{"id":12456,"date":"2012-02-29T04:02:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T04:02:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-29T04:02:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T04:02:03","slug":"HK-Airline-busted-over-dolphin-cargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=12456","title":{"rendered":"HK Airline busted over dolphin cargo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hong Kong Airlines is under pressure to stop its live dolphin cargo business after an internal memo was leaked. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The memo describes a recent delivery from Japan to Vietnam and was leaked to Chinese media.<\/p>\n

More than 2800 people have signed an online petition at change.org calling for an end to the flights, citing a China Daily newspaper report about a January 16 delivery of five dolphins from Osaka to Hanoi.<\/p>\n

The dolphins are believed to have come from the Japanese town of Taiji, the scene of an annual dolphin slaughter depicted in Oscar Award winning documentary “The Cove”, the report said.<\/p>\n

“Five Taiji dolphins were transported via cargo flight in ‘flying coffins’ on January 16, 2012.<\/strong> They spent at least seven hours in this cruel confinement,” the petition reads.<\/p>\n

The Cove<\/strong>
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