The Faroe Islands will limit controversial dolphin hunting, allowing the killing of up to 500 animals per year, following the storm that culled more than 1,400 last year. This was reported by the BBC, underlining that the decision was made after the wave of protests followed by the slaughter of last year whose photos went around the world.
Hunting for marine mammals – primarily whales – has been a tradition practiced for hundreds of years on remote islands, an autonomous Danish territory in the North Atlantic. But the scale of last year’s killings, all in a single day, shocked many locals, sparked criticism from groups involved in the practice, and a petition was presented to the local government that garnered nearly 1.3 million signatures. to stop the slaughter.
Source: Ansa
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