The story
In January 2013, Fanalei villagers on the island of Malaita, in the Solomon Islands, slaughtered 700 dolphins after villagers refused to renew a memorandum of understanding with Earth Island Institute that expired in April 2012. Villagers claim EII promised them $2.4 million Solomon Island Dollars (about $335,000 U.S.) to stop trading dolphins and dolphin-derived products for two years but that they received only $700,000.
Chairman Atkin Fakaia of a local villagers' association claimed that villagers had to kill the dolphins to trade the meat and the teeth for money to survive in the local economy. Earth Island Institute Director Lawrence Makili accused the association of mishandling the first $300,000 invested under the original memorandum of understanding. Makili accused the villagers' association of seizing funds and failing to distribute them.
From Wikipedia’s article on Earth Island Institute, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4