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. i'm going to a baby on the federal islands to a pilot whale homes. something i'm scared of physics often. lots of people have tried to feel them a pilot while hunt on the pharaoh islands. isn't that they are often chased away in front of us. we know about drones that have being shot out of the, the times have been removed from people's cars. so i don't really know how they'll react to us. a quick warning. some people may find some of these for each hard to watch. these documentary tells the story of how i go see it and why this bloody tradition still exists. the

my name is christy, and i'm sitting next to me is andreas who does the editing. we made a film in september 2021, about a dolphin hunt on the pharaoh islands for a german news channel. more than 1400 dolphins were killed here. and in just a single day. doesn't data these. these images went around the world in 2021, because no one had ever documented a sloth or such a large number of dolphins before. and to be honest, those were images, i was been unable to suggest, as well as a couple of 1000 people around the world have protested these kind of hunting. the images upset me and i wanted to know more. we go to the cameras team that flew north to pharaoh while entering the north atlantic between scotland, snow white iceland. just as the 50000 people lived here,

everyone knows everyone. it was important to me to keep an open mind on this trip. i wanted to understand not to judge why a people still killing pilot whales and other adults since here the my travel a lot. but it looks different here. wild and rough. we headed to the capital to shone when most of the sarah waves live. the perfect place to meet people who can introduce us to the world of wales hunters. as his father is cut off, i am waiting for pet to a young man who lives here on the pharaoh island. he's also a filmmaker that w shop that footage back in 2021. i want him to take me to the place where it all happened. status. okay. you must have had to.

yeah. hey, is it for me to? is it possible that you bring me to the place where the drop off last time? yeah. it takes 15 minutes so it's not far away. okay, perfect. let's try to head to a see go to cro key told me he was born on the pharaoh islands and grew up in a small village in 2021. he realized that something special was happening. he showed me the place where the animals was floated the beach. what happened? yes. it's various islands before. but you can feel that the atkins various like okay. everyone's getting ready. everyone that's participating is getting ready to see where exactly they are going to come in. like as soon as the wireless close enough to be killed, someone's gotta be ready there. and then you start killing and just author and you do as a, do it as fast as possible. that to us said he didn't take part in the

hunt back then instead he filled this footage. it's going around the world. if you don't like the size of blood, please look away for a moment. an agonizingly long time was needed for the few overwhelmed hunters killed the mold and $1400.00 whiteside adult, and instead of a few minutes, as is usually the case for a 100, as low as it took at least half an hour. but have you ever seen a slaughter like this before? like this one? no. but what is your personal opinion through a thing that should stop or isn't it okay, that continues here, and it's complicated when i was young, i joined into grins and i wanted to be a part of the grand support my father and getting foods. it was something that was valuable, but then the i went to the other,

the other day virus i was against it more or less. how could that be a tradition? the feelings, animals that way? that's where you're from. some uh, some traditions are more fruitful for all their cultures. i don't think it's really a tradition. it's been a necessity also because it's been food in times where you couldn't ethan. some people have called with a gift from called a gift from god, may be understandable when there's nothing to eat. but why still do it today? pet to assess his father also hunts whales and dolphins. and we've been invited to come over. the front door is open. this man eating usually is in some what interest,

listen. pay to his father and the way left. his mother doesn't want to be filmed in so on. the other hand has no problem with it. he's a teacher and it's obviously not the 1st time he's explained to a city kid like me, why they que wyles here. that's all this, this picture. because when you go to germany, you would never see a painting of kidding picks or couse in your living room. but you have that here by the class, you of the because we are close to the nature you, you have you ever seen that big been killed? no, probably not. because it's behind close doors. and here to get to the kindergarten go to a just lots of houses to see how the sheets were killed. so that's the reason why i think why if you don't see anything killed in any german living room, sorry that like it killed because they like to meet on the table. so

hypocrites may mean we know that the intelligent animals as well, though, since a very intelligent so why do you think it's right to kill these kind of most anyhow? for just in case wrong? i'm not saying that i'm just asking you why the things right. i'm more i working with people that extremely low intelligent intelligence giving me several it gives me the right to kill animal. i'm really wrong for me doing it for food and we eat dolphins. so that's why the cost was from a teacher. yeah. and seems irritated. see, the why it was know that most non pharaoh ways don't understand. and to pose the wailings. we watch a video by see ship it and organization that is campaigned against the hunt for years. the animal rights activists and many of the locals. the

facts that we're doing, the music and everybody might as well as video the we was calling to as i'm saying, the things you are saying is perusal and so on to know what you see me is the best commercial surveys ever. and so i really, yeah, so why do you think that they are promoting even degree does wrong for young families, whalers and 2012. when she shepherd announced that they would come to the federal islands. there was a grant next to the few or can send this to were so many young people as it work. i wish i would do with also because and even teach them so many there was and it has been stuff many ever since. so all what they are doing, just the opposite. the animal rights activists denounced. the whaling

begins defends it as a necessity. who's right? so we can ask the see, ship it activists themselves. but 1st, let's recount what we know about dolphins and the hunt for them. the the fairways come different types of doses. whiteside adults ends for example. but then mainly interested in pilot whales, which are also adults. and they have very social and leaving groups known as pods these days posted. and the weather is right. there are ways cold for a and like they have for hundreds of years. the hunters then rush out to sea and drive the animals into the fuel with the boats to kill them in the shallows. they always record how many they killed. an average $630.00 pilot wales per year. and about $265.00 of the dolphins, the pharaoh. we say the animals and

nothing dangerous. hundreds of thousands leaving the seas. they don't understand why active us still have a problem with whaling. fizzles, i'm trying to get in touch with samuel from sea ship. it must be activists usually rent small apartments or houses somewhere. i want to meet them and find out where they are on the island and maybe they'll get in touch soon. finding them is not that easy, said cutting the shape of the just reply. we can meet at 5 pm for the reference that we get the address and head out. the system was also easy to find the spots because we would check it on the map of the

we drove around, but it was not so easy to navigate. and finally, we noticed cameras filming the courtyard as we arrived. they were installed after the team suspected that car had been tampered with work by made alexandra electric from poland upside to confine. why did you decide to come to the fair robins to? i'm in my info just so i started to start is just starting wheels. i'm really interested in them. they're beautiful and most very frustrating. i mean, we don't really know much about them. there's still a good mystery. and what's happening here? yeah, i'm just just set something to i personally think shouldn't be happening anymore. but do you understand the people say, like i say 7 is not really interested in our tradition, they just take the pictures, put some traumatic music over it and just show their blogs and the see,

but they don't explain for tradition. can you understand that? yeah, absolutely. yeah, they've been doing it for so many years. it is the tradition for them. that's what they've been doing to survive as well. what's the problem and our viewers that solve necessary anymore goes on necessary suffering for the honorable samuel russell and his co workers tried to fill every whale hunt with drones. the footage shows the animals don't even have a fighting chance. like one of the maybe worst things is the chase before the actual hans can take hours and they state themselves that the way they do that facing is by creating kind of like a sound well behind them. and this is designed to frighten the animals in a certain direction because you can see the way they're swimming now isn't. it isn't casual anymore. so at this point they're, they're, they're running away, right? they're, they're in, in, in fear. and they're swimming very,

very fast way faster than that. they would be out of open waters. no chance to stay for the little snow. there's a wall behind them and there's like land on these sites and there's only one waiting on a path to a little dent in the few offices. you have the argument while were killed because what you've done is it always true that they eat the whole animal or the most of it, i would say um, you don't know what happens is i mean after or so do they use a little bit? they keep it, but at least from what we saw, they did take most of it. but they do is they basically opened the animals and they take the largest pieces of meat off. yeah. they're, they're easily accessible just under the bar. and many of them leave rest back. can you show me the place where you think they've done? uh, the bodies. oh wow. yeah, absolutely. let's go. they check the lug nuts on the com before we leave.

they're afraid of most sabotage. we drive north to a steep go, which the oh wow, here to slide down into the water and the waves. distribute, find a lot of the activists to the school, teach at a different gorge. it's supposedly from 2022 and proves the fairways don't use all parts of the dead animals. i can't get too upset about it. we do the same with all the animals. if you go to the supermarket, what i do by all means you're checking your beef whatsoever. these are behind roles

killings. if we do it. absolutely. so can you follow this, this argument a little bit? they are very correct. very, very right. those on it was they had a good life before the end of the volume, most of the he does the society, all different people. if they didn't, they were just raise to the killed. we don't say that's what they do is either we think it's very wrong. so what is the solution that everybody stops it to me? the? well, the ideal is, but it's all really positive. i would say it's a difficult problem, but i really wasn't has to that would be the ideal solution. the activists have been coming here for years and believe attitudes of slowly changing. they claim some sarah ways are full, so against wally. but that many of them don't this become so when people reach out to me and say that they're against the grins, that they can speak about it because they will do side their business or, or they will have

a struggle in social situations. and that's also like side of it where we want to kind of read that. i'm surprised by what samuel says that perhaps not everyone on the island supports the pilot while hunt but many fairways doug wants to be criticized from outside is why i find someone who might know the really good, good, good to meet. so it gets chris soon as they're good to get us to share with us. very good. this is to do a scholarly in these consider the colorful character on these for most islands. he was an actor and generalist it is now a politician and broken train. when you describe a typical kind of a man or woman, how would you describe well, it's a, it's a person who likes freedom. when i was a young way i was visiting my most of my grandmother in the solenoid instead of my

life. i remember one the one day one morning i was sitting at the kitchen table listening to the radio and she was saying the word, the word, the word is a bad place. as indicating say between the lines. it's so good to be in a part of the work that we into fairly why that's where we're outside the. the pharaoh islands officially belonged to denmark, but i realized early that for the pharaoh ways, the kingdom is far away. the islands of being largely o tournaments since 1948 over 5 years. there's office. yes. minister of finance. minister of foreign affairs. the federal ways of face repeated criticism for hunting pilot whales, including by the e. u, which prohibits the hunting of dolphins through various species protection

agreements. just one of the reasons the fairways decided not to join the you. what is your opinion to what's the tradition of for or against the gym in the truck? i, i must be see, and i, i'm for, because i've, i've participated with account, i have killed several ways. so they live, they free lives in the ocean, and then they're driven into assure i'm the 1st thing they meet about this sharp is this allows of cubes. 10 minutes. this one second. and then there of course there is suffering because they driven to the shore and they get too stressed press, but you have to compare with how you get to meet. otherwise, you have to compare it with take stuff to imprison their whole life that live a life with only one person coming from for people. when you compare this to

the killing of pilots with the pilot waiting, killing witness, and then you compare my if you do think you can take me to the in the drop the ones that will share today. yeah, that's the that's the cast take response. he knows perfectly well that it's um, like lea, they'll be a hunt today. it can take days or weeks before the animals as posted in the atlantic. someone will have to call us when one stats witnessing one well here on the islands would be in the numerous stroke of luck. and i'd have to know the right people. young men are apparently particularly keen on hunting. i look for clues and then delphi mendel, faced with a group of young ro is hired as well. one will become a key figure,

that's why they train with wouldn't rolling boats and race village against village on open water. throughout the summer, where we do starks is like what $6060.00 strokes per minute. why can 60 strokes for a minute? i was on the rowing machine in the hotel this morning. this was going to move and i saw the display and i had like 20. okay. yeah, no, they allow me to accompany them anyway. rolling is too hard to to. the wouldn't been, she's real caught. the smell of sweat sees everywhere. but it's fun. the, fortunately they don't want to go out to sea with me. one of the ro is john roy,

who are innocent. he seems to take rolling very seriously. so this is what we do 2 hours a day, or 2 months. the wooden boat is incredibly heavy. we can only get it out of the water if everyone helps. they used to go wailing in similar boats. explains john roy, he's 18 and grew up in the village of good to he works in a small museum nearby and we arrange to meet face. see you again. you do everything okay. yeah. yeah. he shows me the room most popular with tourists, the one with exhibitions about the whaling. this is my station where when we get bigger groups, oh, okay. and what are these? these are for waiting, right?

these are, these were the old rules, right? those bish and our way of living was heavy. now we use the hook, so they are hooked in the level and then there's a real name full of and then this one, this is the. yeah, that's used for collect with it this very simple. it's very, it's way more humane than the nice me. what makes it more humane? when you get to the right spot, this goes into the brain. it goes very deep. so you'll see for quick death. yeah, it's about 2 seconds. mm hm. one or 2 seconds. so it's very quick and you don't have the license you have right now. they want to do it. yeah. why that, that them just because some people listen to the shepherd or the outside world and then the other half,

which is very stubborn. i think i'm a part of that half. i hope that position lives on a couple of dish. as the say. right, does we ask john roy if we can meet his family? his mother doesn't want to be filmed, but he's father john and his oldest sister laura agreed. the john even cooks for us. well, meat and potatoes, the looks genesis one of our shortest songs got very mouth and, and okay, i'm touched by the hospitality. but i've also read that the meat is full of toxic substances. i still want to try it to understand why it's so important to them.

it's really like beef. it's a bit and i think, yeah, i'm surprised. how do you want me to know because before i go 10 years back it is available to definitely i don't want to change. i don't know which of the and the pin reports that the way me some medical me or you can find that great the does it got you under your think about it and i think it's just interesting. it's about it. who think about it now people have tired older than 10 years old. i don't see the problem. it is one type

of to this should be the problem. mm. so how dangerous he is? well, need, at least one person on the faro islands says it should have been off the menu for a long time. the reserve pole by hay is something of a medical luminary here. he's discovered the whale made his toxic because it's full of mercury. so much so that he's even detected in breast milk. so what is the difference between a private way lead me to a medically concentration will be $100.00 times lower, $100.00 times a year. that's a big difference. the muscles in fast as pilot whales contains

lots of mercury and of the toxins, because the animals are at the top of the food chain where it accumulates, poll says eating, it is particularly dangerous for pregnant women. they post the poisons onto their unborn children. full and his team has been studying the contamination extensively since the 1980s. and what could happen with the highest pose of mockery is a be see it on the, on the certificate, the ones that the highly expos group i know doing as well. is there a development assess and that way so you can not go out there then for all you are highly exposed because you have a really year. so something some research is suspect eating too much well may contribute parkinson's disease. i will meet once whole, very often when he was young. can you tell the difference? let's do a test. as a home style has worked with pulls the is. all she needs is a few has. so i assume you stopped

a thing where me long time. i told you the pair that i might as hard as i spring. i'm really curious to see the results of the mercury test. kind of, i'm already starting to think about what i have a late leaving was a 675. this is how i know i have no idea. it's slow, it's slow. i have is a double of yours, that will be quite normal for various men. what, what is the highest? do you have a message for faulty? oh, wow. okay, what do site to be? so we talk to them, people, we advice them gently as, as a will, some of their high expos. people don't want to be otherwise. who's institute has wound everyone against eating wyoming and fat. but we soon see

his words have had a little effect on wailing on the pharaoh islands the inside of the 1st. we were just sitting at breakfast and got a cold, but they'll be agreed to drop a well slow to today. so, as i don't know yet whether it's a false alarm, but we're trying to get there as quickly as possible. i'm is snape invitation, so it's going to be tight because it's at the other end of the island in the fall. i know i have to step on it because the ships sort of gave the, the tip came from joan roy's family, the one who says to me, way a ghoulish looks like they were right. suddenly i see wayllace boats the unbelievable. i wouldn't have expected this.

you can see the animals here. right now i can only see boats. it's like a wall coming towards us. the wireless or even allowed to drop everything at work to come down here. the funding best thing is, is we don't know how they'll react. the wireless don't really like cameras together . no idea. what's going to happen is we'll see the animals are still far away. i look for john roy's family and i'm delighted to see him coming straight towards me. hey, john roy. just to meet you. yeah. can you explain what's going on right now? yeah, right now they're driving to wales beach. there is a foreman over on beach and he's explaining each person has to do. are you going to participate? maybe. okay. it's very important that you don't serve right on us and stuff like

that. yeah. so. okay. i don't think anything will happen to us with john roy and his family by my side. but several people want to know who we are they all ask again. no, you can say we're balanced and surprised. it's not just wayllace here. men, women, children, everyone is here. the whole village, apparently, of a old joining in john has a wailing license house. that's why he's allowed to take us to be the son john roy . he's only allowed to help pull the animals into shallow water. once again, a warning. what's about to happen is not for the faint cottage, the

man this, so it'd be for one second to the next. i see john roy's father in the crowd. i get the feeling everyone knows what to do, but i'm paralyzed completely overwhelmed. i don't know what to do the in just 3 minutes. 19 pilot whales, the dead. the, the, the,

the dent anamosa pulled back into the water and drag to the hub. the i've read so much about that suddenly you're standing here and fan, it happens. it will happen so quickly. it's kind of started and i can't really say what it's done to me yet. it just happened too fast. i think i need more time to process it emotionally, but there's just something deeply i take about everything becomes of a message that i find on roy and the crowd again. it didn't go quite so that will mean i don't think anything else

in the legs. what, what happened? i think someone ok, i thought all the animals had been killed. the thing i noticed is something but i probably went on the boat, but that doesn't happen too often right now. but the waves don't survive alone. that's why we are available. this one's on the way if he goes find the send me the, the did pilot whales abroad to the hub. i think about how a moments ago they would just swimming is appalled through the atlanta. and now

they're lying dead neatly arranged in the open the door. i've never seen such a large dead animal how many people can live from, from this grandeur you kept today? continue saying that how many families i've got to meet 200 families on the list and they and they want to have piece of me. can you understand that some people get annoyed by the picture and they tell you why do you do that? can you understand them? because they cannot see the whole picture also. so this is a few years ago.

and is it even necessary now to say this is one of our few boots that we have to pay those fish cheap. is important. the animals evince lucid. everyone can help nobody has to pay for the maintenance that it's free. anyone who helped with the hon or just happens to be, they get something the, the similar discounts. it's quite strange. it's like

a folk festival. the whole villages here and everyone is waiting for that piece of meat. so she has a distinct smell. these dead animals. they don't smell particularly good, but nobody's folded their families little children. i saw small children trying out the noise to the 1st time, and that's the most i can really get a sense of how they're all growing up around is completely normal for the people who live here. but not for me. for this joan roy, assistant, laura also helps spring the meet hon. the some of our team struggled with building the wailing and as it turned out, it would not be the last time.

i still can't quite understand why so many people here have no problem with wailing despite the 9 health risks. how you doing? that's why i pay elsa. another visit. she collected the hand samples of the research institution. friends this i was a part of who you think we revisit the topic of mercury in wyoming. so the bad effects are very well known on the far why there was a study from 2014 to show that 99 percent of the people who are asked have heard about the advisory for they don't follow the advice. everybody knows what's on everybody, but then a young woman, they follow that advice and because they are the ones who the their to children

else's friends are wrong. most of them don't eat way. a little dolphin made by want to know why i don't need it because it doesn't taste though. and i like to think of it. but like my husband is like, um, crazy about uh oh really. it's just something in his body. and he also has a bone, so like, yeah, he loves it. i remember some kids i, i'd like to see small ones lying there and didn't like it. but, but you can use who is like every, everything else. and then it's just a part of it's just part of the fairways tradition. yeah. most barrow ways are politically conservative and local politics. the dominated by men.

i want to know whether that's effective if for example, politically no one talks about stuffing filing will. it's nothing, no a issue. it's really a help. they do it as a politician, you were against the pilot wayland, you get no work, but how the impression that maybe the people in their 2017 is you're saying yeah, maybe. yeah. maybe they don't go to bed, but it's not the women on the islands, hardly 8. well need any more, especially if they want to have children. but most of the men just carry on my so this would be the end of the film. but things turn out differently, we get would have another hon the last time i took this guy that 1st we thought we wouldn't get

a chance to film this at all. but now we've received our 2nd tip. i think that's because we've gotten to know these people now. we've learned a bit of the trust. they know we want cause trouble when we come to see and feel safe, the wolf is read by stuff that the roadside is already pretty full when we arrive. something is different, the choice doesn't tend on the beach, but at a small cliff the she said that we were a little late this time. luke one is getting away from the wireless. i having trouble catching one of the wales the

they just weren't let us get away. now man of jumping into the open water and trying to somehow get on top of the wild. how do i get time zones? i told us the hunts usually ends quickly. and the 1st one we saw a went really fast. this, but this one's getting out of hand. the animal keeps getting away and it's a real fight to the desk. now, the boat's keeps sending it back towards land with a whale as a waiting list. he's still alive. this is intense. the fight for life and death goes on for half an hour. right in front of my eyes. dozens of young men is standing in the cold war, so they just don't want to let the way of god. just as they don't want to let go of their tradition, something i've really learned during this trip to the pharaoh islands the. i've also learned something about myself. i couldn't hunt and kill pilot whales. could you

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