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A man set sail Sunday from Marina del Rey on a journey across the Pacific Ocean to promote the protection of dolphins.

Jim Sullivan plans to sail 8,000 miles from Southern California to Cebu City in the Philippines, in an engineless, 30-foot boat named the Elusive Spirit. The trip is expected to take about three months. During the journey, Sullivan is raising money for the Earth Island Institute, an environmental nonprofit, and Ric O'Barry's Dolphin Project, featured in the documentary "The Cove."

Earth Island Institute Philippines (EII-Phils) and Animal Concerns Education and Research Society of Singapore (ACRES) urges the Philippine government not to re-export 25 dolphins, currently in training at the Ocean Adventure Park in Subic, to Singapore.

The group says that the dolphins, caught in the wild from the Solomon Islands, were forcibly snatched from their families and will live short, miserable lives in captivity as show animals for Resorts World in Singapore (RWS).

The largest dolphin and whale slaughter on the planet starts September of every year in a small fishing village in Taiji, Japan. Here, some forty-eight fishermen herd hundreds of small whales and dolphins to a cove.

Representatives of ocean parks and aquariums buy the nicer looking animals first while the rest are slaughtered for meat and sold to grocery stores all over Japan.