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Season To Hunt Bear Starts in Sweden

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Friday, 03 September 2010 12:11 Written by Cajsa Collin, Radio Sweden

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The season for hunting bear started in Sweden last week and in some counties it has gone surprisingly fast to shoot the number of bears allowed. In Dalarna, northern Sweden, the hunters are allowed to shoot 35 bears until the end of October but since the start of the season half of that number has already been shot, according to local newspaper Dala-Demokraten.

When the Swedish government in February made a controversial decision to allow 27 wolves to be shot it stirred up a heated debate in the country. On one side were the animal right activists and conservationists and on the other were hunters and many people living in places where wolf exists.

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Luxury Yacht Turns Heads in Canadian Arctic

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Friday, 03 September 2010 08:48 Written by CBC News

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The luxury mega-yacht Octopus was parked offshore from Pond Inlet, Nunavut, for five days before slipping away on Monday. (Submitted by Colin Saunders)
One of the world's most luxurious private yachts made an unexpected appearance recently in the High Arctic hamlet of Pond Inlet, Nunavut, on its way through the Northwest Passage.

The 126-metre-long mega-yacht Octopus was anchored for five days last week offshore from Pond Inlet, a remote community on the northern tip of Baffin Island.

Residents in the hamlet of about 1,300 said they saw no crew members or passengers in the community before the ship quietly departed on Monday.

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Fuel Tanker Aground in Northwest Passage

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Friday, 03 September 2010 08:53 Written by CBC News

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The merchant tanker Nanny is shown in St. John's harbour. The ship was delivering fuel supplies in Nunavut when it ran aground Wednesday in Simpson Strait. (Submitted by Clarence Vautier)
A fuel tanker carrying 9½ million litres of diesel fuel has run aground in the Northwest Passage, the Canadian Coast Guard confirmed Thursday.

Coast guard officials say the merchant tanker Nanny, owned by Woodward's Oil Ltd., ran aground on a sandbar Wednesday in Simpson Strait, about 50 kilometres southwest of Gjoa Haven, a hamlet on King William Island in western Nunavut.

"The coast guard ship Henry Larsen has just entered the area. I believe it's at anchor just off of Gjoa Haven as we speak," Larry Trigatti, an environmental response official with the coast guard, told CBC News on Thursday afternoon.

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U.S. Hunter's Caribou May be Record Size

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Friday, 03 September 2010 09:01 Written by CBC News

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The antlers of the mountain caribou Mark Seacat hunted in the Mackenzie Mountains on Aug. 17 may be the second-largest on record. (Tom & Adam Foss/Foss Creative Photography)
A Montana bow hunter may have claimed the largest recorded mountain caribou in the Northwest Territories, which could make it one of the largest in the world.

Mark Seacat, a professional photographer and online hunting personality, shot the giant bull caribou on Aug. 17 while accompanying his friend, longtime hunter Tom Foss, on a hunting trip in the Mackenzie Mountains.

"I mean, this is the first mountain caribou I ever saw, the first day I could ever hunt them, and the first stalk I was ever on," Seacat told CBC News in an interview Wednesday.

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Greenpeace Activists Arrested on Greenland Rig

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Thursday, 02 September 2010 14:52 Written by CBC News

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Four Greenpeace activists have been arrested after they climbed onto an oil rig off Greenland this week, trying to halt Arctic offshore drilling there.

The four activists were arrested early Thursday and are currently being held in police custody in Greenland, according the environmental activist group.

The protesters had breached a 500-metre security perimeter around Cairn Energy PLC's Stena Don rig off the western Greenland coast on Tuesday, climbed onto the rig and fastened themselves onto it with hanging tents suspended from ropes.

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