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Bald eagles found slaughtered in North Van grave

CTV.ca News Staff

 

A B.C. woman discovered a sickening case of animal mutilation while walking her dog along Vancouver's North Shore.

 

On Wednesday, Julie Bryson-McElwee stumbled upon a shallow grave full of dead bald eagles on a trail adjacent to Vancouver's Dollarton highway. And upon closer inspection, she noticed that the eagles had also been mutilated.

 

"I was horrified," Bryson-McElwee told CTV Vancouver. "They didn't have any legs."

 

Brywon-McElwee contacted the authorities and said she was so upset by her discovery, she stayed with the birds for hours until police arrived. She was worried that someone would try to remove the bodies once the story hit the news.

 

"Whoever did this had a real operation going, there were garbage bags all around the grave and in it. It looked to me like they were killed somewhere else and brought here to be buried," she told Canadian Press.

 

Conservation officers removed about 14 bodies Wednesday. But in past months they found another bag containing the heads of numerous bald eagles, bringing the total to over two dozen birds killed and dumped in this location.

 

Wildlife officers investigating the killings say they aren't uncommon, and point to a large market for the feet and tail feathers of bald eagles.

 

"A large market is in the United States," wildlife conservation officer Colin Copland told CTV Vancouver.

 

"The United States has a very stringent bald eagle act which prohibits the possession and transport of eagle parts, eagle feathers. Of course our population of eagles are doing quite well in British Columbia and so we've become a source for unlawfully taken birds."

 

"We have found birds mutilated like this over the years,'' Rick Hahn, a senior conservation officer for the Lower Mainland, told Canadian Press. "We suspect there is a black market trade in the talons. Eagles are traditionally used by First Nations people for cultural ceremonies.

 

"However, we haven't made that link in this case.''

 

Chief Bill Williams of the Squamish First Nation told Canadian Press that eagles are revered by natives, who use bird parts from carcasses found by the provincial conservation office.

 

"We don't go out into the wild and take them ourselves,'' he said.

 

When dead birds are passed on to a native band they are blessed to release their spirit, and prayers are said to apologize on behalf of man for their death.

 

"Because it flies so high, the eagle is closest to the creator. It brings prayers to the creator,'' Williams said.

 

Because of the special place bald eagles occupy in both western and native cultures, penalties for killing or even possessing dead birds are severe.

 

Whoever is responsible for this slaughter could face up to $1-million in fines and six months in prison.

 

About half of the world's 70,000 bald eagles live in Alaska.

 

Combined with B.C's population of about 20,000, North America's northwest coast is their greatest stronghold.

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Hey Twizted, if your next post in this thread sucks as much as the other posts have, you won't be able to post again until sometime tomorrow.

No! I created this thread out of boredom, and that might force me to go outside or something!

 

All right.. how about this..

 

Fire authorities in California found a corpse in a burned out section of forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased male was dressed in a full wet suit, complete with scuba tanks on his back, flippers, and face mask. A post-mortem revealed that the person died not from burns, but from massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive identification.

 

Investigators set about to determine how a fully clad diver ended up in the middle of a forest fire. It was revealed that on the day of the fire, the person went for a diving trip off the coast some 20 miles from the forest. The fire-fighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible, called in a fleet of helicopters with very large dip buckets. Water was dipped from the ocean and then flown to the forest fire and emptied. You guessed it. One minute our diver was making like Flipper in the Pacific, the next he was doing the breast stroke in a fire dip bucket 300 feet in the air.

 

Apparently he extinguished exactly 5'10" of the fire. Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed - This article was taken from the California Examiner, March 20, 1998

 

*Covers his eyes* You can ban me, but I won't see it!

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and there's nothing you can do about it

suspension

Bwa ha ha.

You're lucky Ill hasn't fixed the permission masks for mods and admins back to how they were, or you'd be SO gone. Can't even get to a friggin' control panel...

 

Nope, I was right :D

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He's a Good Charlotte fan, so you should tack on 48 more hours.

Favorite.Mod.

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Explain to me the basis of your sig Captain, and is that actually Neil Young?

It is indeed. Neil Young is a model train maniac and he recently co-founded a company in that field with that plastic looking guy on the left.

 

Neil Young: Small Business Entrepreneur.

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Should've stayed shut up, babe. Now it's just down to me and Quality Poster in this exclusive club. Care for champagne? Yummy Mummy?

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