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For the second consecutive day Has been no dolphin hunt. Although the boats went out hunting, but have not find it, broke off the search around clock at 9:00 and went back empty-handed into the harbor. Thank God. A good start in a week – that would then have been for the October 2011.Insgesamt seven successful, ie lethal hunts have carried out the dolphin hunters of Taiji.

Five hours Debate on a reform to promote transparency in the IWC was not enough to come to an agreement. According to the reform should be new membership fees paid by bank transfer and does not open more cash or by check, the current practice of vote-buying to the door. Increased involvement of NGOs was rejected yesterday.

Today, 1 Begins in July 2011, the annual slaughter of fur seals on South African beaches of Namibia. The Namibian seal hunt is the world's second largest after the Canadian seal hunt. In Namibia, two colonies of sea lions is one of The South African fur seals over the next 139 days bejagt.In 91,000 young South African fur seals are killed.

The Swiss population requires an import ban on seal products equal to the EU: The Fondation Franz Weber and OceanCare rich today a petition with signatures 97'758. In parallel, a motion is filedToday, 21 June 2011, have passed the Fondation Franz Weber and OceanCare the petition launched in October 2010 for an import ban on seal products with 97'758 signatures to the parliament.

Sets In her year as Miss Switzerland, Kerstin Cook on the side of OceanCare honorary one for whales and dolphins. Of 13 to 20 May 2011, visited the Greek Gulf of Corinth, a research and conservation project for dolphins. For two years investigating OceanCare and the Italian Research Institute Tethys there the behavior and distribution of dolphins stripes, ordinary dolphins and bottlenose dolphins.

After several days of problem with our satellite connection on board, it is on again and I'm able to write to you again.We are now on our 5th day in our journey and making good way towards Tahiti. We keep with the manta trawl sampling every 50 miles, and in between we use the high-speed trawl.

On Saturday evening at 20.00 clock Hans Peter Roth talks about his latest trip he has undertaken with the support of OceanCare to Japan. He has just returned from Taiji, southern Japan, where year after year, still hundreds of dolphins are slaughtered.It was the most disturbing, but also hopeful trip the author of “The Cove”, the use of OceanCare resulting film of the same book.

“Seven clock out they are gone.” This gives us the friendly man explained by the Coast Guard, which we observed already at the marina of Katsuura to the outside again to report on our waiting boat the Coast Guard, when we run out. He speaks of the dolphin hunters. It has been raining all night – the first time since I arrived here more than four weeks .

The best days are when the boats of the dolphin hunters do not leave or return from an unsuccessful hunt. Sometimes it happens that the Dolphins escaped their instigators. Today was such a day.Apparently, pursued 12 boats lined up a school of dolphins, outside of the lighthouse. But the animals are divided up, and finally escaped into the open sea.

“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.