Ortmueller of WDSF argues through experience that today’s whale hunt in the Faroe Islands is nothing but entertainment following an old tradition and there are many other forms of animal cruelty ...

The yearly grindadráp hunt takes place on two beaches in the Danish-owned Faroe Islands, Bøur and Tórshavn ... has been practised for hundreds of years and is regulated by the Faroese authorities.

This summer’s hunts of more than 1,200 whales and dolphins will have yielded hundreds of metric tons of meat and blubber, far more than 30,000 adult male and post-reproductive female consumers in the ...

Source: Faroe Islands Ministry of Fisheries Whales and dolphins are highly intelligent ... The Faroese defend the annual whale hunt as part of their culture and tradition. The massacres continue ...

A music festival in East Sussex has withdrawn its partnership with the Faroe Islands ... During the hunts, which began about ...

Boats are launched and pods of whales are herded into the next official hunting bay ... of the Faroe Island with a petition by their organizations named Whale and Dolphin-Forum (WDSF} ...

and with nonparties to the treaty (the Faroe Islands). When the moratorium came into effect in 1986, Norway initially undertook a small-scale scientific hunt of minke whales. In 1993, however, it ...

Provides an overview of the Faroe Islands, and key facts about this autonomous Danish territory. Sussex Dolphin Project criticised the festival for partnering with the Faroe Islands. The woman had ...

1655 - Faroe Islands are presented to the von Gabel family. Their oppressive feudal rule ends in 1709 when the Faroes come under direct Danish rule. 1849 - Under the Danish constitution the Faroes are ...