“Did the sound of their boats make the whale even more frightened than it already was? Or did the whale think that those creatures – humans – had come to help it? Because they could have. They could have freed the whale from those nets. Authorities had led the world to believe that the plan was to do exactly that.”
Helene O’Barry Dolphin Project
“There were two ships that worked together to put a rope around the tail fin and force the whale’s head beneath the water. They kept it alongside the boat and it took about 20 minutes for the whale to drown. That’s a really bad way for an animal to die and I’m shaking with sadness at what I have seen this morning.” – Ren Yabuki – Life Investigation Agency
Ren Yabuki – Life Investigation Agency
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LIGHT SHINES BEST IN THE DARKNESS
“The fisherman who laughed at the drone; we can not reach him, we can’t even try to talk. We can’t try to make him see.
It seems an impossible divide, a great, black deep ravine.
Between good and evil? Between compassion and indifference?
Is it defiance? A display of perceived power? I don’t know.
All we can do is continue to be a light in the enveloping darkness, hold those we have loved and lost at the hands of evil close to us and continue to tell their story in the hope that one day peace and justice will overcome. The only word that truly matters in this world is love. Love.” – Jo Phillips #BeTheVoiceOfTheWhale
Credit: Meme made by Jo Phillips. Screenshot & header by LIA.
