• Skua@kbin.earth
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      2 days ago

      A bit of a weird situation. As I understand it:

      • Denmark itself has banned whaling
      • The Faroe Islands and Greenland continue whaling, but both do in ways compatible with the international moratorium on whaling
      • For Greenland, it’s the allowance for indigenous subsistence whaling
      • For the Faroes, it’s by hunting smaller whales that aren’t covered by the moratorium
      • Both Greenland and the Faroes decide their own law on the matter, Denmark can’t make them without partially rescinding the home rule acts
      • Nonetheless, Denmark is often quite obstructive to making actual progress on limiting whaling