Such hunts are regulated in the Faroe Islands. They are non-commercial ... Using this method, it should take "less than a second to kill a whale", Mr Skaale said. "From an animal welfare point ...

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 ...

Powerful pictures from the Faroe Islands show the sea turned blood red after dozens of whales were killed by islanders in preparation for the harsh winter months. Warning: This story contains ...

They presented the government of the Faroe Island with a petition by their organizations named Whale and Dolphin-Forum (WDSF} and “ProWal” with almost 60.000 signatures to stop the slaughter.

Long-finned pilot whales have been hunted for human consumption in the Faroe Islands (a small Danish territory located between Scotland and ... the slaughter of 480 white-sided dolphins in a single ...

Locals on the Faroe Islands kill hundreds of dolphins each year - and much of the whale meat and blubber is thrown away ...

the government revealed it was giving the whaling company Hvalur hf a license to kill 99 fin whales in the Greenland/West Iceland region, as well as 29 whales in the East Iceland/Faroe Islands ...

Once beached, they are finally killed with knives, which slice through the spinal cord and carotid artery. The hunting and killing of pilot whales and other small cetaceans in the Faroe Islands once ...

Animal rights activist Paul Watson, freed this week from detention in Denmark, vowed on Saturday to end whale hunting ...

"And we've had five months to focus attention on Japan's illegal whaling operations and also Denmark's continued killing of pilot whales and dolphins in the Faroe Islands." On his release ...