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- PaulOwen, on 05/25/2008, -0/+7Extinct in Japan. RTFA.
The word "reintroduction" is the giveaway. - edebolt, on 05/25/2008, -1/+8I had a great idea about this but I am writing two weeks before I read the actual article so really I cannot comment at this time.
- slifty, on 05/25/2008, -3/+9If this article doesn't end up being about time travel I will be incredibly disappointed.
- Tyrghast, on 05/25/2008, -0/+6Japanese Superscience > Nazi Superscience.
- ChileanGoD, on 05/25/2008, -0/+5Now thanks to you its not the case anymore.
- inactive, on 05/25/2008, -0/+4i used to live in japan
they are extremely sensitive to the poetic beauty of natureo them adjusting to nature is not a big psychological leap
in many western developed countries that sensitivity has to be induced which is not easy
some people(s) have to be forced by law to care enough to make these adjustments and by the time that is accomplished it is often too late for a species - charlietuna, on 05/25/2008, -0/+3painting gray storks?
- czhe, on 05/25/2008, -0/+2Stop dwelling on the whale issue. If any one of you have ever been to or seen the actual Japan, you will understand how environmental-friendly they are. Take the garbage issue for example, the Japanese are absolute garbage nazis. When I lived there, I had to split all my garbage up into over 20 categories and dump them accordingly. On that note, I'm not saying you will be executed for not doing so, but the culture demands it so strongly that everyone is aware of it and acts accordingly.
- inactive, on 05/25/2008, -1/+2They are safe for now, but Godzilla could just show up any minute and own them in a second.
- SSUK, on 05/25/2008, -0/+1Another Stork...
- sat0shi, on 05/25/2008, -4/+5Oh, look, Japanese people interested in the environment. I hope all you hippies who condemned the Japanese for hunting the "precious whales" (which was not making them extinct) will look at this and understand that Japanese people do care about the environment. While you all were bashing Japan for their horrible treatment of whales, America continued to pollute the air with greenhouse gases and waste as many natural resources as they can muster. Meanwhile, Japan continues to push programs such as "cool biz" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on a nationwide basis.
Hopefully these types of good things coming out of Japan will help shed some better light on this country and its environmental awareness. - inactive, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1So innocent people like me and the million of other people who don't do ***** for or against whales have to feel guilty so people like you can feel like your accomplishing something by saving a few whales a year? Bravo.
Whales are dumb, they should stay in the ocean. - kamisama, on 05/25/2008, -0/+1Well perhaps if we didn't play around with subs and boats equipped with sonar which throws them off they wouldn't beach, unless they are ready to die. Which is another reason why some whales beach. You are a moron.
- inactive, on 05/25/2008, -0/+1Yes Luke16, please suck a dick, contract aids, leprosy and hepatitis. Then die slowly of cancer.
- inactive, on 05/25/2008, -1/+2This just in. There has been an astronomical rise recent births in Japan since the Stork came back from the brink of extinction...
....coincidence? - Tyrghast, on 05/25/2008, -0/+1Tony Stork.
- graviplana, on 05/25/2008, -2/+2Gee poor Storks. WHAT ABOUT THE ***** WHALES YOU ASSES KILL EN MASSE EACH YEAR?
- Tyrghast, on 05/25/2008, -1/+1YOUR WORDS FALL ON DEAF EARS. THIS IS THE INTERNET. COWER IN FEAR, MORTAL!
- JKAL, on 05/25/2008, -1/+1gee I hope you are a strict vegan, otherwise... look at yourself in the mirror.
- kwksdvmsl032, on 05/25/2008, -1/+1I think you're finally seeing the result for protecting the nature and the animals.
- phantom_mullet, on 05/25/2008, -1/+1ignorant much ? buried
- inactive, on 05/25/2008, -1/+1Who the ***** cares about whales. Big fat bastards who are too stupid to avoid hitting that big thing called land and being beached. Nice.
Also they live in the sea, something that's thousands of miles deep and are separate from us. Whales are idiots. - Zippo, on 05/25/2008, -1/+1The quota of whales in Japan is less than 1000... and it's not commercial whaling - that quota is for the whole operation... Commercial whaling in Japan stopped in 1985...
Sure, they're still killing 950 whales each year, but this whole thing is vastly exaggerated by activist groups. - Rizzen, on 05/25/2008, -1/+0hate you... so much...
- smitlet, on 05/25/2008, -2/+1Japan the final frontier
- SmellyGeekBoy, on 05/25/2008, -3/+1Where does it say "extinct" ..?
- jessenoob, on 05/25/2008, -5/+3If they've been extinct, where have all the babies come from?
- MickJT, on 05/25/2008, -7/+3I don't get it, if they were extinct, then how are given "new life" now?
From the caption, "Oriental white storks in the Hyogo district of Japan, where the reintroduction of traditional farming methods is helping them thrive".. Err, then they weren't extinct? I see nothing in the article about how some were found after 1971.
Fill me in.
This is an oxymoron: "When Japan's last oriental white stork died in 1971 it was thought that the birds had disappeared forever.".. Well if it was the last one to die, then they've disappeared forever haven't they? This damn article makes no sense :) - ac42, on 05/25/2008, -6/+1Obviously they weren't extinct to begin with. Extinct means 'no more of them', and they are estimating there are about 2500 worldwide. That's not extinct. But when they say things like 'when the LAST stork died in 1971' they sound ridiculous, since it obviously wasn't the last stork. Just the last one they knew about there. Sometimes humans are way too full of themselves to think they know everything. Good for them for fixing their environment, and helping the storks to raise their numbers again, but you can revive an 'extinct' species.
- luke16, on 05/25/2008, -9/+1No comments, on front page......errrr
- rock774, on 05/25/2008, -10/+2programme ? buried
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