Iceland’s annual ptarmigan hunting season begins today; despite diminishing numbers of the grouse-like bird. Read the full story

The northern bluefin tuna is one of the most valuable and endangered Atlantic fish species and almost never strays as far north as Iceland. When 12 of the giants turn up aboard and Icelandic trawler, eyebrows are raised. Read the full story

Copenhagen is working to keep parks and green areas pollinated through a new bee recovery programme. Read the full story

A large number of dead whales have been found around Greenland and authorities are scratching their heads as to why. Now it has come to light that such a spate of sudden deaths may not be unprecedented. Read the full story

Finnish Customs officials are investigating whether fishing tackle shops are illegally selling parts of endangered animals as lures. It is thought that some outlets are marketing bear fur and rare bird feathers as exotic flies. Read the full story

Icelandic halibut made international headlines last year as a group of German fishermen caught a record breaker. In fact, it is because of the monster flatfish that foreign tourists flock to the country to try their luck. Now experts are calling for a fishing ban, saying the stock is too small. Read the full story

If the patterns of recent years continue, Iceland’s Westman Islands could lose their famous puffin colony altogether. The reason is a collapse in the sand eel population. Read the full story

Arni Finnsson, chairman of the Nature Conservation Union of Iceland, said it will prove very expensive to get Icelandic fin whale meat to market in Japan. It is out of the question that the Icelandic government is in a position to supplement the whaling industry with the extra hundreds of millions of kronur it has cost and continues to cost the nation every year. Read the full story

Fuglavernd, the Icelandic bird charity, is urging Minister for the Environment Svandis Svavarsdottir to make urgent arrangements to protect seabirds as a new study points to a serious and ongoing reduction in the number of seabirds around Iceland. Read the full story

Despite the vocal protests of the Swedish government, Greenpeace has started its plan to drop large boulders into the Kattegat sound between the Danish and Swedish shores in a bid to stop bottom trawling by cod fishermen. The global activist group will toss 180 boulders that weigh between one and three tonnes each into two endangered cod areas in the Kattegat. Read the full story