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English Presentation

The Faroe Island massacre

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Attention

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Our opinions

Why and how ?

Solutions (associations...)

Environment

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Summary

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.Faroe Islands .Autonomous archipelago .Kingdom of Denmark .Iceland and Norway

Faroe Islands

• It is the last place in the world
• "Griend" or “grindadráp”,literally “killing of whales”

• consists of encircling the cetaceans before taking them into a shallow water bay to make them run aground and then shoot them from land.

• 23 beaches
• Seven grindadráp per year.
• Supported by the Danish government

• White-sided, dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, risso's dolphins, beaked whales...

Explanations

coordinate with each other

today: modern boats share the cetaceans equally competion of rivalry

• ancestral tradition "Grindadrap"
• 16th century
• the Vikings
• became a cultual tradition

Why and how ?

• Classified as “strictly protected” by the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention)
• they are on the list of threatened species.
• This practice is disastrous in terms of ecology and species protection.

• overfishing
• scarcity of their food
• pollution
• acidification of the oceans
• accidental captures
• seismic tests...

environment

Paul Watson: make a documentary called "Whale Wars"

Brigitte Bardot

"Grindstop" movement in 2014

Most important association: "Sea Sheperd"

In 2016 in front of the Danish consulate

Opposition of the "Global Earth Keeper"

Association began to denounce (1980)

Can talk more about this massacre

Solutions

opinions

conclusion

• use specific techniiques
• solutions are put in place
• sielnced by European leaders
• approved by the Danish governement
• non respect of the protection of cetaceans

Conclusion

• Horrible
• Even by tradition, massacres like that should not exist.
• endangers cetaceans and the ecosystems present there.

Lyson

Rania

• Horrible
• ecosysteme is affected
• uncecessary and cruel
• bloodbath
• abolished for live

Opinions

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