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 ...

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 ...

Whaling is a tradition on the archipelago which sees ... “The UK Government rewarding Faroese fishing boats that are complicit with the mass slaughter of dolphins in the Faroe Islands goes against the ...

There are at least 750,000 pilot whales in the North Atlantic, so the yearly mass slaughters do not threaten the animal's population. But animal activists say the practice is cruel and outdated.

We started opposing the killing of dolphins and pilot whales in the Faroe Islands in 1983. We've been opposing dolphin slaughter in Taiji since 2003. Look, slavery didn’t end overnight.