Cruiseship tour guides fined for disturbing polar bears on Svalbard

Two guides from a French cruiseship have been hit with hefty fines, after they led a group of tourists towards land in the northern portion of Svalbard where a polar bear and her cub were feeding off a dead whale. That’s absolutely not allowed and local authorities cracked down. “Both of the polar bears were […]

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