‘The Cove’ update from Japan

September 1, 2009 · Posted by in Environment 

One more “Cove” update for you –

Ric O’Barry of the Save Japan Dolphins Coalition — and more famously, part of the crew of the film “The Cove” and trainer of the original “Flipper” dolphin-actors — blogs that although Sept. 1 is the usual start of the dolphin slaughter in Taiji, there’s nothing going on today.

Yes, today was a good day for dolphins. Tomorrow, I will take journalists with me around town to show them Taiji. Tomorrow, too, I predict will be a good day for dolphins. Every day that we are here and the fishermen KNOW we are here, will likely mean no boats going out to round up dolphins for the killing Cove.

But it wouldn’t be hard to wait out journalists whose editors are unimpressed with two days’ worth of video of an empty cove. Has anybody read that there’s any actual policy change? Or even a hint that such a thing could happen?

Via Wend Magazine on Twitter.

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