Massacre of the Cetaceans [including Whales, dolphins, porpoises]
Cetaceans are mammals, just like you and me.
Are such traditions really necessary?

We need to create education and alternative livelihood to stop this killing tradition.

Japan
In a small village of Taiji, Japan, every 1st Sept, the hunting of dolphin begins.
Shockingly, it would appear that not many Japanese are aware of such sport.
Sad fact is, there are Japanese who do know about these killings.

Europe
A "Bay Of Blood" is also carried out somewhere in the Faroe Islands, a group of about 30 islands located in the North Atlantic Ocean, situated halfway between Iceland and Scotland. They fall under the crown of Denmark, but are semi-independent. The population is about 46,000, and they inhabit about half of the islands. This is where hundreds, sometimes thousands of pilot whales are butchered alive by the locals. This hunt is known as Grindadrap which is centuries old, the locals practiced since 1584.

Humans evolve and progression towards in being civilised
What we are trying to create, is awareness of such killings and requesting (if not, demanding) such tradition and livelihood to cease.
But are we aware of repercussions involved?
We cannot just get angry, demand a change and walk away.

This is a tough battle. We are trying to break cultural and traditional barriers.

Regardless this group of people who are minority or not, if we adopt a we-don't-care-we-demand-the-killings-to-be-stop attitude, we will not get anyone attributing to these massacre to listen, needless to say to stop this killing act.

Understand this –

In cultural/tradition sense, we want to cut off their supply of high mercury intake for their bodies.
We need specialists to penetrate into the locals, preferably localized experts or government health officials to educate the locals.
To gain understanding and trust, that high mercury content in one’s body is bad.

In economic sense, we are taking away livelihood from villagers.
>>Suggested solution: Government + capitalists + marine experts to come together and provide alternate socially acceptable fishing trade.
This way, they may not be happy having their culture and tradition taken away but at least, they get food in their belly and money to send their children to schools.

Differences can make people mad.
We need to walk out of the madness to make sense from the differences.

You can do so by making a difference.
Tell your friends and take part in making sense to all this madness –
http://www.savejapandolphins.org/
http://www.takepart.com/thecove/the_cove_letter_writing.php
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/end-whale-dolphin-slaughter-in-the-faroe-islands

Who knows, amongst your friend’s friends, there could be researchers or folks who can provide funding or have political influence, and perhaps some day, these beautiful mammals will no longer be cruelly hunted.

Credit goes to
Krysten's fb notes *Warning it contains graphical content of the killings*