Pilot whale pod slaughtered in the Faroes
A large pod of pilot whales have been slaughtered in the Faroe Islands, in keeping with the archipelago’s ‘grindadrap’ tradition which sees the cullin...
Iceland sends 1,700 tonnes of whale meat to Japan
A vessel transporting 1,700 tonnes of whale meat departed Iceland on route to Japan on Thursday, announced an activist group that is protesting the sh...
‘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 ...