Dolphin activist Ric O’Barry walks toward the U.S. embassy in Tokyo to present a petition bearing 1.7 million signatures against dolphin hunts on Thursday. The characters on the flag read “Save the dolphins in Japan.” O’Barry, 70, who is in Japan with about 60 of his supporters to protest Taiji’s dolphin hunt, told reporters that dolphin hunting is cruel and cannot be construed as culture.
