitionsite.com/989/113/176/close-the-dolphin-resort-hotel-in-bali/#bbtw=792951071</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><div class="_52jc _52j9 _52jg"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5"> </font><font size="6" color="#248f24">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</font></b></div><div class="__cz _42ef" style="overflow: hidden;"><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font style="font-size: x-large;"> </font><font><font size="5"> </font><font size="6" color="#0000ff"><b>Thank you very much for covering the sad plight of </b></font></font></span></div><div style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><font size="6" color="#0000ff"><b> dolphins in </b></font></font></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6" color="#0000ff"><b>Bali </b></font></span><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6">and Indonesia. 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Oldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859488789054287551noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537383451156444426.post-49760519058426591752014-11-21T23:13:00.001-06:002023-03-30T23:18:16.083-05:00Whale and dolphin News<a href="http://www.littlecrows.com/2015/03/table-of-contents.html" id="id_7d71_122b_14ed_3456"><img id="id_f47b_28b5_a3f2_dc6" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-VKevf4HQmZA/VQ4rczIuS7I/AAAAAAABNoo/32W2g7nEa5I/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 454px; height: auto;"></a><br><div> </div><div>ABOUT WHALING AND DOLPHIN HUNT NEWS</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_1bae_1d42_44f_6580" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-qyG8HcdDTjY/VHAbcCxgbrI/AAAAAAABD7E/yozR-WrBrXU/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 909px; height: auto;"></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> Art by Keiko Olds</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.45em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5" color="#248f24">WAZA Council votes to suspend Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA)</font></span></h1><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Date: </strong>2015/04/22</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Following years of negotiations over animal acquisition policies, WAZA Council voted unanimously this week to suspend membership of JAZA.</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) Council voted unanimously this week to suspend the membership of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA). The decision comes after WAZA and JAZA could not reach agreement on issues involving JAZA member zoos and aquariums taking dolphins from the Japanese drive fishery. <br><br>WAZA requires all members to adhere to policies that prohibit participating in cruel and non-selective methods of taking animals from the wild. <br><br>For a number of years, WAZA has attempted to work collaboratively with JAZA and its members to stop the collection of animals from the Taiji drives fisheries. Annually the drives draw international attention and criticism for the killing of dolphins and WAZA has previously joined other organizations in speaking out against the practice. <br><br>WAZA made ongoing attempts to negotiate the issues including during a meeting in Tokyo last year when WAZA proposed that JAZA enforce a two-year moratorium on taking animals from the drive by its members. The moratorium was rejected by JAZA. The issue was discussed again at WAZA's international conference in November with a goal to influence change in JAZA's position on members accepting animals from the drive fisheries. JAZA responded by proposing some guideline changes that would put restrictions on the method of capturing dolphins and improving animal care, but because it did not restrict taking animals from the drive, WAZA Council concluded that a satisfactory agreement could not be reached and voted to suspend the Japanese association’s membership. <br><br>The basis for the suspension is a determination that JAZA has violated the WAZA Code of Ethics and Animal Welfare. Moreover, WAZA Council re-affirmed its position that members of WAZA must confirm that they will not acquire dolphins from the Taiji fishery. <br><br>WAZA’s mission is to serve as the voice of a worldwide community of zoos and aquariums and a catalyst for their joint conservation action. One of the ways WAZA accomplishes this mission is through promoting cooperation between national and regional associations. It is important to note that WAZA still remains committed to continuing discussions with JAZA and its members in an effort to end the loss of animal life through the drive fisheries.</span></div><div><a href="http://www.waza.org/en/site/pressnews-events/press-releases" id="id_f115_857b_e91d_c988">http://www.waza.org/en/site/pressnews-events/press-releases</a></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><h1 class="story-body__h1" data-asset-uri="/news/world-asia-32248990" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 16px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="7">BBC NEWS</font><font size="6" face="Arial" color="#0000b8"> Dolphins stranded on Japan beach</font></span></h1><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6" face="Arial" color="#0000b8">Video ⇒</font><font face="Arial" color="#0000b8" size="4"> </font></span><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32248990" id="id_4c4c_1009_895f_c264"><font size="4">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32248990</font></a></div><div><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10 April 2015</strong><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Last updated at 12:29 BST </span></div><div class="map-body" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: hidden;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nearly 150 melon-headed whales, a species of dolphin, have become stranded on a beach in Japan.</span></p><div class="hide-wrapper extra-content" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They were found along a 4km (2.5 mile) stretch of beach in the Ibaraki prefecture, north-east of Tokyo.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Efforts are under way to try to rescue the animals.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We see one or two whales washing ashore a year, but this may be the first time we have found over 100 of them on a beach," a coastguard official told the AFP news agency.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">About 50 animals of the same species beached themselves in a similar area in 2011.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The reason for the beaching is unclear, but researchers from the National Museum of Nature and Science travelled to the beach to investigate.</span></p></div></div></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div class="player-wrapper" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div id="media-asset-page-video" class="media-placeholder enabled" data-asset-id="32248990" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; 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margin-bottom: 1em;"><span class="field-items" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="3">Hunted to near extinction, these giant marine mammals are making a comeback—but they still face threats from marine pollution, ships, and abandoned fishing gear.</font></span></h2></div><div><span class="field-items" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img id="id_c545_793d_f7f3_831a" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-huCIAl5-Jfk/VRdgiUuE0cI/AAAAAAABOGc/-bKQpDoCoeM/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="width: 974px; height: auto;"></span><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">3/27/2015 <b>YAHOO NEWS</b></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="6" color="#248f24" face="Arial"><b>Japan whaling ships return home from Antarctic with no catch</b></font></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/japan-whaling-ships-return-home-antarctic-no-catch-003638929.html" id="id_fdc6_2663_15e8_75de" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" target="_self">http://news.yahoo.com/japan-whaling-ships-return-home-antarctic-no-catch-003638929.html</a></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial">Japanese whaling ships returned home from the Antarctic on Saturday for the first time in nearly 30 years with no catch onboard, after a UN court ordered an end to their annual hunt, local media reported.</font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial">The two ships -- the 724-ton Yushinmaru and the 747-ton Daini (No 2) Yushinmaru -- arrived at a port in western Shimonoseki city, a major whaling base.</font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial">It was the first return by Japanese whalers without catching any whales since 1987 when the country began the annual "research" hunt in the Antarctic, the Asahi Shimbun said.</font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial">The two ships did not face any attacks by anti-whaling activists during their three-months voyage, the daily added.</font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial">Tokyo had said this season's excursion would not involve any lethal hunting. Harpoons normally used in the capture of the giant mammals were removed from the vessels.</font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial">Crew members on the two boats carried out "sighting surveys" and took skin samples from the huge marine mammals, news reports said. </font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial">The non-lethal research came after the International Court of Justice -- the highest court of the United Nations -- ruled in March last year that Tokyo was abusing a scientific exemption set out in the 1986 moratorium on whaling.</font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial">The UN court concluded Tokyo was carrying out a commercial hunt under a veneer of science.</font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial">After the ruling, Japan said it would not hunt during this winter's Antarctic mission, but has since expressed its intention to resume "research whaling" in 2015-16.</font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial">In a new plan submitted to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and its Scientific Committee, Tokyo set an annual target of 333 minke whales for future hunts, down from some 900 under the previous programme.</font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial">It also defined the research period as 12 years from fiscal 2015 in response to the court's criticism of the programme's open-ended nature.</font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial">"By collecting scientific data, we aim to resume commercial whaling," agriculture, forestry and fisheries minister Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters in the city as he attended a ceremony for their return.</font></b></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Japan Coast Guard patrols Ayukawa port as a whaling fleet departs from Ishinomaki City on April 26, 2014 (AFP Photo/Kazuhiro Nogi</span></div></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">----------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="5" color="#0000b8"><b>On March 5th, 2015, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a press release disclosing that the Native American, Makah Tribe (located in the State of Washington), has requested to resume hunting of eastern North Pacific Gray Whales for ‘ceremonial and subsistence purposes’. NOAA has opened a public comment period (via email) for 90 days, ending on June 11th, 2015. By signing this petition, you are sending a comment directly to NOAA in opposition of the Makah’s request to resume whaling.</b></font></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial"><b><font size="5">Attention<font color="#ff0000">‼️</font></font> <font size="5">Help Needed, Please<font color="#ff0000">! </font></font></b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial"><b><font size="4">The Makah tribe want NOAA to allow them to start whaling here in the USA! There is a hearing for this on April 27th! Here is the visual petition photo! All you have to do to help save these Whales is print the photo from the link, get friends, family (kids and grandkids, nieces and nephews too!) and co~workers to have their picture made holding this photo! Then email them to us at nomakahwhalingusa@gmail.com. Easy and impactful! Submissions will... be printed, put into a binder(s) and then submitted to NOAA at the hearing on April 27th! Deadline for submissions is April 24th. The Whales Thank You! Now, let's have fun with this and save these Whales!</font><br><font size="4">*Photo Link To Print~ </font></b></font></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Ffile%2Fd%2F0B0yRz9Y3-2rZSmotTERXc1hwNXM%2Fview&h=-AQGAPXKX&enc=AZOeEBPCu-IvtSJHZs9ppms_ICjLldnUx6nRiqo_5qzcdZABi9SHuSI4KwY9NgEic-FGx8dIgfoYT_AvKZr7_CoXinwQpZ14592oZMyRnufRa8iYW2raI4aSALM36A2CQTxJh9Y7whTvmPHr1X3PgTV7A-4YxNEewnuC3w_nN-d-Yg&s=1">https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Ffile%2Fd%2F0B0yRz9Y3-2rZSmotTERXc1hwNXM%2Fview&h=-AQGAPXKX&enc=AZOeEBPCu-IvtSJHZs9ppms_ICjLldnUx6nRiqo_5qzcdZABi9SHuSI4KwY9NgEic-FGx8dIgfoYT_AvKZr7_CoXinwQpZ14592oZMyRnufRa8iYW2raI4aSALM36A2CQTxJh9Y7whTvmPHr1X3PgTV7A-4YxNEewnuC3w_nN-d-Yg&s=1</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial"><b><br><font size="4">*Email photos~ nomakahwhalingusa@gmail.com</font></b></font></span></p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Arial" size="6"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Government Under Fire Over Trade In Endangered Whale Meat</span></font></h1></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="thirdparty-logo" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; font-weight: bold;">The Huffington Post Canada </span><span class="name fn" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold;"> | By <a rel="author" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/michael-bolen/" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Michael Bolen</a> </span><span class="posted" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; border-width: 0px 1px 0px 0px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); vertical-align: baseline;">Posted: <time datetime="2014-12-02T17:07:34-05:00" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">12/02/2014 5:07 pm EST </time></span><span class="updated" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Updated: <time datetime="2014-12-02T17:59:01-05:00" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">12/02/2014 5:59 pm EST</time></span></span></div><div><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/12/02/whale-meat-canada-endangered-iceland-japan_n_6256954.html" id="id_8c13_8f3a_7551_88e8"><div>http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/12/02/whale-meat-canada-endangered-iceland-japan_n_6256954.html</div><div></div></a></div><div><img id="id_7e7c_d226_7332_2129" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-hWEGNNkPpI0/VH_NWN6Co5I/AAAAAAABFb0/h2CJfuM_h7g/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 713px; height: auto;"><img id="id_2c3e_bc56_acd9_87f8" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-8sDbCH0l_kU/VH_NYQjNPaI/AAAAAAABFb8/momQxfr5_iw/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 718px; height: auto;"></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Conservative government is facing tough questions about why it is allowing meat from endangered whales to be shipped across Canada.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In February, it emerged that the federal government <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/Blog/6000-kilometers-of-shame-feds-allow-endangere/blog/48221/" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">allowed an Icelandic company to transport meat from endangered fin whales across Canada</a> on its way to market in Japan. Twelve shipping containers of the meat arrived in Halifax and, according to Greenpeace, were transported by train to ports in British Columbia. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At the time, <a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Shock+over+meat+endangered+whales+shipped+through+Canada/9501269/story.html" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Environment Canada told the Vancouver Sun</a> that Canada was obligated to allow the transport of the meat despite the fact that fin whales have been given the <a href="http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/mammals/cetaceans/finwhale.htm" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">highest level of protection</a> under the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which Canada has signed. Atlantic Fin whales are also of <a href="http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/species-especes/species-especes/finwhale-atlantic-rorqual-commun-atlantique-eng.htm" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"special concern" under Canada's Species at Risk Act</a>. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Environment Canada told the Toronto Sun that "CITES permit requirements do not apply to the transit or trans-shipment of specimens through or in the territory of a party while the shipments remain in Customs control."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Both <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/germany-stops-icelandic-whale-meat-shipment-to-japan-in-environmentalist-victory/" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germany and the Netherlands have turned away Icelandic ships</a> carrying fin whale meat.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">More than<a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/Blog/over-65-thousand-people-urge-the-feds-and-por/blog/51450/" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 65,000 Canadians</a> have since signed a Greenpeace <a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/301/446/322/" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">petition</a> calling on Canada to do the same. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Thursday, NDP MP Don Davies referenced the petition and asked why the government has yet to do anything to stop the traffic in an endangered species.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">International Trade Minister Ed Fast replied that he will take the question "under advisement", before pivoting to an attack on the NDP's stance on trade. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Unperturbed, Davies asked Fast if he will heed Foreign Affairs Minister <a href="https://twitter.com/HonJohnBaird/status/433690628002545664" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John Baird's call earlier this year</a> to protect threatened species "before it's too late."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fast answered that all trade in Canada takes place in accordance with Canadian and international law.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We stand up for the protection of endangered species," Fast said. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Despite a global crackdown on commercial whaling ,<a href="http://www.ifaw.org/united-states/our-work/whales/which-countries-are-still-whaling" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Japan, Iceland, Norway</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_the_Faroe_Islands" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Faroe Islands</a> all continue to hunt the animals. Iceland<a href="http://icelandreview.com/news/2014/09/25/fin-whaling-season-concludes" target="_hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> caught at least 137 fin whales</a>during its hunt this year.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In September, the European Union, United States, Australia, Brazil, Israel, New Zealand, Mexico and Monaco lodged a formal diplomatic protest expressing opposition to Iceland's commercial hunt. Iceland answered that it uses "sustainable" fishing practices and will carry on whaling.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><div><h1 class="node__title node-title" itemprop="headline" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.411764706em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="Arial" size="5">Japan Says It Just Wants to Count Whales—Not Kill Them—in 2015 </font></span></h1><h2 class="field field-name-field-article-subhead field-type-text field-label-hidden" itemprop="description" style="margin-top: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span class="field-items" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font size="4" face="Arial">The marine mammals' reprieve will be short-lived, as the country plans to resume the hunt in a year.</font></span></h2></div><div><a href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/11/21/japan-says-it-just-wants-count-and-maybe-kill-few-whales-2015?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2014-11-21" id="id_57da_ee2f_8b57_19bd">http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/11/21/japan-says-it-just-wants-count-and-maybe-kill-few-whales-2015?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2014-11-21</a></div><div><span class="field-items"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><date class="date" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2014-11-21T13:42:36-08:00" style="margin-bottom: 2px; display: inline; position: relative; margin-right: 10px; padding-right: 10px; float: none;">November 21, 2014</date> <span class="byline author tp4-author-full" style="font-style: italic;">By <span class="byline-author"><a href="http://www.takepart.com/author/david-kirby" rel="author" style="text-decoration: none;">David Kirby</a></span></span></span><div class="bio-inner" style="padding-top: 5px;"><div class="profile-photo" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top-left-radius: 50px; border-top-right-radius: 50px; border-bottom-right-radius: 50px; border-bottom-left-radius: 50px; width: 50px; height: 50px; overflow: hidden; -webkit-filter: grayscale(100%);"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="http://www.takepart.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_v2/public/profiles/photos/david_kirby_120x120.jpg?itok=CLTKb3k2" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; width: 50px;" id="id_ced_e6eb_81e8_557b"></span></div><div class="bio" style="padding-top: 5px; margin-left: 62px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">David Kirby has been a professional journalist for 25 years. His third book, <em>Death at Seaworld</em>, was published in 2012.</span></div></div></span></div><div><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The bad news: The country plans to <a href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/09/18/japan-vows-to-ignore-new-restrictions-whale-hunting" style="text-decoration: none;">resume hunting whales</a> in late 2015 and plans to kill 333 minke whales annually over the next 12 years. And Japan intends to expand the area in which its whaling ships operate to include part of a whale sanctuary established by the International Whaling Commission.</span></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The good news is that Japan says it will only count, not kill, whales in the Southern Ocean over the next year.</span></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Opponents argue that the new whaling plan is merely a ploy to get around the International Court of Justice’s <a href="http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=3&code=aj&case=148&k=64&p3=0" style="text-decoration: none;">ruling</a> in March that Japan’s whaling program is illegal.</span></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I don't think the International Court of Justice or the people across the world would like to call that progress,” Sid Chakravarty, captain of Sea Shepherd Australia ship Sam Simon, said in an email. “It should more aptly be called a ‘masquerade.’ What they have done instead is to propose an expanded area that now encircles two-thirds of the Antarctic continent.”</span></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sea Shepherd dispatches a fleet of vessels to confront Japanese whaling ships in the Southern Ocean and interfere with the annual hunt.</span></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The only reason Japan will be sighting whales this year would be because their illegal operations have been called out by the International Court of Justice,” Chakravarty said. “There should be no doubt, even for a moment, that the killing flotilla will be leaving Japan with their harpoons charged next year. Our reaction to that will be…to prepare the Sea Shepherd fleet to head south in search of the whalers and shut down their operations.”</span></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">During the 2014–2015 season, which begins Dec. 1, the Japanese said they would only count minke whales in the Southern Ocean and compile data on their ages, distribution, and foraging patterns.</span></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sea Shepherd ships will keep an eye on Japan’s minke-whale surveillance to make sure Japanese whalers are not actually killing any of the animals, according to Chakravarty.</span></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said that because of Sea Shepherd’s intervention, Japan has killed fewer than 333 minke whales annually in the last few years.</span></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><span class='st_sharethis_large' displayText='ShareThis'></span>
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