Since 1983, I have led numerous campaigns against the grind using ships at sea and crews based on land. Confrontations and dramatic clashes over the decades have helped to publicise and expose what many view, as I do, as an atrocity and a crime against nature.

My crews and I have been assaulted, shot at, arrested, jailed, fined and deported, leading some critics to say that little or nothing has been accomplished.

I disagree. Forty-two years ago, I would not have found a single Faroese opposed to the grind. People around the world, including the people of Denmark, were oblivious to this brutal massacre of cetaceans.

Today, support for the grind among the population of the Faroe Islands is dropping. More people around the world, and especially Denmark, are now aware of it.

Today, we have Faroese citizens actively opposing the killing. To me, that is progress — slow progress maybe, but progress, nonetheless.

Social revolutions don’t happen overnight. Being an activist for the environment and for wildlife takes endurance and patience and the key to success is consistency, dedication and commitment.

Our actions over the past 50 years have shut down whaling operations around the world including in Australia, Spain, the Soviet Union, South Korea, Peru, Brazil, Chile and South Africa. We have shut down illegal whaling in Iceland for the past three years and have forced the Japanese whaling fleet out of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, saving the lives of over 6,500 whales in the process.

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