Powerful pictures from the Faroe Islands show the sea turned blood red after dozens of whales were killed by islanders in preparation for the harsh winter months. Warning: This story contains ...

More than nice pocket money for the Faroese.” Ortmueller of WDSF argues through experience that today’s whale hunt in the Faroe Islands is nothing but entertainment following an old tradition ...

The hunting of whales is a traditional practice in the Faroe Islands (file image) The practice of dolphin hunting in the Faroe Islands has come under scrutiny after more than 1,400 of the mammals ...

As soon as pilot whales are sighted in the waters off the Faroe Islands the hunting frenzy takes hold of the about 48.000 inhabitants. Boats are launched and pods of whales are herded into the ...

In fact, the hunt reached depressing new lows this summer ... far more than 30,000 adult male and post-reproductive female consumers in the Faroe Islands could possibly consume. During Faroese drive ...

Once beached, they are finally killed with knives, which slice through the spinal cord and carotid artery. The hunting and killing of pilot whales and other small cetaceans in the Faroe Islands once ...

A music festival in East Sussex has withdrawn its partnership with the Faroe Islands after it was criticised for working with ...

Copenhagen rejects Japan’s extradition request over a 2010 incident involving a Japanese whaling ship in the Antarctic.

Animal rights activist Paul Watson, freed this week from detention in Denmark, vowed on Saturday to end whale hunting ...

The whale hunters of the Faroe Islands believe that hunting is vital to their way of life, but, when a local professor makes a grim discovery about the effects of marine pollution, environmental ...