Plan to kill Arctic geese outrages environmentalists OTTAWA (Reuters) - Environmentalists recoiled in horror Tuesday at a proposal to slaughter the populous snow goose to protect the "fragile" Arctic tundra, slamming the government plan as an unnecessary spectacle of blood. Millions of the birds descend on the tundra south of Canada's Hudson Bay each spring. Some scientists believe the birds are laying waste to the meager vegetation in the frozen North. Three environmental groups challenged the contention by the U.S. and Canadian governments that the tundra was an "ecosystem in peril" and are protesting the idea of aggressively hunting the birds. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2556457011-0fe>
