July 22, 2023
Another summer is here and in the Nordic archipelago of the Faroe Islands, the fjords again run red with the blood of many pilot whales. These […]
August 9, 2018
Faroe Islands – A bloody spectacle: Whales are forced to the beach by locals, to get slaughtered. By Andrea Jeska It is ten o’clock in the […]
November 20, 2017
Blue Planet II viewers were crying their eyes out as a whale carried its dead newborn around – killed by human activity. The Mirror, 20.11.2017 Sir […]
July 11, 2016
Last week, 6 July, saw the first grindadráp (grind) of the year in the Faroe Islands with 43 pilot whales killed. For those who want to see […]
July 30, 2015
By Erla Brekkustova As a child in the 60’ties we had whale meat (grind) and blubber occasionally, but not often, since no one in the household […]
December 16, 2014
The radical actions of foreign opponents to the pilot whale hunt serves to trigger patriotic counter- actions in the Faroe Islands. The vast majority of Faroese […]
August 29, 2014
Cooperation rather than confrontation – in this way, whale defenders and the Faroese might jointly contribute to an accelerated end to the pilot whale hunt. Here […]
August 11, 2014
The following was written by a Faroese who formerly participated in the pilot whale hunts known as the “grind”. It is his response to misinformation on […]
July 31, 2014
The pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands will end in the not too distant future. In this the Faroese are mostly in agreement, even many […]
November 21, 2013
A total of 1,534 pilot whales and dolphins had already been slaughtered in the Faroe Islands this year by mid-November. A bitter setback for whale and […]