5/31/2017
The barbaric practice kills approximately 800 whales each year in the Danish-controlled islands located in the North Atlantic. The killings are done by ...
The whales are not an endangered species. Island officials say that the pilot whale population in the eastern North Atlantic is abundant with about ...
Copenhagen's famous Little Mermaid statue has been vandalised yet again, this time in protest at whaling around the Faroe Islands. The bronze ...
5/30/2017
COPENHAGEN, May 31 — Denmark's famous landmark “The Little Mermaid” doused in red paint by anti-whaling activists. The Copenhagen-based ...
The "Little Mermaid" statue in Copenhagen, the city's most famous monument, was doused in red paint on Tuesday by animal rights activists outraged ...
Seems recently some protesters have defaced the statue in the name of crude and archaic whaling practices that still go on in that area. Now she ...
Denmark's famous Little Mermaid statue was covered in blood-red paint Tuesday to protest whale hunting in the Faroe Islands, Reuters reports.
Accompanying the vandalized statue was a message in English, "Danmark Defend The Whales of The Faroe Islands." The Associated Press reports ...
Copenhagen's iconic "Little Mermaid" sculpture, overlooking the water, was discovered doused in red paint Tuesday, with an anti-whaling slogan ...
Faroe Islanders kill hundreds of pilot whales each year, in a practice that has received much criticism from animal rights campaigners.
At least 160 whales were killed last summer, with images of the creatures dying in frothing red seas stirring international outrage against the small ...
Denmark has long been pressured by animal activists to put an end to a practice known as Grindadráp, or Grind, in the Faroe Islands. Pilot whales are ...
The Little Mermaid statue is seen painted in red in what local authorities say is an act of vandalism, in Copenhagen, Denmark May 30, 2017. Ida Marie ...
Whaling close to shore is permitted in the islands, which lie between the mainland and Iceland and are a self-governing part of Denmark.
Every year around 800 pilot whales are herded into coves on the Faroe Islands before being stabbed to death during a hunt known as grindadrap - or ...
On the ground in front of the statue was written in the red, in English, "Denmark defend the whales of the Faeroe Islands" — likely a reference to the ...
The Faroe Islands, a Danish autonomous archipelago in the North Atlantic, has a tradition of trapping mainly pilot whales in a bay or a fjord and killing ...
A landmark statue of the Little Mermaid in the Danish capital Copenhagen was found covered in paint early Tuesday in an apparent anti-whaling stunt, ...
5/29/2017
Conservationists are mourning the loss of 84 pilot whales who were killed in the first hunt to take place in the Faroe Islands this year, but they're also ...