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New scientific critique of the Faroe Island pilot whale hunt
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Faroe Island Summer Killing Season Continues With 116 More Pilot Whales Killed
OceanCare condemns the continued killing of pilot whales in the Faroe Islands, with 116 more animals killed at Tjørnuvík on 20th July, adding to over 450 whales already killed this summer in what the organisation calls unnecessary, unsustainable and cruel hunts. PRESS RELEASE – 23 July 2025 Faroe Island Summer Killing Season Continues With 116 More Pilot Whales ...
plusNew Report Exposes Acute Welfare Issues in Faroes Pilot Whale Hunt
A new independent scientific assessment of the Faroe Islands’ pilot whale hunts confirms acute welfare concerns and calls the practice “inherently inhumane”. OceanCare calls for an immediate end to this cruel hunting “tradition”. PRESS RELEASE – 17 July 2024 New Report Exposes Acute Welfare Issues in Faroes Pilot Whale Hunt - A new independent scientific assessment of the Faroe Islands’ pilot whale hunts ...
plusCruelty continued: Iceland’s decision to issue new whale killing quota condemned by conservation experts
OceanCare is bitterly disappointed by today's announcement of the Icelandic government's devastating decision to allow commercial whaling to continue. PRESS COMMENT – 11 June 2024 Cruelty continued: Iceland’s decision to issue new whale killing quota condemned by conservation experts Today, the Icelandic ...
plusOceanCare appalled by Japan's plans to add fin whales to its North Pacific whale hunt
- Japan announced to expand its North Pacific whaling to include fin whales. - Whales are important in maintaining the health of the marine ecosystems on which all life on Earth depends, OceanCare experts emphasize. - OceanCare urges the Japanese government to refrain from the planned expansion of its whaling activities. PRESS RELEASE – 9 May 2024 OceanCare appalled ...
plusNew Report Debunks Claims of Whale and Dolphin Hunters in Faroe Islands
New Report Debunks Claims of Whale and Dolphin Hunters in Faroe Islands California/Washington, DC/London/Munich/Zurich, September 25, 2023: Today, in the wake of the latest Faroe Islands drive hunt on Friday that saw the killing of 42 more pilot whales, seven of the world’s leading animal welfare and ...
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Harpoons to be fired again as Iceland resumes its fin whale hunt
Harpoons to be fired again as Iceland resumes its fin whale hunt London/Vienna/Zurich, 31st of August 2023: With today’s announcement by Iceland‘s Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Svandís Svavarsdóttir, not to continue this summer’s temporary whaling ban, fin whales will soon be killed again. The two Icelandic whaling vessels left port ...
Un documentplusEuropean Union Member States Condemn Faroe Islands Drive Hunts
European Union Member States Condemn Faroe Islands Drive Hunts Press Release Wädenswil/Switzerland, 21st December 2021 In recent decades, the European Union Member States have remained largely silent on the killing of small cetaceans in the Faroe Islands, shying away from criticising a brutal and obsolete tradition. Today marks a turn-around on this ...
Un documentplusOnce again: Dolphin mass killing in the Faroe Islands
Press release Once again: Dolphin mass killing in the Faroe Islands Wädenswil, 23. September 2021: Just ten days after a mass killing of more than 1,400 Atlantic white-sided dolphins, the Faroe Islands saw another drive hunt yesterday, September 22nd. This time, 52 pilot whales were driven into a beach and brutally killed. The marine conservation ...
Un documentplusOceanCare criticizes massive kill of Atlantic white-sided dolphins off the Faroese-Islands
OceanCare criticizes massive kill of Atlantic white-sided dolphins off the Faroese-Islands Wädenswil/Switzerland, 14th September 2021. This Sunday, 12th of September 2021, the Skala Fjord in the east of the Faroese-Islands in the Atlantic has been the scene of one of the largest kills of dolphins in ...
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