The authorities believe that the man who got too close to the walrus was trying to get a good picture of the animal.
On the peaks a Polish tourist who got too close to a walrus has been fined a good thousand euros, the public broadcasting company said BBC on Saturday.
Local residents alerted the authorities after seeing a man crawling onto an ice block at the bottom of the fjord where the walrus was. The authorities believe that the man was aiming for a good image of the walrus. The incident happened near the population center of Longyearbyen.
to Norway The fauna of the Huippuvuorti archipelago is strictly protected. The protection of walruses dates back to 1952, when there were only a few hundreds left due to intensive hunting. In Norway, a regulation will come into force next year, according to which it is forbidden to get 150 meters closer to a walrus.
Spring and summer are the tourist seasons of Väippuvuorti popular with nature tourists.
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