A traditional festival in the Danish Faroe Islands has sparked a wave of anger and criticism from animal groups ndtv The traditional festival known as “Grindadrap” has been held annually since 1584, in which fishermen slaughter whales and dolphins, and this year’s festival witnessed the slaughter of about 1,428 whales and dolphins..
This annual tradition, which is held to hunt whales and dolphins, is criticized by environmental activists around the world, and many environmental groups have criticized the hunting operations, and strongly criticized them. ORCA Concerned about the environment this practice as “crazy blood sport”.
1400 dolphins slaughtered
The government of the Faroe Islands, a Danish autonomous region, faced a protest over the culling of more than 1,400 white-faced dolphins in a single day in what was said to be the largest poaching operation in the northern archipelago..
“There is no doubt that hunting Faroe whales is a dramatic spectacle for people unfamiliar with the hunting and slaughter of mammals,” a government spokesman told AFP.“., noting that the fishing operations, however, are well and fully organized
The spokesman said the North Atlantic islands, with a population of about 50,000, hunt pilot whales, not dolphins.
While local TV journalist Hallor af Rana said: “There are usually a few of them in but we usually don’t kill that many.“.
“grindadrap” It is a practice whereby fishermen first surround the whales in a wide semi-circle of fishing boats and then push them into the bay to be slaughtered.
Pictures showing the bloodstained bodies of more than 1,000 white-faced Atlantic dolphins on the beach have sparked outrage on social media..
Although about 53 percent of islanders oppose it, there are no plans to abolish the practice, which authorities insist is a sustainable way of fishing..
branded organization Sea Shepherd A charity that fights against whale and dolphin hunting as a “barbaric practice“.
