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- Yookji, on 12/03/2008, -9/+151Maybe if the globe were warmer, they wouldn't have been trapped beneath that ice.
- jkendal4, on 12/03/2008, -7/+117Maybe a less biased look at what happened should be in order...
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2008/11/24/po ... - Beenard, on 12/03/2008, -14/+78Inuit are one of most impoverished Canadian indian tribes. If they can make a killing selling this stuff to Japan why disrupt the lovely flow of capitalism. The article claims Endangered but when you look at wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narwhal they are NEAR THREATENED. Not there yet hippies.
- AFelsinger, on 12/03/2008, -0/+54only the most ***** awesome animal in the world!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narwhal - Telekenesis, on 12/03/2008, -3/+45Bunch of bleeding hearts don't know the situation and you sensationalize it.
- SpectreFire, on 12/03/2008, -1/+42Always two sides to a story. It's an environmentalist site, there's always some bias and unreported ***** in there.
- Ragarnok, on 12/03/2008, -7/+47In other news, Canada announces it has found a solution to feed starving countries
- slayernine, on 12/03/2008, -1/+40"200 narwhals trapped in the sea ice"
- CBC News
And the Narwhal is not endangered. Get your facts straight. - metapop, on 12/03/2008, -0/+38imagine if a unicorn and a sea lion mated.
that is narwhal. - salter84, on 12/03/2008, -3/+36and what would you have said if the icebreakers killed the whales? really i think you need to look at the options.... i would rather humans make a judgement call and let things be rather than try and save the day and ***** up and kill animals and be blamed for the murder of endangered species.
animals do have rights i agree but is it really our place to step in and do something like this.
it is our right to step in if they are being poached, threatened by other humans. but to save a wild animal from living in the wild and coming under circumstances that occur in the wild is not our job.....
ok im done. - CoreyHalliwell, on 12/03/2008, -5/+35I mean look at the guy who wrote this
"Alex is primarily concerned with animal welfare, wildlife preservation, and environmental justice. As a freelance writer in San Francisco, he leads a deliberately simplistic and thrifty lifestyle, yet still can’t help gawking at the newest green gadgets and zero-emission concept cars."
A freelance writer from San Francisco? Can we get some credible articles on digg? These animals may have been "slaughtered' BUT, they were harvested, which the Inuit have been doing for centuries. I mean you act like they were killed in an Oil Spill or something. Oh wait they KINDA were, they probably lost their route due to global warming which if you havent noticed, AMERICA contributes to. Sure Canada does too and the Oil Sands is a dirty project BUT don't go playing all innocent and heroic by pointing the blame at a small incident in a beautiful country when you should be worried about your own. This is just more sensational ***** brought about by some douche at starbucks.
Eat Dick. - CoreyHalliwell, on 12/03/2008, -9/+39A lot of you are so ***** stupid it isnt even funny. Go read about Canada.
- dchaosdx, on 12/03/2008, -0/+26ok, so i will most likely get dugg down to hell for this... but i honestly and truly thought that a narwhal was a mythical creature created by the writers of futurama for use in the futurama movie. i swear on my life. when i read this article and saw the pictures i was literally going HOLY ***** NO FRIGGIN WAY. this amazes me.
- slayernine, on 12/03/2008, -1/+25A much better news source that actually did some fact checking.
- Vindicator2718, on 12/03/2008, -2/+24Read the CBC article stated above instead of this.
- azureskies88, on 12/03/2008, -0/+18Wait, what?
- Nebraskalaska, on 12/03/2008, -6/+24well narwhals are endangered because of humans hunting them for their horns/tusks... so if it was alright for us to kill them, it should be alright for us to help them.
- salter84, on 12/03/2008, -5/+23well a narwhal is a ***** READ THE ARTICLE YOU ***** WRANGLER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- MWeather, on 12/03/2008, -0/+17I don't pretend to understand Branigan's law, I just enforce it.
- inactive, on 12/03/2008, -5/+22Have you ever even tasted whale? You don't know what you're missing.
Regards,
Norway - Killphibian, on 12/03/2008, -3/+20Seriously. We should do something about that.
- Kitakaze, on 12/03/2008, -0/+15What, it's Canada's responsibility if a wild animal gets itself into trouble through no interference by Canadians? Something that would naturally happen in the wild?
So if you observe a cougar killing a rabbit, you should be held responsible, if you didn't interfere? Right?
How about
Option 3.) Let nature take its course, and try to edumacate yourself about the outdoors with something other than Bambi or other Disney flicks. *****. - Canadaa, on 12/03/2008, -5/+20why do all the Canada related stories have to do with hunting? can't something positive make it to the FP for a change?
- lorean, on 12/03/2008, -0/+14Mounty: Mr. Prime Minister, the narwhales are now trapped under a 100m sheet of ice!
Harper: Excelllent. Everything has gone as I have foreseen.
Harper: MuahaHaHaHaHaHAHAa - smt12, on 12/03/2008, -1/+14I'd have to object (as a Canadian) to being lumped with the Japanese. As least we don't have a fleet of "research vessels" that are used to get through a loophole in the international whaling treaty(ies?).
- Prismatic, on 12/03/2008, -24/+37Option 1.) Break the ice, potentially losing some due to stress
Option 2.) Let them all die.
Good job Canada. - johndi, on 12/03/2008, -0/+12Where did you get that number? Just this group is estimated at over 20,000. Worldwide estimates are unknown, but the WWF estimates between 50,000 and 80,000.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2008/12/01/na ...
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/europ ... - CalgaryJohn, on 12/03/2008, -2/+14Cheers to the CBC for giving a more neutral look at this issue. Sure, there's no way you can say ANY media outlet is completely unbiased. But the CBC could sure teach CNN and FOX a thing or two...
- jkendal4, on 12/03/2008, -6/+18http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=What+is+a+narw ...
- the2989, on 12/03/2008, -2/+13Buried as inaccurate, that site doesn't tell you both sides of the story.
- Velnich, on 12/03/2008, -1/+12This is more interesting than the fact that our government is falling apart right now. Viva la coalition government!
- masterc, on 12/03/2008, -2/+13IMMA FIRIN MAH AEROSOL CAN!!!!!
- CalgaryJohn, on 12/03/2008, -2/+13***** Eh! Some freelance hippie from Frisco who'd love nothing better than to go hug some Narwhals to get his hippie rocks off. What a waste of reading time
- feliks2, on 12/03/2008, -1/+12ice
- tristan55555, on 12/03/2008, -1/+11From user Higdon on the CBC site:
"I am a wildlife biologist and I work on Arctic marine mammals such as the narwhal. The High Arctic population is estimated at 20,000 to 25,000 whales, so 200 animals would represent ca. 0.8 to 1% of the total population, hardly a biologically significant proportion. And there is always limited open water in that area, globasl warming or not. Ice entrapments happen more often than we know, because they are often not seen.
Ice breakers hurt narwhal more than they help, and regardless of what people think it's hardly an effective solution, let alone an economical one. What if an ice-breaker went through, and then when the ice closed around it another few hundred whales got trapped? The whales would be so stressed out from the noise of the ice-breaker that it would probably kill them anyways. And given our current economic woes, I for one would not support having millions of my tax dollars go to make a failed attempt to save 1% of a healthy whale stock. No thanks.
And comparing this to saving whales stuck on an Australian beach is like comparing apples to oranges. No comparision.
Good luck to the hunters in Pond Inlet, I hope you have a safe and successful hunt.
The biggest problem/issue with narwhal conservation in the North is overharvesting in Greenland, so if people want to be activists/advocates, pester the Danes and the Greenland Home Rule Government.
And by the way CBC, belugas are "white Arctic whales"." - LogicBomB, on 12/03/2008, -0/+10They are not endangered, they would have died anyway if left alone. Ergo, eat up.
- ether3a1, on 12/03/2008, -2/+12Dugg down for you misspelling "narwhal" and having Google correct you...
- uncleosbert, on 12/03/2008, -1/+10no idiot, they were shot through a hole in the ice, one by one.
yeah, that isn't stressful. - Velnich, on 12/03/2008, -2/+11It's the seal hunt ***** all over again. Those damned Inuits living it up there on top of the world with every extravagance. /sarcasm
- Atertract, on 12/03/2008, -0/+9They should have used their horns to ocean magic themselves out from under the ice.
- trites11, on 12/03/2008, -0/+9That was perfect. Way to go man.
- Laiden, on 12/03/2008, -3/+12Damn you Al Gore!
- sbh6, on 12/03/2008, -0/+9Hey now! We have at least two boats and four planes. That counts...
- rz8472, on 12/03/2008, -27/+36Canada, Norway, and Japan are three of the greatest countries in the world in terms of social and economic progress but on the issue of whaling, they form a triumvirate of douchebaggery. Not everyone is perfect.
- degree, on 12/03/2008, -0/+9I am surprised how many trolls on Digg are coming out in support of the trolling of innocent Canadians. It just goes to show you what they would be like if they ever got their hands on any *****, which, thank goodness, is highly likely.
- maddskillz, on 12/03/2008, -1/+9Good point...if only people would quit buying the oil and teach them a lesson..
- CoreyHalliwell, on 12/03/2008, -11/+19I mean look at the guy who wrote this
"Alex is primarily concerned with animal welfare, wildlife preservation, and environmental justice. As a freelance writer in San Francisco, he leads a deliberately simplistic and thrifty lifestyle, yet still can’t help gawking at the newest green gadgets and zero-emission concept cars."
A freelance writer from San Francisco? Can we get some credible articles on digg? These animals may have been "slaughtered' BUT, they were harvested, which the Inuit have been doing for centuries. I mean you act like they were killed in an Oil Spill or something. Oh wait they KINDA were, they probably lost their route due to global warming which if you havent noticed, AMERICA contributes to. Sure Canada does too and the Oil Sands is a dirty project BUT don't go playing all innocent and heroic by pointing the blame at a small incident in a beautiful country when you should be worried about your own. This is just more sensational ***** brought about by some douche at starbucks.
Eat Dick. - JeffD, on 12/03/2008, -4/+12Meh, I didn't see any other country volunteering to front the cost to send icebreakers either.
- ProfessorLX, on 12/03/2008, -3/+11we did it just to ***** with peta
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