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Well - not that I'm a huge fan of this, but it bears telling that the Faeroe Islands have a population of less than 50,000 and that they rarely hunt over 1000 whales per year. They're pilot whales (long-finned pilot whales), and they're absolutely not "close to extinction".
More are lost as "by-catch" to fishing boats - and the by-catch is not eaten, whereas the Faeroe Island catch is. And there has been significant veterinarian research in minimizing the time-to-death, turns out the traditional spinal cut works in seconds. Harpoons and spears are banned completely.
I wish they would stop, but... It's been a staple in their diet since at least the year 800, it's carefully regulated, and the species isn't endangered in the slightest, so...
The Faroe Islands has their own laws and their own government and even their own Prime Minister since 1948, it's not fair to blame Denmark for this. Also there is no such animal as "calderon dolphin", look it up and you will see that there is no such animal. The animals they hunt in the Faroe Islands are Pilot whales, and I fully support it. The story is largely a hoax, intented to shock people.
Millions of acres of prime forest habitat, some of the most biologically diverse in the world and formerly home to all manner of cute fuzzy chipmunk and deer babies, have been leveled across America and turned into soybean farms with depleted, sterile soil, now soaked in chemical pesticides and fertilizers in order to coax a potentialy toxic GMO bean from the dead land.
Oh, and the toxic runoff from these textured vegetable protein farms has effectively poluted every body of water they contact including the entire drainage of the Mississippi below its headwaters.
That is an actual ecological horror story, not some indigenous northern Europeans engaging in a sustainable hunt.
What's next? Native Americans hunting deer?
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