Since 2007, 79 polar bears in Greenland have been killed in self-defense.
It writes the Greenlandic online media Sermitsiaq.AG, which has the figures from a new overview from the Department of Catch and Fisheries.
There are strict protection rules regarding polar bears in Greenland, but you may kill them in self-defense if a human life is in danger.
Since 2017, there have been 16 killings of bears in the emergency, and going all the way back to 2007, there have been a total of 79.
According to the media, the overview also shows that no people lost their lives in the encounter with a polar bear during the period.
In August last year, a man was killed by a polar bear at a campsite in Longyearbyen on Svalbard in Norway.
The polar bear was subsequently found dead at a campsite at the city’s airport.
According to the Greenland Institute of Nature, it is estimated that there are 20,000-25,000 polar bears throughout the Arctic.
Polar bears occur in both West and East Greenland.
According to the Greenland Institute of Nature, the polar bear is categorized as vulnerable on the international nature conservation organization IUCN’s red list.
The IUCN considers the loss of sea ice to be the greatest long-term threat to the polar bear’s survival.
If you put a polar bear in self-defense, all parts of the polar bear fall under Greenland’s autonomy, it says on the Greenland Government’s website.
In addition, the Department of Fisheries, Hunting and Agriculture must be notified as soon as possible that a polar bear has been killed.
It is forbidden to lure, seek out, pursue or otherwise disturb polar bears.
– Polar bears can pose a potential danger to humans, livestock, effects, property and so on. One should not act in a way that can provoke an attack.
– The desire for adventure and the desire to take pictures of the polar bear does not justify an action that could endanger your, others’ or the polar bear’s lives, it reads on the Department of Fisheries, Hunting and Agriculture’s website.