The yearly grindadráp hunt takes place on two beaches in the Danish-owned Faroe Islands ... How Denmark - an anti-whaling member nation of the European Union, subject to laws prohibiting the slaughter ...

More than 200 protected pilot whales were hacked to death with knives and sharpened hooks by fishermen who trapped them in coves on the Faroe Islands ... to watch the slaughter, known as ...

For the first time animal activists have shown evidence that an open and a black market in whale meat exists on the Faroe Islands ... full to the top after the slaughter of over 800 whales ...

The hunting and killing of pilot whales and other small cetaceans in the Faroe Islands once satisfied a subsistence need. Today the Faroe Islanders enjoy a modern, developed society, whose standard of ...

But animal activists say the practice is cruel and outdated.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 ...

Each year the people of the Faroe Islands a Danish community entice a pod of whales into their harbor and then men and youths enter the water to slaughter them As many as 1000 whales die in this ...

In our first conversation with Captain Paul Watson, the anti-whaling activist talked through his recent five months in a Greenland jail, other brushes with the law in his 50 years of activism and his ...