Michael
January 16th, 2005, 04:54 AM
Greenland is planning to organize polar bear hunts for rich tourists, who would be permitted to bring back the bear skins as trophies.
The local government in the icy Danish territory hopes polar bear hunts will help bolster the faltering economy in the northwestern part of the island by creating jobs for hunting guides, Danish news agency Ritzau reported Saturday.
"We expect that people who go after the really big trophies and who have earlier been on elephant hunts will come. And there is already a lot of interest in polar bear hunting," Mads Skift, a consultant at Greenland's national tourist board, told Ritzau.
Today only permanent Greenland residents who are professional hunters are permitted to kill polar bears. About 50-100 polar bears are killed annually, according to the tourist board.
Greenland's Fishing and Hunting Directorate expects to have cleared the way for tourist polar bear hunts by the first half of the year, the news agency reported.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1540&e=12&u=/afp/greenlanddenmarkhuntingbearstourism
The local government in the icy Danish territory hopes polar bear hunts will help bolster the faltering economy in the northwestern part of the island by creating jobs for hunting guides, Danish news agency Ritzau reported Saturday.
"We expect that people who go after the really big trophies and who have earlier been on elephant hunts will come. And there is already a lot of interest in polar bear hunting," Mads Skift, a consultant at Greenland's national tourist board, told Ritzau.
Today only permanent Greenland residents who are professional hunters are permitted to kill polar bears. About 50-100 polar bears are killed annually, according to the tourist board.
Greenland's Fishing and Hunting Directorate expects to have cleared the way for tourist polar bear hunts by the first half of the year, the news agency reported.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1540&e=12&u=/afp/greenlanddenmarkhuntingbearstourism