{"id":118783,"date":"2018-10-01T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=118783"},"modified":"2018-09-18T13:48:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T12:48:51","slug":"sea-red-with-blood-horrifying-moment-dolphins-are-slaughtered-by-laughing-fishermen-in-the-faroe-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/10\/sea-red-with-blood-horrifying-moment-dolphins-are-slaughtered-by-laughing-fishermen-in-the-faroe-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Red with Blood: Horrifying Moment Dolphins Are Slaughtered by Laughing Fishermen in the Faroe Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"

12 Sep 2018 – Around 800 long-finned pilot whales and white-sided dolphins are massacred by Faroese whalers annually.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Warning:<\/strong> Stomach-churning images show more than 100 dolphins and whales being slaughtered during a traditional hunt in the Faroe Islands today.<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RKms9Ubqi5Q<\/p>\n

The water of the coast of Hvalvik was soaked as whalers took part in a massacre which dates back to the 13th Century.<\/p>\n

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The water turns red in the Faroe Islands as laughing fishermen slaughter dolphins and pilot whales.<\/p><\/div>\n

Around 800 long-finned pilot whales and white-sided dolphins are killed in the hunts, known locally as grindadraps, every year.<\/p>\n

New photos, taken by marine conservation group Sea Shepherd today, showed their limp bodies piled up on the shore.<\/p>\n

The animals were seen with gaping wounds in their heads where a huge wedge was removed while they were still alive.<\/p>\n

Last week, shocking footage<\/a> captured hundreds more being driven into a bay where villagers waited with hooks and lances.<\/p>\n

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Around 800 of the marine mammals are slaughtered in the Faroe Islands every year.<\/p><\/div>\n

The whole ordeal, which turned the bay in Sandavagur red with blood, lasted around an hour-and-a-half.<\/p>\n

Children as young as five were snapped lending a hand, using hooked ropes to pull in the highly intelligent marine mammals.<\/p>\n

The practice has caused widespread disgust, with many campaigners claiming it should no longer be necessary in the 21st century.<\/p>\n

But the Faroese government has since defended the ancient custom, saying it is a natural custom of Faroese life.<\/p>\n

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The gaping wounds where whalers attacked the dolphins can be seen on their heads.<\/p><\/div>\n

To read the full report Go to Original \u2013 thesun.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

12 Sep 2018 – Around 800 long-finned pilot whales and white-sided dolphins are massacred by Faroese whalers annually. Warning: Stomach-churning images show more than 100 dolphins and whales being slaughtered during a traditional hunt in the Faroe Islands today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":118785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal-rights-vegetarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}