Sentences with phrase «protect polar bears»

Protect the polar bears but its ok to kill the raptors: 0 Save the rainforests, but level the mountain ridges and desert floors.

The only way to protect polar bears is stop global warming and keep polar ice not melting away.

«What has become clear through this heavily litigated process is that listing the polar bear as a threatened species is not about protecting the polar bear but rather advancing a particular political agenda,» Sen. James Inhofe (R — Okla.) said in a statement.

The listing does not protect the polar bear from being hunted by natives for food and other resources.

If not, please outline a course of actions the US Government can take which will have the desired result of protecting the polar bear.

And does nt protecting the polar bear actually protect «society» from the ravages of global warming??

[22] I am also announcing that this listing decision will be accompanied by administrative guidance and a rule that defines the scope of impact my decision will have, in order to protect the polar bear while preventing unintended harm to the society and economy of the United States.

Three years after environmental groups sued to force the Interior Department to consider protecting polar bears under the Endangered Species Act, the Bush administration today listed the species as threatened — on track to be endangered by midcentury because of shrinking summer sea ice in a warming Arctic.

The Center for Biological Diversity wrote the 2005 scientific petition to protect the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act.

Not exact matches

On Thursday, Ruch's watchdog group plans to file a complaint with the agency on Monnett's behalf, asserting that Obama administration officials have «actively persecuted» him in violation of policy intended to protect scientists from political interference... In May 2008, the U.S. classified the polar bear as a threatened species, the first with its survival at risk due to global warming.

«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.

Pregnant polar bears build snow dens to protect new cubs from the Arctic winter.

The scientists said drilling on the coastal plain would be particularly harmful because it contains a «unique compression» of habitats supporting animals like polar bears, grizzly bears, wolverines, representing «the greatest wildlife diversity of any protected area above the Arctic Circle.»

«The polar bear was the first species protected under the Endangered Species Act solely because of threats from global warming,» said Shaye Wolf, climate science director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group.

It's not everyday that a mother fights a polar bear to protect her seven year - old son, or two sisters lift a 3,000 pound tractor off their dad.

They also were excellent hunters of seals and protected the Mahlemuts from polar bears.

It looks like zoos should look; elephants hold up the ornate archway which is protected by an army of polar bears.

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.

Fancy the idea of standing ten metres from an advancing polar bear grab without a fence to protect you?

In the 19th century, the polar bear was presented as a fearful monster with sharp claws; nowadays as a vulnerable creature that needs to be protected.»

Hmmm... Of the 25,000 or so polar bears wandering about, how many would be protected?

Before declaring the polar bear endangered, we could start with a hunting moratorium (protected status).

«The Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species Wednesday, saying it must be protected because of the decline in Arctic sea ice from global warming.»

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.

The next step is to secure the long - term survival of the species by ensuring that the polar bear habitat in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas is protected from the threat of oil and gas drilling.

But why formally list the polar bear as a migratory species when it is protected under several other national and international programs?

«By working with Coca - Cola, we can raise the profile of polar bears and what they're facing, and most importantly, engage people to work with us, to help protect their home.»

Deep snow over birthing lairs (diagram above, see also Lydersen and Gjerz 1986) means ringed seal pups are well protected from polar bear predation — the seals do well but the polar bears do not.

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.

They believe failure would seriously jeopardise future plans to protect the polar regions, which are now bearing the brunt of global warming.

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin drew on the work of at least six climate skeptics, most funded by ExxonMobil, to try to stop polar bears being protected as an endangered species, the Guardian can disclose.

But so far, these actions have been thwarted, and the polar bear remains protected.

«The paper also focuses much attention on the potential for increases in polar bear attacks on humans due to sea ice loss (blamed on global warming) but ignores totally the increased risk stemming from the larger proportion of adult males that now exist in protected populations.»

At the same time, more than 140 public - interest groups representing millions of Americans also sent a letter to Interior today urging that polar bears be protected as an endangered species.

Today, Wednesday, the US Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species, saying «it must be protected because of the decline in

Please click the links on the left for more on individual species already at high risk, including the polar bear, numerous penguin species, and Caribbean corals, all of which the Center is working to protect.

So here's a message from planet earth to our newly elected Congressional «leaders:» You've made it clear that you're not planning to protect the climate because of what's happening to polar bears, or the islands that are sinking beneath the waves, or even because you care about the lives of your great - grandchildren.