More than 200 Dolphins await slaughter in Taiji,Japan

                                                             

Thanks to the considerable efforts of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and their team of “Cove Guardians,” the world is watching  as more than 200 dolphins await their fate in the killing cove of Taiji, Japan.

This site, made famous by the 2009 Academy Award-winning film “The Cove,” is where fisherman earlier last week cornered the bottlenose dolphins – a horrific practice that’s a precursor to an eventual mass slaughter.

“They tighten up the nets to bring each sub-group together then the skiffs push them toward the tarps. Under the tarps in the shallows is where the trainers work with the killers to select the ‘prettiest’ dolphins which will sell and make the best pay day for the hunters,” the group said.

“But the process is brutal and stressful. Some of them die from injuries incurred during the manhandling or simply the stress.”