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Topic: This British Assault on an
Island Off Argentina Is for the Birds |
This British Assault on an
Island Off Argentina Is for the Birds
Wall Street Journal, by Cassell Bryan-Low
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 1/24/2013 8:18:03 AM
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| LITTLE DOWNHAM, U.K.—Britain is dispatching a band of skilled killers to an island off the Argentine coast on a boat carrying a lethal arsenal. No, not to repeat the Falklands War. This time, it is to attack a problem that has been brewing in a remote British overseas territory for more than 200 years: rampaging rats. Specialists from the U.K. are calling it the world´s biggest rat cull. The location is the glacial island of South Georgia in the Atlantic, about 1,200 miles east of the tip of South America. The problem: the island is overrun with the rats
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Comments:
I read a novel a couple of years ago about a similar effort on the islands off the coast of California.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
MickTurn, 1/24/2013 9:39:15 AM (No. 9136143)
How the hades did the Libs manage to infest that island?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
birddog, 1/24/2013 10:21:53 AM (No. 9136248)
Guam would happily donate the Brown Tree Snakes the US Govt. sent them to solve the same problem...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 1/24/2013 11:10:29 AM (No. 9136377)
Good one #2! New Zealand is having a problem with their cat population eating birds according to a rich wacko bird lover named Morgan. He conveniently forgets that cats help control the rodent infestations that breed disease in humans.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
globalwarmer, 1/24/2013 11:17:43 AM (No. 9136398)
But, he (Martin)says, he doesn´t underestimate his enemy. If you don´t respect the rats, "you´re in trouble. They will outthink you."
He is talking about the animal here, right?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
drkillj0y, 1/24/2013 1:24:40 PM (No. 9136768)
Heck, they should just make this a competition and sell tickets....
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