Each year, more than 1,000 pilot whales are slaughtered in the Faroe Islands. This is a tradition, and women, men and children take part in the drive hunts (”grindadráp”) that end up with the whales butchered on the shore. Some of them die within seconds. Others can take up to four minutes.
Sea Shepherd is leading the sixth campaign in the islands, until October. It’s named after the term that the grind foreman uses to call off a hunt, “sleppid grindini”, which literally translates to “set the whales free”.
We need to stop this. We need everyone to know, and everyone to help.
“Sea Shepherd's intervention in the grind is not aimed to impose our values on the Faroese people. It is part of a global movement that is driven by the passion to protect these pilot whales and all of the precious life in our oceans.” Captain Alex Cornelissen.