Iceland’s Minister for the Environment, Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson of the Left-Green Party, is not convinced that Iceland’s whaling policies are…

Kristján Loftsson, the director of Iceland’s sole fin whale hunting company, Hvalur hf., gave a very candid interview with Icelandic…

A DNA sample of the whale killed in Icelandic waters last week is currently being tested, and an Icelandic biologist…

Workers within the whaling company Hvalur hf. have been informed by the company that they may not be members of…

A new poll shows that the largest share of Icelanders are neither for nor against Iceland beginning whale hunting again….

After a two-year break, whale hunting conducted by Hvalur hf. will resume again this summer. MBL reports that the company…

The last act of the outgoing Minister of Fisheries was to expand the no-hunting zone for whales in the bay…

Hunters of minke whales have so far not been able to land very many whales at all, and they are…

Kristján Loftsson – head of Iceland’s largest whaling company, Hvalur hf. – has announced that he will not be hunting…

The practice of whaling continues to receive increasing pushback, as a petition signed by both locals and tourists in Iceland…

An anti-whaling campaign emphasises local attitudes about whaling, and its impacts on the tourism industry. The International Fund for Animal…

A major grocery store chain has issued a statement saying they will no longer sell whale meat at their Húsavík…

More than half the minke whale hunting companies in Iceland have either quit the business or gone bankrupt since 2007….

Fin whales are off the menu this year, but minke whale hunting will move forward as scheduled, hunters have vowed….

The organisers behind a global petition against fin whaling in Iceland have claimed victory, as a major whaling station will…

There will be no whaling at all this summer, and Iceland’s top whaler has expressed regret at even starting it…

The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) have pointed out the involvement of two large companies,…

The whale hunting season has officially concluded, with 184 whales in all harpooned in Icelandic waters. RÚV reports that 155…

Two recent events have increased pressure on the Ministry of Fisheries to cut short the whaling quota, and end the…

There is still a ways to go before the season’s quota is filled, but about 50 fin whales have been…

Iceland’s chief whaler may consider online activist network Avaaz a “joke”, but they have their own opinions of him, too….

Iceland’s largest whaling company reported profits in the billions – but they didn’t come from whaling, which actually operated at…

Iceland’s primary whaler accused reporters of “lapping up” what he calls misinformation about his hunting of fin whales, and dismissed…