Sea Shepherd launches anti-whaling action in Faroes
Soource: Yahoo! News UK / AFP
Militant conservation group Sea Shepherd said Tuesday it had dispatched a vessel from Bremen in Germany to the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic to campaign against a traditional whale hunt.
The vessel, the Sam Simon, will try to prevent hunters from killing pilot whales, the group said in a statement.
"The ship is expected to arrive in the island archipelago on Friday, following a short, mid-week stopover in the Shetland Islands," the group said in a statement.
"Denmark allows the Faroe Islands to continue the barbaric practice of the grindadrap (the grind) despite being a signatory to the Bern Convention, which outlaws the slaughter of cetaceans," it said.
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