Manage­ment plan for East Sval­bard: let­ter to the edi­tor of Sval­bard­pos­ten

The ongo­ing con­tro­ver­sy about the East Sval­bard manage­ment plan has been cover­ed repea­ted­ly on the­se pages, most recent­ly in ear­ly Decem­ber, 2011. Now 17 expe­di­ti­on lea­ders have given their comm­ents and made alter­na­ti­ve sug­ges­ti­ons in a let­ter-to-the-edi­tor of Sval­bard­pos­ten, which was published in Nor­we­gi­an on last Fri­day (Sval­bard­pos­ten 01/2012). An Eng­lish trans­la­ti­on can be down­loa­ded here (eng­lisch).

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