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Rare polar bear shows up on the shores of Iceland – police shoot it

September 24, 2024
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Rare polar bear shows up on the shores of Iceland – police shoot it
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A polar bear that was shot by poice (Ingvar Jakobsson via AP)

The owner, who was alone, was frightened and locked herself upstairs as the bear rummaged through her garbage, Jensson said. She contacted her daughter in Reykjavik, the nation’s capital, by satellite link, and called for help.

“She stayed there,” Jensson said, adding that other summer residents in the area had gone home. “She knew the danger.”

Polar bears are not native to Iceland but occasionally come ashore after traveling on ice floes from Greenland, according to Anna Sveinsdóttir, director of scientific collections at the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. Many icebergs have been spotted off the north coast in the last few weeks.

The bear shot on Thursday was the first one seen in the country since 2016. Sightings are relatively rare with only 600 recorded in Iceland since the ninth century.

While the bears are a protected species in Iceland and it’s forbidden to kill one at sea, they can be killed if they pose a threat to humans or livestock.

After two bears arrived in 2008, a debate over killing the threatened species led the environment minister to appoint a task force to study the issue, the institute said. The task force concluded that killing vagrant bears was the most appropriate response.

The group said the nonnative species posed a threat to people and animals, and the cost of returning them to Greenland, about 300km away, was exorbitant. It also found there was a healthy bear population in east Greenland where any bear was likely to have come from.

The young bear, which weighed between 150 and 200 kilograms, will be taken to the institute to study. Scientists took samples from the bear Friday.

They will be checking for parasites and infections and evaluating its physical condition, such as the health of its organs and percentage of body fat, Sveinsdóttir said. The pelt and skull may be preserved for the institute’s collection.

A coastguard helicopter surveyed the area where the bear was found to look for others but didn’t find any, police said.

After the shot bear was taken away, the woman who reported it decided to stay longer in the village, Jensson said

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