This may seem very "cruel" to many people, but to the people of the Faroe Islands, it is a completely "normal" thing. The annual "Danish Faroe Islands" Whale Hunting Festival is here again.
This year, however, the Danish Faroe Islands government announced a new measure to control the amount of whale kills.
In fact, if you look at it from a different perspective, this matter is still controversial. For many people, whether the number of hunts or the number of kills, we should not, because this will have some impact on the changes in the Earth's ecosystem.
Therefore, people in many countries around the world are also petitioning, hoping to abolish the tradition of whale hunting in the Faroe Islands of Denmark. Just as Japan is restricted from killing whales, it is very difficult to tell us. Let's take a look at the new notes released in 2022.
Denmark's whale hunting quota
According to a report released by Danish Television No. 2, since the large-scale killing of whales in the Faroe Islands of Denmark in 2021 , 1,423 in a day , it has caused public outrage.
Therefore, in response to the next whale killing, Denmark has also made new policy adjustments. According to a new statement issued by the Danish Faroe Islands, the number of white-edged dolphins caught annually in 2022 and 2023 is announced to be 500, and the white-edged dolphins mentioned here are not a single species as a whole.
Because in the activity of killing whales, it is not limited to one population of dolphins.
According to the hunting activities of "Grindadráp" held in Denmark every year, the local fishermen will use boats to form a semi-circle, rounding up dolphins, as well as pilot whales and other creatures, so it is not a single species.
After rounding, fishermen will drive them into the shallow waters of the bay and force them to run aground. These creatures are then left to graze by fishermen.
Whale hunters use harpoons and even power tools to slaughter on the spot, and the blood of marine animals stains the coastline red. That is to say, the waters of Whale Bay will also be stained red by the blood of whales, dolphins and other creatures, which can be said to be very frightening.
After killing more than 1,400 sea creatures last year, many people should have seen that the entire bay was blood red. Therefore, in 2022, even if it is a quota of hunting, it will inevitably appear such a situation, and many people may shed tears of grief again after seeing it.
Therefore, strictly speaking, whale hunting activities in Denmark are not limited to one organism, as long as they are rounded up creatures, they may basically be killed, and we know that there are dolphins, pilot whales and other creatures.
Nearly 1.3 million petitions were rejected
After killing thousands of creatures in Denmark in 2021, outsiders, environmental groups and others hope to stop this task.
Many say that dolphins have been killed in unusually large numbers during the "Grindadráp" hunt in Denmark, resulting in a scarcity of dolphins in the region and unlikely to become a long-term annual sustainable catch level if it continues. And according to its estimates of organisms.
It is also clear that a quota of about 825 dolphins per year is needed to continue to spread and the population may stabilize in the future, but in 2021, the killing has been completely exceeded.
As a result, nearly 1.3 million people around the world have signed petitions demanding that the Government of the Dominion of the Faroe Islands in Denmark abolish the local tradition of hunting marine animals. Hunting in the Danish "Grindadráp" is prohibited. However, in 2022, this is obviously impossible to achieve.
According to a 2022 local announcement in the Faroe Islands, Denmark, it was stressed that the local tradition of killing marine animals would not be abolished. As a result, nearly 1.3 million people's petition to stop killing whales was rejected.
It should be noted that Denmark's Faroe Islands are the last territory in Europe that allows the hunting of marine mammals. However, in the world, in addition to Denmark, that is, Japan's whale hunting has attracted the most attention.
Japan had also been asked to stop killing whales, but in 2018, it announced its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission and resumed commercial whaling in 2019. Therefore, Japan will also carry out whale hunting in 2022. However, whether in Japan or Denmark, such hunting is not a good thing for the marine ecosystem, which will bring destruction, ecological crisis, etc.
What is the impact of hunting marine life, and why is Denmark killing whales?
What are the implications of killing marine life?
In fact, whether it is other creatures on the earth or marine life, they are the same, and they are an indispensable part of maintaining the ecosystem. Any kind of biological reduction may endanger the earth's ecosystems.
And, in 2022, a paper published in the journal Science pointed out that climate change is warming the oceans, and if we can quickly reverse emissions, we still risk losing about 5% of marine species.
When the temperature rises by 2 degrees Celsius, there is a loss of 10%. In this way, the number of marine life itself is decreasing, and if humans still hunt and kill marine life on a large scale, the number will be further reduced. Therefore, the protection of marine life is the most important.
At the same time, we should know that after affecting marine life, it will also affect the population of terrestrial organisms, because organisms have the characteristics of "food chain", so as long as one of the organisms is extinct, it may affect the survival of other organisms, which is the importance of marine life protection. So why is Denmark hunting whales?
According to Denmark, the Faroe Islands tradition of hunting marine animals is a "very old and socially responsible way of sharing resources", which, while seemingly cruel, is essentially no different from slaughtering pigs and cattle in slaughterhouses, which is how Faroe Islanders access meat resources.
Therefore, in any case, this activity will not be abolished, and it is also called the local population's hunting of pilot whales and white-edged dolphins as "sustainable use of marine resources".
So, that's why they kill whales, which is actually "tradition + access to marine resources." The Danish Faroe Islands, located in the northern Atlantic Ocean, are a very resource-poor region, and the resources eaten are basically marine resources. So, killing whales is not a big deal for them at all, just like everyone eats fish and shrimp.
Therefore, if they are refused to kill the whales, it is basically "cutting off" their lives, and they are bound to oppose it. However, according to data released in 2021, many Faroe Islanders residents regard eating whale meat as their living culture, but the Faroe Islands only has about 53,000 residents, and they can't possibly eat so much whale meat.
So, it is hoped that the whale hunting will be reasonable, but the danish killing of whales does not seem to have changed much, but last year may have really been too many one hunts. Therefore, it has triggered worldwide discontent, and if so many people are killed again in 2022, the problem may be very serious, so the local people may also see this situation and reduce the amount of fishing for marine life.