Eco-Religionists Call For Beaver Extinction

The Global Warming zealots now want to eradicate the beaver. It seems that the ponds that beavers create is flooding the atmosphere with methane or something.

From the IBTimes here:

Beavers are contributing to climate change, adding an estimated 800 million kg of methane to the atmosphere every year, scientists have found.

Over the last century, there has been a worldwide conservation effort to save beavers from extinction. The fur trade between the 16th and 19th century almost led to the annihilation of beavers across the globe.

After trapping was limited and the creatures were reintroduced to their natural ranges, their numbers grew significantly, with scientists now estimating their population to have reached over 10 million worldwide.

However, the consequence of this has led to beavers building more ponds, creating conditions for climate changing methane gas to be generated in the shallow standing water. Beavers build dams in rivers to create standing ponds, with dams normally reaching no higher than 1.5m.

Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada have found this methane release from beaver ponds is now 200 times higher than it was a century ago.

The consequence of conservation? I thought those Global Warming freaks loved all animals? Now it seems that they deeply regret that the beaver wasn’t eradicated, and it wouldn’t surprise me if they started killing animals in the name of Gaia.