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Protecting the whales from aggressive scavenger seagulls in Puerto Madryn
Saving the whales is something Argentines take so seriously that authorities are planning to shoot seagulls that have developed a habit of attacking the huge marine mammals. But environmentalists say the plan is misguided because humans are the real problem, creating so much garbage that the seagull population has exploded, endangering the whales. Read full article
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Aug 30th, 2012 - 04:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0Finally some Chubutean local news mades it into the front page of the international media ;-)
“Death over the Larus dominicanus”.
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Aug 30th, 2012 - 05:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Clean up all of your garbage in Chubut and the gulls will drop in numbers.
Chuckle chuckle
Seagull spotting in Chubut, garbage capital of the south.... a great tourist drawcard....
Aug 30th, 2012 - 06:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0better to go here http://www.nullarbornet.com.au/towns/headBight.html ..its garbage free.
As autoridades de Puerto Madryn devem aranjar meios para a proteção dos animais mamiferos esta maravilha natural do mundo está em sofrimento e tem que sere protegida os animais mamiferos
Aug 30th, 2012 - 10:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0(2) Joe Bloggs
Aug 30th, 2012 - 05:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are 100% right.....
At least Argentina has still a healthy enough ecosystem that it has “wildlife”... not an acid-rain drenched, hewn to a bare, overpopulated concrete rock.
Aug 30th, 2012 - 05:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 06
Aug 30th, 2012 - 06:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Still a nasty little shit I see. Before I enter your baited trap though, could you please confirm where you're referring to?
How many times I have to say, you insult my country, my culture, my family, I will riposte. Is that really beyond your limited comprehension?
Aug 30th, 2012 - 06:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Let me ask you, how many people say “Hey, lets go to England to watch the magnificent wildlife, and to view those amazing natural parks??”
hahahahaha, that island is completely restroyed. So please, if you are so concerned about the environment, go to your overlords and show you indignation to them.
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Aug 30th, 2012 - 06:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ah, so you weren't talking about my country. In my country people come in relatively large numbers to see some of the world's largest numbers of birds among many other things.
England isn't as bad as you make it out to be. It sounds like you haven't been there. I'm there right now and I have to tell you that I've seen some spectacular countryside and national parkland this week.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
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Aug 30th, 2012 - 06:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I want to go see the Falkland Island's Wolf, the only species of mammal that developed on a sub-polar island in the southern hemisphere...
Can that be arranged?
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Aug 30th, 2012 - 07:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0LOL! Sorry, you're trying the wrong subject to rattle me with. I come on this site to argue that the Falklands is British and frankly I don't care about whether it is the UK or Spain or Italy that has wiped out the most aboriginals and wildlife species. It's a terrible shame that species are becoming extinct but I'm not going to die in the ditch about it. If Chubut cleaned up their garbage there would be less gulls in the area. If we cleaned up our landfill there would be also. When the warrah was wiped out the Falklands was a different place without the mature, nature-conscious population it has now. Things were different the world over.
I come on here a bit because your county's government would like to throw me off my island and steal my country. Mercopress tends to report on that quite a bit. From what I can see, you come on here because you are bitter and twisted about Europe and the US. I couldn't be less interested.
Chuckle chuckle.
It's a bit ironic that Argentina is worried about the environment when its government (although not necessarily its people) are quite happy to promote over fishing in an attempt to undermine the Falklands' economy
Aug 30th, 2012 - 07:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You can't have it both ways...
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Aug 30th, 2012 - 07:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We choose not to be nature-conscious. Problem? Good for you that you are, too late for the poor little lupus though.
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It's a bit ironic the Brits criticize Argentina about the environment. We still got an environment, you don't.
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Aug 30th, 2012 - 07:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0LOL! Well that makes your post at 6 lack some credibility doesn't it? You are SO bitter and just looking for a fight all the time that you mess your own argument up.
Tell me, are all of the intelligent young people you know (I think that's how you describe yourself when having a rare moment of blowing your own trumpet) as stupid as you?
LOL!
Just because we don't care doens't mean we deliberately destroy it. I don't care about any of you that doesn' mean I want to kill anyone. Get it?
Aug 30th, 2012 - 08:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 015
Aug 30th, 2012 - 08:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Whatever Toby.
Tell me this though because I am truly curious. Many people on here on both sides use multiple names or change from one name to another. You are one such person as far as I know. How many different names have you used on Mercopress and why do you do it? Nobody knows who you really are so it's not as if you lose face if just using the one name. People can't really get at you so why do you change names? Is it because you feel embarrassed if you have a particularly bad session or is for some other reason?
Whatever.
Aug 30th, 2012 - 08:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ive only used two nicks. Tobias, and then this one. I stopped using Tobias forever when I promised Xect I would do so about three months ago. And I have not ONCE broken that promise. You guys will deny this and claim I have a million nicks, whatever. Fodder for swine.
My word is much more reliable than any of yours will ever be.
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Aug 30th, 2012 - 08:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Okay okay except you didn't answer all of my question. Of course you don't have to. God forbid I try to tell you what you should do. But why change names in the first place? Or nicks as you seem to refer to them as. Is nicks what the Young call them?
Oh, and one other thing. Several months ago you told me you think we should be left alone in the Falklands. Is that still what you think?
First part: I changed my name because I felt like it. I liked the “Truth Telling Troll”, it has a superhero ring to it.
Aug 30th, 2012 - 08:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Second part: yes.
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Aug 30th, 2012 - 08:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thank you.
@10 'I want to go see the Falkland Island's Wolf, the only species of mammal that developed on a sub-polar island in the southern hemisphere... '
Aug 30th, 2012 - 10:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Falklands aren't sub polar.... South Georgia is below the convergence.... the Falklands aren't.
Yes its a pity about the Warrah, and the Tasmanian Tiger, and lots of other species no longer with us but I don't miss the dinosaurs and I wouldn't miss the Great White Shark......
Oh yeah, lets compare the Thylacine or “Warrah” (both 100 years ago), to 65 million years ago.
Aug 30th, 2012 - 10:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I would pay to see this... http://travel.aol.co.uk/2012/09/02/whale-eating-seagulls-patagonia-shot-argentinian-police/?
Sep 02nd, 2012 - 09:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Shooting seagulls with rubber bullets from a moving platform...way too funny..
@22 Come on TiT.. you can do better than that... and you don't have to put Warrah in inverted commas....
Why not do both, shoot them and clean up the garbage?
Sep 04th, 2012 - 12:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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