UPDATED: (see video at end)  A few seconds of your time to make a difference....

Every year in the Danish Faroe Islands, an archipelago just 230 miles north-west of mainland Scotland, around 850 small cetaceans, primarily pilot whales and Atlantic white-sided dolphins are massacred in drive hunts called grindadráp in Faroese.

There is NO mercy - every member of the pod is killed including pregnant mothers, juveniles and weaning babies. None are ever spared from the Faroese gaffs, hooks and knives…  

“NO TIME TO DIE” – the ironic title of the latest James Bond Movie -produced by Eon Productions (Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson) for MGM and Universal Pictures. The Faroe Islands have been registered as a location for the upcoming new James Bond movie. The film features Daniel Craig in his fifth performance as MI6 agent James Bond. 49 locations have been registered for the spy film, including the island of Kalsoy, Faroes.

The grindadráp a barbaric inhumane and cruel relic of a bygone age. A needless hunt of hundreds of pilot whales and dolphins which should have ended a century ago…

Key Facts:

1. The ‘Grind” is inhumane and contravenes EU/international wildlife laws; it is not only illegal to kill pilot whales but illegal to harass, stress, chase or even touch any whales or small cetaceans.
2. By filming at the Faroes; the most notorious site of outdated/brutal pilot whale and dolphin slaughter, the filmmakers are condoning this vile practice.
3. The intelligence of cetaceans is comparable to humans; they are have a 3rd lobe to their brain that makes them more socially attuned than humans with very strong family ties – they are self-aware.
4. Faroese use a number of rationale why this horrific practice should continue; none the least that they need the meat – however whale meat is now highly toxic.  Their own health researchers no longer recommend eating it.
5. Whales & dolphins are wild and roam long distances.  They are not the private domain of the Faroes.
6. Cetaceans are dying from pollution; plastics and toxins, bycatch & fishing gear, boat strikes, even starvation and the consequences of Climate Change.  At any time, this may tip irreversibly to extinction level as other cetaceans already face.
7. The Faroes benefit from the wealth/trade of Denmark/EU  and are one of the wealthiest per capita.  For instance they cashed in on Russian sanctions against Norway with massive exports of salmon.  They no longer live a subsistence life.
8. Culture?  Many cultures have evolved and discarded cultural practices to the wastebasket of history – especially the bloodier ones.
9. As stated, cetaceans face many dangers, they should not be subjected to this tortuous slaughter; they are essential; the Oceans are threatened – If the Oceans die – we die
10. One of the most amazing facts; The previous JAMES BOND actor PIERCE BROSNAN who  sits on the ADVISORY BOARD for SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY and is a vocal and dedicated activist against whale killing . How incongruous that the filmmakers would feature the most notorious whale killing location in James Bond #25...
11. Even devoted JAMES BOND fans have made it clear they will protest & boycott the movie; the majority believe there is no place for footage from a place of such horror to be in the movie.
12. “NO TIME TO DIE” and Daniel Craig’s 5th/last movie as JAMES BOND should not be mired by this travesty.

 Animal advocates and researchers who have witnessed the killings were appalled and Capt Paul Watson stated the hunters “literally saw through the animal’s neck and spine to kill them" Critics also point out that, in "addition to extreme physical pain, the pilot whales also suffer considerable terror as they swim frantically in the blood of their pod mates and struggle against the hunters’ hooks and knives driven into blowholes and their sides."

TELL EON PRODUCTIONS, MGM, UNIVERSAL PICTURES AND ALL THOSE ASSOCIATED WITH JAMES BOND ”NO TIME TO DIE” THAT FILMING/USING FOOTAGE IN THE FAROES IS DEPLORABLE and condones this horrific practice, thereby supporting a violation of international wildlife laws.

Please also share and protest/boycott “NO TIME TO DIE” should they go ahead and use footage from the Bloody Faroe Isles. OR  DONATE to Sea Shepherd or similar organisation dedicated to ending this travesty.

We appreciate you taking the time to help bring attention to this important issue – see links to video, new CHILDREN’S BOOK’s & SHORT VIDEO BELOW 

THANK YOU for your support  

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Additional  Information:

The killing of the pilot whales is rarely as quick as Faroese government and media propaganda makes out.  

The Faroese drive the pod using sports/recreational boats, fishing boats, jet-skis and any other vessels they have available (including the Faroese Coastguard vessel Brimil and its small boats) often for many miles and over several hours, terrifying and stressing the socially sensitive cetaceans with  a “wall of sound” ( described by some marine experts as being excruciating) from their boat engines to force the pod towards the nearest designated killing bay and into its shallow waters, the hunters gradually herd them into a small bay or inlet, where they beach themselves or are trapped in the shallow water - some for long periods.

They are dragged  further ashore with ropes and a blunt gaff-hook rammed into the whale’s blowhole There they are slaughtered with traditional knives whose blades are usually 16 to 19 cm (6.3 to 7.5 in) long. Usually two deep cuts are made on either side of the animal’s neck, just behind the blow hole, causing the head to drop forward; a third cut is then made through the middle of the neck down to the carotid arteries and spinal cord, which are severed. After a period of violent thrashing the animal is hopefully paralyzed and loses consciousness, dying of blood loss in most cases, filling the bays with blood and the slowly dying sensitive animals.

*The pilot whale and dolphin meat  is in fact not considered human food anymore, because it is full of mercury and other heavy metals PCBS etc from the pollution of the Atlantic Ocean”. This is Scientific fact, peer reviewed and published in the ‘New Scientist’ in 2008 in a research article by the Faroe Islands chief medical officers Pál Weihe and Høgni Debes Joensen who concluded that the pilot whale meat was unsafe for human consumption because of high mercury content.   Neither are the Faroese reliant on it whatsoever.  Some admitted to a journalist they just dump the meat back into the sea, knowing it's toxicity.

SOLUTION: the obvious solution for the Faroese is to evolve like other countries who are enriched by cetacean activity;  start eco-tours and non-contact whale/dolphin and wildlife trips this way they will be respected and their unique islands will cease to be the “BLOODY ISLES”.

For further information/science/facts/donations see:

https://www.seashepherdglobal.org/our-campaigns/bloody-fjords/​

https://www.seashepherd.org.uk/campaigns/operation-bloody-fjords/

VIDEO

Faroes – The Grind – a Call to Denmark to Protect Pilot Whales (2.40)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bs57eOC8Pw

Faroes Illustrated book intro ( 1 min) :   https://youtu.be/SoxNHFCpCgA

MEDIA

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nze5db/in-photos-the-faroe-islands-controversial-whale-hunt​

http://local.fo/anti-whaling-activists-publish-book-whose-aim-is-to-make-people-of-all-ages-aware-of-all-the-crimes-committed-every-day-against-the-oceans-and-the-creatures-that-inhabit-it/?fbclid=IwAR1E7P1ONIs-D0kIMtfFMJvAAogRYxWqo0CwilLiPCBzFRciDSsbTXYxsvw​

http://blueplanetsociety.org/2018/09/blue-planet-society-launch-stopthehunt-campaign/

For the docu-movies  "Racing Extinction" and more conservation info:

https://www.opsociety.org