Noble Stewards of Mother Earth...
...ready to wipe species off the face of the planet...
With the ice beginning to form on local lakes, local hunters began preparing for an annual hunt of caribou that takes between 8,000 and 10,000 animals. Then Environment Minister J. Michael Miltenberger received some shocking numbers: For every 15 Bathurst caribou counted in 1986, there was one in 2009.I guess the Inuit don't have a word for irony.
Between 2003 and 2009 alone, the population had plummeted from 128,000 to 32,000.
Government biologists estimated the herd would disappear within five years.
Or conservation.
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My guess is someone soon will blame Global Warming/Climate Change in 3-2-1...........
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like, perhaps... the mainstream media?
"It's this insistence on sugar-coating the reality, that prevents real solutions being applied to terrible problems. Shame on the Globe and Mail for their biased and melodramatic "politically correct" positions on this stuff."
less celebration of whale funerals... more actual facts.
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I have been told by someone who has been there that it has been know for Inuit / northern tribes to go out and find a herd and kill them all. While going back to the village on their snowmobiles / ATVs to get the women to clean and butcher the animals and they come across another herd closer to homebase they will kill all those animals also and then leave the farther ones to rot.
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