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Animals News tagged with polar bears

AK Governor Declares War on Polar Bears
Animals  (tags: alaska governor, lawsuit, federal government, protection, polar bears, greed, humans, oil )

Simone
- 4 days ago - gawker.com
Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell wants the polar bears hanging out on top of his state's oil reserves to stop being so endangered. He's suing the feds to remove their "threatened" classification and help speed up development of oil fields.
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ACTION ALERT: Protect Polar Bears and the Places They Live!!!
Animals  (tags: polar bears, wildlife, habitat, conservation, endangered, imperiled, hunted )

Simone
- 10 days ago - secure.defenders.org
Rising temperatures are robbing polar bears of their homes and access to the food they need to survive. In response, the Interior Department has announced a proposal to designate more than 200,000 square miles of critical habitat for these struggling
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Move Over Mercedes - Zoo Plans to Breed Polar Bears
Animals  (tags: mercedes, limited room, polar bears, zoo, controversy, welfare, concerns, animal groups )

Simone
- 11 days ago - news.scotsman.com
The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) has revealed plans to bring a new pair of polar bears to the Highland Wildlife Park, near Kingussie, in the hope they will have cubs. Currently, there is only one polar bear in the UK. Known as Mercedes,
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Protect Polar Bears and the Places They Live ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, polar bears, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 11 days ago - change.org
Rising temperatures are robbing polar bears of their homes and access to the food they need to survive. In response, the Interior Department has announced a proposal to designate more than 200,000 square miles of critical habitat for these struggling
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MAKING AN ANIMAL WELFARE DRAMA OUT OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, polar bears, zoos, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 11 days ago - bornfree.org.uk
While the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland may have finally done the right thing by moving Mercedes from Edinburgh Zoo to the Highland Wildlife Park, they are way off the mark with their plans to bring in more polar bears.
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Scientists Hoping Olympic Torch Run Will Shine Light on Plight of Polar Bear
Animals  (tags: olymic torch, conservationalists, polar bears, threatened, awareness, extinction )

Simone
- 11 days ago - google.com
The Olympic torch is continuing its journey through Canada's north today and some scientists are hoping it will shine an international light on the plight of the polar bear. Environmentalists say the polar bear is in grave danger because of climate
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When Is It Legal to Kill a Polar Bear?
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, polar bears, killing, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 11 days ago - thestar.com
This week, 17-year-old Nunavut hunter Jupi Angootealuk survived three days on an ice floe and the unwanted attentions of a fully grown female polar bear accompanied by a pair of cubs. Angootealuk shot the female dead
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Olympic Flame Can't Outshine the Polar Bears of Churchill
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, polar bears, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 12 days ago - calgaryherald.com
Churchill, you see, is the hippest place on the map these days, because it's the land of the snow bear, the self-proclaimed polar bear capital of the world, the place where Polar Bear International, the World Wildlife Fund, and rock stars looking for a
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The Bear Facts About the Polar Bear Hunt
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, polar bears, hunting, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, killing )

Cher
- 13 days ago - thestar.com
Polar bears are in decline, alright, but not everywhere. There is a case for keeping the hunt alive in Nunavut and the Inuit are making it
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Polar Bear Plus Grizzly Equals?
Animals  (tags: animals, grizzly, polar bears, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 22 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
What do you get if you cross a polar bear with a grizzly brown bear?
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Canada to Sign Polar Bear Protection Treaty
Animals  (tags: animals, polar bears, protection, Canada, treaty, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 23 days ago - ottawacitizen.com
Canada will sign a new agreement on Friday with the governments of Greenland and Nunavut to protect polar bear populations in their overlapping regions.
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Polar Bears Vs. Development in Alaska
Animals  (tags: animals, polar bears, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 24 days ago - greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com
Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell vowed last week to keep fighting the 2008 listing of the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act, even as federal managers proposed designating more than 200,000 square miles of land and ice as critical habitat for the bears.
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MERCEDES - RELOCATION AT LAST!
Animals  (tags: animals, polar bears, relocated, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 29 days ago - bornfree.org.uk
After many years of campaigning by Born Free, and in the face of numerous excuses and delays, we are very pleased to hear that Mercedes, the last polar bear on display in a UK zoo, has been relocated to her new enclosure at the Highland Wildlife Park
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U.S. Maps Protected Alaska Habitat For Polar Bears
Animals  (tags: environment, bears, polar bears, news, US )

Katie
- 29 days ago - planetark.com
A vast swath of icy sea, barrier islands and coastal land on Alaska's oil-rich North Slope will be granted special protection because of its importance to the threatened polar bear, under a proposal released Thursday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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State Wants Feds to De-List Polar Bears as Threatened
Animals  (tags: animals, polar bears, delisted, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 30 days ago - ktva.com
The State of Alaska filed a lawsuit with the federal government to remove polar bears from the Endangered Species Act. The state also aims to make sure Ribbon Seals do not make it onto the list as well.
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