🚨 LINK IN BIO TO SIGN THE PETITION TO END ICELAND’S COMMERCIAL WHALING. 🚨
Meet millionaire whaling magnate Kristján Loftsson: the last person in the world still commercially hunting fin whales. When whale watchers encounter his vessels towing dead whales, his response is: “Just tell them to look somewhere else. They can just turn around and look the other way.”
Loftsson’s company Hvalur kills fin whales using explosive-tipped harpoons designed to detonate inside the animal’s body. 💔🐋 When asked what happens if the first shot doesn’t kill the whale, Loftsson compared it to big game hunting, explaining that sometimes a second shot is needed. Describing a whale’s final moments, he said they “give a few jerks, and then they just sink.”
His company also sparked international outrage in 2018 after killing what experts initially identified as a protected blue whale.
Fin whales are the second-largest animals on Earth and are listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Iceland continues to permit commercial whaling, but the practice is opposed by much of the international community.
Meanwhile, whale watching contributes significantly more to Iceland’s economy than commercial whaling.
THE WORLD IS WATCHING. THIS MUST STOP!
🐋 Join more than 178,000 people calling on Iceland to end commercial whaling by signing the petition (link in bio). Then contact Iceland’s leaders and let them know commercial whaling has no place in the 21st century.
Prime Minister’s Office
https://t.co/qmvcpmmwQ5
Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries (the ministry responsible for whaling policy)
Email: mailto:[email protected]
Phone: +354 545 9700
https://t.co/97wKZ8YCi7
Sources: The New York Times (2018); IUCN Red List (2023); International Whaling Commission (IWC); IFAW Iceland Petition (2026).