Tag: Faroe Islands

• Monday, July 11th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  Faroe Islands limit traditional catch of dolphins to 500; 'barbaric practice' killed 1,423 last year

  

  Faroe Islands announced on Sunday that the traditional catch of dolphins to be killed in its water would provisionally be limited to 500. The decision to crack down on the number of hunted dolphins comes after public outcry from last year's hunt, where over 1,423 white-sided dolphins were killed, a spree that shocked even residents who supported the practice.

• Monday, July 18th 2011 - 10:04 UTC

  Animal rights organizations claim Japan is corrupting the Whaling Commission

  

  Animal rights organizations claim Japan has been handing out generous grants to African, Caribbean and Pacific countries to support turning the International Whaling Commission into a “toothless paper tiger” undermining the whaling-moratorium.

• Thursday, September 16th 2010 - 21:50 UTC

  Activists show evidence of whale meat trade in the Faroe Islands

  

  For the first time animal activists have shown evidence that an open and a black market in whale meat exists on the Faroe Islands. The animal protection activists Andreas Morlok (Project Whale Protection Action – ProWal) and Juergen Ortmueller (Whale and Dolphin-Protection-Forum – WDSF) (*) discovered on these islands, under the pretext of being anglers, that the pilot whale hunt nowadays has nothing to do with the old traditions which the hunters claim to be following.

• Thursday, August 19th 2010 - 05:47 UTC

  Undercover-anglers stop slaughter of whales on Faroe Islands

  

  As soon as pilot whales are sighted in the waters off the Faroe Islands the hunting frenzy takes hold of the about 48.000 inhabitants. Boats are launched and pods of whales are herded into the next official hunting bay.

• Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 05:23 UTC

  Brutal slaughter of pilot whales in Denmark’s Faroe Islands

  

  The disembowelled bodies of brutally slaughtered whales line a dockside just 230 miles from Britain - as families with children wander among them, according to a report from The Sun.