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Conservation body rejects polar bear trade ban

2013-03-07 01:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: A proposal by the United States to ban cross-border trade in polar bears and their parts was defeated Thursday at an international meeting of conservationists, marking a victory for Canada's indigenous Inuit people over their big neighbor to the south. Delegates at the triennial meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, rejected Washington's proposal to change the status of the polar bear from a species whose trade is merely regulated, not banned. The...

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