More than 700 Dolphins Slaughtered in a Single Day in the Faroe Islands: "It's Tradition"
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The images are eloquent: a beach in the Faroe Islands full of people this Wednesday, among them some children, who contemplate how dozens of dolphins are driven to the shore by force and slaughtered while the water is dyed red. Animals have no escape. Fishing boats that have taken them there from the high seas block the way out of the bay and push them towards the deadly trap. It is the grind or grindadrap, a controversial and primitive method o…
More than 700 dolphins died on Wednesday in the Faroe Islands in three hunts carried out in a single day, according to the environmental NGO Sea Shepherd. The images show beaches full of people watching how cetaceans are driven to the coast, without possibility of escape, in a practice known as Grind or Grindaráp, documented since the time of the Viking expansion. The organization assures that 706 animals were slaughtered during the day, a figur…
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