Volunteers of the non-profit organization Sea Shepherd have been looking into an Icelandic whaling ship that slaughtered a possible blue whale, normally a protected species since there are no more than 5,000 left.

Critics have whale hunting in Iceland under scrutiny again. Members of the NGO Sea Shepherd, that aims to protect the oceans, has revealed a disturbing video. When they were surveilling the whaling firm known as ‘Hvalur hf’ in Hvalfordur, in Iceland, they witnessed a marine mammal that could have been a blue whale.

The specimen, which died in the night of 7th to 8th July, is now the twenty-second whale that has been killed and butchered by Kristján Loftsson’s whaling company and then exported to Japan. Since 20th June and after two years of interruption, the company has once again taken up fin whale hunting, with a quota of 190 whales per season, to…