Community | April 30, 2008 | 5 comments

Will polar bears finally get on the endangered species list?

source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/31599/title/Bear_deadline

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A federal judge ruled April 28 that the U.S. Department of the Interior must stop delaying its decision about whether to add the polar bear to the endangered species list. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken set the deadline for the department to publish the decision as May 15, more than four months after the decision was originally expected.
After a lawsuit, DOI announced a proposal at the end of 2006 to add the polar bear to the federal list in the threatened species category. The timetable for listing allows a year for deliberations. When January 2008 arrived, though, DOI’s Fish and Wildlife Service said that it needed at least a month more before issuing a final decision.
The delay has lengthened, and the latest government target for the decision, included in court documents, had been June 30.
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5 comments // Will polar bears finally get on the endangered species list?

  • mattyb68
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      mattyb68  

    • Have any of you feel gooder's bother looking into what the actual polar bear population is? In 1972 the polar bear population was approx 5000 bears, it is now estimated to be between 25,000 and 40,000 world wide. Canada's #'s have increased greatley. The Antarctic ice sheet is at it highest density and mass in nearly a century. This is nothing but a scheme to allow a bunch of lawyers to sue at will in the name of the polar bear if it's added to the endangered species list. Why don't you just google "polar bear population". Try learning sometning instead of being a left wing lemming. Call the big supporters of this at www.biologicaldiversity.org , like I did yesterday and they had no response to my question about the population of the polar bear being so strong. They gave me some line about how complex of an issue it is. No it's not, they are NOT IN DANGER.

    • 4 years ago
  • VoyagerFilms
  • Agequodagis
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      Agequodagis  

    • The fact that we have been talking about this for some time now should alert those making the decision to expedite the process. When does a species become endangered? When forty bears remain? Or thirty? We are the ones contributing to their melting homes.

    • 4 years ago
  • huntre
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      huntre  

    • Adding Polar Bears to the list also sends a clear signal of environmental blundering on such a profound scale, this administration doesn't want the general public to be thinking about it.

    • 4 years ago
  • dbaruffo
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