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<strong>As many as 1,400 white-sided dolphins were killed in a day as part of a gory hunting ritual in the Faroe Islands, an autonomous Danish territory, sparking an outrage on social media on Tuesday.</strong></p>
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Photos showed the heartrending sight of hundreds of Atlantic white-sided dolphins lying slaughtered on the beach.</p>
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Sea Shepherd, a charity that campaigns against the hunting of whales and dolphins, described it as a &quot;barbaric practice&quot;.</p>
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&quot;There is no doubt that the Faroese whale hunts are a dramatic sight to people unfamiliar to the hunts and slaughter of mammals,&quot; AFP news agency cited a spokesman of the Faroe Islands government as saying.</p>
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&quot;The hunts are, nevertheless, well organised and fully regulated,&quot; he said.</p>
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Traditionally, the North Atlantic islands — which have a population of around 50,000 people — hunt pilot whales and not dolphins, the spokesman said.</p>
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&quot;There are usually a few of them in the &#39;grind&#39;, but we normally don&#39;t kill such a large number,&quot; said a local television journalist, Hallur av Rana.</p>
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The &quot;grindadrap&quot; is a practice whereby the hunters first surround the whales with a wide semi-circle of fishing boats and then drive them into a bay to be beached and slaughtered.</p>
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&quot;It looks quite extreme and it took some time to kill them all, while it&#39;s usually pretty quick,&quot; av Rana said.</p>
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According to av Rana, although some 53 percent of the islands&#39; population are opposed to the &quot;grind&quot;, there no plans to abolish the practice. The authorities insist it is a sustainable way of hunting.</p>
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