Iceland’s lone whaling crusader attempts to ship around 2,000 tonnes of fin whale meat to Japan (IFAW – International Fund for Animal Welfare)

(Source: IFAW – International Fund for Animal Welfare) Iceland’s lone whaling crusader, Kristjan Loftsson, is attempting to ship an estimated 2,000 tonnes of fin whale meat out of the country despite limited market for the meat and opposition at home and abroad to the bloody trade. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) raised the issue in Iceland after learning from a reliable source earlier this week that Loftsson’s stockpile of fin whale meat was being loaded onto the Alma cargo vessel in Hafnarfjordur Harbour near Reykjavík, bound for Japan. Loftsson has been spotted on several occasions in recent days near the Cypriot-registered freezer ship although media report that he…