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Thousands of Antarctic reindeer face cull [1]

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 hunt

Publication Date: 
11/01/2013
Alister Doyle [2]
Planet Ark (Australia) [3]
Tags:
Wildlife [4], Hunting [5], Antarctica [6], Corals [7], Environment [8], Invasive Alien Species [9], WWF [10], Norway [11]

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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/thousands-antarctic-reindeer-face-cull
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/alister-doyle
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/planet-ark-australia
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wildlife
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hunting
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/antarctica
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/corals
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environment
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/invasive-alien-species
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wwf
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/norway