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 ...

Up to 250 pilot whales have been killed as part of an annual hunt in the Faroe Islands, prompting calls from anti-whaling activists for the barbaric practice to be stopped. Images taken by the Sea ...

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.

But animal activists say the practice is cruel and outdated. Source: Faroe Islands Ministry of Fisheries Whales and dolphins are highly intelligent, social creatures that live in family groups ...

Jonathan Wylie, The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History Forget ... grindadráp (pilot whaling) is nevertheless a big part of the Faroese national identity. The coach and members of the ...

Hamferd's latest album Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk explores a maritime disaster that befell a whaling ship in their native Faroe ...

The whale hunters of the Faroe Islands believe that hunting is vital to their way of life, but, when a local professor makes a grim discovery about the effects of marine pollution, environmental ...

He added that his detention had also highlighted Denmark's "illegal killing of dolphins and whales in the Faroe Islands", Watson, who featured in the reality TV series "Whale Wars", founded Sea ...