animals. Environment Minister João Matos Fernandes said the killing by the 16 hunters was "vile" and an "environmental crime" that should be prosecuted.Pictures of the mass slaughter of deers and wild boars were shared on social media, with the bloodthirsty calling it a "record" due to the sheer volume of animals killed.The hunting was carried out in a hunting zone in the centre of Portugal where the killing of individual animals is allowed, but most of the zone's deer population are said to have died.It is thought to have taken place on a farm in the Torrebela tourist hunting zone, near Azambuja, about 40km from Portuguese capital Lisbon on December 17 and 18.The huge farm is supposedly walled in meaning the defenceless animals had no.
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