Protesters film slaughter of hundreds of whales in the Faroe Islands

The Sea Shepherd volunteers were arrested by the Danish authorities after they followed a flotilla of small boats which drove the pod heading for a “grindadap” – a traditional Faroese hunt where the migrating pilot whales are herded into a bay and are slaughtered by hand.

Campaigners from Sea Shepherd took the video on July 23 and estimated around 150 pilot whales had been stabbed to death in one day. Typically, once they are stranded in shallow water, blunt-ended metal hooks are inserted into their blowholes and used to drag the whales up the beach, where they are killed with a knife cut to their major blood vessels.

Close footage shows some of the huntsmen laughing and smiling, droplets of blood dripping down from their sweaty brows. The total killed in this year’s hunts in the Faroes is already up to 429. Five activists from Sea Shepherd were arrested after attempting to disrupt the hunt.

The SSCS said over 200 dolphins were killed in two separate “drive” hunts in Bøur and Tórshavn.

“It was perfectly clear that the Danish navy ships Triton and Knud Rasmussen were present to guard one grindadráp, and that the slaughter [only] proceeded with the full consent of the Danish navy”, said Wyanda Lublink, captain of the Sea Shepherd boat Brigitte Bardot.

“How Denmark – an anti-whaling member nation of the European Union, subject to laws prohibiting the slaughter of cetaceans – can attempt to justify its collaboration in this slaughter is incomprehensible”, said Captain Lublink.

Pilot whales struggles hopelessly for life.

Graphic footage and images have been released of the controversial annual whale slaughter in the Danish Faroe Islands.

Ricky Gervais has condemned the savage slaughter of hundreds of pilot whales in the Faroe Islands. “It’s good we’ve found a twin Earth because we’re really f**king up this one”.