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Stop Polar Bear Trophy Hunting!
Target: Mr. Dale Hall, Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Dr. Peter Thomas, Chief, Division of Management Authority
Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife
Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife
Polar bears already face a daunting future because of global warming, oil and gas exploration and toxic chemical pollution. But there's another threat that many Americans aren't aware of – trophy hunting.
The United States does not allow sport hunting of polar bears in their Alaskan habitat. But more than half of the world's polar bears live in Canada, where hunting is legal. And due to a huge loophole in the Marine Mammal Protection Act, American trophy hunters can travel to Canada, kill a polar bear, and bring back polar bear trophies.
From 2002-2005, a total of 298 requests were made by US citizens to import sport hunted polar bear trophies from Canada. Of these, 252 - a staggering 85 percent - were issued.
We may not be able to stop Canada from allowing hunting, but we can stop the U.S. from allowing Americans to import polar bear trophies. Please act today and urge the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop issuing polar bear trophy permits immediately!
The United States does not allow sport hunting of polar bears in their Alaskan habitat. But more than half of the world's polar bears live in Canada, where hunting is legal. And due to a huge loophole in the Marine Mammal Protection Act, American trophy hunters can travel to Canada, kill a polar bear, and bring back polar bear trophies.
From 2002-2005, a total of 298 requests were made by US citizens to import sport hunted polar bear trophies from Canada. Of these, 252 - a staggering 85 percent - were issued.
We may not be able to stop Canada from allowing hunting, but we can stop the U.S. from allowing Americans to import polar bear trophies. Please act today and urge the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop issuing polar bear trophy permits immediately!
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# 44,250:
5:30 pm PDT, Jun 30,
Anthea Karantzoulis, Australia
# 44,249:
4:29 pm PDT, Jun 30,
Name not displayed, Brazil
# 44,248:
3:28 pm PDT, Jun 30,
LuCy J Boogaard, Netherlands
# 44,247:
12:02 pm PDT, Jun 30,
Silvia Monti, Switzerland
SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!!!
SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!!!
# 44,246:
9:28 am PDT, Jun 30,
Erika Laque, Texas
stop killing the polar bears
stop killing the polar bears
# 44,245:
6:35 am PDT, Jun 30,
Sarah Oppenheim, Connecticut
# 44,244:
6:25 am PDT, Jun 30,
Judit Luna i Ester, Spain
# 44,243:
1:56 am PDT, Jun 30,
Maša Radanić, Croatia
# 44,242:
5:28 pm PDT, Jun 29,
Berta Rocha, Portugal
# 44,241:
3:48 pm PDT, Jun 29,
Ashley Bailey, Florida
Stop killing for trophys!
Stop killing for trophys!
# 44,240:
1:20 pm PDT, Jun 29,
Maria Grazia, Peru
# 44,239:
1:13 pm PDT, Jun 29,
JAY Antol, Virginia
please do the right thing!
please do the right thing!
# 44,238:
11:42 am PDT, Jun 29,
Laurie Barton, California
# 44,237:
6:15 am PDT, Jun 29,
Lindsay Rudd, Australia
# 44,236:
4:05 am PDT, Jun 29,
Parita Viriyarungsarit, Thailand
STOP IT!!
STOP IT!!
# 44,235:
1:31 am PDT, Jun 29,
J.d. Rouser, Oklahoma
if the ice caps aren't melting and killing polar bears, there's always something else out to get them all the time. they are getting ready to go extinct because of all these idiots. pretty soon, the only time we'll be seeing polar bears is occasionally in a zoo out of state, since they will be so rare and hard to find, all so these hunters can have their "trophies". they need to take up baseball or something.
if the ice caps aren't melting and killing polar bears, there's always something else out to get them all the time. they are getting ready to go extinct because of all these idiots. pretty soon, the only time we'll be seeing polar bears is occasionally in a zoo out of state, since they will be so rare and hard to find, all so these hunters can have their "trophies". they need to take up baseball or something.
# 44,234:
12:44 am PDT, Jun 29,
Tina Smith, Australia
How could anyone condone the slaughter of these beautiful endangered bears. How could anyone slaughter one for no more than a trophy! These people are SICK and BARBARIC and any country that allows it to happen are just as bad as the killers themselves. STOP IT!!!
How could anyone condone the slaughter of these beautiful endangered bears. How could anyone slaughter one for no more than a trophy! These people are SICK and BARBARIC and any country that allows it to happen are just as bad as the killers themselves. STOP IT!!!
# 44,233:
11:15 pm PDT, Jun 28,
Ashana Armstrong, Washington
Why would you let people KILL! an ENDANGERED speices!!!!!I don't see WHY anybody would want to hurt the Polor Bear.I mean come on the melting ice caps are enough of a threat to them!Why let 'trophy hunters' hunt an ENDANGERED speices.Well I could rant on and on to you people but I can hopefully hope that you get my drift.
Why would you let people KILL! an ENDANGERED speices!!!!!I don't see WHY anybody would want to hurt the Polor Bear.I mean come on the melting ice caps are enough of a threat to them!Why let 'trophy hunters' hunt an ENDANGERED speices.Well I could rant on and on to you people but I can hopefully hope that you get my drift.
# 44,232:
9:39 pm PDT, Jun 28,
Name not displayed, Florida
Polar bears are wonderful and trophy hunting any animal is just lame and retarded.
Polar bears are wonderful and trophy hunting any animal is just lame and retarded.
# 44,231:
7:34 pm PDT, Jun 28,
Pakanee Viriyarungsarit, Thailand
# 44,230:
11:35 am PDT, Jun 28,
Christina Dole, Ohio
Please SAVE the polar bears, don't kill them!! They're going to be extinct soon if you let people kill them!!! PLEASE SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!?!?!
Please SAVE the polar bears, don't kill them!! They're going to be extinct soon if you let people kill them!!! PLEASE SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!?!?!
# 44,229:
10:50 am PDT, Jun 28,
Name not displayed, Poland
# 44,228:
8:47 am PDT, Jun 28,
Eileen Anderson, Ohio
# 44,227:
5:27 am PDT, Jun 28,
Tricia Jacobs, Australia
# 44,226:
9:11 pm PDT, Jun 27,
Leslie Pike, California
# 44,225:
4:14 pm PDT, Jun 27,
Ann Johnson, Norway
# 44,224:
3:46 pm PDT, Jun 27,
Megan Denardo, Vermont
# 44,223:
3:39 pm PDT, Jun 27,
Lauren Casey, Florida
Polar Bears. They are already dying out because of the melting ice caps, so why make the process faster? Don't we want to be able to enjoy them without them being hung on walls? Polar Bears are my favorite animal, I really hope you stop doing this and just let them live their lives.
Polar Bears. They are already dying out because of the melting ice caps, so why make the process faster? Don't we want to be able to enjoy them without them being hung on walls? Polar Bears are my favorite animal, I really hope you stop doing this and just let them live their lives.
# 44,221:
11:05 am PDT, Jun 27,
Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
# 44,220:
9:16 am PDT, Jun 27,
Buddy Langdon, West Virginia
So … criminals often like to keep symbols from their victims … and some like to keep stuffed carcasses of an endangered species so they can say “… I killed one of the last ones!” Seems a bit primitive if not criminal. Doesn’t seem like a behavior to encourage. I’d say OK if a fair fight (e.g. stick the hunter in a cage with the bear with only a knife … now that’s something they could really be proud of).
So … criminals often like to keep symbols from their victims … and some like to keep stuffed carcasses of an endangered species so they can say “… I killed one of the last ones!” Seems a bit primitive if not criminal. Doesn’t seem like a behavior to encourage. I’d say OK if a fair fight (e.g. stick the hunter in a cage with the bear with only a knife … now that’s something they could really be proud of).
# 44,219:
8:22 am PDT, Jun 27,
Miranda Fitzgerald, Kentucky
# 44,218:
8:03 am PDT, Jun 27,
Maria Morales, Illinois
# 44,217:
5:11 am PDT, Jun 27,
Apolzan Liliana, Romania
# 44,216:
12:50 am PDT, Jun 27,
Alison Smith, Maryland
# 44,215:
12:23 am PDT, Jun 27,
Sarah Lee, Washington
YOU DONT NEED A TROPHY FOR KILLING POLAR BEARS. YOU SHOLDN'Y EVEN DESERVE ONE FOR THAT. THAT IS DISGUSTING AND INHUMANE.
YOU DONT NEED A TROPHY FOR KILLING POLAR BEARS. YOU SHOLDN'Y EVEN DESERVE ONE FOR THAT. THAT IS DISGUSTING AND INHUMANE.
# 44,214:
9:03 pm PDT, Jun 26,
Sarah Vandagriff, Texas
# 44,213:
7:59 pm PDT, Jun 26,
Mark Marone, Texas
# 44,212:
4:02 pm PDT, Jun 26,
Małgorzata Lachowicz, Poland
# 44,211:
3:56 pm PDT, Jun 26,
Stuart Mundel, California
# 44,210:
3:00 pm PDT, Jun 26,
Malgorzata Czerwinska, Poland
# 44,209:
2:39 pm PDT, Jun 26,
Ashley Rumburg, California
It is simply disgusting truly reflective of one's character to get off on killing for sport. We should evaluate why it is that some people enjoy torturing and killing innocent animals... and get them the help that they need.
It is simply disgusting truly reflective of one's character to get off on killing for sport. We should evaluate why it is that some people enjoy torturing and killing innocent animals... and get them the help that they need.
# 44,208:
12:35 pm PDT, Jun 26,
Geissbuehler Clarise, Switzerland
# 44,207:
12:05 pm PDT, Jun 26,
Name not displayed, Texas
# 44,206:
10:50 am PDT, Jun 26,
ELAINE ROBINSON, United Kingdom
# 44,205:
9:17 am PDT, Jun 26,
Name not displayed, Illinois
How would you like it if somebody put your head on a wall to win a trophy. You wouldn't like it! SO STOP!!!!
How would you like it if somebody put your head on a wall to win a trophy. You wouldn't like it! SO STOP!!!!
# 44,204:
7:44 am PDT, Jun 26,
Name not displayed, New Jersey
What the hell is wrong with you? You can't let this pass, polar bears are in enough trouble as it is with Global Warming, they don't need rich old farts hunting them down, too! And it's not like you NEED to hunt polar bears for a living, so stop, bakadomos! Next your going to say 'Oh, let's let people kill the snow leopards, too. We don't need them on our planet!' That's exactly where your wrong. God put those animals on our planet for a reason, you can't just take their lives away for 5 seconds of amusement, you sick people! You simply have to get rid of this law!!!!
What the hell is wrong with you? You can't let this pass, polar bears are in enough trouble as it is with Global Warming, they don't need rich old farts hunting them down, too! And it's not like you NEED to hunt polar bears for a living, so stop, bakadomos! Next your going to say 'Oh, let's let people kill the snow leopards, too. We don't need them on our planet!' That's exactly where your wrong. God put those animals on our planet for a reason, you can't just take their lives away for 5 seconds of amusement, you sick people! You simply have to get rid of this law!!!!
# 44,203:
6:48 am PDT, Jun 26,
John H, New Jersey
I never understood this, it's murder to kill an innocent human being, but it's ok to kill a different innocent member of the animal kingdom. I would love to know who ever gave these people the right to decide what animals get to live and die? And don't give me any of the "animals are overpopulated" BS, humans are the most overpopulated species on this planet, but we're not allowed to hunt them, are we? These hunters who trophy hunt are nothing but bored rich people who are most likely trying to compensate for something (but isn't that what Viagra is for?). "Look at how tough I am, I can kill an animal from a great distance with a high-powered rifle." "I am the coolest man alive, this more than makes up for all my inadequateness!"
I never understood this, it's murder to kill an innocent human being, but it's ok to kill a different innocent member of the animal kingdom. I would love to know who ever gave these people the right to decide what animals get to live and die? And don't give me any of the "animals are overpopulated" BS, humans are the most overpopulated species on this planet, but we're not allowed to hunt them, are we? These hunters who trophy hunt are nothing but bored rich people who are most likely trying to compensate for something (but isn't that what Viagra is for?). "Look at how tough I am, I can kill an animal from a great distance with a high-powered rifle." "I am the coolest man alive, this more than makes up for all my inadequateness!"
# 44,202:
2:31 am PDT, Jun 26,
Pan-ta Heal, Greece
# 44,201:
7:23 pm PDT, Jun 25,
Joanne Markowitz, California