Polar Bears Killed in Iceland

While I was on vacation there was a story about a polar bear that swam more than 200 miles from either Greenland or a chunk of Arctic ice to Skagafjordur, Iceland where it was shot dead by the police "in case" it proposed a danger to humans. Apparently they did not have the correct tranquilizer and could not wait 24 hours for the correct one to be flown in. This was disputed by a chief vet who said the necessary drugs were in the trunk of his car, they just needed to wait for the correct tranquilizer gun to be flown in. There are some videos of the bear on You Tube which I refuse to watch as well as pictures of the killers posing proudly with their prize. I was outraged to think this bear swam all that way from Greenland in order to survive only to be shot dead. THEN when I thought it could not get any worse, another polar bear, again presumed to have swam over 200 miles from Greenland was shot less than 2 weeks later by the same police. Between the melting ice, starving, and being shot, the poor bears don't stand a chance.