In a bold step and actually a correct one, Japanese officials took an ethical stand with Paris Hilton, denying her entry to Japan, where she is attempting to market her personal brand.

You should know the story by now. Paris came clean about possessing drugs and lying to the judge. Well, what do you expect from someone who didn’t make money the real way? It has always been about Paris and her idea that what she does is what she does. And she can do whatever she wants, when she wants to.

Well, that idea changed this last week.

Japanese officials lowered the boom on Paris, denying her access to Japan.

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Today I ran across a wonderful BBC video clip which actually is a simply wonderful little story in itself:

“World free-diving champion Tanya Streeter spends two weeks diving with humpback whales in the Turks and Caicos Islands as they migrate southward. In this short animal video, she examines the tail flutes that are as destinctive as a human finger print and takes a closer look at the amazing methods a mother humpback whale uses to teach her young calf how to breathe underwater. Brilliant footage from BBC sea life show ‘Diving with Whales’.”

I would like to correct it though.

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In an earlier blog and in my book, True Tails, I pointed out the self-awareness that exists in whales and that whales are sentient mammals.

Whales are endangered and they know this. But how do whales battle machines? How do whales battle technology? Choosing a simple life, a simple food source and a watery environment that covers two-thirds of this planet’s surface, whales are now more vulnerable than ever.

Whales are hunted, whales are endangered

Yes, there are some small isolated groups of people who depend on whales and dolphins for food. But when one looks at the actual economic and level of life these isolated people have, their governments have not much done anything to help them. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently Whole Foods Market and the Monterey Bay Aquarium did something quite wonderful.

You see, they have become environmentally aware in selling fish by now placing colored labels on them. Green is for fish that are available in large numbers and not endangered. Yellow is for fish that although not plentiful are available. Red is for fish that are endangered or over-fished.

If you think about it, it is quite educational and gives people a choice. It lets people KNOW what they are about to do when they buy any fish. The result is that people would most probably NOT purchase the red labels. The result is that there is less demand for an endangered species. Prices go down and these types of fish are not hunted as they are then not profitable. Read the rest of this entry »

Most creatures are hunted for their food value to our own survival.

Yet researchers, more and more, realize that whales are social animals. Whales have a social structure, they care for their young and train them in many ways similar to our own. Whales also communicate and are able to traverse long distances without losing their way.

One could say salmon do this as well. But salmon are not mammals, nor do they exhibit any of the above. The only other animals that exhibit this are dolphins, and they are hunted too!

At some point in time, scientifically, man will have the breakthrough of learning and understanding the whale song and dolphin language. We know it exists and it is documented. I have had the gift of hearing them. Why? I don’t know, but I do hear them.

What do we do when we actually can communicate with them?

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I saw a great television ad, which continued to talk about Dolphins as our “friends”.

And yet there was something missing.

The purpose of any blog, actually anything written, such as an ad, is to change people’s attitudes. But to change their attitude, sometimes you need them to see what they are changing their viewpoint FROM.

It’s like the Japanese fisherman, who took part in killing and hunting Dolphins in Japan for many, many years. There came a moment where he had a dolphin in his grasp and about to kill it. There came a moment where he and the dolphin looked at each other. In that brief moment he saw the soul, the consciousness of the dolphin. Read the rest of this entry »

Kayakers and divers came within meters of the large right whale as it swam around Scorching and Karaka bays.

A southern right whale seen in Wellington Harbor may signal the return of an endangered species, a scientist says.

Dozens of people watched from the shore while a pair of divers and kayakers came within meters of the 13-metre giant as it swam around Scorching and Karaka bays on Miramar peninsula on Saturday, in New Zealand.

Karaka Bay resident Gail Higgs-West first noticed the great shape moving in the water about 11am but it was still there as she ate dinner at 6pm.

Throughout the day, passing motorists stopped for a look and dozens of people came down to Karaka Bay wharf.

“It was sort of awe-inspiring. [It looks like] a bus in the water – underneath there is this massive animal. We were really impressed by how people behaved – if they were in a canoe, they let the whale come to them,” Ms Gail Higgs-West said.

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I know that there are some people that do care.

In a recent article from Vancouver, Canada:

Small baby gray whale looking out of the water to see who is looking at it.

“Yesterday evening, while sun set over English Bay, a few hundred people were treated to a whale show. A gray whale has been in English Bay for the past few days and widely reported in the news. But what a few people got to see last night was a close encounter. The whale has been seen regularly between Kits Beach and Siwash Rock in Stanley Park.

Gray whales have distinctive markings on their backs that whale biologists have photographed for years and assembled into catalogues. With these catalogues, individuals can be identified and their locations mapped. Over time, a pattern emerges of where individual whales reside. Gray whales are showing up regularly in the inner waters of the south coast and they are starting to use new areas such as Vancouver Harbour. By getting the photographs, we might learn whether the same individuals return to the same beaches. These animals could be the vanguard of a recovery of the species to waters of the south coast. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s one thing for me to blog about my personal stories about interspecies communication such as whale communication and dolphin communication.

Or whales talking.

It’s another to hear it from a completely different part of the world.

Recently in New Zealand, rescuers were attempting to save a whale and it’s calf from being stranded on the shoreline, but without success.

As it turns out the whales were sending out distress signals, which was picked up by a nearby dolphin. The dolphin came quite close to the rescuers and the whales and was able to calm the two whales down.

The dolphin had to recognize that the two whales were endangered. Why? Well, once the whales calmed down, the dolphin then guided the whales out of the small lagoon to safety and freedom.

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