The Hunting of 700 Dolphins in the Faroe Islands: the Tradition that Justifies a Cruel Slaughter
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According to scientific evidence, sea heat waves, increasingly intense and recurring, are affecting the survival of dolphins, one of the many marine mammals threatened by climate change. For cetaceans living in the North Atlantic Ocean surrounding the Faroe Islands, an archipelago under Danish sovereignty, the destruction and alteration of ecosystems is the least of the dangers. Every year they have to avoid being caught and killed in a bloody a…
Although the authorities of the Faroe Islands (in the North Atlantic, under Danish sovereignty) had announced measures to reduce the number of captured specimens, the fact is that, one more year, there is a real massacre of cetaceans under the pretext of an ancestral tradition. A total of 706 dolphins were captured and quartered on these islands in just three days at the end of May, a figure which alone accounts for two thirds of the 1,000 speci…
The Faroe Islands still practice a traditional whale and dolphin hunting tradition known as grindadráp. The practice, which dates back to Viking times, is a symbol of cultural identity for some locals, while animal rights activists have long criticized it as cruel and unnecessary. Every year, hundreds of cetaceans end up in shallow bays, where they are subsequently killed for meat and other products.
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