Life Investigation Agency (LIA), a not-for-profit organisation on the ground in Taiji, Japan witnessed the pilot whale drive hunt. The pod of pilot whales were herded into the cove and kept in ...

An annual dolphin hunt in Taiji, Japan, made infamous by the 2009 Oscar-winning documentary The Cove, started for 2019 on Sunday.

(TAIJI, Japan) -- Dolphin hunting season has commenced in the small village of Taiji, Japan, with a quota to kill more than 1,400 dolphins and 300 whales in the coming months. Made famous by the ...

Japan’s controversial annual dolphin hunt has begun in the coastal town of Taiji. The hunting season, which is fiercely criticised by animal rights activists around the world, started on Sunday ...

The hunt sees the animals driven into a cove where most are slaughtered for their meat with knives in shallow waters. Other dolphins are sold to aquariums and marine parks. The Taiji hunt has been ...

Court hearings began to stop dolphin hunting in a Japanese village on Friday, with plaintiffs saying the grisly annual hunts, made famous in an Oscar-winning documentary, violate animal protection ...

Campaigners on Friday urged a court in Japan to halt so-called "drive hunting" of dolphins in the country as part of an unprecedented lawsuit that argues the practice violates Japanese law.

Four dolphins escaped from DolphinBase in Taiji, Japan after nets around their pen were slashed. Three have returned; one remains in the wild.

Four dolphins escape from a facility in Taiji in Japan, a town known for its controversial hunts.

Taiji's annual dolphin hunt, which takes place from Sept. 1 to March 1, caused an international outcry after it became the subject of an Academy Award-winning documentary in 2009: The Cove.

Angry protests in San Francisco, London, and dozens of other cities around the world Thursday are taking place to mark the start of the "dolphin killing season" in Taiji, Japan.