10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

We boarded the 8:40 pm red-eye from JFK to Reykjavik on May 28; the intention was to sleep on the plane but with the excitement of travel and possibilities swirling around my head I didn’t sleep a wink (*tip – Iceland Air offers free stopovers for up to seven days as you travel from the US to Europe! Trips Europe Iceland seabirds'

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Iceland Puffins Europe Birds 188

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2024

They are ridiculously unafraid of people there – so the cynic in me suspects that swan meat is not regarded as tasty by the Japanese (another explanation, that the Japanese just like animals too much, can presumably be discarded given the country’s very principled approach in insisting on the right to kill whales).

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China Iceland Whales Whaling 212

Critter News

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

What about Norway and Iceland? Iceland recently announced a quota of 100 fin whales - an endangered species - which is a dramatic increase its original self-assigned quota of nine. They also almost doubled their quota of Minke whales. ". Tags: norway iceland whale Japan whaling.

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Whales Whaling Norway Iceland 100

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 11, 2010

We recently got an email about the dangers currently being faced by our whale population as a result of a recent proposal to legalize commercial whaling. As whale lovers, and people who hope to one day be able to see them in the wild, we wanted to share this information with you in case you would like to get involved.

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Critter News

APRIL 8, 2010

The steeply declining number of whales in the world's oceans is causing the remaining creatures to suffer loneliness and 'lose the will the live', a leading expert has claimed. Tags: norway iceland whales Japan whaling endangered species. I came across this British article from 2008. From the Daily Mail.

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Whales Whaling Norway Psychology 100