Iceland's president urged to intervene over Europe's last whaler – conservation groups are asking for the decision to allow Hvalur to hunt to be put on hold until after election
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Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson, known for his decades-long fight against Japanese whaling and arrested in Greenland in July, has asked France's president for political asylum
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UK music festival The Great Escape has withdrawn its partnership with the Faroe Islands after it was criticised for working with a country which allows “barbaric” whaling
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Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson arrested on an international arrest warrant issued by Japan in Greenland
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Iceland's government has issued a license to the North Atlantic nation's last fin whaling company to hunt and kill 128 fin whales this year
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‘I’m a blue whale, I’m here’: researchers listen with delight to songs that hint at Antarctic resurgence
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Iceland fisheries minister rebuked over 2023 whaling ban – Parliamentary Ombudsman says whaling ban lacked legal footing
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How to stop an Icelandic whale hunt – Elissa Phillips and Anahita Babaei on chaining themselves to the crow's nests of whaling vessels for thirty-three hours
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Iceland allows whaling to resume – activists say that whales will still suffer agonising deaths despite new regulations and monitoring
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Switchel - The farmer's Gatorade of the 19th century
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Campaign launched on Thursday to boycott the Faroe Islands over their highly controversial slaughter of pilot whales and dolphins
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Iceland suspends whale hunt on animal welfare concerns until the end of August, likely bringing controversial practice to historic end
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The Faroe Islands' annual whale hunt has begun, sparking condemnation from animal rights groups – though it remains a complex cultural issue
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Whale hunts have been branded inhumane by activists and authorities as Icelandic report finds they suffer a long and painful death
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Is Japan's whaling industry going under as demand sinks?
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Faroe Islands to provisionally limit its controversial dolphin hunt to 500 animals after receiving widespread criticism
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After a four-year hiatus, Iceland's last remaining whaling company will resume its hunt this summer, much to the chagrin of tourism officials
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Over sixty pilot whales have been butchered alive in the Faroe Islands' first whale slaughter of the season
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Scientists want to protect narwhals, but the Greenlanders who hunt them say their traditions are being ignored
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Iceland's plan to end commercial whaling is driven by falling demand but also a fifteen-year-long campaign aimed at their biggest consumers of whale meat – tourists
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The portentous comeback of humpback whales
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Iceland's last remaining whaling company said it planned to hunt this summer for the first time since 2018
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Commercial whaling in Iceland could be banned within two years, after a government minister said there was little justification for the practice
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The enormous hole that whaling left behind
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Practice of dolphin hunting in the Faroe Islands has come under renewed scrutiny after more than 1,400 of the mammals were killed in one day
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Whale meat has seen an increase in sales this year in Norway – according to local whalers, demand has outstripped supply for the first time in half a decade
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Demand for whale meat in Norway rising after years of decline – conservationists say relaxing of regulations poses threat to welfare of minke whales
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Sea turns blood red as more than 250 whales slaughtered in 'barbaric' hunt in Faroe Islands – environmental activist calls for boycott
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Commercial whaling may be over in Iceland – citing the pandemic, whale watching, and a lack of exports, one of the three largest whaling countries may be calling it quits
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Saving Grace, featuring Robert Plant and Suzi Dian, cancels Faroe Islands festival set due to country's whaling operation
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Iceland didn't hunt any whales in 2019 – and public appetite for whale meat is fading
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Bolsonaro was ridiculed on social media after criticising Norway for whaling techniques which the country does not use
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These circular ruins at Smeerenburg are all that remain of a 17th-century Arctic whaling outpost
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The spoil of mariners
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Japan formally announces IWC withdrawal to resume commercial whaling
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Whale hunt in Faroe Islands turns sea red with blood
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