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Updates from Taiji For more than four years, Ric and his wife Helene O’Barry have travelled to Taiji to document the dolphin slaughter and educate the world about why it should be stopped. Click here for thier recent weblogs… Donate Now! Your Help Can Make a Difference in Taiji

Help Stop the Largest and Cruelest Slaughter of Dolphins in the World!

In the Japanese fishing village of Taiji, fishermen are rounding up and slaughtering hundreds and even thousands of dolphins right now.

After driving pods of dolphins into shallow coves, the fishermen kill the dolphins, slashing their throats with knives or stabbing them with spears. Thrashing about, the dolphins take as long as six minutes to die. The water turns red with their blood and the air fills with their screams.

This brutal massacre — the largest scale dolphin kill in the world — goes on for six months of every year. Even more shocking, the captive dolphin industry is an accomplice to the kill.

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