'It may take a generation to end obscenity of whaling'

AN ANTI-whaling activist has warned it may take a generation before the “ecological obscenity” of slaughtering whales and dolphins is “extinguished”.

- By Steph Spyro ENVIRONMENT EDITOR

Paul Watson, who last month was removed from international police body Interpol's most wanted list, is determined to end the killing of the mammals in the Faroe Islands, 200 miles north of Scotland.

And writing in the Sunday Express, he said: “The children of the Faroe Islands suffer the highest concentration of methyl mercury in their bodies of any other group in the world.

“It appears the Faroese dolphin killers have no problem jeopardising the health of their own children to maintain and defend an antiquated, bloody and barbaric tradition.”

Campaigners have said the UK's £1.3billion imports of Faroese fish each year props up the industry which fuels the hunts. Whaling in the