Environment agency advised that the animal posed a danger to elderly woman in remote summer house in Westfjords
The bear was killed in the north-west tip of the country after police consulted the national environment agency, which declined to have the animal relocated, according to the Westfjords police chief, Helgi Jensson.
“She stayed there,” Jensson said, adding that other summer residents in the area had gone home. “She knew the danger.”Polar bears are not native to Iceland but occasionally come ashore after travelling on ice floes from Greenland, according to Anna Sveinsdóttir, the director of scientific collections at the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. Many icebergs have been spotted off the north coast in the last few weeks.
While the bears are a protected species in Iceland and it is forbidden to kill one at sea, they can be killed if they pose a threat to humans or livestock.
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