Shame on the Faroe Islands for its barbaric slaughter of dolphins.

The internationally condemned brutality continued at the weekend when 1,428 dolphins were cruelly slaughtered.

The creatures were herded into a bay and mercilessly hacked to death with hooks and knives as locals looked on from a beach. Shocking video footage of the attack shows the dolphins desperately thrashing in the water which turned red with their blood.

“On Sunday night, September 12th 2021, a super-pod of 1,428 Atlantic White-Sided Dolphins was driven for many hours and for around 45 km by speed boats and jet-skis into the shallow water at Skálabotnur beach in the Danish Faroe Islands, where every single one of them was killed,” Sea Shepherd outlined in a statement.

The organisation, which has been campaigning for an end to the hunt since the 1980s, says it believes the latest slaughter was “the largest single hunt of dolphins or pilot whales in Faroese history (the next largest being 1,200 pilot whales in 1940), and is possibly the largest single hunt of cetaceans ever recorded worldwide.”

The mass killing of the dolphins brings to 2,043 the total number of cetaceans killed in 2021 in the Faroe Islands - earlier this year, 615 long finned pilot whales were also killed there.

Sea Shepherd Global CEO Captain Alex Cornelissen is among the many denouncing the cruel hunt. “Considering the times we are in, with a global pandemic and the world coming to a halt, it's absolutely appalling to see an attack on nature of this scale in the Faroe Islands," he stated. "If we have learned anything from this pandemic, it is that we have to live in harmony with nature instead of wiping it out."

A BBC News report headed “Faroe Islands: Anger over killing of 1,400 dolphins in one day” quoted Trondur Olsen, a journalist for Faroese public broadcaster Kringvarp Foroy as saying: "There's been a lot of international attention. My suspicion is that people are bracing themselves for a big backlash. This is a good time for campaigners to put even more pressure on. It will be different this time because the numbers are very big."

ACTION ALERT

Please join us in contacting the Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands and demanding a permanent end to his country’s shameful hunting of whales and dolphins.

Mr Bárður á Steig Nielsen
Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
Phone: +298 306000
Fax: +298 306015
Email: info@tinganes.fo; pall@tinganes.fo; palln@uvmr.fo

Don’t visit the Faroe Islands or purchase any products from the Faroe Islands until the hunt is stopped.

Urge travel companies to remove the Faroe Islands from their itineraries until the hunt is stopped.

SEE ALSO

Faroe Islands: Anger over killing of 1,400 dolphins in one day https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58555694

1428 Dolphins Slaughtered in the Faroe Islands Sunday Night
https://www.seashepherdglobal.org/latest-news/1428-dolphins-killed-faroes/

Watch Seaspiracy to find out more about the plight of ocean creatures
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