Horrible Footage shows 1,500 dolphins killed in the largest massacre ever recorded

Nearly 1,500 dolphins were horribly slaughtered off the coast of the Faroe Islands during a “hunt” Sunday night.

The massacre is believed to be the largest cetacean hunt – a group of whales, dolphins and porpoises – ever recorded in the world, according to the Sea Shepherd activist group for marine conservation and the activist group. Newsweek.

The hunt, known locally as the “grindadráp”, saw whalers attack a huge pod of white-faced dolphins, which took the animals into Danish waters where they were cornered and brutally stabbed.

Under Faroese law, hunting — a long-standing tradition in the region — is considered legal, although many discuss the practice as unsustainable killing and unnecessary suffering.

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A total of 1,428 dolphins were killed in “the largest pilot dolphin or whale hunt in Faroese history” and possibly the “largest cetacean hunt ever recorded in the world,” the Sea Shepherd ambassador said. United Kingdom, Helen Taylor. Newsweek.

“To get a sense of scale – this massacre in Skálabotnur is approaching the quota for the entire 6-month dolphin slaughter / capture at Taiji in Japan – and actually surpasses the figures for the last years of the Japanese season of kill / capture dolphins for 6 months. “Taylor added. “That such a hunt will take place in 2021 in a very wealthy island community just 230 miles from the UK without the need or use of such a huge amount of contaminated meat is outrageous.”

The Blue Planet Society, a group campaigning to end the world’s overexploitation, described the massacre as a “population-level massacre.”

“In large numbers it’s comparable to the massacre of the American bison and we all know what happened then,” said volunteer John Hourston Newsweek. “Denmark and the EU cannot turn a blind eye. We are talking about a population-level massacre, a massacre of a protected species,” he added.

According to Norwegian Sea Shepherd volunteer and activist Samuel Rostøl, the pod was driven for 45 kilometers to a beach in Skalabotnur where stranded dolphins were slaughtered for more than an hour.

Rostøl shared graphic images of the event with Newsweek. “You’ll see partially stabbed dolphins bleeding until they tremble with pain,” he described. “You’ll see dolphins not stunned, but cut at the neck to make them bleed. Some of them have their spines cut off, which makes them immobilized but not unconscious. You’ll hear people laughing. You’ll see kids playing. You’ll see splashes of blood. while the dolphins fight for their lives. You will see young dolphins dead on the beach “.

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This is hard to write.

The reckless, idiotic and irresponsible Faroe Islands ended up hunting a 1428 white-faced dolphin superpod last night.

If Denmark and the EU do not act after that, they are complicit in the unsustainable massacre of protected species. @Tinganes

– Blue Planet Society (@Seasaver) September 13, 2021

Rostøl said the hut traditionally started as a pilot whale slaughter, and that dolphin hunting is a much younger practice. The Blue Planet Society said records of the hunts date back to 1584.

“This hunt was poorly prepared, with too few people involved, which prolonged the suffering of these animals who, for many of them, were simply stranded on the beach, unable to leave for a long time, while family members were killed around him, “he explained.

Many justify hunting as a cultural tradition and an example of “indigenous whaling,” as mammals were traditionally hunted as a source of food for the local population.

However, activists question how many of the animals are actually sold for meat and how many are killed to maintain a vital supply of fish to support the highly lucrative fishing trade, even though the Faroe Islands have only 53,000 inhabitants.

“The different types of dolphin hunting in the Faroe Islands are no longer a major food source,” Rostøl told Newsweek. Sea Shepherd Ambassador Taylor agreed, adding that the hunt took place “towards the end of this summer, when the Faroese have already killed 615 long-finned pilot whales and their freezers. they are already full “.

Video footage shared by activist groups shows dolphins being grazed to death as boats surround the terrified animals as they toss helplessly against the spears and propellers of ships.

The bloodshed caused the sea to turn red as the dolphin canals washed up to the shore and piled up in the sand.

“It piles up like rubbish and will soon be abandoned,” the Blue Planet Society wrote next to a particularly horrific image. “They are unlikely to be able to prosecute 1428 dolphins … There is absolutely no excuse for a modern, rich country to continue with this archaic and barbaric animal cruelty in the 21st century.”

The group urges the EU, as well as the Danish authorities, to force the autonomous region to end the practice, which they described as “reckless, idiotic and irresponsible”.

“Denmark and the EU need to start talking seriously with the Faroe Islands government. If that fails, sanctions need to be considered,” Hourston said. “This blatant disregard for protected cetaceans cannot continue.”

Faroese Fisheries Minister Jacob Vestergaard has not condemned Sunday’s hunt, which an increasingly vocal Faroese community is calling cruel, archaic and barbaric.

Correction on 9/14/21, 12:30 pm ET: This article was updated to remove the incorrect claim that Blue Planet Society was at the hunting site.