Faroe Islands

2022 - 7 - 9

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Trom, review: Scandi noir comes to the Faroe Islands – and it's ... (Telegraph.co.uk)

BBC Four's new foreign drama, set against the backdrop of an animal rights debate, is bold, striking and something different.

It’s gripping stuff and the tensions over whaling will provoke thought long after the closing credits. Martinsson clearly has an intriguing backstory and helpful in signposting this maverick man was a scene in which he unceremoniously necked all the hard spirit miniatures in his hotel room. The air is pure, the summer light extraordinary and life – oil, farming and fishing – is tough.

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Trom review — Faroe Islands' first TV drama supplies atmospheric ... (Financial Times)

Sweeping aerial shots enliven a tale of kidnapping and high-level corruption now showing on the BBC.

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Trom, review: Scandi noir is coming to the Faroe Islands - and it's ... (The Bharat Express News)

Come Saturday night, the Nordic noir comes on TBEN Four. At the risk of causing a diplomatic incident, I find Norway interchangeable with Sweden, Finland.

and that her life was in danger. The air is pure, the summer light extraordinary and life – oil, farming and fishing – is hard. Now, at this point I should mention that I’ve been to the Faroe Islands, which makes me the definition of an armchair expert.

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Faroe Islands to limit annual dolphin hunt quota to 500 (Al Arabiya English)

The Faroe Islands said on Sunday it would provisionally limit its controversial dolphin hunt to 500, following public outcry over the practice.“An annual.

It said it would also evaluate the procedures used to drive and kill the dolphins so that it would “be carried out as quickly and efficiently as possible.” “The utilization of both pilot whales and white-sided dolphins in the Faroe Islands is sustainable,” it added. On Sunday, the government stressed that the catches serve as an “important supplement to the livelihoods of Faroe Islanders.” “Aspects of that catch were not satisfactory, in particular the unusually large number of dolphins killed,” it added. The quota was set after the “unusually large catch” of 1,423 white-sided dolphins in September last year, it said in a statement. “An annual catch limit of 500 white-sided dolphins has now been proposed by the Ministry of Fisheries on a provisional basis for 2022 and 2023,” the government of the Danish autonomous territory said.

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