Almost every year, bloody images of the Faroe Islands’ grindadráp are splashed across newspapers, with the practise damned as “a gruesome massacre”, “a barbaric slaughter”. But is killing whales for ...

An estimated 1,400 dolphins were killed during a single hunt in the North Atlantic waters of the Faroe Islands last year. While farmed salmon is the main export product from the islands, whale and ...

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, ...

An anti-whaling activist has warned it may take a generation before the “ecological obscenity” of slaughtering whales and dolphins is “extinguished”. Paul Watson, who last month was removed from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A general view of Torshavn on October 12, 2012, at Streymoy Island, the largest of the Faroe Islands in this Atlantic ocean ...

The waters around the Faroe Islands turned red after hundreds of whales and dolphins were killed during an annual hunt that has existed for centuries. The event, known locally as the “grind,” has once ...

On Monday, British cruise ship operator Ambassador Cruise Line took to Twitter to apologize after its passengers watched residents of the Faroe Islands slaughter wild dolphins. As part of a mass ...

The people of the Faroe Islands, 18 mountainous islands off the coast of Northern Europe, have a longstanding tradition that has drawn ire from animal advocates: From as early as 1584, the Faroese ...

Up to 250 pilot whales have been killed as part of an annual hunt in the Faroe Islands, prompting calls from anti-whaling activists for the barbaric practice to be stopped. Images taken by the Sea ...

SCOTTISH director Mike Day will take part in a question-and-answer session after April 5's 6.30pm screening of his documentary The Islands And The Whales (12A) at City Screen, York. In their remote ...

The grindadráp, known simply as the “grind,” literally translates from old Nordic as “the murder of whales”. My opposition to the grind—the ongoing slaughter of pilot whales and other dolphins in the ...