Campaign Whale

Campaign Whale has written to the Faroes’ Prime Minister, along with ten other anti-whaling organisations, calling for an end to the cruel slaughter of  whales and dolphins on public health, animal welfare and conservation grounds. The letter follows another summer of whale hunts resulting in the driving and killing of 590 pilot whales, despite a [...]

On Thursday 9th August, a pod of 40 pilot whales was driven ashore at Hvannasund in the Faroe Islands. The terrified whales then suffered blunt hooks thrust into their blowholes so they could be dragged into the shallows. There, men with knives cut down through the flesh and blubber semi-decapitating the whales in order to [...]

Campaign Whale is in Panama City attending the 64th annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC). On the agenda for what is always an extremely difficult week are proposals to create a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic, to allow ‘small-type’ commercial whaling for minke whales in Japan’s coastal waters and controversial subsistence whaling [...]

22nd November 2011 Campaign Whale today expressed shock and dismay at the brutal killing of a further 81 pilot whales at Torshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands. Fishermen in dozens of boats drove a ‘super pod’ estimated at around a 1,000 pilot whales into a bay close to Torshavn. There the brutal slaughter began [...]

Day 4 Whale Sanctuary battle on final day On the final morning of a tempestuous annual meeting, another highly contentious issue would be raised when Brazil and Argentina tabled their long-standing request that the IWC create a South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary. With no agreement likely, the issue was expected to be pushed to a vote, [...]

18th February 2011 The Japanese Government has announced it is ending this year’s controversial Antarctic whaling season early after weeks of harassment by anti-whaling activists at sea. The Japanese ‘research’ whaling fleet is returning to Japan after killing around 170 whales out of a target quota of 850 minke whales; 50 fin and 50 humpbacks.  [...]

1st December 2010 An incredible 1,115 pilot whales and 35 Risso’s and white-sided dolphins have been brutally slaughtered in the Faroe Islands so far this year, the largest number of whales killed there in over a decade. The Faroe Islands are situated just 200 miles north-west of Scotland and the Faroese have killed whales for [...]

November 1st 2010: Campaigners are warning of the risk of a public health disaster unfolding in Japan while condemning the largest cetacean hunt in the world, which begins today in Japan’s coastal waters. Up to 15,000 porpoises will be killed and their meat sold throughout Japan, despite an international moratorium on commercial whaling. The meat [...]

Friday 23rd July 2010 Campaign Whale has received the distressing news that 100 pilot whales were driven ashore and cruelly slaughtered this morning at Tórshavn, the capital and largest town in the Faroe Islands. Just four days ago on July 19th, a pod of 236 pilot whales were killed at the town of Klaksvik. Sadly, [...]

Madness in Morocco: Day 5 Today, Friday 25th June, the last day of this year’s stormy meeting in Agadir, the IWC will try to resolve the hugely contentious issues still left on the agenda for this year’s meeting. These are Greenland’s request for an increased quota of 10 humpback whales each year and the slaughter [...]