French woman is mauled by a polar bear after it wandered into a tour group’s campsite on remote Norwegian Arctic island

French woman is mauled by a polar bear after it wandered into a tour group’s campsite on remote Norwegian Arctic island

A French woman has been mauled by a polar bear which had wandered into her tour group’s campsite on a remote Norwegian Arctic island. The tourist was part of a tour group of 25 people camping at Sveasletta, in the central part of the Svalbard archipelago, more than 500 miles north of the Norwegian mainland. […]

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Svalbard reindeer rebounding better than hoped after nearly going extinct

Svalbard reindeer rebounding better than hoped after nearly going extinct

Reindeer and caribou populations have been declining dramatically over the past few decades. But one subspecies of reindeer seems to be doing better, anew study has found. The wild Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus), which lives in the harsh archipelago of Svalbard off Norway in the Arctic Ocean, was nearly hunted to extinction in the […]

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