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| A book of First Class stamps http://thumbzilla.fun/ thumbzilla Ironically, those looking for hope in this vast dark oceanic panorama can possibly take comfort if they examine what must rank as one of the bleakest episodes in all human encounters with albatrosses. The events occurred on the southern Japanese island of Torishima where 19th-century entrepreneurs spotted a lucrative market. Its massive breeding population of short-tailed albatrosses was systematically clubbed to death and converted into feathers or rendered down for oil. For its rapid, almost mindless, depletion of a valuable crop, the slaughter of ‘shorties’ on Torishima ranks with the very worst examples of exploitation of a marine resource. Its agents kept hammering their wooden clubs into the flocks – estimated to number five million – until they were all gone. By the Second World War, the short-tailed albatross was judged to be extinct. |
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