sometimes, you just can't find the words to describe human cruelty . . .

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030725.ugriz0726/BNStory/International/?query=russell

Brutal tragedy ends storied tale

By ALANNA MITCHELL
From Saturday's Globe and Mail

"The internationally famous research by two Canadian naturalists showing that grizzly bears in the snow-swept Russian wilderness can live peacefully with humans has ended in a brutal tragedy, The Globe and Mail has learned.

"The dozens of massive Siberian grizzly bears whose lives were catalogued for the groundbreaking eight-year study have been slaughtered in their nature sanctuary as a message to the Canadian researchers, Charlie Russell and Maureen Enns, to abandon the project. Their research has been the subject of a PBS television documentary, a bestselling book and hundreds of news stories across three continents.

"The people who killed the bears nailed the gall bladder of a baby grizzly to the research station's kitchen wall as a gruesome taunt."

- much more, unfortunately . . .

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030725.ugriz0726/BNStory/International/?query=russell

just disgust.

I have been watching that series and was quite impressed. It gave me the sense that at one time all the creatures in the world got along in love and respect. That is until we came along.

Oh lord, help us, please.

;(

after they've been skinned alive and tossed, weighted down, into the sea...