Description

Around 1000 Pilot Whales (Globicephala melaena) and other small whales are killed annually on the Danish island of Faroe. The hunts are called "grindadráp", which translates literally as 'grind', locally as 'pilot whale kill'. The hunters first surround the pilot whales with a wide semicircle of boats. The boats then drive the pilot whales slowly into a bay to be slaughtered on the beaches by hand.


What You Can Do

1) Sign petitions:

http://www.change.org/petitions/end-the-faroe-islands-whale-slaughter

http://www.unleashed.org.au/take_action/petitions/stop-the-faroe-islands-whale-slaughter/

http://www.delphinschutz.org/forms/faroerprotest/petition.html

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Stop-Whale-Massacre-in-Faroe-Islands/

http://www.change.org/petitions/prime-minister-of-faroe-islands-stop-allowing-the-slaughtering-of-innocent-pilot-whales

2)Contact the following people expressing your concern:

- High Commissioner of the Faroe Islands
Dan Michael Knudsen
Amtmansbrekkan 6
FO-110 Tórshavn
PO Box 12
Faroe Islands
Tel: +298-351200
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- Prime Minister of Denmark
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Christiansborg
Prins Jørgens Gård 11
1218 Copenhagen K
Denmark
Tel: +45 33 92 33 00
Fax +45 33 11 16 65
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- Prime Minister's Office
Løgmansskrivstovan
Tinganes
P.O.Box 64
FO- 110 Tórshavn
Tel: +298 351010
Fax: +298 351015
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- Faroe Islands Tourist Board
Samvit—Faroe Islands Enterprise
Bryggjubakki 12
P.O. Box 118
FO-110 Torshavn
FAROE ISLANDS
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