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 ...

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 ...

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 and other sea mammals is a traditional practice in the Faroe Islands (file image) The Faroe Islands is to provisionally limit its controversial dolphin hunt to 500 animals ...

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 ...

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

The Faroe Islands is an archipelago tucked between ... Fishing is the main industry. Controversial whale hunting, known as ...