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 ...

They told them that in July the slaughter came to a head ... with the non EU-daughter state Faroe Islands. All documentation depicting the cruelty of whaling will be presented to the Danish ...

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 ...

Fin whales are listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Measuring up to 25 meters (85 feet) in length, they are the second-largest animal on Earth in terms of length, second only to the blue whale .

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 ...

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 ...