Japan and Norway resumed slaughtering whales this month, while Iceland’s only fin whaling company has decided that it will not hunt this summer, citing a declining demand for whale meat products in ...

Another table, The Key Table, will set out the numbers of whales slaughtered in a Nightingale rose chart formed from heritage rivets salvaged from the repair store at the island’s whaling stations.

Australian authorities are to euthanise scores of false killer whales left suffering on a beach after a mass stranding in remote Tasmania. Marine experts said today that they have given up hope of ...

But many of the same communities that once grew rich on whales’ slaughter are now uniquely positioned to help save the right whale.

Whaling is not what it used to be in the days of Moby Dick. Stinking old sailing whalers have given way to stinking little steamers. Earringed harpooners have yielded to modern marksmen, who earn ...

The slaughter of the whale occurred less than 10 days after the arrest of anti-whaling activist Paul Watson by Denmark in Greenland.

Sea turns red with blood in 'the worst pilot whale slaughter campaigners have recorded' as 138 of the creatures are driven into harbour and hacked to death in traditional 'hunt' ...

Besides objecting to the slaughter one of the ocean’s most majestic creatures, marine conservation groups and scientists have highlighted the important role which whales play in helping to ...

Critics say the practice is cruel and unnecessary, though defenders claim it is an integral part of island life and resist what they see as meddling by outsiders.

Killings of small whales, porpoises and dolphins are rising, with more than 100,000 of these marine mammals slaughtered each year, according to a new report from German and British NGOs. Many ...

Sandy Winterbottom follows a 20th-century whaling boom and its lasting effects The author of ‘The Two-Headed Whale’ illuminates the consequences of commercial whaling through accounts of two ...