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Polar Bears Keep "Threatened" Status

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A federal judge on Thursday upheld a 2008 decision to protect polar bears throughout their range as a “threatened” species under the U.S. The listing was the result of a 2005 petition and litigation filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, Natural Resources Defense Council and Greenpeace. Endangered Species Act.

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New Jersey Bear Hunt to Continue as Planned

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New Jersey’s first bear hunt in five years is just a week away and set to go on as planned despite a last-ditch effort by several animal rights organizations to have the hunt postponed. The bear hunt, set to take place from Dec. Tags: cull new jersey bears hunting. That really sucks. It's a cull to "control the population."

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To Drill, or Not to Drill? That’s the Wrong Question.

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The Bears Ears National Monument (a protected public lands designation given to sitting presidents under the Antiquities Act) recently lost 1.1 Below is the (form) letter I received about my disapproval of 1) drilling in any of our protected lands, and 2) the ‘reclassification’ of public lands for the benefit of resource extraction.

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A Very Rare White Bear Caught On Camera By Natural Resources Centre Professor

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Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

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But they primary protect land, an essential but dwindling avian resource. Unlike national parks, national forests, national monuments, and other federal lands which must balance competing interests such as recreation and resource extraction, national wildlife refuges are legally required to be maintained for the preservation of wildlife.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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Wuerthner states, “Perhaps the most significant and obvious conflict between the goals of the NAMWC and actual behavior of state agencies has to do with management of predators, particularly bears, cougars, coyotes and wolves. Those whose actions result in additional costs should bear them. were funded by hunters and 95.1%

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Alien Face

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To see such a comprehensive resource (which has since been revised twice) with my own eyes lit a fire within that’s still burning today. Here I was bearing witness to the education of the next generation of creeping xenopses. Back then, I distinctly remember drooling over plates of birds I needed to see.

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