{"id":64395,"date":"2015-09-28T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=64395"},"modified":"2015-09-28T12:42:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T11:42:56","slug":"sea-shepherd-successfully-leads-hundreds-of-dolphins-and-pilot-whales-away-from-the-killing-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/09\/sea-shepherd-successfully-leads-hundreds-of-dolphins-and-pilot-whales-away-from-the-killing-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Shepherd Successfully Leads Hundreds of Dolphins and Pilot Whales Away from the Killing Beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"

23 Sep 2015 – <\/em>Over the past three months, the Sea Shepherd ships Brigitte Bardot<\/em>, Sam Simon<\/em>, and more recently the Bob Barker<\/em>, in collaboration with the Sea Shepherd land crew, have successfully escorted hundreds of dolphins, including pilot whales, away from the killing beaches of the Faroe Islands, Denmark.<\/p>\n

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A small boat from the Sea Shepherd ships escorts a pod of white-sided dolphins away from the Faroe Islands killing beaches. Photo: Ayehsha Dsouza<\/p><\/div>\n

This week alone pods of pilot whales, white-sided dolphins, white-beaked dolphins and bottlenose dolphins have been led away from the shores of the archipelago by the Sea Shepherd ships. These species are four of the six that, according to local regulations, can be targeted for slaughter in the infamous drive hunt known as the “grindadr\u00e1p.”<\/p>\n

All of the pods were located close to the islands\u2019 shores and, as such, were at high risk of being spotted by locals and reported to authorities for slaughter.<\/p>\n

A pod of Risso\u2019s dolphins was also escorted to open sea last Wednesday. While this species is not listed as a target species, grindadr\u00e1p records indicate that Risso\u2019s have been targeted for slaughter in the past. Most recently in 2010, 21 Risso\u2019s dolphins were slaughtered on the killing beach of Hvalba in the south of the archipelago.<\/p>\n

The slaughter of cetaceans is outlawed throughout the European Union, including Denmark, in accordance with Appendix II of the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention).<\/p>\n

However, in the Faroe Islands, a protectorate of Denmark, the slaughter of pilot whales and other small cetaceans continues with the assistance of the Danish police and navy, and with the blessing of the Danish government.<\/p>\n

Sea Shepherd crews are currently in the Faroe Islands for the organization\u2019s sixth pilot whale defense campaign, Operation Sleppid Grindini<\/em>, which is scheduled to conclude at the end of this month.<\/p>\n

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Capt. Wyanda Lublink watches over a pod of dolphins as Sea Shepherd leads them safely back out to open sea. Photo: Sea Shepherd<\/p><\/div>\n

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File photo: Sea Shepherd has been protecting dolphins of the Faroe Islands since the early 1980s. Photo: Sea Shepherd<\/p><\/div>\n

Go to Original \u2013 seashepherd.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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23 Sep 2015 – Over the past three months, the Sea Shepherd ships Brigitte Bardot, Sam Simon, and more recently the Bob Barker, in collaboration with the Sea Shepherd land crew, have successfully escorted hundreds of dolphins, including pilot whales, away from the killing beaches of the Faroe Islands, Denmark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights-vegetarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64395","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=64395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}