(This article is part of Merlion Wayfarer's series on Animal Welfare.)
Tonight Merlion Wayfarer will be watching The Cove.
(Source : Wikipedia)
The Cove is a 2009 film that analyzes and questions Japan's dolphin hunting culture. Told from an ocean conservationist's point of view, and filmed secretly using underwater microphones and high-definition cameras disguised as rocks, the film is a call to action to halt mass dolphin kills, change Japanese fishing practices, and to inform and educate the public about the risks, and increasing hazards, of mercury poisoning from dolphin meat.
(Source : The Cove Movie)
The Cove highlights the fact that the number of dolphins killed in the Taiji dolphin drive hunting is several times greater than the number of whales killed in the Antarctic, and claims that 23,000 dolphins and porpoises are killed in Japan every year by the country's whaling industry. The migrating dolphins are herded into a cove where they are netted and killed by means of spears and knives over the side of small fishing boats. Dolphin hunting as practiced in Japan is unnecessary and cruel.
(Source : The Cove Movie)
It was the Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary in 2009.
To mark World Environment Day, The Cove will shown on MediaCorp's Okto tonight at 2200 hours.
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