The Cove

Last Sunday the feature length documentary 'The Cove' screened on ABC1, hopefully to the effect of shocking and outraging viewers as to the inhumaine, abusive and unsustainable practices of dolphin hunting that pose to not only wipe out dolphin populations around Japan, but to endanger the human health of those who eat the mercury laced dolphin meat. 'The Cove' is in an important step to ending this foul trade, a trade that, like the rest of the whaling industry, is an absolutely senseless industry kept afloat by government subsidies and practiced most undoubtedly simply to defy the will of the international community. The film also reveals the beauty and intelligence of dolphins, a self aware species that may be just as smart as we are. If you didn't see it last Sunday I highly recommend it.

Turtle World

I remember as a child in the nineties, perhaps I was about five or six old (showing my age here) watching on ABC television this film with monkeys who lived in a tropical paradise upon a turtles back. As the they began building shelter an idillic little town in the rainforest town emerged. Life was good for the monkeys. But as they cut down more trees to build bigger and better houses it became clear that they were destroying their fertile home. The part that really struck me as a child was when they began to mine the turtles back, digging down to uncover its pink, vulnerable, pulsating flesh. That image stayed with me for years, a metaphor for mans own destruction of his home. I was thinking about this short but powerful film recently, and decided to hunt for it on the internet. And there it was, on youtube of course, as all things are. 

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