The Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums has voted to remain a member of the World Associations of Zoos and Aquariums, responding to a move by WAZA a month earlier to suspend the Japanese organization’s membership with a warning that it would be expelled from the world body if it didn’t come up with a more humane way of acquiring dolphins. The Gland, Switzerland-based organization felt that Japan’s use of dolphins taken in drive hunting at Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, was problematic.
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