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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Faroese hunters claim the practice of killing pilot whales is an ... been trying to put economic pressure on the Faroe Islands in order to stop the whale hunt. Their efforts are gaining momentum.

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But animal activists say the practice is cruel and outdated.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

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