Hunting polar bears is illegal in the United States. The recent decision to list the polar bear as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act closed a gaping loophole in the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) that had allowed wealthy U.S. trophy hunters to kill polar bears in Canada, where such hunting is legal, and import polar bear trophies into the U.S.
But now Safari Club International, a big game trophy hunters' club, is suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reverse this ban on importing polar bear trophies. More than 900 polar bear heads and hides had been imported into the U.S since 1994 because of the MMPA loophole.
We have to do everything we can to prevent the polar bear's downward spiral. We need the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stand strong on polar bear trophy hunting - urge Director Dale Hall to uphold the ban on importing polar bear hunting trophies from Canada.
We took action on “Stand Strong Against Polar Bear Hunting”!
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10:00 pm PST, Jan 19,Peggy Bell, Canada
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9:54 pm PST, Jan 19,Linda Miyoshi, Maryland
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10:51 pm PST, Jan 17,Name not displayed, Florida
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9:51 pm PST, Jan 17,Jillian Williams, Ohio
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8:00 pm PST, Jan 17,Meghann Rohn, Wyoming
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1:30 pm PST, Jan 17,Kelly Popp, Connecticut
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4:30 am PST, Jan 17,Florin Stan, Romania
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9:43 am PST, Jan 16,Joan Diamond, Indiana
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4:36 pm PST, Jan 15,Jessica Chrzanowski, Canada
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7:09 pm PST, Jan 14,Devin Leiva, New York
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4:09 am PST, Jan 14,Tekla Drakfrende, Sweden
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9:27 pm PST, Jan 13,Jerie Johnson, New Mexico
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7:26 am PST, Jan 13,Irina Ilieva, Bulgaria
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1:19 pm PST, Jan 11,Amanda Torres, Illinois
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9:19 am PST, Jan 11,Peter Coverley, United Kingdom
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1:28 pm PST, Jan 10,Lisa Provenzale, New York
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5:23 pm PST, Jan 9,Alesha Lawrence, Canada
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7:38 am PST, Jan 9,Leonore Santos, Spain
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6:56 pm PST, Jan 8,Linda Zynger, Indiana
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6:30 am PST, Jan 8,Frederico Gonsalves, Portugal
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12:04 pm PST, Jan 7,Hazel Coverley, United Kingdom
why should some sick twisted people be able to reverse an important ban? what if i decided to sue because murder was illegal? would it be made legal? that is what hunting is - murder.
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4:32 pm PST, Jan 6,Brian Driscoll, Illinois
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8:15 am PST, Jan 6,Lizel TaN, Philippines
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5:55 pm PST, Jan 5,Kira Krusky, Canada
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11:28 am PST, Jan 5,Katana Elbrecht, Wyoming
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1:28 am PST, Jan 5,Ari R. Kolman, Canada
I’m sickened and disgusted. Please stop the Holocaust already!! Animal Abuse, Sick Behavior AND THE KILLING OF THE ANIMALS. The World Is Watching You and we will take action.. How do you sleep at night? People who do these things to innocent animals (who scream and cry and feel the pain), should be arrested and put in jail. And I will work on this to happen.
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9:52 pm PST, Jan 4,Autumn Sun, California
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11:37 am PST, Jan 4,Alexander Dolowitz, Utah
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1:31 am PST, Jan 4,Rr Ff, New York
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8:53 pm PST, Jan 3,Nick Thamphya, Utah
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7:49 pm PST, Jan 3,Vicki Mata, Illinois
The polar bears are already dying due to global warming and exploration by humans. They need HELP- they should not be killed.
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9:16 am PST, Jan 3,Name not displayed, New York
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6:39 am PST, Jan 2,Ernie McLaney, North Carolina
The very least you should do is to put a temporary halt on all hunting in order to allow the bears to increase their numbers, if that ever happens. With their habitat in decline however, I don't see a population increase anytime soon.
As stewards of this earth, Mr. Hall, we should be ashamed of our treatement of polar bears.
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4:01 am PST, Jan 2,Mike Downs, Missouri
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3:48 pm PST, Jan 1,Nicole Silva, Massachusetts
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6:51 am PST, Dec 31,Karen Fagan, Canada
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5:48 am PST, Dec 31,Marlo Stockton, Arizona
Polar Bears are an endangered species. If you continue to let the "trophies" enter the U.S. then the hunting will not stop! Don't wait until it is too late. We can not afford to lose any other wild animals.
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7:15 pm PST, Dec 30,Laurie Brewer, Ohio
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6:07 pm PST, Dec 30,Karen Lozow, Indiana
Polar bears are a crucial part of our planet.Please do not even attempt to justify trophy hunting.Use that testosterone for good instead of gratifying some weird need for bragging rights.
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3:17 pm PST, Dec 30,Louise McGannon, South Dakota
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12:26 pm PST, Dec 30,Linda Brenner, Pennsylvania
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11:14 am PST, Dec 30,Tanya Kottaris, Canada
Its time to start appreciating these creatures rather than watching them dissapear.
Tanya
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11:13 am PST, Dec 30,Tracy Shaw, United Kingdom
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11:08 am PST, Dec 30,Yvonne Jansson, Sweden
stop polar bear hunting
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11:05 am PST, Dec 30,Jeanette Loos, Denmark
SHAME ON YOU!! BAN HUNTING!!
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11:01 am PST, Dec 30,Lyle Qualls, Colorado
BAN HUNTING, IT'S SIMPLY WRONG!
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10:58 am PST, Dec 30,Caz Weatherill, Australia
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11:31 am PST, Dec 29,Alison Williams, Texas
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11:27 am PST, Dec 29,Jennifer Gardner, Florida
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12:22 pm PST, Dec 27,Lindsey F. Jacobson, Minnesota
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11:31 am PST, Dec 26,Ethan Friedland, Vermont
Having a dead animal as a trophy is like hanging your neighbors head on the wall.
who would do that?
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11:09 am PST, Dec 24,Debbie Mccall, Maryland
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12:27 pm PST, Dec 23,Julia Tawyea', Pennsylvania
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7:45 pm PST, Dec 22,Katherine Sheffield, Tennessee
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10:26 am PST, Dec 22,Andres Vasquez, Massachusetts
