What’s Killing Dolphins, Marine Animals and Spoiling the Oceans

What’s Killing Dolphins? It is hard to believe, but even in this day and age, tens of thousands of dolphins are killed each year. Countless sea turtles, whales, seals, and other precious marine life are needlessly slaughtered by humans each year. The Original Surfers™ is dedicated to protecting and saving beautiful, social, playful, and amazingly intelligent dolphins and marine animals.
The first step in stopping all of this senseless death, is to raise awareness.
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The Slaughter of Dolphins in Taiji, Japan

In a small cove in Taiji, Japan, every year dolphins, porpoises, and pilot whales are heart breakingly slashed, brutally clubbed, and drowned to death.
We strive to make teens aware of the travesty against defenseless dolphins and marine animals. Together, we can and will stop this cruel industry that kills dolphins for the sale of dolphin meat.
In this same cove, is also where most dolphins are captured for those “swim with dolphin” encounters. The conflict is the money from the sale of these dolphins goes to support the killing of other dolphins. The companies that are profiting from killing dolphins, justifies this practice by giving free dolphin meat to public schools in Japan. The irony is that the dolphin meat is not safe for children, due to high levels of dangerous mercury.

Plastic Pollution in The Ocean

Each year tons of plastics are dumped and/or washed into the ocean. It is an unprecedented environmental disaster, especially for dolphins and marine mammals. Plastics strangle and choke dolphins and marine mammals, needlessly killing untold numbers of them each year.

Fishing and Fishing Nets

Commercial fishing has been devastating to dolphins. Purse Sieners use boats to drop large round walls of nets around schools of fish, such as tuna. The “Purse” at the bottom of the net shuts in order to prevent fish from escaping. Dolphins and other marine mammals are caught in the nets and are needlessly killed. Some fishing companies have made strides in making their operations “Dolphin Safe”, while others have done nothing to stop needlessly killing dolphins.

In addition, dolphins, sea turtles, and other marine animals are trapped and killed in discarded fishing nets.

Climate Change

Climate change is not only wreaking havoc on our planet by causing devastating weather events and raising temperatures. It’s also raising ocean temperatures and killing fragile marine environments, such as the great barrier reef. This is effecting the ecosystem and food chain, vastly depleting the fish dolphins and marine mammals sustain themselves with.

Urban Run-Off

Pollution that flows into rivers and streams, then into the ocean, can be devastating to local sea life, including dolphins and marine mammals.

Industrial and Farming Pollution

Toxic pollution from industrial sources, such as heavy metals, solvents, chemicals, mercury, and other industrial waste lay havoc on local sea life, dolphins, and mammals. Likewise, fertilizers used by farmers are leading to suffocating algae and red tide blooms, disrupting the eco system by killing the fish dolphins and marine mammals sustain themselves with.