Sentences with phrase «government bear biologists»

But the long - term picture is bleak, according to the latest analysis by government bear biologists.

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The results should help the government protect the rare bears, says wildlife biologist Tony Hamilton of the British Columbia Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection in Victoria.

The new polar bear paper is by a group of authors led by Steven Amstrup, the United States Geological Survey polar bear biologist who led the government analysis of the bear's prospects.

But since then, while the agency went on to propose listing the species as threatened (a step below endangered), Dirk Kempthorne, the Secretary of the Interior, has refused to draw a line between human - caused warming of the global climate and the retreating ice that Dr. Amstrup and other government biologists say poses the biggest threat to the bears.

Internal memorandums circulated in the Alaskan division of the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service appear to require government biologists or other employees traveling in countries around the Arctic not to discuss climate change, polar bears or sea ice if they are not designated to do so.