"This is a victory for the polar bear, and all wildlife threatened by global warming" Kassie Siegel, Centre for Biological Diversity. It is the first time the US has made a direct link between global warming and the threat to a species. President George W. Bush has steadfastly refused to back mandatory controls of emissions of carbon dioxide - believed the main gas behind global warming. There are 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears across the globe, about 4,700 of them in the US state of Alaska.
US Proposes Listing Polar Bears as a Threatened Species. Declining Arctic Ice (global warming) Levels to Blame
December 27, 2006 by editor (View Source)
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