Louie Psihoyos presented his documentary “The Cove” uncovers the brutal realism and unethical issues in Taiji, Japan, where more than 20,000 estimated dolphins are slaughtered yearly, while others are sold to dolphin trainers and kept captivity for human entertainment around the world. Taiji is well known for showing pride and loving to dolphins that existed there, having many paintings and statues of dolphins all over the town as their main attraction to tourist, which gives the town a sense of
BACKGROUND The Cove is a fashion documentary produced in 2009. The director Louie Psihoyos does the vital work of increasing the concerns of people with bringing awareness to underwater life- the film exposes there is a number of dolphins being killed in the cove in Japan in a year. SYNOPSIS Dolphins are valuable assets in the world and everyone promises to protect them. We all agree that dolphin should only be watched.As with most films of this type, the statistics are surprising us: The movie
Implications for Keeping Dolphins in Captivity The growing desire to swim with dolphins and watch them perform in shows has turned the dolphin industry into a multibillion-dollar industry in just a few decades. As the industry grows, the question of if it’s ethically right to keep dolphins in captivity for our entertainment is continuously asked. Scientists have done extensive research on dolphins and have gained a great deal of knowledge about them. There are thirty-eight species of dolphins ranging