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Authorities say a rare polar bear spotted in Iceland was shot by police after being considered a threat.

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[-] terribletortoise@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

We can all agree that it's a tragedy that this animal died.

The other consideration is that polar bears are amongst the most relentless and vicious predators around. A polar bear around an inhabited area is very much a serious safety threat. Iceland doesn't have any animal predators and therefore also wouldn't have the trained people or equipment necessary to deal with neutralizing and relocating this bear.

I would have liked to have seen the animal safely moved. But I suspect there's more context to this story that we don't have beyond the headline.

[-] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

A bit more context from reading the article

  • the bear was actively going through the trash of a woman's summer house while she was there which is why it was reported

  • the Iceland environmental agency actively decided to not try and relocate it, likely due to how expensive it would be to take back to Greenland

  • the bear is also being studied for potential diseases/parasites, how healthy it was, body fat, etc. which is nice I guess

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 points 23 hours ago

dicks out for polambe

[-] aaaaace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

Best way to defend against a polar bear:

  1. Hand it ticket to Iceland
  2. Hand it a toy gun
[-] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Cops not being a bastard challenge level impossible

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No dogs around, so these intrepid cops adapted to the situation and got the job done using what was available

[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

The bear was killed Thursday afternoon in the northwest of Iceland after police consulted the Environment Agency, which declined to have the animal relocated, Westfjords Police Chief Helgi Jensson told The Associated Press.

Environment Agency is to blame here, not the cops.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

Environment agency is just another type of cop. Not that policing environmental regulations is necessarily bad but they are still literally cops dude.

[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

If they were park rangers, sure, but a random career government bureaucrat has no enforcement authority here.

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

the headline writers are to blame here, not the commenters

[-] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR US

[-] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml -2 points 19 hours ago

Just another day in America...

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 3 points 9 hours ago

Americans always: "don't forget about us"

[-] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

Iceland is a country in America

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

It's about 500km from the Hebrides compared to about 2500km from Labrador

Tectonically, is it on the American or Eurasian plate? Answer: neither, it's on the fault line.

[-] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 22 hours ago

I didn't have Harambe 2.0 on my 2024 Bingo Card.

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