Thousands of Antarctic reindeer face cull (no, not a typo)

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http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/01/09/us-reindeer-idUKBRE9080LH20130109

(Reuters) - 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 hunters.

A 16-strong team, mostly Sami reindeer herders, has arrived in South Georgia, a British overseas territory, and is preparing to round up and cull all the reindeer on an island that is home to penguins and seals and has no native grazing animals.

My first thought was that the editor had made an error when writing the headline. I never realized there were islands within the Antarctic Circle with reindeer populations (apparently this isn't the only island either).

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1. Caribou meat

Caribou meat is good stuff. I wonder of they are using assault rifles for the culling?