‘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...
Sweden: Charging bear scared of my man’s roar
A Swedish man escaped a potentially fatal situation by roaring at a bear as it charged towards him to attack. Ralph Persson was training his hunting d...
Sea Shepherd bound for Faroes whale slaughter
Conservation ship The Sea Shepherd, famous for its confrontational eco-wars against Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean, is headed to the North Atl...
The three Ps that make Icelandic eiderdown duvets so expensive: Paucity – Performance – Pedigree
Naturally limited forever, Icelandic eiderdown accounts for around 85 per cent of the global supply, with its high price being linked to its rarity. A...
Five jailed for wolf hunting after landmark Norwegian ruling
Five men have been jailed in Norway for their part in organising a wolf hunt, in what becomes the Scandinavian nation’s first ruling of its kind. The ...
Annual Icelandic-American conference focusses on Arctic opportunities
The annual Icelandic-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) conference will see public and private sector figures from Iceland, the US, Canada and Greenl...
Iceland advises Japan on global energy
The issue of nuclear power generation in Japan has been a major talking point ever since the Fukushima power plant disaster, and now the East Asian na...