Sentences with phrase «polar bear protections»

Interior's decision is intended to afford the polar bear protections without interfering with industry located in the Arctic.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced today that he will retain the Bush administration's controversial rule on polar bear protections, rejecting special authority given to him by Congress and the pleas of Democratic lawmakers, environmentalists and scientists to overturn the regulation.

That stance was hailed by groups concerned that polar bear protections could affect their businesses.

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Combating the drying effects of heaters and air conditionings, the SPT polar bear ultrasonic humidifier incorporates overflow protection so it keeps babies and toddlers safe.

While keeping the rule — which limits use of the Endangered Species Act to curb emissions of greenhouse gases — Salazar held open the possibility of adding habitat protections for the polar bear later.

«This administration is fully committed to the protection and recovery of the polar bear.»

«We're very disappointed that Secretary Salazar decided not to cut through the red tape and restore protections for polar bears immediately,» said Jamie Rappaport Clark of Defenders of Wildlife, a former director of the Fish and Wildlife Service.»

«I've accepted that the loss of sea ice, not subsistence [hunting of the animal] or the oil and gas industries, is the reason for the threat to the polar bears,» which are already protected by the more stringent Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, Kempthorne said.

Marine mammals, sharks and rays, polar bears, and some birds are among the 31 species that will get greater protection under a deal reached earlier this week by more than 100 countries at a meeting of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), a U.N. body.

Sea ice also provides crucial coastal protection in the Arctic, hunting grounds for local tribes, and habitats for creatures from polar bears to seals.

The U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) protects all marine mammals, including cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), pinnipeds (seals and sea lions), sirenians (manatees and dugongs), sea otters, and polar bears within the waters of the United States.

Lest you wonder why federal wildlife conservation agencies include polar bears under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, have a look at this video.

«Today's decision is a huge victory for the polar bear,» said Kassie Siegel, climate program director at the Center for Biological Diversity and lead author of the 2005 petition, filed by various environmental groups, seeking protection under the endangered species law.

In summary, polar bear numbers probably increased in some areas during the 1970s and 1980s, and perhaps even into the 1990s, because of greater protection from direct human mortalities.

It turns out this may be the case with animal species needing protections, also: cuddly - looking polar bears get lots of attention (which they should), while the more humble slender loris (shown above) may fall through the cracks.

Environmental groups cheered a Federal Court ruling today that forces the Bush administration to decide by mid-May whether polar bears deserve protection under the Endangered Species Act because of Arctic impacts from the warming climate.

Federal biologists have said that this long - term ice retreat is the main reason they concluded that polar bears deserved protection under the Endangered Species Act.

It turns out this may be the case with animal species needing protections, also: cuddly - looking polar bears get lots of attention (which they should), while the more

Polar bears are already protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which has more stringent protections for polar bears than the Endangered Species Act does.

Polar Bear Protection: A federal judge upheld the decision by the George W. Bush administration to grant polar bears threatened status under the Endangered Species Act, but did not pass judgment on environmentalists» argument that the bear should get the act's more protective «endangered» designation, or the argument that the bear's status justified restricting greenhouse gases warming the climBear Protection: A federal judge upheld the decision by the George W. Bush administration to grant polar bears threatened status under the Endangered Species Act, but did not pass judgment on environmentalists» argument that the bear should get the act's more protective «endangered» designation, or the argument that the bear's status justified restricting greenhouse gases warming the climbear should get the act's more protective «endangered» designation, or the argument that the bear's status justified restricting greenhouse gases warming the climbear's status justified restricting greenhouse gases warming the climate.

Here's where the rubber hits the road: even while the Interior Department was slowly taking steps to give these bears ESA protection, the Bush Administration opened almost 30 million acres of polar bear habitat to oil and gas exploration, a move that by their own admission threaten polar bears.

But in a conference call with reporters, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said that although his decision to seek protection for polar bears acknowledged the melting of the Arctic ice, his department was not taking a position on why the ice was melting or what to do about it.

At the same time it declared that the listing should not be used as a «back door» to combat global warming, indicating that the listing would provide polar bears no more protection than before from oil drilling in Arctic waters.

Apparently there are more polar bears on Svalbaard than humans and the humans are permitted to carry guns for protection against these beastly predators.

Similarly, permafrost is melting and buildings are collapsing while wildlife species — including polar bears — are suffering from the disappearance of the ice platforms on which they once relied for hunting or protection.

Environmentalists were unhappy with the decision to remove federal protections for wolves in the northern Rockies and to continue the Bush administration policy of barring the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change while developing a plan to protect endangered polar bears.

If that occurs, the premature removal of protection offered by subnivean birth lairs may expose young ringed seal pups to high levels of predation, which may negatively affect populations of ringed seals and the polar bears that depend on them for food.

Sadly, even with various protections like the Marine Mammal Protection Act or a listing as «threatened» in the Endangered Species Act, the polar bear still is suffering from various forms of human schizophrenia, ignorance, and greed.

WASHINGTON — More than 150 biologists and climate scientists today called on the Obama administration to follow the best available science in deciding the level of protection polar bears will get under the Endangered Species Act.

In a third letter, a broad alliance of more than 140 faith, human - rights, social justice and environmental groups called on Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today to «fully acknowledge the reality and science of climate change in the Arctic, and grant polar bears full protection as an «endangered» species.»

The letters were submitted to the Department of the Interior as the agency faces a court - imposed deadline next week on whether polar bears, which are acutely imperiled by global warming, should continue to be classified merely as «threatened» or given maximum protection as «endangered.»

• Forced the George W. Bush administration to publicly acknowledge for the first time, in December 2006, the scientific connection between greenhouse gas emissions and species endangerment in response to our petition to gain Endangered Species Act protection for polar bears.

And in 2007, even after acknowledging that the polar bear deserves federal protection due to global warming, the administration put a gag order on government scientists traveling abroad to prevent discussion of climate change, Arctic sea ice and polar bears.

There is general scientific and ethical consensus that the polar bear species is in peril and in need of protection if it is to avoid extinction.