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Polar Bears on the Endangered Species List
The U.S. government has proposed listing polar bears as threatened with extinction under the Endangered Species Act because the animals' sea ice habitat is melting. Learn about polar bears, bookmark photos and videos, share your opinion... [more]
The U.S. government has proposed listing polar bears as threatened with extinction under the Endangered Species Act because the animals' sea ice habitat is melting. Learn about polar bears, bookmark photos and videos, share your opinion about the proposal in the blog, or learn about the implications of adding Polar Bears to the list.
Tova reminds me of a polar bear, hence you get a picture of him with this post.
I just signed an online petition via The We Campaign. The petition is going to Secretary Dirk Kempthorne asking him to protect polar bears and their habitat by adding them to the Federal Endangered Species list. The plight of the polar bears is well documented.
To add your name to the petition, click here. It takes no time at all.
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I love this photo of Ainsley. It is one of my all time favorites. I'm not sure there's anything more adorable than my little polar bear. But, Arctic polar bears are in trouble and there is a movement to get them on the Endangered Species List. Scientists have documented multiple deaths of polar bears off Alaska. You'll have to decide if you believe the Arctic ice shelf is melting or that man is contributing to their demise. Protecting these incredible creatures who are at the top of the...
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Until the oldest known remains of a polar bear were uncovered on the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic, polar bears we thought to be a relatively new species, with one study claiming they evolved less than 100,000 years ago. The previous oldest recovered remains are about 70,000 years old. The specimen was found at Poolepynten on Prins Karls Forland, a narrow strip of land on the far west of the archipelago.
The well-preserved 23cm-long bone jawbone was pulled from sediments
that suggest...
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I am declaring this Animal Week in honor of our friend Jazzy, who we’ll meet later on. Stay tuned! Last Sunday, I wrote about an opportunity to “chill the drills” to help save polar bear habitat in Alaska. Unfortunately the current administration has fast-tracked the approval for gas and oil drilling leases in Alaska, yet postponed the decision that was due January 9 on whether or not to place polar bears on the Endangered Species List. (If the bears are declared an endangered species...
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This picture from Flickr and by AngelStar2134 I just received an email from a friend about the Polar Bears and should they be put on the protected list?? There are only a few left and with the way the ice is ...
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Fake shipwreck? Is this a polar bear exhibit or a fish tank?
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The polar bear has become an icon of global warming vulnerability, but a new study found an Arctic mammal that may be even more at risk to climate change: the narwhal.
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Should polar bears be protected under the Endangered Species Act? An inside look at the politics of the debate.
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Polar bears fighting for survival in the face of a rapid decline of polar ice have made the Arctic a poster child for the negative effects of climate change.
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The Alaska legislature wants to use $2 million in state money to fund an "academic based" conference to highlight the views of scientists who don't think the polar bear should be put on the endangered-species list. The U.S. Interior Department must make a decision by May 15 on whether polar bears...
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Alaska’s polar bears have moved one big step closer to receiving protection under the Endangered Species Act.
NEW YORK (RUSHPRNEWS) May 5, 2008- A federal judge just ordered the Bush Administration to stop dragging its feet and decide by May 15 whether it will safeguard America’s polar bears from...
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The Heritage Foundation's Foundry Blog has a useful summary today of the real state of the polar bear and the politically motivated sillinenss of trying to least the animal as an endangered species.Environmentalists are in their normal state of righteous frenzy over the Department of Interiors...
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Alaska's polar bears have moved one big step closer to receiving protection under the Endangered Species Act. A federal judge just ordered the Bush Administration to stop dragging its feet and decide by May 15 whether it will safeguard America's polar bears from the...
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ANCHORAGE - It's been more than three years since a California conservation group asked the federal government to protect polar bear habitat threatened by global warming.
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