Annual pilot whale killings in the Faroe Islands – An ongoing debate.
The Faroese have hunted the long-finned pilot whales in a tradition known as the Grindadrap for as long as anyone can remember. The earliest mention o...
Internet crimes in Iceland – New report
Increasingly the Network and Information Security department of Iceland’s Post and Telecom Administration is warding of information hijacks and extort...
Coalition Against Whaling Will Not Rest
The coalition campaigning against whaling and against companies that are involved with whaling in Iceland will not slow down despite recent reports ab...
Whaling is out this Summer
There will be no whaling of the coast of Iceland this summer primarily because there has been great difficulty getting the product, whale meat, sold o...
Icelandic whaler unimpressed with anti-whaling petition
Icelandic whaler Kristjan Loftsson has been left feeling dismayed by an anti-whaling petition that has so far gathered more than a million signatures....
Whale season begins in Iceland with activists’ incident
The first whale kill of the 2015 season in Icelandic waters attracted the ire and intervention of activists, who followed the towed mammal into port l...
‘Whappy’ whale app launches in Iceland
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has launched the free Whappy app in a bid to persuade people to meet whales rather than eat them. The...
Protests over Iceland’s whale meat shipment to Japan
Environmentalists are protesting an Icelandic whaling company’s shipment of fin whale meat to Japan, insisting that it goes against international cons...