Guest : Ric O’Barry

The documentary film The Cove was released in 2009 and won an Oscar in 2010, yet the slaughter of dolphins in Taijii, Japan continues unabated to this day. One of the deeper drivers behind this bloody practice is the marine park industry and the capture of wild dolphins that it depends upon. The morality of keeping dolphins and other marine mammals in captivity has moreover been increasingly questioned in recent years.

Think Globally Radio this week speaks with Ric O’Barry, founder of The Dolphin Project and main protagonist of The Cove, whose decades long devotion to ending the capture and slaughter of dolphins in Japan and elsewhere is one of the more remarkable stories of the modern environmental movement.

The Think Globally Radio episode Feb 9 2014