Dolphin hunting protests at Japanese embassy in Britain

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LONDON (AFP) — Environmental campaigners demonstrated outside the Japanese embassy here Wednesday against what they called the country's "appallingly cruel" hunting of dolphins.

Campaign groups claim Japan kills 20,000 small whales, dolphins and porpoises for food each year in hunts which receive far less attention than the country's highly publicised whaling expeditions.

Dozens of demonstrators, including one dressed in a dolphin costume, gathered outside the embassy to hand in a petition and voice their opposition to the hunts.

Campaign Whale and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) said the hunts include pods of dolphins driven into shallow coves by fishermen and hacked to death.

They also said 15,000 Dall's porpoises are killed each year...