Problems around the keeping of Orcas at Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium
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- Created on Friday, 25 July 2003 12:22
To:
Mr. Fumio Tawara
Director of The Fisheries Agency
Mr.Shuya Nakatsuka
Far Seas Fisheries Whaling Section
From:
Dolphin & Whale (Iruka & Kujira) Action Network
Secretary General Nanami Kurasawa
Problems around the keeping of Orcas at Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium
I would like to thank you for all the hard work, from the perspective of biodiversity conservation, and I would also like to congratulate you for your critical reaction towards the Russian caught wild orca captivity plan.
Russian Sets up First Nature Reserve for Grey Whales
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- Created on Monday, 24 February 2003 18:48
MOSCOW, February 19. The first Russian national marine wildlife reserve is to be established on the Sakhalin Shelf in 2004. The Sakhalin Shelf area is inhabited by grey whales, which are on the brink of extinction. This announcement was made yesterday at a press conference by Amirkhan Amirkhanov, the head of the Russian Natural Resources Ministry's Department for Highly Protected Natural Areas and Preserving Biodiversity. According to Amirkhanov, since 2000 the region has been subject to industrial extraction of oil by a floating platform. In recent years the negative impact this has had on the environment, including drilling waste being disposed of at sea and an increase in noise and ultrasonic rays, has caused the grey whale population to fall. Amirkhanov said that the whales cannot get enough to eat in such uncomfortable conditions and suffer from exhaustion.
Free the 3 Orcas Captured in Taiji '97
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- Created on Wednesday, 14 February 2001 18:42
Four years have passed since the capture of 5 orcas at Taiji in Wakayama prefecture. Within 4 months of the capture, the smallest male and the female that was thought to be pregnant died, and the remaining 3 are still being kept in isolation from each other in separate aquariums. Wild orcas are said to live their whole lives with their families. Our concern is whether the 3 captive would be able to recognize each other if they were to be released. Another problem concerns the remaining family of the captive orcas. At the time of the capture, there were 5 other family members that were released back into the ocean. Normally, the leader role of the pod is passed on from the mother orca to the young female orca. Is the pod able to survive without the young female orca, and if so, where is the pod now?
Do not let Nagoya Port Aquarium introduce live orcas!
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- Created on Sunday, 15 April 2001 17:17
Action Alert against Nagoya Port Aquarium
Now is the time to tell them not to do it.
Nagoya Port Aquarium will open a new facility in November. They announced that they will exhibit a mechanic orca which will be imported from Mannetron Inc. in the US. That's what we have been advising the aquarium to do instead of having living orcas. The idea was given to them while having many meetings with us to request them to give up their wish to capture orcas. So, I wrote an official document of the plan with some project plans which would certainly be very popular. However, they cunningly took my idea and have not given up their original idea to display live orcas. A huge tank for five or six orcas has already been built. I am so sad and feeling betrayed but I do not have time for such indignation.
Another Orca Dies at Japanese Aquarium!
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- Created on Tuesday, 24 October 2000 18:53
On Oct. 24th, 2000, a male orca died at Izu-Mito Sea Paradise.
In this year only, already two orcas have died in Japan.
IRUKA & KUJIRA (Dolphin & Whale) ACTION NETWORK took this occasion to write protest letters to aquariums;
To participants in Aquariums
'Release Orcas'
We have been feeling grief at the sad news that a male orca called Yamato, (his ex-name was Tanouk), who was displayed at Izu-Mito Sea Paradise, died there on Oct. 24th.
