Reppy, who is working with the Earth Island Institute's International Marine Mammal Project and the Japan Environmental Exchange, says the recent killing and capture of dolphins and whales at Futo Bay and Taiji, Japan, need increased public awareness. The Japanese government has sanctioned the capture for scientific research.
Environmentalists say they are raising an international outcry because orcas travel as a family pod.
Isolating individual orcas is stressful, making the mortality rate among the captured unusually high. Both Hogg and Reppy are Mill Valley, Calif., residents.