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Context

• The traditional annual killing of whales and dolphins sparked controversy after it emerged that over 1,400 of the marine animals were killed in this year’s event in Faroe Islands.
• More than 1,400 white-sided dolphins were killed.

Details

• The Faroe are a North Atlantic archipelago located 320 kilometres (200 mi) north-northwest of Scotland, and about halfway between Norway and Iceland.
• Like Greenland, it is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

• The Atlantic white-sided dolphin is a distinctively coloured dolphin found in the cool to temperate waters of the North Atlantic Ocean.
• The species is endemic to the North Atlantic Ocean.
• The distribution limits are Norwegian sea in the north east; Davis Strait in the north west; North Carolina in the south west and Celtic Sea in the south east (possible range extension to the Azores).

Conservation Status

• IUCN: Least Concern
• CITES: Appendix II

https://indianexpress.com/article/world/faroe-islands-activists-slam-killing-of-dolphins-7510571/

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