{"id":76235,"date":"2016-07-11T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=76235"},"modified":"2016-07-10T14:19:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T13:19:11","slug":"blood-spills-on-to-the-shores-of-the-danish-faroe-islands-in-the-first-pilot-whale-slaughter-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/07\/blood-spills-on-to-the-shores-of-the-danish-faroe-islands-in-the-first-pilot-whale-slaughter-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Spills on to the Shores of the Danish Faroe Islands in the First Pilot Whale Slaughter of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sea<\/a>6 Jul 2016 – <\/em>Today, at approximately 12 p.m. local time, a pod of 30-50 pilot whales was slaughtered in the first grindadr\u00e1p (grind) of the year, on the island of Vi\u00f0oy in the Danish Faroe Islands archipelago.<\/p>\n

The ordeal began this morning when locals spotted a pod of between 100-150 pilot whales passing by Sv\u00ednoy. Several boats then drove the pod of whales approximately 11 kilometres to Hvannasund, where the whales were forced to beach, and slaughtered by locals.\u00a0Faroese media outlets have confirmed between 30-50 pilot whales have been killed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it exactly these kinds of atrocities that authorities in Denmark and the Faroe Islands are attempting to cover-up, by refusing Sea Shepherd crews entry to the archipelago,\u201d said Sea Shepherd\u00a0Operation Bloody Fjords<\/em>\u00a0Campaign Leader, Geert Vons. \u201cAnd this is exactly the reason why we continue to push the increasing global momentum to end this bloody and brutal practice.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A Faroese local grins while covered in the blood of the slaughtered pilot whales. Image via nordlysid.fo<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2015, the international crew of the Sea Shepherd ship,\u00a0Bob Barker<\/em>, was unlawfully denied entry to the Faroe Islands by Denmark. In 2016, a new law was passed in the Faroe Islands which requires that all Sea Shepherd volunteers must have a visa to enter the archipelago. As a result, Sea Shepherd has modified its tactics in the battle against the grindadr\u00e1p. The organisation\u2019s 2016 Pilot Whale Defense Campaign,\u00a0Operation Bloody Fjords<\/em>, sees Sea Shepherd take its battle against the grindadr\u00e1p to the heart of the Faroese and Danish institutions that continue to promote this outdated practice.<\/p>\n

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Dead pilot whales line the killing beach of Hvannasund. Image via nordlysid.fo<\/p><\/div>\n

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The pilot whales were chased eleven kilometers before being killed. Image via nordlysid.fo<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sea Shepherd is the world’s leading direct-action ocean conservation organisation.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 seashepherd.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

6 Jul 2016 – The ordeal began this morning when locals spotted a pod of between 100-150 pilot whales passing by Sv\u00ednoy. Several boats then drove the pod of whales approximately 11 kilometres to Hvannasund, where the whales were forced to beach, and slaughtered by locals. Faroese media outlets have confirmed between 30-50 pilot whales have been killed.<\/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-76235","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\/76235","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=76235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}