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Climate change requires landscape-level conservation plans

2013-03-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Summit Voice: Species vulnerable to climate change impacts in the Canadian Rockies will need room to roam, according to a new report from the Wildlife Conservation Society Canada. The report outlines a safe haven strategy designed around an assessment of six iconic species: Bull trout, westslope cutthroat trout, grizzly bears, wolverines, mountain goats and bighorn sheep -- five of which were ranked as highly vulnerable to projected changes. The area in question is located between Glacier National Park in...

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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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