Over 500 dolphins killed in Faroe Islands since hunt resumed in May

Hundreds of pilot whales targeted in two most recent ‘grinds’, with animals beached and then slaughtered

The Faroe Islands has killed more than 500 dolphins since its hunt resumed in May, according to local authorities in the autonomous Danish territory in the north Atlantic.

In the Faroese tradition known as grindadráp, or grind for short, hunters surround pilot whales and dolphins with a wide semi-circle of fishing boats and drive them into a shallow bay where they are beached. Fishermen on the shore slaughter them with knives.