Alaska seeks to reverse US polar bear decision

thanks for posting this. How disgusting. One can only guess which elected official is behind this one.

Polar bears cannot vote that means that pressure has to come from two leggeds.

Those that seek to 'explore for oil and gas' are kinda like the neanderthals that refused to accept the wheel, and continued to drag their cargo around by hand. Open those pretty little eyes!

We need polar bears. All of our state economies are hurting. Let's think of other ways to boost our economy than by making a species extinct.

This kind of greed is just tragic. The thought of nominally trying to 'reverse' or 'undo' the fact that a species is endangered without being willing to actually do something to protect the animals is absurd.

I think the Alaskan people should decide what they want. In Oregon, we still have the Spotted owl for a bit longer. Even after protecting the endangered species from logging in the 90s, it will still be wiped out from a competing species of owl. Best intentions etc.

Hey, the polar bears deserve the land more than we do. They survive out there. All we do is live and poison the earth.

um, they ARE threatened. Taking their name off the list won't make that fact go away.

Aren't polar bears the only reason anyone goes to alaska in the first place?

1, 2, 3. Ha! Scissors cut paper! Fish and oil trumps extinction.

I'm sure all those people who live in Alaska are pissed their land is not being exploited as much as it could be.

alaska sucks...

polar bears need to be recognized as being threatened...not ignored in favor of big oil like every other animal and natual habitat on this planet...

The U.S. government, for once, is right for putting those animals on the threatened list.

i wonder wat the polar bears are doing to become a threatened species? let me guess... nothing! it's not there fault they are being pushed south because of the melting sea ice. ridiculous! the U.S gov makes me wanna gag.

Just because they have survived previous warming periods doesn't make them any less threatened.

I've survived car accidents, doesn't make driving in Florida any less dangerous!

Global warming IS an issue and the polar bears ARE threatened. A lawsuit isn't going to solve anything.

"...polar bears have survived through previous warming periods."

The Alaskans conveniently forget or omit the fact that previous warming periods came along very gradually and took a very long time, giving Polar bears ample time to adapt.

To be fair, if keeping the polar bears on the threatened list would cause grievous harm to the state's economy, then they should consider removing it from the list. Now they have to prove that the bears are actually that ridiculously threatening.

Another sad but typical story about how the Bush administration only values the all mighty dollar and not the planet they live on!

Canada doesn't like Polar Bears?!?! tsk tsk!
What's so bad about Polar Bears!!

alaskans.. clubbers of seals and un-threateners of bears

Where did you see that Canada doesn't like Polar bears? Alaska is part of the USA, not part of Canada.

Canada clubs seals.

Polar Bears eat seals.

Polar Bears are blocking progress of oil because they have an agenda or because those that profess love for the Polar Bears have an agenda?

Humans who love animals tend to bend over backwards to keep them alive but refuse to make the animals bend over backwards to keep us alive. It works both ways. OMG they can't speak up for themselves, but they sure can attack a human without being provoked....people think they can become one with an animal and understand them so well that they can speak for them because no one else can. Well guess what no one can speak for the animals unless they can actually talk to them and I don't think this world has a Dr. Doolittle.

So don't start to presume that animals, such as the Polar Bear, are ready to block humans from getting what they want. Maybe they don't mind us drilling for oil but that wouldn't really work to the benefit of the EnvironMENTAL-psychopaths now would it?

What difference does it make weather or not one species lives or dies? People only care about polar bears because they're big, fuzzy, cute looking animals.

The fact that species are becoming endangered whether or not we are the cause of such things is tragic. It has potential to throw ecosystems off-balance causing changes that we, with our great technology and higher-level thinking can't seem to correct. Once a species is gone, it's gone forever, just in case you hadn't realized that. We can't fix that.
And it's not necessarily that they have an agenda so to speak, it's that us being there and drilling and boosting our economy, though I agree - is important, disrupts their natural habitat. It f#@!s things up for them, but some people don't seem to care that it could be potentially hazardous for other living things.

Though some people may think they're cute, with or without thinking about the fact that they could basically rip your friggen face off if they felt so inclined, it's not about what makes us say "aaaaw" or about what makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside. It's about respecting the animal and their living environment. I'll admit. I'd do everything that I possibly could to keep an animal alive, even if right after, the damn thing ate me. Since we have the gift of quick adaptation, choice and realizing what is right/ wrong or un/necessary, we should use it to our fullest potential. Polar bears, or any other species of animal for that matter, don't see things as right/wrong. They just see survival and how to achieve it. Animals don't bend over backwards to help us because #1 they can't comprehend that. and #2 they shouldn't have to

If people REALLY want to drill and make money, having a couple words on a list isn't going to change a thing.

oh and one more thing...

"What difference does it make weather or not one species lives or dies?"

I pity your ignorance.

Even if they can survive, we should still protect them because they are big fuzzy and cute.