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The Bob Barker positions itself between a pod of Risso’s dolphins and the shoreline of the Faroe Islands
Shepherding Dolphins Through the Fjords of Death
It has been a tense but successful week in the Faroes as three Sea Shepherd ships and their small boats successfully shepherded hundreds of dolphins past the dark, dangerous shores of the Danish Faroe Islands and back to the safety of the open sea.
Saving the lives of dolphins in the Faroes is considered a crime. It is a crime to intervene against the killing, it is a crime to fail to report the sightings of dolphins to the whalers and it is a crime to divert dolphins away from the coast of the Faroe Islands.
This summer, Sea Shepherd volunteers have joyfully committed illegal acts of compassion by attempting to interfere with the killing and more successfully diverting hundreds of potential victims away from the ruthless killers on the Faroese shores.
This week Sea Shepherd volunteers managed to move hundreds of the dolphins through the fjords without being detected by the Danish Navy or the Faroese whalers.
Over the past three months, the Sea Shepherd ships The MV Brigitte Bardot, The MV Sam Simon, and more recently The MV 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.
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 grindadráp.
All of the pods were located close to the islands’ shores and, as such, were at high risk of being spotted by locals and reported to authorities for slaughter.
And these risks have paid off wonderfully and because of the efforts of these courageous and passionate Sea Shepherd volunteers, many hundreds of Pilot whales and dolphins are now swimming free and their blood has not turned the beaches red with this thing called the grindadrap (The murder of whales) that has brought such shame upon the Danish people.
More about Sea Shepherd:
Photo: Sea Shepherd
The Bob Barker positions itself between a pod of Risso’s dolphins and the shoreline of the Faroe Islands
Shepherding Dolphins Through the Fjords of Death
It has been a tense but successful week in the Faroes as three Sea Shepherd ships and their small boats successfully shepherded hundreds of dolphins past the dark, dangerous shores of the Danish Faroe Islands and back to the safety of the open sea.
Saving the lives of dolphins in the Faroes is considered a crime. It is a crime to intervene against the killing, it is a crime to fail to report the sightings of dolphins to the whalers and it is a crime to divert dolphins away from the coast of the Faroe Islands.
This summer, Sea Shepherd volunteers have joyfully committed illegal acts of compassion by attempting to interfere with the killing and more successfully diverting hundreds of potential victims away from the ruthless killers on the Faroese shores.
This week Sea Shepherd volunteers managed to move hundreds of the dolphins through the fjords without being detected by the Danish Navy or the Faroese whalers.
Over the past three months, the Sea Shepherd ships The MV Brigitte Bardot, The MV Sam Simon, and more recently The MV 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.
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 grindadráp.
All of the pods were located close to the islands’ shores and, as such, were at high risk of being spotted by locals and reported to authorities for slaughter.
And these risks have paid off wonderfully and because of the efforts of these courageous and passionate Sea Shepherd volunteers, many hundreds of Pilot whales and dolphins are now swimming free and their blood has not turned the beaches red with this thing called the grindadrap (The murder of whales) that has brought such shame upon the Danish people.
More about Sea Shepherd:
Photo: Sea Shepherd