Hi I'm from Queensland Australia and just read in the Brisbane Sunday paper, "The Sunday Mail" see
http://www.thesundaymail.news.com.au/, a twisted article condemning Polar Bear hunting called "This Barbarity is called sport" on page 24 by Jane Fryer. Upon doing a little surfing on the net I found a similar article punblised by the Sun newspaper in the UK, see
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005590173,00.html. Once again the cheapest form of journalism is to pick up an article from someone else that is likely to create a sensation and appeal to the simplicity of the masses.
On searching the web a bit on Polar Bears it appears that toxic poisoning (from Europe and the US) and global warming causing the ice caps to melt are a far greater concern to the scientists who really know than this "barbarity" called trophy hunting that probably singled handedly contributes more to funding of polar bear conservation and management than anything else.
I would be interested in hearing from any of those really informed people (hunters/guides/outfitters) on the real facts of polar bear numbers, hunting and conservation/management.
Cheers & God bless,
Magnum
