As every year, the slaughter of the pilot whales has started again in the Faroe Islands. On the first day of the hunt, 150 were killed, massacred in front of hundreds of people who experience this horror as a moment of traditional celebration.
As every year in the Faroe Islands, the slaughter of the pilot whales. On the first day of the hunt, 150 were killed, massacred in front of hundreds of people who experience this horror as a moment of traditional celebration.
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A real slaughter: cruel and useless. Images that make you shiver: Atlantic whales and dolphins slaughtered in a sea of blood. For centuries now, the 'Grindadráp', or whaling in the Danish archipelago located in the Atlantic Ocean.
This year the hunt has already begun, as stated on the Basta Delfinari Facebook page, but the Grindadráp usually takes place between July and September. Hundreds of cetacean families are killed with knives and harpoons.
A frightening dynamic: first they are frightened and forced to beach, then stabbed by blowers and severed in the spinal cord. An unprecedented violence, amidst the cries and suffering of these adorable animals. For years, Sea Shepherd has been fighting this absurd practice by carrying out undercover operations in the Faroe Islands.
“The Faroe Islands are an autonomous region of Denmark, the Danish government is conniving with the situation and in the past has sent military teams to defend the hunters from activists and allow them to continue the slaughter. This is despite the fact that whaling is prohibited. Ignoring an international moratorium, Faroe Islands, Japan, Iceland and a few others ignore the legislation and continue the hunt more or less undisturbed ", write from Just Dolphins.
100-150 pilot whales are currently being brutally slaughtered in the Faroe Islands in the first hunt of 2018 ~> https://t.co/Z4mmq1KUQZ #whaling #Faroes #stopthegrind #grindadráp pic.twitter.com/ljNRwu6QJK
— Blue Planet Society (@Seasaver) 22 maggio 2018
And yet:
“Over the years, many activists have been arrested for taking action against the slaughter; the local police and government support the "tradition" and since 2015, in addition to punishing those who try to save cetaceans, anyone who sees a group of animals in the sea and does not report it to hunters is also condemned, in an escalation of madness macabre and exalted. Until now, nothing has been able to stop them ”.
But there is more. According to the Danish authorities, this type of hunting would even be sustainable, given the number of whales present. For this reason, the institutions do not look favorably on investigations and articles like this one because according to them it would pass a wrong message that is that the Faroe Islands are using methods that incite hatred and violence. In our opinion, the images speak for themselves.
Read also:
- Grindadráp: whaling in the Faroe Islands (video of the massacre)
- Faroe Islands cetacean massacre: the new investigation that reveals all the horror
Dominella Trunfio
Photo: Kristina E. Mikkelsen
