The Dolphins Are Fighting For Their Lives As The Hunters Drive Them Closer Taiji Japan Wallpaper Collections

The pod swimming for their lives back out to sea. Babies desperately jumping by their mothers sides - Taiji, Japan

A banger boat driving the remainder of this pod out to sea - Taiji, Japan

The pod converging on one another before being driven back out to sea - Taiji, Japan

The pod being driven into the cove - Taiji, Japan

The hunters lost grip of one of the lifeless Risso's and quickly covered it up with tarps - Taiji, Japan

A Pantropical spotted dolphin stares helplessly outwards before being dragged below the tarps for selection - Taiji, Japan

Nine dolphins being taken from their pod, out of the water unnaturally for the first time in their lives, never to swim the oceans again-Taiji,Japan

A diver grabs a dolphin by their beak during the captive selection process - Taiji, Japan

The hunters wrestling the rejected dolphins towards the outer net, where the banger boats await to drive the reminder of the pod back out to sea-1-Taiji, Japan

The hunters wrestling the rejected dolphins towards the outer net, where the banger boats await to drive the reminder of the pod back out to sea - Taiji, Japan

The small family of Risso's including several juveniles fight hard to out swim the hunters - at Taiji, Japan

A diver wrestles a dolphin in the waters of the cove during a captive selection - Taiji, Japan

These beautiful, tiny dolphins that we swimming free only hours ago are now destined for a life in captivity - Taiji, Japan

First banger boat has left the harbour, the rest following close behind - Taiji, Japan

A diver grabs a spotted dolphin to examine it during a captive selection - Taiji, Japan

Dolphins are fighting for their lives as the banger boats drive them closer to the Cove - Taiji, Japan

A large pod of pantropical spotted dolphins has been netted into the cove and is being driven under the tarps in the cove- Taiji, Japan

The dolphins are fighting for their lives as the hunters drive them closer - Taiji, Japan

A hunter straddles the starboard side of the skiff, failing to conceal a fin of one of the Risso's dolphins on his way to the slaughterhouse-Taiji,Japan

A mother swims close to her child - Taiji, Japan