“I'll never get used to it.” Yoko * looks out into the distance. Their fine features show little emotion, but in the eyes of the Japanese woman is the obvious sadness. I nod and swallow empty. From the depths beneath our observation hill beating dolphin flukes can be heard. Men desert cries drown out the horrible noises in the water. Continue reading
Taiji Update No. 6: The coming of it …. Report by Hans Peter Roth for OceanCare site
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Planned oil rig threatens rare gray whales
Sakhalin Investment Company with Shell as a co-owner announced plans to build another large oil platform in the feeding grounds of the last western Pacific gray whales. “The western Pacific gray whales are highly endangered species,” explains Dr. Ralf Sonntag, marine biologist of the IFAW. “There are only 130 of these individuals, of which only 30 are capable of reproducing females. Continue reading
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Taiji Update No. 5: After Nami's planned new Orca catches death? – Report by Hans Peter Roth for OceanCare site
After the death of Orca Nami Nami lost in Nagoya in late December 2010 the appetite. On 14 January, the Port of Nagoya in solitary Orcaweibchen Public Aquarium has died, finally sick and exhausted, having lost about 300 pounds of weight. Considered as preliminary cause of death – as so often – stomach ulcers. Continue reading
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Taiji Update No. 4: Nothing is bad enough … .. – Report by Hans Peter Roth for OceanCare site
…. than that it still could not get worse. This bitter wisdom of the spiritual master Franz Bardon as today proves, unfortunately all too true. For the third consecutive day, the dolphin hunters hunt with ruthless efficiency stripes dolphins in the bay of death. The Canadian dolphin expert Leah Lemieux wonders whether “use” every time the hunters of the same great dolphin school and simply split off parts of it, and hunt. Continue reading
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Taiji Update # 3: Death by drowning – Report by Hans Peter Roth for OceanCare site
Again drive the dolphins into the death strip fighter bay. And again we have to watch helplessly as about a dozen of the graceful animals who probably have never before met people slaughtered. Each day brings new surprises cruel. And today some dolphins one last attempt to escape helpless, as the butchers begin under the tarpaulins with their bloody craft already. Continue reading
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Taiji Update No. 2: The Great Panic – Report by Hans Peter Roth for OceanCare
After a quiet day it is today with the peace over. Shortly after ten the clock tormentor strips about 25 dolphins in the bay of Taiji have hunted and sealed directly into the bay with death several networks. What will happen is already so clear. We are hiding on the rocks on the hill tsunami watch, photograph and film everything. Continue reading
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Taiji Update No. 1 by Hans Peter Roth for OceanCare
“Big School” The sms Tim hits me like an electric shock. A few kilometers outside of the Taiji dolphin hunters have tracked down this morning, the largest dolphin school in the previous hunting season ever. Up to 200 animals, it could be. With heavy hearts we head to the Bay of Taiji to document everything, after we get Tim's message. Continue reading
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Thank you!
Dear Friends of OceanCare, we thank you sincerely for your loyal support in 2010. They have helped us so that we could also use 2010 to press for the protection of marine mammals and the marine habitat.Your support means to us in the current economic environment, especially much more difficult and we are happy if we can enjoy your trust and solidarity in the future. Continue reading
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Another tragedy Orca: The “saved” Orca will not be released back into the wild.
Morgan is a young female orca, which was in June of this year in the Dutch Wadden Sea caught.Any hope for a re-release of Orcas in the wild have been shattered by the announcement of the Dolphinarium Harderwijk, it is for the rest of her life in captivity halten.Gefangenschaft a sentence of suffering and premature death for killer whales and should not be longer than one be adequate form of life for these species considered. Continue reading
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Action against oil exploration in the Timor Sea
A little more than a year destroyed an oil spill in the Australian Timor Sea, the habitat for thousands of species and millions of animals. Since then the Australian Government approved only 31 sites in southwestern Australian waters for the exploration of new oil and gas reserves. This practice may be changing now!In the coming weeks and months is the Australian government made a historic decision on the creation of the world's largest network of connected marine protected areas. Continue reading
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