Vanessa Williams-Grey
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WDC monitors fin whale meat shipment via EU ports
WDC is closely monitoring the situation following information that a container ship, the Cosco Pride yesterday entered the port of Hamburg with a cargo of meat from…
Read MoreIcelandic government scraps no-whaling zone
The new Icelandic government has issued a press release announcing that the previous government’s expansion of the whale sanctuary in Faxafloi Bay is to be scrapped, denouncing it…
Read MoreMinke whalers cold shouldered by whale and seal watchers
Amidst the massive – and well-deserved – publicity surrounding the recent resumption of fin whaling off Iceland, a quieter but no less cruel and inhumane…
Read MoreGraceful on Sunday: disgraceful Monday
This male fin whale was alive on Sunday. On Monday, Icelandic whalers’ harpoons ended his life. His death was almost certainly both agonising and…
Read MorePhilip Hoare laments the slaughter of leviathan
Eloquent article in The Guardian by writer, broadcaster and WDC Ambassador, Philip Hoare, decrying whaling in Iceland – and in particular the resumption of fin whaling…
Read MoreFew cheer as Icelandic fin whalers embark on their bloody mission
Late last night, I sat at my kitchen table monitoring Icelandic vessel traffic online – a vigil made somewhat less lonely by the knowledge…
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