Japan has started its controversial annual dolphin hunt in the coastal town of Taiji. The hunt sees the animals driven into a cove where most are slaughtered for their meat with knives in shallow ...

and kill the rest for meat and trophies like dolphin teeth and skulls. Taiji is a place where dolphins and small whales are captured for sale to marine aquariums. The ones that are not sold into ...

A recent issue of the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science contains the findings of a clinical veterinary and behavioral analysis of the killing methods being used in the notorious Taiji dolphin ...

Sea Shepherd campaigners reported yesterday that the first dolphins of the season had been slaughtered in the small Japanese town of Taiji. Activists from the environmentalist group have been ...

JAPANESE ZOOS TO BAN TAIJI DOLPHINS In a decision heralded as “the beginning of the end of dolphin hunting”, Japan’s peak zoo association has voted to stop members buying dolphins captured in the ...

Ms Williams joined the thousands fighting against “dolphin drives” in Japan’s Taiji Cove — where fishermen corner dolphins into bays to then catch them in nets. The protest came as animal activists ...