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 ...

For the first time animal activists have shown evidence that an open and a black market in whale meat exists on the Faroe Islands. The animal protection activists Andreas Morlok (Project Whale ...

There are at least 750,000 pilot whales in the North Atlantic, so the yearly mass slaughters do not threaten the animal's population. But animal activists say the practice is cruel and outdated.

Ministers have been accused of “rewarding” the slaughter of dolphins in the Faroe Islands through a £5million fishing deal. The UK fishing industry will receive over 2,000 tonnes of fishing ...

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 ...

Martin Clunes embarks on an epic journey to explore the Islands of the Atlantic. His odyssey takes him to a spectacular array of ocean islands from the jungles of the ‘African Galapagos’, via Madeira, ...