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Archives of The Cold Blooded NewsThe Newsletter of the Colorado Herpetological SocietyVolume 29, Number 1; January, 2002 |
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Snake Hearing? Where have frogs gone? T. rex Relative World's Smallest Lizard Ask the Vet Monstrous Croc Disposal Crocodiles It's a nice style Odor Cues by a Lizard Tortoise & Onion Next Issue February 2002 Previous Issues About the Cold Blooded News CHS Home Page |
Village Wants Disposal CrocodilesReprinted from the newsletter of the St. Louis Herpetological Society, Vol.28, No.9, September 2001.ananova.com - 5th September 2001: A fishing village in Iceland may import crocodiles as living waste disposal units. The crocs would chomp their way through the waste products of the fishing industry in Husavik, north east Iceland. The Mayor Reinhard Reynisson is thinking of importing the crocodiles and believes they'd be an added tourist attraction. "People mostly laugh at the idea, but for us it's more than a joke," Mayor Reinhard Reynisson told the BBC. "We are actually looking into it seriously." He was inspired after reading a magazine article which described a Colorado waste disposal scheme using crocodiles. "They have hard winters, snow and frost and so on, but have access to geothermal water," Mr Reynisson said. "So, circumstances there are a bit similar to ours here in Husavik." The warm ground water - that is used for domestic heating and to produce electricity in the town - would be a perfect environment for the crocodiles. "It's more environmentally friendly to use animals in the food chain to eat [the waste] than to dispose of it in other ways," he said. "They would have a lot to do, and, as in Colorado, we expect that they would also attract tourists, just to see them." Copyright © 1998 - 2006, Colorado Herpetological Society. All rights reserved. | ||
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