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Iceland’s ageing whaling fleet is set to resume its slaughter this summer after the Government issued a new licence to hunt threatened fin whales

Iceland’s ageing whaling fleet looks set to resume its slaughter this summer as the Government issued a new licence to hunt threatened fin whales.

In the week that Japan announced it plans to increase the scope of its whaling activities to include threatened fin whales — we’re sharing a flashback to a film we made in 2014 to accompany an Ocean team report on Iceland’s slaughter of the species

The appalling cruelty of fin whale hunting in Iceland has been laid bare in a new report by the country’s own veterinary experts

Iceland’s first whaling season in four years has come to an end, chalking up a death toll of 148 fin whales

EIA has urged the Prime Minister of Iceland to intervene and prevent the resumption of commercial whaling in the country after a three-year hiatus