Elyssia Phillips, a British woman from Lewes, and her close friend Anahita Babaei, who is Iranian, had been campaigning ...

British activist Elyssia Phillips and her Iranian friend Anahita Babaei face potential jail time in Iceland after protesting ...

No whales had been caught as of Monday afternoon. Iceland and Norway are the only nations that openly defy the International Whaling Commission's 1986 ban on hunting whales. For 2015, Iceland's ...

Iceland temporarily suspended its whale ... days by two demonstrators who climbed the vessels' masts to protest against the whale hunt. The country's whaling season traditionally ends in late ...

Iceland's government has issued a licence to hunt whales to the ... The practice has given rise to protests from conservation groups which consider fin whales - the second-longest marine mammal ...

The hunting of fin whales in Iceland was resumed in 2006 after the ... Bravo to the Icelandic protests & to the Icelandic govt which has just issued a STOP order at least until 31 Aug. The fin ...

Iceland — Three ships commissioned by Iceland’s government left port Sunday to begin hunting for 38 minke whales, despite the protests of conservationists and several governments. Iceland says ...

Whaling in Iceland has sparked protests for years from animal welfare ... like Greenland and Alaska, to hunt whales as whale products play a vital role in their nutritional and cultural life.

But while Japan’s whaling program may be the most publicized, Japan isn’t the only nation hunting whales for commercial gain. Iceland does ... what we’ve seen in protests in Japan—but ...

Two environmental activists are facing prison sentences after climbing onto the mast of a whaling boat and remaining there for 33 hours during a protest in Iceland. Elyssia Phillips, a British ...