The Greenland government has issued guidelines for its residents on what to do if the island is hit by a crisis.
The guidelines offer advice on how to survive for five days, whether there is a long or short power outage, the BBC reports.
The guidelines also cover areas such as drinking water, food, medicine, heating and communication in case of a crisis, the British broadcaster points out.
The guidelines are designed to “strengthen the safety of the population” and “to ensure that the overall level of preparedness of society is even stronger,” said Minister Peter Borg.
“This is not an expression that we are expecting a crisis,” he added.
The guidelines recommend a five-day supply of food, three liters of water per person per day, toilet paper, a battery-powered radio, weapons, ammunition and fishing equipment.
Greenland’s population of 57,000 – nearly 90 percent from the indigenous Inuit group – has a long tradition of hunting and fishing as their main means of livelihood.
Greenland’s government unveiled a new brochure on Wednesday offering advice to the population in the event of a “crisis” in the territory, which US President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to seize from ally Denmark.
Guidance includes stockpiling food and water, hunting weapons and ammunition.
The document is “an insurance policy”, said Self-Sufficiency Minister Peter Borg at a press conference in Nuuk, the Greenlandic capital.
“We don’t expect to have to use it,” Borg said.
Trump on Thursday demanded “immediate” talks on his bid to control Greenland but said he would not use military force to take the Arctic island.
Work on the brochure, titled “Prepared for Crises — Be Self-Sufficient for Five Days”, began last year “against a backdrop of power outages of varying duration”, according to the Greenland government.
