Dozens of massacred narwhals found on Greenland coast

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

COPENHAGEN (AFP) — Dozens of massacred narwhals, an Arctic whale with a single long tusk, have been discovered on the east coast of Greenland in what local police said Thursday could be a case of poaching.

"We received a complaint that there may have been a possible violation of the Greenlandic law regarding the protection of narwhals, after the discovery of cadavers in Illoqqortoormiut," the deputy chief of Greenland police Morten Nielsen told AFP.

A scientific expedition from New Zealand discovered the carcasses as they sailed along the coastline "about two weeks ago," Nielsen said.

According to Danish and Greenlandic media, 48 animals were killed, but police refused to confirm those reports.

People in Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory,...