![]() ![]() That the bear should come into more frequent contact with humans should come as no surprise considering their normal platform of operation is melting, but this does not mean that polar bear numbers are increasing. Of late, there have been more polar bears coming into towns across the Arctic, especially coming into direct contact with Indigenous people who have always depended on the bear as subsistence hunters. Humans continue to mutilate and sacrifice bears, perhaps the most vital animal in the memory of our northern hemispheric existence in the name of vanity. Black bears - one of the most important animal families in the northern hemisphere - continue to be killed in the tens of thousands in America. In “Polar Bears on the Edge,” he stated that “Almost all current polar bear hunting happens in violation of the 1973 agreement signed by all polar bear range states.” Fifty years ago there may have been as few as 12,000 polar bears, and while there may be as many as 20,000 or more, today some believe there may have been 50,000 a century ago. has its demonic doppelgänger in those who continue to rationalize extermination.Īuthor Morten Jorgensen from Norway says killing polar bears for trophies is gravely jeopardizing the great predator of the highest latitude. The motion to stop the importation of trophies in the U.K. In this “economic and cultural system we have fabricated, we live in an anthropocentric fantasy world of economic exchanges and entertainment, all of which is a second nature.” Primary nature has become almost superfluous. They seem to be trying to outwit, antagonize and play a game of oneupmanship on what is happening in the U.K.įor cynegetic - hunting - man nature functioned as a syntax, Paul Shepard reminds us. The searing desert of a perfectly synthetic city is the best place to remind Americans of the endangered ice at the top of the world. Safari Club International members have recently convened to try to sell licenses to enable hunters to shoot the greatest predator on Earth - the polar bear, among many other species trying to survive the full range of inhumanity. In opposed to the movement to try to ban trophy imports in England there are some who have decided upon themselves to try to auction off polar bears in Las Vegas at Safari Club International’s 50 Anniversary gathering. The decision will have worldwide implications. ![]() It is the decision to oppose the adorning of living rooms with mutilated effigies of bears that has taken the United Kingdom by storm. There is movement about to stop the killing of the innocent trophy imports of all kinds of imperiled species into the U.K. ![]() They might emphasize that we deserved extinction for such grotesque behavior. A being visiting us from another planet would have to say that to derive satisfaction in taking out the life of such a being for no reason other than enjoying its subjugation was tantamount to killing a member of one’s own family. The whole ritual akin to the slow death we are imposing on our host as a whole, the Earth.Īs opposed to the local people who made the polar bear a sacrosanct member of their cosmology and who honored even the supervening spirit bear. It should also come as no surprise that there are those who would auction off the possibility to kill off a few of these sublime monarchs, just for recreation, to be able to say they derived some great pleasure driving a projectile through the flesh of a being that evolved over hundreds of millennia in the hardest conditions on Earth. As the movement to ban trophy imports accelerates in the U.K., there are equally avid aficionados of the killing game as Eduardo Goncalves has called them who have recently decided to auction off polar bears in Las Vegas as well as highlighting in their macabre showcase an entire arsenal of vanquished creatures who once lived wild, free and unhindered in the few remaining square feet of wildness that still exists on the planet. To see the polar bear is to witness the great living ghost of the North - but with trophy hunting and climate change its population might well be tested in the coming decades. “Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall.
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