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i'm going to a baby on the federal islands to a pilot whale hunt. sounds like i'm scared of physics often. lots of people have tried to feel them a pilot while home from the pharaoh islands. isn't that they are often chased away in front of us? we know about drones that have been 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 food each hunt to watch these documentary tells the story of how it goes to you and why this bloody tradition still exists. the
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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 gym, a 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 and flew north to pharaoh while entering the north atlantic between scotlands norway, iceland, just as a 50000 people lived here. everyone knows everyone. it was important to me to keep
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an open mind on this trip. i wanted to understand not to judge why a people still killing pilot whales and other adults since he is the my travel a lot. but it looks different here, wild and rough. we headed to the capital to shone with most of the sarah. we live. the perfect place to meet people who can introduce us to the world of wild hunters. as far as cut off, i am waiting for pet to a young man who lives here on the pharaoh island. he's also a field making you shop that footage back in 2021. i don't. i want him to take me to the place where it all happened. citizen. okay. you must have had to. yes. hey,
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good to me too. 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. well, what happened? yes. it's very silence 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 gonna come in. like as soon as the wireless close enough to be killed, someone's gotta be ready there. and then you start coming and just officer and you do us do it as fast as possible. the pet to us said he didn't take
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part in the homes 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. q. the more than $1400.00 whiteside adults, 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 though? but what is your personal opinion through a thing that should stop or isn't it? okay, let's continue. see on the phone. it's complicated. when i was young, i joined into grins and i wanted to be a part of the grand support for my father and getting boots. it was something it was valuable. but then i went to the other the other day virus. i was against it
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more or less. how could that be a tradition? the killings, 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 the a gift from god, maybe 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 to these man eating usually is in some what interest,
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listen paid to his father and away left. his mother doesn't want to be filmed again . 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 wiles 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 us here by the class you of the because we are close to the nature. you, you have you ever seen the been killed? no, probably not, because it's behind close stores. and here to kindergarten, go to a just lot of houses to see how the sheets were killed. so that's the reason why i keep quiet. you don't see anything killed in any german living room. sorry. that like it killed because i'd like to meet on the table. and so hypocrites.
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maybe 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? why 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. if intelligence gives me several, gives me the right to kill any wrong. i'm really wrong. let me do it for food. and we eat offers the best way polish was from a teacher. yeah. and seems irritated. see the way it was, know that most non pharaoh ways don't understand. and to pose the way, like we watch a video by c shepherd and the organization that is campaigned against the hunt for years. the animal rights activists and many of the locals. the
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facts that are doing the music and everything. yeah, with this video and saying the things you are saying it's perusal and so it's and then what you see me is the best commercial surveys ever. and so, i mean, yeah. so why do you think that they are promoting even degree does wrong for young families? whalers and 2012. when c shepherd announced that they would come to the federal islands, there was a grant mixed with a few work in stem this to were so many young people as at work wish it would do with all of that because and even teach them so many of their work and it has been tough many, ever since. so, all what they are doing is the opposite. the animal rights activists
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denounced the whaling, but he ends defense 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 and for example, the but then mainly interested in pilot whales, which are also adults since they have very social and leaving groups known as pods use this posted and the weather is right. this era we use cold for a and like they have for hundreds of years. the hunters then rush out to sea and drive the animals into the feud with the boats to kill them in the shallows. they always record how many they killed. an average $630.00 pilot whales per year. and about $265.00 of the dolphins, the pharaoh. we say the animals are
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nothing danger. hundreds of thousands leaving the seas. they don't understand why active us still have a problem with whaling sizes. i'm trying to get in touch with samuel from sea ship it unless the 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. of finding them is not that easy. said cutting a shape, he just replied, 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
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we drove around, but it was not so easy to navigate. and finally, we noticed as cameras, filming the courtyard as we arrived, they were installed after the team suspected that car had been tempted with work by made alexandra less from poland to confine. why did you decide to come to the fair, rollins? i'm a marine biologist. so i started to study 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. they're still a bit mystery. and what's happening here is just just said something that i personally think shouldn't be happening anymore. but do you understand the people say like a fish haven't? it's not really interested in our tradition. they just take the pictures, put some dramatic music over it and just show their blog in the sea,
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but they don't explain the tradition. can you understand? yeah, absolutely. yeah. they've been doing it for so many years. it is a tradition for them. that's what they've been doing to survive as well. what's the problem and our view is that it's sold necessary anymore, so necessary suffering for the honorable samuel rust and his co workers trying to film every whale hunt with drones. the footage shows the animals don't even have of finding johns like one of the, maybe the worst things is the chase before the actual hunts 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 piano holes in a certain direction because you can see the way they're swimming now isn't? it isn't casual anymore. no. at this point they're, they're, they're running away. right?
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they're, they're in, in, in fear. and they're swimming very, very fast way fast, and then they would be out on open waters. no chance to escape for the animals know there's a wall behind them and there's like land on these sites. and there's only one with a pos to a little bit in the you off the hear the argument while were killed because we're a thumb. is it always true that the 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 easily accessible just under the bar. and many of them leave the rest back to 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 car before we leave.
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they're afraid of most sabotage. we drive north to a steep gorge the awhile here to slide down into the water and the waves distribute quite a lot of the, the activists to the school teach in 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
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killings. if we do it. absolutely. so can you follow this, this argument a little bit better? very correct. very, very right. those on it was the head of the might be for the most of the he does the society, all of his people, if they didn't, they were just raise to be killed. we don't see that's what they do is either we think it's very wrong. so what is the solution that everybody stops it to me as well? does, i believe? but it's all really possible. i would say it's a difficult problem, but i do, you wouldn't have 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 also against wailing, but that many of them don't this become. so when people reach out to me and say that they're against the grins, but they can't speak about it because they will do side their business or they will
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have a struggle in social situations. and that's also like side of it where we want to kind of read on surprise by what samuel says that perhaps not everyone on the island supports the pilot while hunt but many fairways don't want to be criticized from outside is why i find someone who might know the really good, good, good to me through it. it's krista and 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, and is now a politician and broken train. when you describe a typical 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
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life. i remember one the one day one morning i was sitting at the kitchen table listening to the radio on the 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 not part of the work that we in the federal. why that's really 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 have been largely o tournament since 1948 over 5 years. there's office yes. minutes or finance? minister of foreign affairs. the pharaoh ways have faced repeated criticism for hunting pilot whales, including by the e. u, which prohibits the hunting of dolphins through various species protection
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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 drive in the trip? i, i must be c 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 shore. and i'm the 1st thing they meet that this sharp is. this allows of cubes, 10 minutes dismal 2nd. and then they're done. of course there is suffering because they've driven to the shore and they get distressed 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 it to
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the killing of pilots with the pilots, with killing witness, and then you compare my do you think you can take me to the drop? the one that was here 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 this posted in the atlantic. someone will have to call us when one stats witnessing one well here on the islands would be in a normal 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 while one will become
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a key figure of the they train with wouldn't rolling boats and race village against the village on open water. throughout the summer where we do starks is like what? $6060.00 stokes per minute. 1. 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 have like 20. okay. yeah. no, they allow me to accompany them anyway. rowing is too hard to talk to wouldn't been . she's real cod. the smell of sweat is everywhere. but it's fun. the fortunately they don't want to go out to see with me. one of the ro is,
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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 goods. 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 wailing. this is my station from where when the guy because groups. oh okay. and what are these? these are for waiting, right?
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these are, these were the overalls life me, those bish and the way it was heavy. now we use the hook, so they are hooked in the low and then there's a rope they get full of and then this one, this is the. yeah. that to use for killing doing it this very simple. it's very, it's way more humane than the knife me. what makes it more humane? when you get it in the right spot, this goes into brain and 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. why that? that them just because some people listen to the shepherd or the outside world. and then the other half,
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which is very stubborn. i think i'm a part of the house. i hope the position lives on a couple of dish. i don't say that it doesn't. we ask john roy, if we can meet his family. his mother doesn't want to be filmed, but he's father john and he's older sister laura agreed. the john even cooks for us. well, meat and potatoes, the looks delicious. one of our short this 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
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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 need to know because before i go 10 years back to actually i don't want to change. i don't know which of the and the pin reports that the way mean. that's american read or you can find that great the does it got you under your think about it. oh and i think it's just it's about it. how do you think about it now? people have tired older than 10 years old. i don't see the problem is what type
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of a lot of this should be the problem. mm. so how dangerous he is? well, me, at least one person on the faro islands says it should have been off the menu for a long time. pulled by hay is something of a medical luminary here. he's discovered that whale meat is toxic because it's full mercury so much so that he's even detected in breast milk. so what is the difference between a positive way lead me to luckily concentration will be $100.00 times low of $100.00 times. yeah, that's a big difference or the muscles and fat as pilot whales contains
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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. paul and his team has been studying the contamination extensively since the 1980s. and what could happen with the highest colors of mockery. it'd be see it on the, on the certificate, the ones that the highly expos group. i'm not doing as well in their development so that way you can not go out there then for you and have the expos, 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 homestyle has worked with pull for years, all she needs is a few is. so i assume you stopped
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a thing where me. long time. i told you with the parent i might as hard as i start. 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 side over 75. this is high, low. i have no idea, it's slow. it's slow. i have is a double of yours, definitely be quite know more of a refund. what. what is the highest, do you have a message for faulty? yeah. 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 higher expos, people don't want to be otherwise the poles institute has wound every one against eating while mates and fat. but we soon see is woods have
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had a little effect on wailing on the pharaoh islands the inside of the 1st of the we would just sitting at the breakfast and got a cold, but they'll be agreed to drop a well slow to today. so i don't know yet whether it's a full salon, but we're trying to get there as quickly as possible. i'm is snape invitation, so it's going to be time because it's at the other end of the island in the fall. i know i have to step on it because the ships still the game the. the tip came from joan roy's family. the one who says to me, well, ghoulish looks like they were right. suddenly i see wayllace boats the unbelievable. i wouldn't have expected this.
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you can't see the animals here right now. i can only see boats. it's like a wall coming towards us. the whalers are even allowed to drop everything at work to come down here. the funny thing is, is we don't know how they'll react. the wireless don't really like cameras. 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. i don't like to meet you. yes you do. 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 news 6, then each person has to do, are you going to participate? and maybe, okay, it's very important that you don't start right on us and stuff then. yeah. so okay
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. 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, are you again? no, you can say we're balanced on 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 via 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
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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 thing just 3 minutes. 19 pilot whales, the dead, the, the, the,
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the dent anamosa pool back into the water and drag to the top of the level. i've read so much about that. suddenly you're standing here and then 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 don't really in the crowd. again, it didn't go quite so well. you know,
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i don't think anything else. intellect. uh what, what happened? i think someone okay. i thought all the animals had been killed, but then i noticed something but i probably went on the boat, but that doesn't happen too often. i know about the way of sold to live alone. that's why we are available. this one goes away. if he goes find the book, then the, the did put like wales a boat to the hub. i think about how a moments ago they would just swimming is appalled through the atlantic. and now
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the line that neatly arranged in the open, the, like never seen such a large dead animal how many people can live from, from this grandeur you can today continue to say that how many families i've got to meet 200 families on the list and they and they want to have a piece of me, i can understand that some people get to know if i have to fix it and they tell you why do you do that? can you understand them? because they cannot cheat the whole thing also. so this is uh possible 2 years ago.
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and is it even necessary now to say this is one of our few locally, we have to pay those fish cheap. is important. the animals have bins, lucid. every one can help nobody has to pay for the maintenance that it's free. anyone who helped with the hunt or just happens to be to get something the or the
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commerce is quite strange. it's like a folk festival. the whole village is here and everyone is waiting for that piece of meat. for today is 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 so nice to the 1st time. 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 helped spring the meet hun. the . some of our team struggled with building the wailing, and as it turned out, it would not be the last time.
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i still can't quite understand why so many people here have no problem with wailing . despite the non health risks. how you doing? that's why i pay elsa. another visit she collected the hassle and pulls that the research institution friends. if i was a part of who you think we revisit the topic is mercury in wyoming. it's so the bad effects are very well known on the satellites. 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 bus. everybody knows what's on everybody, but the young women, they follow that in place. and because they are the ones who bear to children
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elses friends are really most of them don't eat way a little adult and made by want to know why i don't need it because it doesn't taste though. 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 as a kid i, i'd like to see a small moans lying there and didn't like it but, but you can use it like every everything else. and then it's just a part of it's just part of the fairways tradition. you know, most barrow ways are politically conservative and local politics
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a dominated by man. 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 help to do it. as a politician, you were against the pilot way. when you get now, we'll have the impression that maybe the people in their frenzy said that he knows you're saying yeah, maybe a little and they don't go to bed. but it's not the women on the islands hardly eat well, needs any more, especially if they want to have children. but most of the men just carry on my thought this would be the end of the film, but things turn out differently. we get would have another hunt, the acetate. let's take this guy and at 1st we
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thought we wouldn't get a chance to feel 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. so wolf is read, they stuff that the roadside is already pretty full when we arrive. something is different. the chase 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 whales the
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they just weren't let it 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 towards it, and it's a real fight to the desk. now, you know, i wish to, the boat's keeps sending it back towards land with a while 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 whale guide just as they don't want to let go of the 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,
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