Jolt
06-12-2011, 03:34
A few of you might remember a thread I created a couple of years ago with this very title about the attack from feral camels against a town in Australia, trampling through homes and destroying water pipeliness so they could quench their thirst force the humans of that town into submission.
Here's a portion of my last thread's post, detailing the Camel offensive:
Up to 6,000 of the animals have caused chaos in the Northern Territory town of Docker River, trampling through homes, breaking water tanks and disrupting the emergency airstrip.
Rob Knight, the local government minister for the Northern Territory, said [...] “The community of Docker River is under siege by 6,000 marauding, wild camels,” said Mr Knight. “This is a significant community, some 350 people. They have come right into the community, smashing infrastructure, so it’s become a critical situation.
“There are health issues. There are camels being trampled, and carcasses. They are smashing over water mains and intruding on the airstrip, causing problems with medical evacuations.”
The human response was to plan the massacre the whole invading camel army, but then I'm not sure how the story ended. If that was Episode I: The Camel Menace, then the recent news are surely Episode II: The Camel Wars.
Australia Considers Killing Camels to Tackle Climate Change
Published June 09, 2011
FoxNews.com
AP
Camels sit on beach at Noosa, Queensland, Australia.
Kill a camel to stop pollution? That's what Australia is considering.
The Land Down Under is considering killing feral camels to help tackle climate change, according to a report by news service AFP.
The suggestion came in a paper from the country's Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. A camel produces methane equivalent to one ton of of carbon dioxide a year, making the animal one of the country's biggest greenhouse gasses emitters, it noted.
A commercial company, Northwest Carbon, has proposed culling more than one million camels in the Australian Outback to eliminate that gas emissions, according to AFP.
In the proposed plan, the company would shoot the camels from a helicopter or round them up and send them to a slaughterhouse.
"We're a nation of innovators and we find innovative solutions to our challenges -- this is just a classic example," Northwest Carbon managing director Tim Moore told Australian Associated Press.
Australia's government is considering the idea and legislation for the "Carbon Farming Initiative" will go before the country's parliament next week.
Source (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/09/australia-considers-killing-camels-to-tackle-climate-change/)
Australia had already payed a heavy price some decades ago in the Emu War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War), so now under the pretext of global warming, the humans will launch the final offensive the against the camels, thus spark the...
Camel Wars (http://www.navyfrogmen.com/images/camel.JPG)
Here's a portion of my last thread's post, detailing the Camel offensive:
Up to 6,000 of the animals have caused chaos in the Northern Territory town of Docker River, trampling through homes, breaking water tanks and disrupting the emergency airstrip.
Rob Knight, the local government minister for the Northern Territory, said [...] “The community of Docker River is under siege by 6,000 marauding, wild camels,” said Mr Knight. “This is a significant community, some 350 people. They have come right into the community, smashing infrastructure, so it’s become a critical situation.
“There are health issues. There are camels being trampled, and carcasses. They are smashing over water mains and intruding on the airstrip, causing problems with medical evacuations.”
The human response was to plan the massacre the whole invading camel army, but then I'm not sure how the story ended. If that was Episode I: The Camel Menace, then the recent news are surely Episode II: The Camel Wars.
Australia Considers Killing Camels to Tackle Climate Change
Published June 09, 2011
FoxNews.com
AP
Camels sit on beach at Noosa, Queensland, Australia.
Kill a camel to stop pollution? That's what Australia is considering.
The Land Down Under is considering killing feral camels to help tackle climate change, according to a report by news service AFP.
The suggestion came in a paper from the country's Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. A camel produces methane equivalent to one ton of of carbon dioxide a year, making the animal one of the country's biggest greenhouse gasses emitters, it noted.
A commercial company, Northwest Carbon, has proposed culling more than one million camels in the Australian Outback to eliminate that gas emissions, according to AFP.
In the proposed plan, the company would shoot the camels from a helicopter or round them up and send them to a slaughterhouse.
"We're a nation of innovators and we find innovative solutions to our challenges -- this is just a classic example," Northwest Carbon managing director Tim Moore told Australian Associated Press.
Australia's government is considering the idea and legislation for the "Carbon Farming Initiative" will go before the country's parliament next week.
Source (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/09/australia-considers-killing-camels-to-tackle-climate-change/)
Australia had already payed a heavy price some decades ago in the Emu War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War), so now under the pretext of global warming, the humans will launch the final offensive the against the camels, thus spark the...
Camel Wars (http://www.navyfrogmen.com/images/camel.JPG)