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Icelandic Hunting Tradition Endangers Puffins


Claire.

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Disappearing Puffins Bring an Icelandic Hunting Tradition Under Scrutiny

A wheel of wings spins around Grímsey Island, Iceland’s northernmost outpost. This eyebrow of land 40 kilometers above the mainland crosses the Arctic Circle. It’s home to some 70 residents, with one street, a tiny grocery store, a slash of airstrip roughly a third the length of the island, and a signpost pointing to the 66°33’ N parallel, across which tourists drive golf balls into the Arctic. In the brief high North summer, the island belongs to seabirds.

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Sounds like to me the problem runs deeper than just hunting.  Lack of food because of fishing seems to be another problem for them, even climate change.  Still they shouldn't be hunted even though it might not help the problem that much considering the other factors but it couldn't hurt.

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Not for nothing and off topic, but I know a guy in Iceland and they are all about cars and aircraft. :tsu:

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