Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/21/2008 3:24:18 PM PST by presidio9
At least 200 narwhal whales in Canada's Arctic, trapped by winter ice that is setting in around them and facing starvation or suffocation, must be culled, officials said Friday.
Hunters from the village of Pond Inlet on Baffin Island discovered the animals trapped near Bylot Island, about 17 kilometers (10.5 miles) from Pond Inlet, on November 15, and checked on them periodically.
The local hunters are allowed to harvest only 130 whales each year for food, according to standards set by the federal department of Fisheries and Oceans.
But department spokesman Keith Pelley told AFP: "It's unlikely the animals are going to survive the winter, so the hunters have been given authorization to cull them."
The hunters have been on the ice slaughtering the whales since Thursday and are likely to accomplish their task over the coming days, he said.
Narwhal are found mostly in the Arctic circle, and are renowned for their extraordinarily long tusk, which is actually a twisted incisor tooth that projects from the left side of its upper jaw and can be up to three meters (10 feet) long.
"A couple of weeks ago, when the ice was still moving, there were quite a few narwhal seen out there in the open water," Jayko Allooloo, chairman of the Pond Inlet hunters and trappers organization, told public broadcaster CBC.
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Broght to you by your local Narwhal Council.
Boy, this has got to roil the enviro-nazis! Not only does it fly in the face of all the predictions of disappearing ice, but now it turns out that all the purported warming was the least of these whales’ problems. I thought warming was supposed to be the end of the world.
But wait, maybe the ice that trapped the whales actually IS some strange paradoxical result of the rampant AGW! How will Algore spin this?
I tried to post this, but wasn’t allowed, got this message:
“smh.com.au cannot be posted to FR due to copyright complaint.”
Bump. LMAO!!
Tastes like chicken
Or you could just go with the sharks with frikin laser beams...
Can't they just peck their way out? What's that tusk for, anyway? Fish-Ka-Bob?
Fish Ka-bob..... LOL
Another wet keyboard. I think I need to install a splash guard.
Gee! Why didn’t they send in the icebreakers to make a safe path for the whales?
In my best Fred Schneider voice ...
“There goes the Narwhals!”
Nature uses this to take care of the endangered polar bears.
let them eat whale meat.
Not sure if you wrote in jest, but there’s much truth in it.
It’s the tough love of the environmental movement.
when i was in CA, I had indoctrination showing me what the types of endangered desert tortoises, foxes and rats.
You were not to bother any under penalty.
the irony is that one day i saw an endangered desert fox which caught an endangered rat and i wondered what should which endangered animal to save, the hungry fox or the soon to be eaten rat.
nature takes care of things, wihtout our interference
Awww, I wish I could find a picture of leelu to post :)
All those narwahls are wishing for some global warming right about now.....
Someone should do a cartoon of narwahls about to be slaughtered on the ice, crying “Al Gore, how about some of that global warming?”
Reminds me of a story I read a day or so ago about some thought-to-be-extinct tiny primate in someplace like New Zealand. So they tagged some to study and the article goes on a bit and then “the female was eaten by a hawk”. LOL
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