Killer whales are among the oceans’ top predators. But in Iceland, pilot whales have them running scared. Filipa Samarra This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and ...

On Dec. 6, Iceland’s interim government announced it had issued five-year commercial whaling permits to hunt fin and minke whales. The permits, issued to domestic whaling companies Hvalur hf and ...

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring—when she noticed something very odd about what ...

Some 20 pilot whales have died stranded in mysterious circumstances on the south-western coast of Iceland, emergency services said Saturday, only two weeks after a similarly unexplained mass stranding ...

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring — when she noticed something very odd about ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Iceland’s largest commercial whaling company, Hvalur hf., has said it will not hunt any fin whales in the summer of 2025. Hvalur hf. exports almost ...

Heroic Rescue of 60 Whales About To Be Beached in Northern Iceland Has People Cheering originally appeared on PetHelpful. In a remarkable story, the residents of a small town in Northern Iceland have ...

The trip was the first-ever record of a migration between the two countries. A pod of Orca whales has made an unprecedented trip from Iceland to Genoa, Italy, according to a nonprofit organization ...

These three countries alone are suspected of killing nearly 45,000 whales since 1986, when commercial whaling was banned.

Iceland’s largest commercial whaling company, Hvalur hf., has said it will not hunt any fin whales in the summer of 2025. In December 2024, Iceland’s government granted Hvalur hf., run by billionaire ...