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Following the beginning of a drive hunt in 2006, The Ocean World Adventure Park was awaiting the fulfillment of an order for twelve dolphins to ship to the Dominican Republic. These dolphins were to be taken to participate in the swimming programs at the Ocean World Adventure Park. Driven into the cove, trainers from Japan, the United States, and the Dominican Republic went in after them, grabbing and holding onto a dozen dolphins, performing measurements and tests to determine if the dolphins were going to be accepted into the program. The trainers were looking for twelve young females to fill the order. They found them in this group. The young female dolphins were placed in holding cages, after which other dolphins of the pod were slaughtered for commercial purposes.{{Fact|date=August 2009}} |
Following the beginning of a drive hunt in 2006, The Ocean World Adventure Park was awaiting the fulfillment of an order for twelve dolphins to ship to the Dominican Republic. These dolphins were to be taken to participate in the swimming programs at the Ocean World Adventure Park. Driven into the cove, trainers from Japan, the United States, and the Dominican Republic went in after them, grabbing and holding onto a dozen dolphins, performing measurements and tests to determine if the dolphins were going to be accepted into the program. The trainers were looking for twelve young females to fill the order. They found them in this group. The young female dolphins were placed in holding cages, after which other dolphins of the pod were slaughtered for commercial purposes.{{Fact|date=August 2009}} |
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Although most of the dolphins captured were earmarked for export, a coalition headed by the Japan Dolphins Coalition's marine-mammal specialist Richard O'Barry, with [[Earth Island Institute]], tried to block their export to Dominican Republic.<ref>[http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fe20070214a1.html Eyewitness to slaughter in Taiji's killing coves A gruesome fate befalls thousands of dolphins in Japan every year] February 14, 2007 [[The Japan Times]]</ref> The exportation was eventually cancelled.<ref name="Underwater Times"/> |
Although most of the dolphins captured were earmarked for export, a coalition headed by the Japan Dolphins Coalition's marine-mammal specialist [[Ric O'Barry|Richard O'Barry]], with [[Earth Island Institute]], tried to block their export to Dominican Republic.<ref>[http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fe20070214a1.html Eyewitness to slaughter in Taiji's killing coves A gruesome fate befalls thousands of dolphins in Japan every year] February 14, 2007 [[The Japan Times]]</ref> The exportation was eventually cancelled.<ref name="Underwater Times"/> |
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The Taiji Twelve is a term used by anti-dolphin hunting campaigners to describe a group of dolphins captured in a dolphin drive hunt outside of the town of Taiji, Wakayama, Japan in October 2006.[1] The Ocean World Adventure Park in the Dominican Republic had placed an order for twelve dolphins for the captive swim program.[2]
Following the beginning of a drive hunt in 2006, The Ocean World Adventure Park was awaiting the fulfillment of an order for twelve dolphins to ship to the Dominican Republic. These dolphins were to be taken to participate in the swimming programs at the Ocean World Adventure Park. Driven into the cove, trainers from Japan, the United States, and the Dominican Republic went in after them, grabbing and holding onto a dozen dolphins, performing measurements and tests to determine if the dolphins were going to be accepted into the program. The trainers were looking for twelve young females to fill the order. They found them in this group. The young female dolphins were placed in holding cages, after which other dolphins of the pod were slaughtered for commercial purposes.[citation needed]
Although most of the dolphins captured were earmarked for export, a coalition headed by the Japan Dolphins Coalition's marine-mammal specialist Richard O'Barry, with Earth Island Institute, tried to block their export to Dominican Republic.[3] The exportation was eventually cancelled.[1]
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References
- ^ a b Japan's Export Of 'The Taiji Twelve' Dolphins To The Dominican Republic Stopped November 26, 2007 Underwater Times
- ^ Taiji officials: Dolphin meat 'toxic waste' Assembly pair break taboo, warn of acute mercury risk in school lunches August 1, 2007 The Japan Times
- ^ Eyewitness to slaughter in Taiji's killing coves A gruesome fate befalls thousands of dolphins in Japan every year February 14, 2007 The Japan Times