Help Save Dolphins and Marine Life

See Ric O'Barry and Louie Psihoyos discuss "The Cove" on Oprah, for her special Earth Day show, April 22nd.

CONGRATULATIONS! "The Cove" won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, bringing increased exposure to the cause of ending dolphin slaughter in the Taji permanently. Progress has been made, but there's still much more that needs to be done to end this slaughter and the poisoning of Japanese people by mercury-laced dolphin meat.

Temple St. Clair supports various local and national charities including Save Japan Dolphins, an organization dedicated to the campaign to end the Japanese drive fishery slaughter of dolphins in Taiji which has been recently brought to light in the powerful documentary, "The Cove".

To aid their fundraising efforts, Temple St. Clair will donate 40% of the proceeds from each sale of our Dolphin Pendants and Ring to Save Japan Dolphins.

For more information on this cause, please visit:

http://www.SaveJapanDolphins.org/
http://www.TheCoveMovie.com/

Click here to listen to The Brian Lehrer Show: Oscar Film Series: The Cove. Director Louie Psihoyos talks about his eco-thriller and the attention its generating.

Some Quick Facts

• About 23,000 dolphins, porpoises and other small whales are killed in Japan every year, making it the largest scale slaughter of cetaceans in the world. About 2,500 dolphins and other small whales are killed in the so-called dolphin drive hunt that takes place six months out of the year. The rest are killed with handheld harpoons out at sea.
• In the small fishing village of Taiji, Wakayama prefecture, the dolphin drive hunt is carried out by about 26 fishermen from September 1st though March. Terrorizing the dolphins with underwater sound, the fishermen herd the dolphins into a secret killing cove close to Taiji Town.
• The Taiji fishermen claim that dolphins eat too much fish and therefore must be exterminated. Operating with a permit from their government, the Taiji fishermen have referred to the dolphin hunt as "pest control."
• The majority of people in Japan have no knowledge about the annual dolphin blood bath.
• Dolphin meat from drive hunts in Taiji proved to be highly contaminated with toxic chemicals such as mercury, methyl mercury and PCBs.
• Some members of the international aquarium and zoo industry are strongly connected to the Japanese dolphin slaughter, in that they pay top dollar for dolphins deemed suitable for commercial exploitation in dolphin shows and captive dolphin swim programs.
• Dolphinariums throughout the world, including Japan, repeatedly make the claim that captivity of dolphins promotes dolphin conservation and protection.