• TwitterFacebookRSS FeedContact
  • Home
  • Svalbard
  • Polar regions
  • Rants
  • Random weirdness
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Svalbard Daily Planet
  • Pdf archive
  • About

Tag Archives: hunting

July 9, 2021   Svalbard   No comments

SEAL OF DISAPPROVAL: Person fined 20,000 kr. for illegally shooting seal on ice near Svea; carcass abandoned at harbor

sealhunt

Photo by Geir Wing Gabrielsen / Norwegian Polar Institute

A person who illegally shot and killed a bearded seal last month on the sea ice near the shut-down Svea coal mine has been fined 20,000 kroner, according to The Governor of Svalbard.

Read More
September 13, 2018   Svalbard   No comments

Spreading sickness: Rabies detected in three more Arctic foxes, putting this year’s trapping season in question

morerabies

Three more Arctic foxes have tested positive for rabies, heightening concerns about the fall hunting and trapping season after another fox and a reindeer tested positive for the disease since May, according to The Governor of Svalbard.

Read More
August 15, 2018   Svalbard   No comments

Going shooting? Get shot first: Reindeer hunters urged to get rabies vaccinations, take precautions after two animals diagnosed with disease

rabiesreindeer

Reindeer hunters are being advised to get rabies vaccinations and take extra precautions in the field this year after a reindeer and a fox tested positive for the disease in recent months.

Read More
September 12, 2017   Svalbard, Random weirdness   No comments

Random weirdness for the week of Sept. 12, 2017

reindeerkids1

The sight of gunshot-riddled reindeer carcasses hanging from what’s normally a swing set at Kullungen Kindergarten is yet another reminder Svalbard is a right-wing conservative haven, no matter what stereotypes they have about Norway being an Arctic version of North Korea.

Read More
August 29, 2015   Svalbard, Random weirdness   No comments

Random weirdness for the week of Aug. 25, 2015

dualsunset

Always eager to point out our stupidity before either of our readers get a chance, take a moment to look at the weather forecast on page 3. Did it take longer than three seconds to spot what’s amiss. Yup – we’re publishing as fact that Longyearbyen will have two sunsets on Wednesday.

Read More
  • This week’s print issue

    Download PDF (18.9MB) by clicking cover image
  • RSS UNIS News

    • In Memoriam: Professor Mads Forchhammer 
    • Science communication with a view
    • Sveinung Løset Awarded Clarkson University Honorary Degree
    • UNIS Annual Report 2021
    • The new UNIS boat is baptized
  • RSS Spitsbergen- Svalbard.com news

    • SAS pilots on strike
    • Russian delivery stopped – Russia reacts with irritation and cyberattacks
    • Bird flu detected in Spitsbergen
    • Norwegian government dispossesses foreigners of local voting rights
    • MS Virgo back in Longyearbyen
  • RSS Svalbard news @ government.no

  • RSS NYT > Arctic Regions

    • Heat Waves Around the World Push People and Nations ‘to the Edge’
    • Biden’s Inner Circle Debates Future of Offshore Drilling
    • Encuentran un grupo de osos polares que sobreviven con menos hielo
    • These Polar Bears in Greenland Can Survive With Less Sea Ice
    • Making Art on Top of the World
  • RSS The Guardian: Climate Change

    • Just Stop Oil campaigners glue themselves to Da Vinci copy in Royal Academy
    • Snow at one of world’s highest observatories melting earlier than ever before
    • ‘Every year it gets worse’: on the frontline of the climate crisis in Bangladesh
    • I led the US lawsuit against big tobacco for its harmful lies. Big oil is next | Sharon Y Eubanks
    • Scientists warn MEPs against watering down EU deforestation law
  • RSS Arctic Today

    • The summer season has begun for the Canadian Coast Guard’s icebreakers
    • Russia’s speaker asks parliament to look at scrapping maritime border treaty with Norway
    • Alaska’s Arctic is left out of Biden administration’s latest offshore drilling plan
    • Norwegian Coast Guard crew free a whale trapped in Arctic waters
    • Top Russian legislators question Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard
  • RSS The Conversation – Arctic

    • Borgen is back – what the series gets right (and wrong) about Danish politics
    • Once the slick is gone: New tool helps scientists monitor chronic oil in Arctic wildlife
    • Why freezing the Arctic Council is bad news for global security
    • Thawing permafrost is roiling the Arctic landscape, driven by a hidden world of changes beneath the surface as the climate warms
    • Arctic greening won’t save the climate – here’s why
  • RSS Skeptical Science

    • 2022 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #26
    • Skeptical Science New Research for Week #26 2022
    • How to stay cool in hot weather
    • How to inoculate yourself against misinformation
    • 2022 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #25
  • RSS The Arctic Sounder

    • "The spirit of the whale:" Utqiagvik celebrated Nalukataq with feast and dancing
    • New Kivalina school will open its doors to students in October
    • Red Dog operator advances plans for expansion
    • Avian influenza cases have doubled statewide, but no reports from the North Slope yet
    • Subsistence fishermen in Northwest Arctic can receive a pre-hung net from the borough
  • RSS Arctic News

    • Arctic sea ice June 2022 - why the situation is so dangerous
    • Cataclysmic Alignment
    • Carbon dioxide reaches another record high
    • Carbon dioxide crosses 422 ppm
    • Runaway temperature rise by 2026?
  • RSS Arctic Sea Ice News

    • Clear solstice skies over the Arctic
    • On the high side of low
    • Springtime in the Arctic
    • Spring in fits and starts
    • Arctic sea ice maximum at tenth lowest in satellite record
  • RSS Arctic Research News

    • New season, new bloggers! Part 1
    • Call for Transnational Access is open!
    • Porifera in the Pasvik River – accumulators of bacteria and contaminants
    • Unleash the potential of Virtual Access for your research!
    • Images of Arctic Science
    • Most Commented
    • Most Viewed
    • Tags
    • WOMAN DIES IN SNOWMOBILE ACCIDENT ON LONGYEARBREEN: Visitor in private tour group killed Sunday afternoon after mishap at base of...
    • WOMAN DIES IN SNOWMOBILE ACCIDENT ON LONGYEARBREEN: Visitor in private tour group killed Sunday afternoon after mishap at base of...
    • PRIDE OF SVALBARD ON SYTTENDE MAI: Annika Bengtsson wins citizen-of-year Tyfus statuette, Tine Westby Thorstad wins youth award; Barentsburg kids...
    • GETTING SMASHED IN RECORD TIME? ’Stem’ of giant snow champaign glass on Operafjellet may break in June for first time...
    • ROYAL COUPLE GOES TO THE DOGS IN SVALBARD: Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit also tour avalanche area, focus...
    • JUNE KNOW, IT’S HOTTER THAN EVER: Record-high average temperature of 6°C at Svalbard Airport during month is 2.4°C above average...
    • Arctic cold war
    • Arild Olsen
    • avalanche
    • Barentsburg
    • Barneo
    • climate change
    • coal crisis
    • coronavirus
    • COVID-19
    • crime
    • Donald Trump
    • doomsday vault
    • election
    • evacuation
    • housing crisis
    • landslide
    • Leif Magne Helgesen
    • Longyearbyen Community Council
    • Monica Mæland
    • North Pole
    • Norwegian Meteorological Institute
    • Norwegian Polar Institute
    • Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate
    • Ny-Ålesund
    • Parliament
    • polar bear
    • polar bears
    • random weirdness
    • reality TV
    • reindeer
    • rescue
    • Russia
    • Solfestuka
    • Store Norske
    • storm
    • Svalbard: Life on the Edge
    • Svalbardbutikken
    • Svalbard Church
    • Svalbard Global Seed Vault
    • Svalbardposten
    • Svalbard Treaty
    • Svea
    • The Governor of Svalbard
    • The University Centre in Svalbard
    • tourism
  • LONGYEARBYEN SINGS TO CELEBRATE THE RETURN OF THE SUN AFTER FOUR MONTHS!

  • Archives

© 2021 Icepeople. Original contents of this publication can be reproduced for non-commercial purposes free of charge if Icepeople is credited as the source.
Powered by WordPress | Array

URGENT PLEA – Icepeople’s website and editor need help NOW to avoid homelessness

icepeoplepenguin

It’s crazy enough being someone from “elsewhere” in Svalbard – help ensure this “other” at least has a home for his newspaper and himself!

There have been some moments of true desperation during our 13-year history. This is one of them.

(Shortcut: GoFundMe / website / Vipps at 4151 4638)

Icepeople is again facing an immediate existential crisis due (of course) to hardships largely inflected by the pandemic. In short, 1) the website needs $22 U.S. (190 NOK) to stay online for another month and 2) the editor needs any and all help possible to avoid homelessness in the middle of polar winter (not that it’s legal here any other time of the year).

So if you appreciate Icepeople for its unique stories about Svalbard and/or critical news during these critical times, as well as its features about the more colorful aspects of life here (today’s feature about the upcoming Polarjazz festival is for the event that first drew our editor’s attention to Svalbard way back in 2008) please do whatever you can during what are admittedly incredibly harsh times for many.

Donations can be made at:

• Icepeople’s GoFundMe

• Icepeople’s direct website donation link (image below)

• Vipps at 4151 4638

Thanks as always to everyone who makes The Coolest Newspaper On Earth possible!
websitedonation