Recent Faroe Islands hunts have renewed debate over tradition, animal welfare, and marine mammal protection after hundreds of dolphins and whales were killed. The controversy reflects growing ...

Washington, DC—Today, in the wake of the latest Faroe Islands drive hunt on Friday that killed 42 more pilot whales, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and six other leading animal welfare and marine ...

Images of a whale hunt in the Faroe Islands 200 miles north of Scotland have sparked renewed anger from conservationists and animal activists. The pictures show dozens of whales being herded into a ...

Five activists from the militant Sea Shepherd conservation group have been ordered to leave the Faroe Islands after they tried to disrupt a traditional whale hunt in the autonomous Danish province, ...

Grindadráp is the local name for a yearly event that sees the people of the Faroe Islands, an archipelago under Denmark, hunt pilot whales as well as other marine animals such as bottlenose dolphins, ...

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Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is gravely disappointed to learn that an estimated 100 bottlenose dolphins were slaughtered Friday in the latest Faroe Islands drive hunt. The victims ...