Probably for the first time, the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) has been reported to the police by a private person (Olav Vik Solheim) for having anesthetized and marked a large number of polar bears (150-200 per year in recent years). This includes following the bears with helicopters, a procedure that is not exactly easy on the animals.Soleim criticizes that the numbers of bears marked are unnecessarily high and that there is a strong inequality between different actors in the field: anybody who disturbs a polar bear, for example with a snow mobile, risks heavy fines.
The Sysselmannen has dropped the case already after a couple of days, because a punishable offence was deemed unlikely and because it would have been very difficult to investigate the case for the police. Solheim has announced that he wants to take further legal steps.
Polar bear in Spitsbergen. He does not care if disturbance is legal or not, he does not like it anyway.
By the way, my new book is in print and it can now be ordered 🙂 it is a photo book with the title “Norwegens arktischer Norden (3): Die Bäreninsel und Jan Mayen”, with German text Click here for further details!
This and other publishing products of the Spitsbergen publishing house in the Spitsbergen-Shop.
Norwegens arktischer Norden (1): Spitzbergen
Photobook: Norway's arctic islands. The text in this book is German. [shop url="https://shop.spitzbergen.de/en/polar-books/70-norwegens-arktischer-norden-1-aerial-arctic-9783937903262.html"] ← Back
Lofoten, Jan Mayen and Spitsbergen from the air - Photobook: Norway's arctic islands. The text in this book is German, but there is very little text, so I am sure that you will enjoy it regardless which languages you read (or not).
The companion book for the Svalbardhytter poster. The poster visualises the diversity of Spitsbergen‘s huts and their stories in a range of Arctic landscapes. The book tells the stories of the huts in three languages.
Comprehensive guidebook about Spitsbergen. Background (wildlife, plants, geology, history etc.), practical information including travelling seasons, how to travel, description of settlements, routes and regions.
Join an exciting journey with dog, skis and tent through the wintery wastes of East Greenland! We were five guys and a dog when we started in Ittoqqortoormiit, the northernmost one of two settlements on Greenland’s east coast.
12 postcards which come in a beautifully designed tray. Beautiful images from South Georgia across Antarctica from the Antarctic Peninsula to the Ross Sea and up to Macquarie Island and Campbell Island.