Thu, 28 Jan 2010
Reykjavik - A polar bear believed to have drifted ashore from Greenland has been shot and killed in north-east Iceland, reports said Thursday. The young bear was spotted Wednesday by a farmer who alerted police to the area near Thistilfjordur.
In December 2008, a government commission recommended that the large and dangerous mammals be shot given the high cost of repatriating them.
The commission was set up after two polar bears landed on the northern coast of Iceland during the summer of 2008, apparently after being swept to sea on ice floes from Greenland, several hundred kilometers away.
Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/306309,iceland-police-kill-polar-bear.html.
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