East Sval­bard manage­ment plan

In mid July, the Sys­sel­man­nen has publis­hed his new pro­po­sal for a new manage­ment plan for the lar­ge natu­re reser­ves in eas­tern Sval­bard. The radi­cal ear­lier pro­po­sals which inclu­de clo­sing most are­as for public traf­fic seem to have vanis­hed after strong cri­ti­zism they have met almost ever­y­whe­re. Accord­ing to the Sys­sel­man­nen, the most signi­fi­cant chan­ges from the pre­sent sta­tus quo are the clo­sing of parts of Lågøya and Tus­enøya­ne from May 15 to August 15.

Any comments on the cur­rent pro­po­sal can be for­war­ded to the Sys­sel­man­nen (whe­re they will pro­bab­ly go strai­ght to the bin unless you are part of the rele­vant hig­her beau­ro­cra­cy in Oslo or you work for the Nor­we­gi­an Polar Insti­tu­te) until Octo­ber 10.

Fur­ther details will be pos­ted here as the pro­cess is going on.

Source: Sys­sel­man­nen

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 (1): Spitz­ber­gen – vom Polar­licht bis zur Mit­ter­nachts­son­ne”, with Ger­man text Click here for fur­ther details!