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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...
Polar Petroleum Opens Anchorage Office
2013-03-06 18:20:00| OGI
New office space positions the company for convenient travel access to its two North Slope projects.
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Canada Inuit, conservationists oppose polar bear trade crackdown
2013-03-05 19:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Proposals to ban trade in polar bear furs will do little to ensure the animals' long-term future, Canada's Arctic Inuit and two major conservationist groups both say. The United States wants the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) to list the bears as endangered at its meeting in Bangkok this week, a move that would prohibit international trade in their body parts and fur. But the Inuit say that would slash one of the few sources of income...
Federal court upholds polar bear status as threatened species
2013-03-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Baltimore Sun: The federal law listing polar bears as a threatened species was upheld Friday by a federal appeals court, which rejected arguments that it is wrong to impose far-ranging and possibly costly protections for a species that remains fairly abundant in many regions of the Arctic. Concluding that attacks on the listing "amount to nothing more than competing views on policy and science,' the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., upheld the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's 2008 decision to...
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Cites conference: Canada and US at odds over trade in polar bears
2013-02-27 20:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The United States and Canada are on a collision course at the Cites conference over proposals that would outlaw much of the hunting of polar bears. The US has tabled a move to ban all trade in polar bear products, which in essence means skins about 400 of which are sold every year after the animals have been shot by the native Inuit population of the mostly Canadian High Arctic. But the proposal is being fiercely opposed by the Canadian government, which argues that the ban will put the livelihoods...
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