Stop dolphin slaughter in Peru

The consumption of dolphin meat was never a Peruvian custom. It was introduced to Peru by Italian settlers in the sixties, when fishermen began to land small numbers of dolphins that had been caught accidentally in fishing nets. However in the following years dolphin meat consumption climbed steadily and in the early nineties had reached an estimated total of up to 20,000 dolphins annually. As a result of the work of the Peruvian NGO “Cruzada por la Vida” the consumption of dolphin meat was prohibited by law in 1996. Read more about historic dolphin catches.

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Page author: Stefan Austermühle

Reviewed by: Jeremy Hogarth

Last updated: 2010.09.30

What we are doing to stop the dolphin slaughter in Peru:

In 2002 Mundo Azul started investigating the Peruvian black market for illegally caught dolphin meat. The dolphin meat is regularly landed at night on beaches near the ports in order to avoid the controls put in place by harbor officials. At this point, the meat has already been cut into small pieces and hidden in boxes, while heads, flukes, bones and intestines have been thrown over board when at sea or while entering the harbor. The meat is then openly sold on local markets. Read more.

Mundo Azuls volunteers are engaged in undercover investigation of the illegal sales of dolphin meat. We are then providing all the evidence and intelligence we collect to the Peruvian police and are actively supporting the implementation of police raids. We are also supporting the Peruvian police through capacity building. Raising public awareness and environmental education are further activities of our dolphin conservation campaign. We are engaged in dolphin research that provides us with important baseline information for conservation planning. Finally we are promoting whale and dolphin watching as a sustainable economic alternative to illegal dolphin killing.

We are also active on an international level campaigning against dolphin killing in Japan, dolphin killing on the Faroe Islands, as well as dolphin captivity and whaling.

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Page author: Stefan Austermühle

What you can do to stop the dolphin slaughter in Peru

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