Sunday November 8, 2009, 11:23 am
I feel that the indigenous people shouldbe able to practice the way of life of there ancestors but there should be no hunting allowed for anyone else.

Sunday November 8, 2009, 2:00 pm
"harvest" a polar bear..hmmmmm... like a crop of wheat!

I really sense impending do here for the polar bears..because? "Harvesting" is getting eeriely similar to "FARMING".

Anyone that is not famliar with Asian Bear Farming should ty to familiarize themselves with the issue. Similar to Tiger Farming, that has pushed the animal towards extincton. Asia claiming it's part of their "culture"....

"HARVESTNG"???!!? Most disturbing word...

Sunday November 8, 2009, 2:01 pm
'Foreign sport hunters pay $25,000 or more to Inuit guides for the chance to bag a polar bear under a quota system, which also provides food and income from sales of trophies, clothing, and other items made from harvested bears.'

Is this really about 'conservation hunting' (what kind of gimmicky phrasing is that anyway?) or about the same old story of an animal being killed because it brings in a lot of money?

I've read that the number of drowned polar bears washing up on Alsakan coasts has increased dramatically in the last couple of years, and that the incidences of polar bears eating each other (an uncharacteristic behaviour) has also noticably increased. Their population numbers must be falling, especially if they are finding it so hard to find food that they are turning to cannibalisim.

Sunday November 8, 2009, 2:02 pm
Still with the TYPOS Skipping (sorry!)...that was IMPENDING DOOM

Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:37 pm
"I've read that the number of drowned polar bears washing up on Alsakan coasts has increased dramatically in the last couple of years, and that the incidences of polar bears eating each other (an uncharacteristic behaviour) has also noticably increased. Their population numbers must be falling, especially if they are finding it so hard to find food that they are turning to cannibalisim."

Carole, over population will also cause both of these conditions to exist. Mind you I do not support trophy hunting even if it supports the economic condition of the Inuit. If the Inuit hunt for food and sell the other parts of the polar bear to support themselves I feel that is different but only slightly.

Sunday November 8, 2009, 4:00 pm
Male polar bears have no inhibition against eating cubs or females outside of mating season. Polar bears are solitary unless it is mother and cub/s....and sometimes mothers eat cubs. The paper below was published in 1999..when ice was at "normal levels". It was put down to over-crowding. Infanticide is common behavior among many species.

Infanticide and Cannibalism of Juvenile Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus)
in Svalbard
A.E. DEROCHER1 and Ø. WIIG2
(Received 29 January 1999; accepted in revised form 9 June 1999)
ABSTRACT. Two instances of infanticide and cannibalism in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) were observed in SE Svalbard, at
Hopen Island. In the first, an adult male killed three young cubs at a den site and consumed one of them. In the second, an adult
male actively pursued, killed, and consumed a dependent yearling. Infanticide of dependent polar bear offspring by adult males
may be more common in Svalbard than in other populations because the population is close to carrying capacity or because
geographic features reduce spatial segregation of age and sex classes.
Key words: Barents Sea, cannibalism, infanticide, polar bear, Ursus maritimus, Svalbard
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic52-3-307.pdf

So much as it horrifies most of us, infanticide is normal behavior in Polar bears.

One of the common ploys of the climate scam is to take normal behavior and call it abnormal...whether its species expanding into new territories or abandoning others. ...or Arctic ice getting lower on a cyclic basis.
The Russians after observation over 100s of years say it happens about every 70 years.


The earth systems are dynamic...constantly changing.

Sunday November 8, 2009, 11:46 pm
"We will kill anyway because it's our culture.We need to hunt Polar Bear meat.Once we haven't eaten it for a long time we miss it."Well,it may be your culture,but that is no longer an excuse for ignorance.You need to hunt Polar Bear meat?I don't think so.You haven't eaten it for a long time?Too bad!Try some tofu.Leave the polar bears alone.

Monday November 9, 2009, 4:03 am
haven;t the polar bears enough trouble no more hunting

Monday November 9, 2009, 11:15 am
OMG....

Yes I am sure people want to hunt them and per the article I am so happy to hear that Pres. Obama will close the borders to anything Polar Bear (etc) but gotta know that some will get through, and by the way, what hunter doesn't want a Polar Bear on the Wall.

I'm SICK!

Monday November 9, 2009, 7:45 pm
Pppffffffffftttttttttttt....Males are not the only ones starvin Judy the females to, and they will eat another bear and were not talkin the babies..gezzzzzzzzzz. You have peeps like Judy that support the killing of polar bears its in her MO.

Big gorilly Hugs

Tuesday November 10, 2009, 3:17 am
I feel sorry for the economic plight of the Inuit people and respect their customary right to hunt for their own survival if necessary. But 45 to 50 Polar bears?? Not forgetting the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) set the "total allowable catch" (TAC) of harp seals at 270,000 per year.
You can't convince me that someone other than the Inuit are making megabucks out of this slaughter.