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Thousands of Antarctic reindeer face cull

2013-01-09 14:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: About 3,000 reindeer on an island near Antarctica are to be slaughtered to stop damage to the environment by the descendants of a tiny herd introduced a century ago for food by Norwegian whale hunters. A 16-strong team, mostly Sami reindeer herders, has arrived in South Georgia, a British overseas territory, and is preparing to round up and cull all the reindeer on an island that is home to penguins and seals and has no native grazing animals. "The reindeer have become very destructive," Reidar...

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