A polar bear was spotted today in Thistilfjordur, northeast Iceland by a farm worker who was stood less than 100 metres from the bear when she noticed.
Police took the decision to shoot the bear, as conditions need to be right to affect a rescue – chief among them the stipulation that people not be endangered.
The bear’s arrival in Iceland is highly unusual. Two polar bears were shot and killed in Iceland in the summer of 2008 and no others had been spotted for around 20 years before.
The three reasons stated for the decision to shoot the bear were: human safety, the abundance of polar bears in eastern Greenland (where the bear was almost certainly from) and the huge costs involved in capturing it alive and returning it home.
Polar bears are considered an endangered species. Because of melting ice caps from global warming, there less land for them to live on…and when one finally lands on land (iceland) it gets shot! what a strange world we live in
[…] It is not absolutely unheard of for polar bears to materialize on the customarily ice-free shores of relatively balmy, oceanic Iceland; but it is a rarity, to the extent that such sightings are matters of record, and since settlement in the AD 9th century have numbered no more than 500. And last January, a white bear was spotted near a farm in northeast part of the island nation and had to be shot (https://www.icenews.is/index.php/2010/01/27/polar-bear-shot-in-iceland/). […]
I am so torn on animal issues. I am so glad it is not me to decied their fate. I would not kill anything and we would have population issues or some other kind of problem. I just do not want to even be involved in a decision like that. I mean polar bears killing livestock would be just as devastating to me as loss of life. But guess what I eat meat with no problem. So you tell me what I am???
“Gouverment decided to shoot a bear because this this and this”
It was actually a farmer who shot the bear, and he had no idea any one was looking for it.
“If you live in north of Iceland you learn that there are some chances you will spot a bear. And then you make a plan of action like hide and stuff”
lol
@ Bromley
So you say if we would live in some other enviroment like close to woods we would kill all wolves in it just so we are safe? If we want to dive in some warm seas we kill all sharks first? No, we teach ourselves and our kids that they have to be carefull. If you live in north of Iceland you learn that there are some chances you will spot a bear. And then you make a plan of action like hide and stuff… My point with horse comment is that you can’t really eliminate all danger around you.
And the guys making those desicions maybe would be the same ones who decided that Aspirin is not healthy so Icelnd is to be probably the only country in the world where you can’t get aspirin in pharmacy. Or the same pack that allowed the banks to be stronger than the country itself?
I’m not from Iceland to and not that in my homecountry everything is perfect, I can name hundreds things that they are bad there. But criticizm is what is lacking here. Nobody critics anything. Gouverment decided to shoot a bear because this this and this. Oh, ok! Nobody explores other options… You understand my point?
Let’s kill all whales they are eating our fish and they been fishing more then the world can eat and whales are cathing fish for their purposes only. And so on and so on……
No, I am not a guy who doesen’t go out and doesen’t get in contact with nature. I don’t say bear on street is not potential danger but they are easiest ways then putting a bullet in his head.
Interestingly enough, this statement in the article might not mean what it appears to:
Police took the decision to shoot the bear, as conditions need to be right to affect a rescue – chief among them the stipulation that people not be
My reading of that was that the police shot it. Instead, it appears that a farmer did. And that there were three, presumably sanctioned (the decision by the police mentioned in the article), hunters after it.
http://www.grapevine.is/News/ReadArticle/Farmer-Who-Shot-Polar-Bear-Surprised-Bear-Is-Skinned
But, then again, IR says the police did the deed. So who knows.
http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16567&ew_0_a_id=357173
And after that measure her aggresivity and observe her behaviour. You will get the same ammount of those in polar bear.
Cite?
Seriously, you might be correct. However the Icelanders here (and I am not one of them) have said that that is not the case. In fact quite the opposite. They may be wrong, but unless you can show otherwise I’ll take their word for it.
You don’t help your argument with things like that horse comment. Wherever you’re from, and whatever your experience, try to imagine living in a very isolated spot. Then imagine (a) a horse and (b) a polar bear outside.
Final point. You may feel all righteous, but don’t think that that’s a substitute for facts.
@ Bromley
Come on man!!! Of course it’s easier and cheaper to shoot the animal and throw it in the ocean rather than bother with tranq-guns, nets, transport, feeding and all what involves keeping the bear alive. From that point you are definitely right. It is cheaper! Cost of one single bullet can’t really compare to all this what they would have to do in order to save a bears life. One wise man long long long long time ago said that treatment of animals is reflection of one country humanity. And don’t tell fairytails about some “smart” comitee that took a debate of 25seconds and a half what should they do if bear floats to Iceland. Probably over Big Mac portions with XL fries and liter of coke. Don’t insult us with this smoke, ok? And don’t tell me you could not keep polar bear in Iceland on highest temperature of 20-25C. It costs, of course. Esspecially more than a bullett, I’ll give you that.
Take any animal, cat for instance, and give her only water for a period of time wahtever you think it’s most likely that that bear was floating from God nows where to icelandic shore. And after that measure her aggresivity and observe her behaviour. You will get the same ammount of those in polar bear. So, even you don’t want to admit it but they could save that bears life. With some money spended of course.
I would really understand if bear chased someone or attacked or anything so it would be a diffence and life protecting act. But like this…. You really think that is ok? You know that horse can kill you if he kicks you with the legs? Why not killing all horses then? And leave the country with harmless sheep?
“. In this town the zoo has one polar bear and I was told that they would like to find some company for him.”
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=BUTCHYKID624#p/u/57/UCCWxL0jlPA
@Bromley,
I admit that I do not know about the practicalities of keeping polar bears….but should it be in an icelandic zoo? After all icelanders have demonstrated to the world that they cannot run anything.
I regularly visit the birth town of my father, a large german town with more inhabitants than the entire country of Iceland. There are about 30 such towns in Germany and nearly all of them have zoos. In this town the zoo has one polar bear and I was told that they would like to find some company for him.
I am always suspicious when 3 dumb reasons are given to try and justify an action taken. It only takes 1 good reason to do something right.
>So, we do have brains… Right…?
Still not convinced that’s the case.
You clearly know nothing about the practicalities of keeping polar bears in zoos. That’s fine; neither do I. However, unlike you, I don’t assume that it’s easy.
For example, the most polar bears kept in a zoo are 6 (Moscow & a French zoo on the Swiss border). Iceland has shot 3 bears in 3 years and, although apparently that’s an above-average frequency, it’s clear that Iceland could easily have to house a relatively large number of bears. Assuming that your proposed Icelandic zoo is to be self-sufficient, how do you reconcile the vast difference in population base available to visit the zoo?
Likewise your assumption that the bears are tired because of their trip and hunger. Without knowing the truth, I’d be more inclined to believe the Icelanders that have posted saying that the bears are more dangerous in that state.
What I can say is that an Icelandic commitee has met to decide what they should do when polar bears turn up. You might not agree with their conclusions, but you cannot argue that they would have had access to more facts (costs, behaviour, etc.) than you do. Until you rectify that, I’m unable to take your unsubstantiated opinions seriously.
http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/gid,11907919,title,Niedzwiedzica-rzucila-sie-na-weterynarza,gpage,2,img,11907967,galeria.htmlm thats how they should do that, put bear to sleep and to zoo or send him back. If we can…, yeah but Iceland is Iceland, they like to kill bears.
Niels
“Who is talking about getting polar bears from Greenland? I am talking about the ones that end up in Iceland.”
Does it matter where polar bears are shot ?
why not save a bear that we know will be shot rather than cry over the dead ones.
“It might even be possible to turn part of northern Iceland into a polar bear reservation.Iceland is empty enough and there are enough seals to prey on”
The polar bear hunts seal on ice, whitout ice the seals are to fast for them, its too warm in iceland for wild polarbear.
We could convert the parliament building into a zoo, we already have 63 chimps in there, maybe chimps and bears can get along,
if not, my money would be on the bears.
Happy days ahead in the EU ?
http://www.gata.org/node/8246
@ Bromley86 Yes Bromley, that’s really a huugeee cost. To train police to shoot right? Cmon, to train a police to shoot. To relocate a bear it’s also not a big deal. How many ship do you have? Calculate how much gas do you need to take bear to Grenland and tell me that Iceland can’t hold that cost. Nobody is talking letting wolves on the streets.
Think a little, bear came on iceberg right? Can you estimate roughly how much time is needed to float from Greenland to Iceland. He had water (ice) but he didn’t had food so he was most probably exhausted, right? It’s really hard to catch a starving and tired animal.
And even if gasoline to Greenland is too expensive, can’t you at leas put the bear in the zoo? Right? Not that is the most human solution but more human than killing the bear, right?
So, we do have brains… Right…?
Well, i´m from Iceland and i wish that they would have tried to save the bear. It was a young bear and healthy.
But he was shot on sight.
Sad, really.
Hope people here understand that not all in Iceland wanted this. I wish that he would have been saved and moved back to his home.
It was a bad decision to kill the bear!
Alexander,
Never mind about the editing, your message has come across. Bromley has shown how it is possible
to do some editing on a comment (did not try it myself yet)
If you want to bold, as above, it’s:
-b+Type away here-/b+
Where – is the less than sign and + is the more than sign. Let’s see if the other easy ones work:
u for underline
i for italics
-b+ Niels, please decide who you are – a human who cares about money or human who cares about animals. -/b+
Well Alexander, maybe I am a split personality (though I do noy see how one aspect should automatically exclude the other :-) but I like both.
I do like money and i do like animals. When I was in Reykjavik I really liked to buy bread and feed the birds in Tjoernin lake for instance.
And if you are interested, I donate part of my hard earned euro’s to charities like this one:
http://www.gambicats.org.uk/
Apart from this my comment merely tries to demonstrate that respect for animals and profits can be combined.
Moreover, while some zoos (for instance in the former USSR) are dreadful places, zoos in more developed countries actually play a big role in the preservation of endangered species while the captured animals live relatively well.
“ chimps are really dangerous too
Are they hunting humans for food? OMG! I though they eat bananas.”
Actually, while they seem cute, chimps are extremely dangerous and they like to eat meat . They hunt other monkeys in order to eat them and they are strong enough to rip an adult man apart.
?Some years ago a chimp developed an appetite for human meat and would get into a village regularly to obduct and murder children.
It is probably safe to say that more people are killed by chimps than by polar bears.
“
But! Please ask a foundation in the EU (Libearty) to transfer “rescue deposit” in advance, please. And if they wish to pay for fuel and work – Icelanders would be happy to rescue all bears lost in North Atlantic.
“
This is actually not a crazy idea at all. If Iceland would be willing to stop its ‘ shoot the polar bear’ policy, something like this could be worked out.
|”Do you mean lion hunting safari? Or elephants hunt? Yes, I’ve heard about that. But we don’t have elephants here :(
“
Actually most tourists to Africa go on a ‘ photo safari’ . They want to see the animals in the wild and make pictures of them. We also did this in Kenya and it was wonderful.
A ‘ polar bear sanctuary’ could also bring in money for Iceland.
“I think Iceland is doing this perfectly by sending the message “Use you brains and follow common sense instead of some freaking ideas about magic brotherhood of polar bears and humans, global warming etc”
I disagree: in a time when the counry desperately tries to show its human face to the world (for instance by the rescue effort in Haiti) it destroys its image by actions like this, while Iceland in fact needs every friend it could find.
“Reykjavik does have a zoo but it is not a big attraction at all since it focuses only on animals living in Iceland.”
You call that a zoo? Have you ever been to a zoo?
A zoo can generate big profits if it has interesting animals and its design is nice.
but if you a farm and called a zoo what kind of profit can you expect.
“In stead of blindly supporting everything that is done in Iceland you would do well to look a bit further than Reykjavik 101 :-)”
Indeed!!!
Sh**t!
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>Shares of the zoo doubled in value:
Niels, please decide who you are – a human who cares about money or human who cares about animals.
Icelanders lives with animals side by side, day by day. And they don’t have to go to any zoo for that. As to polar bear in the zoo – this was one of the most terrible picture I saw.
>chimps are really dangerous too
Are they hunting humans for food? OMG! I though they eat bananas.
>I understand that in recent years 3 polar bears reached Iceland…it would not be too expensive to care about them I think.
Icelandic rescue team was busy at Haiti or at saving people. When they have nothing better to do – they might look at bears rescue. But! Please ask a foundation in the EU (Libearty) to transfer “rescue deposit” in advance, please. And if they wish to pay for fuel and work – Icelanders would be happy to rescue all bears lost in North Atlantic.
>if you look at the fact that all kinds of hightech were used to scan this polar bear and its surroundings. Icelanders and money…
You right, Icelanders don’t count money when people are in danger.
>Such wildlife tourism is big business in Africa.
So Alexander, the comparison I am making between Iceland and Gambia is not so ridiculous as you think.
Do you mean lion hunting safari? Or elephants hunt? Yes, I’ve heard about that. But we don’t have elephants here :(
>In NL, Germany and other western european countries the stock exchange is going up
This thread is about polar bear, remember?
Stock indexes were the highest right before the great collapse…if you forgot ;-)
>Apart from this it is sending a favourable picture to the rest of the world.
I think Iceland is doing this perfectly by sending the message “Use you brains and follow common sense instead of some freaking ideas about magic brotherhood of polar bears and humans, global warming etc”
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>>Shares of the zoo doubled in value:<>chimps are really dangerous too<>I understand that in recent years 3 polar bears reached Iceland…it would not be too expensive to care about them I think.<>if you look at the fact that all kinds of hightech were used to scan this polar bear and its surroundings. Icelanders and money…<>Such wildlife tourism is big business in Africa.
So Alexander, the comparison I am making between Iceland and Gambia is not so ridiculous as you think.<>In NL, Germany and other western european countries the stock exchange is going up<>Apart from this it is sending a favourable picture to the rest of the world.<<
I think Iceland is doing this perfectly by sending the message "Use you brains and follow common sense instead of some freaking ideas about magic brotherhood of polar bears and humans, global warming etc"
Niels, please decide who you are – a human who cares about money or human who cares about animals.
Icelanders lives with animals side by side, day by day. And they don’t have to go to any zoo for that. As to polar bear in the zoo – this was one of the most terrible picture I saw.
Are they hunting humans for food? OMG! I though they eat bananas.
Icelandic rescue team was busy at Haiti or at saving people. When they have nothing better to do – they might look at bears rescue. But! Please ask a foundation in the EU (Libearty) to transfer “rescue deposit” in advance, please. And if they wish to pay for fuel and work – Icelanders would be happy to rescue all bears lost in North Atlantic.
You right, Icelanders don’t count money when people are in danger.
Do you mean lion hunting safari? Or elephants hunt? Yes, I’ve heard about that. But we don’t have elephants here :(
This thread is about polar bear, remember?
Stock indexes were the highest right before the great collapse…if you forgot ;-)
I think Iceland is doing this perfectly by sending the message “Use you brains and follow common sense instead of some freaking ideas about magic brotherhood of polar bears and humans, global warming etc”
So angry about this KILLING of a baby bear…that I will go to Keflavik airport to inform ALL the tourists about your murderous ways….your country has blood on their hands….you cant wash the whale blood…so you can KILL a polar bear…
apart from the fact that I have lived and suffered like most ordinary Icelandic people from the ‘kreppa’….can anyone here explain how many more people have been eaten by Polar Bears…say in the last 10 years…compared to the people that have ‘Eaten your country’….if you need some help…FL…Baugur…Exista…ALL the ploticians….maybe use the same reson to shoot the guys that were the heros of Iceland as you do to kill a BABY Polar Bear…
You guys are so Brave….
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@Bromley,
The economic approach to keeping polar bears in a zoo in Iceland is an interesting one :-)
Reykjavik does have a zoo but it is not a big attraction at all since it focuses only on animals living in Iceland.
At the same time this zoo does have strong marketing potential since it is the most northern zoo in the world.
By keeping polar bears it could become a big attraction.
Perhaps it is worthwhile to look at the fact that the Berlin zoo made enormous profits when little Knut was born.
Shares of the zoo doubled in value:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_(polar_bear)
@Axel,
Who is talking about getting polar bears from Greenland? I am talking about the ones that end up in Iceland.
There is in fact a foundation in the EU (Libearty) which generates enough money to collect misstreated brown bears from all over Europe and bring them to NL. Ouwehand zoo is a private company and they are able to run a profit.
Apart from this it is sending a favourable picture to the rest of the world. We might be a colonial country picking on these poor icelanders but at least we like animals (same goes for the brits :-))
I understand that in recent years 3 polar bears reached Iceland…it would not be too expensive to care about them I think.
And the argument of çosts ‘is quite futile if you look at the fact that all kinds of hightech were used to scan this polar bear and its surroundings. Icelanders and money….
It might even be possible to turn part of northern Iceland into a polar bear reservation.Iceland is empty enough and there are enough seals to prey on.
Such wildlife tourism is big business in Africa.
So Alexander, the comparison I am making between Iceland and Gambia is not so ridiculous as you think.
In stead of blindly supporting everything that is done in Iceland you would do well to look a bit further than Reykjavik 101 :-)
Another parallel between chimps and polar bears, chimps are really dangerous too (like many other african animals) . Yet this is not an argument to kill them.
Alexander, talking about google and brains: I remember that you claimed that “Iceland was doing very well” when you just started posting and “that Iceland would get out of the crisis faster than other countries.”
Brilliant claims indeed with which I strongly disagreed.
In NL, Germany and other western european countries the stock exchange is going up, unemployment is declining, companies make profits again and in Iceland…..
Well Alexander, who is right now?? I already told you this from the start. Please look at the facts now.
Niels, if you bring $ 25ooo and a cage to Nunavut, then im sure the hunters there can help you stuff a living bear into the cage,
that way you can save a bear that has not been shot yet,
you could then rent a helicopter and ship it to one of the areas where polar bears are declining , or take it home with you as a pet.
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/722760–the-bear-facts-about-the-polar-bear-hunt
polar bears can not live in Iceland, because there is no ice to hunt on, the only food they can catch are humans ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oh8GgRaYT0&feature=related
If Iceland joins the EU the French, Portugese, Spanish, British, Irish, and German fishing fleets will be all over the N-Atlantic,
shortly after that all fish in the region will be gone,
that means the end of whales and seals, and when the seal polulation falls, the polar bear will be history,
this is something people should be thinking about, if they are really worried about the wildlife in this area.
Why not let Polar Bears establish themselves in Iceland? It would be a great tourist attraction and in so far as casualties go I’m sure that a lot could be learned from Svalbard and Greenland. There might even be some hidden ecological benefits that we don’t know about since there has not been polarbears on Iceland for a long time.
Icelanders take such cases very seriously.
With this particular bear a special patrol plane was used with thermal cameras to check that no other bears were in the area. And even after that public was advised to take care anyway. Those polar bears that by mistake reached Iceland are deadly and hell dangerous.
Niels (and all other bear-friendly bloggers). I’m not sure if Google can provide brains but at least you can read there about the difference between Iceland and Gambia, between chimps and hungry polar bears, between “releasing to island” and “relocating to Greenland”.
Any polar bear that reaches Iceland is doomed in the same way as it would be doomed if reaches Sahara. This is the law of nature.
The only food it can catch here are humans.
The cost of catching and relocating is huge whilst chances for survival are next to zero. And I’m sure that NONE of you – bear’s supporter – have ever paid a single peso, dollar, cent to such “rescue operations”.
So sit behind you screens in your imagine world and let Icelanders deal with their reality…please.
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>The concept of shooting displaced animals is an example of unproductive and brutal thinking. Why not catching these animals and putting them in a special zoo
It may well be that the committee that met in 2008 to discuss the government response to bears was incompetent. However, in the absence of any other information, it must be assumed that they considered but dismissed this option.
Again it comes down to money. Would a zoo pull in enough from a local population of 300k and the tourist population to adequately support them? Then there’s the numbers – 3 bears in 3 years when the most kept anywhere else is 6.
The concept of shooting displaced animals is an example of unproductive and brutal thinking. Why not catching these animals and putting them in a special zoo: would be a great tourist attraction. A dutch zoo collects displaced / misstreated brown bears from all over Europe and cares well for them : it is not only an example of helping animals but also a succesful tourist attraction:
http://www.ouwehand.nl/Ouwehands-Zoo.html
Even poor third world countries try to care for displaced animals. In Gambia for instance chimps and babboons are caught alive and released on islands where they can take of themselves. (I saw these islands myself: great photo opportunities)
Iceland is again doing its best to promote a poor image of itself, right at a moment when it needs every friend it can get.
The more I read on this forum, the stronger I get the impression that icelanders have some kind of national talent to shoot themselves in the leg.
Favorit Icelandic word , we do have brain, yeah right, and when people here want to buy a land rover, jacuzzi they dont even think in money you people dont respect animals this country dont have animals, for that reason should take in mind to protect them,it was the same silly excuse last time and by the way Iceland have so many population that probably could have eat all reykjavik?
in other places if a tiger goes in the middle of a city for some accident put them to sleep and send it to england like present hehe maybe they will forgive the Icesave or forget the luxury debt this stupid country have
>And for sure they would have found any animal rights group which would have paid all costs caused by an living ice bear and all costs arisen by sending an living ice bear back from where it came from.
Another impractical suggestion. If it’s that easy, then you’ll be able to find an animal welfare group that have issued a statement to that effect.
I can not believe, you did it again! I am with the others; all mentioned excuses why it was not possible NOT to shoot the ice bear are just ridiculous. They could have just narcotized him!!!!! And for sure they would have found any animal rights group which would have paid all costs caused by an living ice bear and all costs arisen by sending an living ice bear back from where it came from.
It was 200 kg polar bear not a sweet little Knut.
Bears dont care what they eat, they dont know people like to hug cute little stuffed bears, what they like to do is look for food,
and people, being smaller slower and easy to hunt are nice snack for a bear.
800 polar bears are shot every year in Greenland, you can buy a licence to shoot a bear from this 800 bear qouta, so if enviomentalists really care about polar bears they could buy the quota if they wanted to and save hundreds of bears a year,
the problem is that most enviromentalists are not i touch with reality or nature and live their lives behind a tv or computer screen
the most extream enviromentalists are even fighting green energy,
how stupid is that ?
Its easyer to sit behind a laptop and cry because someone refuses to wrestle a bear or pay big sums of money to capture and ship it to Greenland, it would have to be shipped to Greenland very fast because if we feed it the Greenlanders refuse to take it back,
bears that have been fed by humans are far more dangerous, so this is not easy to do.
Think that this is a lame excuse to shoot a polar bear that is going to extinction. It is only trying to survive and fight for its kind. How thoughtless to kill this creature when in the future will not have them anymore because due to fear. Make a reserve for them and place them there. They came from Greenland and iceland let them live. Man has badly taken care of the planet.
The bear was not killed for sure for reasons of safety or for the costs of capture, nor, and this just makes me laugh, because there are too many of them in Greenland :it was killed because a police chief and a bunch of his drunk buddies just wanterd the big trophy of their boring lives to show off. Policemen….different countries but they are the same everywhere.
Once in a while polar bears drift to Iceland on icebergs. Once a shore they are often hungry and tired after weeks of drifting and swimming. All though this is a known problem the Icelandic officials have never reached an agreement on saving these animals. Only last year two polar bear reach the shore of Iceland, both were killed. Written documents say some 500 polar bear have reached Icelandic shores since 890. There are no living polar bear in Iceland today.
By law it is illegal to kill polar bear unless in an act of defense. The animal killed was fleeing its hunters when shot dead. It never approached a person.
ROLF!!!
Once a again!!
The next shoot out on the woods of Iceland coming near you soon!!!
>Huge costs?!? Yea, tranquilisier gun costs really a lot of money
So there’s the cost of getting the gun to that location (aka equipping all the local police with them), the cost of training the police, the cost of transporting the bear, the cost of housing the bear and the cost of relocating the bear.
Ask youself if you’d put up with a wolf roaming through your street before you type (although there was that one guy who suggested releasing wolves in urban centres :) ).
>We do have brains, you know?
If you say so.
People underestamate polar bears, a 200 kg polar bear is at least as dangerous as a 200 kg tiger, would you like to try to catch a 200 kg wild tiger running around in your back yard Espana ?
i dont think so.
I would not be surprized if there is a second bear in the area,
there is alot of ice drifting from Greenland in this area not far from land.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/apr/12/animals-germany?picture=345847068
The link below contains very graphic pictures of what happens to people who are hunted by a wild polar bear, this one got lucky though.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/gruesome/polarbear.asp
Poor bear. Here’s what happened to the last one that arrived in Iceland:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGJdVpgwWZs
Who are the animals here? They don´t protect anything, they are destroying everything around them. Selfish icelandic, they don´t do anything right.
Huge costs?!? Yea, tranquilisier gun costs really a lot of money… Maybe you can ask for a loan frm some rich internatioanl bank to buy 1 or 2 guns like that. Is this article really written by serious person? We do have brains, you know?
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According to another source ( http://mbl.is/mm/frettir/innlent/2010/01/27/buid_ad_skjota_isbjorninn/ ), a farmer shot the bear as it approached some livestock.
You would think the word had got across to Greenland by now among bear community..
But if this bear was a member of endangerd species list you can be sure that it would not be shot like this.
This a message from is the Diretorate of immigration.If u think moving to Iceland you would be shot as it costs a lot to capture you alive and send you back home.How ruthless these people ,who killed another polar bear again.Claiming costs money to capture him alive.How much the drug costs ?? Icesve loan altogether..Am sad for this great country.