MARK CARWARDINE

“What I find indefensible is that we are still talking about quotas for whalers”

I CELAND’S APPALLING DECISION TO RESUME whaling this summer came as a bolt from the blue. The shocking announcement followed months of hopeful speculation, after last year’s hunt was temporarily put on hold due to significant welfare issues. The country’s last remaining whaling company, Hvalur hf, has been granted a licence to kill up to 128 fin whales this summer. It’s devastating news for the planet’s second largest animal, which is still recovering from the ravages of more than one and a half centuries of commercial whaling. At least 915,000 fin whales have been killed worldwide – and they are listed as vulnerable to extinction on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It looked as if Iceland had hung up its harpoons for good – we were on the…

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Bbc Wildlife (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024

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