After the controversy, the Faroe Islands are ready to start an evaluation of the regulations relating to the ancient practice of Grindadráp
After the wave of international protest, the Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands said he was ready to start an evaluation of the regulations relating to the ancient practice of dolphin hunting
The umpteenth slaughter of cetaceans, which took place in recent days in the Faroe Islands, has shaken activists and citizens from all over the world. What has just ended was one of the worst slaughters of dolphins and pilot whales ever, with a tragic toll of about 1500 cetaceans killed, and this year the appeals and petitions have multiplied to stop this absurd tradition that goes going on for centuries in the Danish archipelago and that takes of Lattice killing (which in the Faroese language literally means "whaling"). Poor marine mammals are killed by hunters with harpoons, knives and even drills.
On Sunday night a super-pod of 1428 Atlantic White-Sided Dolphins was driven for many hours and for around 45 km by speed boats and jet-skis into the shallow water at Skálabotnur beach in the Danish Faroe Islands, where every single one of them was killed. https://t.co/uo2fAPhCDq
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An ancient practice to be canceled
Over the years, the practice, authorized by law, has been affected by a series of new measures, including the introduction of the obligation for hunters to possess an official training certificate that enables them to kill animals. But, after the wave of protests resulting from the killing of about 1500 animals in a few hours, the Faroese government has announced that it is ready to reassess the dynamics of "whaling".
The government has decided to start an evaluation of the regulations on the capture of Atlantic dolphins - said the Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands, Bárður á Steig Nielsen. - While these hunts are considered sustainable, we will closely look at dolphin hunts and what role they should play in Faroese society.
Usually during the ancient rite, dating back to the Viking era, about 600 specimens are hunted, but some cases are reached disturbing figures, as happened this year.
In an interview with the BBC, the president of thea Faroese Whalers Association, Olavur Sjurdarberg, acknowledged that the killings were excessive.
People are in shock. It was a big mistake - admitted Sjurdarberg. - When the pod was found, they estimated there were only 200 dolphins. Only when the killing process began did they discover the true number of animals.
#ICYMI – Over the weekend, whalers in the Faroe Islands set a gruesome record, killing a full 1428 dolphin-superpod. It'…
Posted by Sea Shepherd on Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Now the words of the Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands ignite a glimmer of hope at least for the methods used for the killings and for the numbers of specimens hunted, but unfortunately the abolition of this barbaric practice still seems very far away also because the Faroese government there he stressed that "the hunting of pilot whales in the Faroe Islands is sustainable and that the number of pilot whales in the north-east Atlantic is abundant".
As if this were enough to give the green light to the slaughter ...
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Fonte: Føroya Landsstýri - The Government of the Faroe Islands
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