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Protect Polar Bears From Global Warming
Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund
Scientists say that global warming and habitat loss could drive America's polar bears to extinction by the end of the century. Yet, so far, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has stopped short of reversing an 11th hour regulatory change by the Bush/Cheney administration that denies polar bears important Endangered Species Act protections from the threat of global warming.
The polar bear 4(d) rule exempts activities outside the Arctic that cause global warming from ever being considered a violation of the Endangered Species Act. But the rising temperatures from global warming are robbing polar bears of vital habitat and melting the sea ice they use for hunting and raising their cubs.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar can reverse this awful rule under authority granted by Congress, but he only has until May 9th to act. Please sign our petition to Secretary Salazar and urge him to give America's vanishing polar bears a vital lifeline by extending full protections to these iconic ice hunters under the Endangered Species Act.
"Global warming" is not the problem. Mass extinction is. And it's man's fault. Man has been causing extinction since prehistory, and the proof is in the fossil record. And we're still doing it. Less than a hundred years ago, the passenger pigeon went extinct. And it took less than a hundred years for man to wipe them out. In less than a century, man wiped out a bird that was so numerous, that a flock could block out the sun. That's the power of man. But we also have the power to end the vicious cycle of death. Extinction is forever. We need to do everything in our power to protect the environment.
There is no other option but to see that these great creatures are protected to the very best of our ability. If not now in this time of Obama when?
I do not care just what the government has to do to save the POLAR BEARS but thatever is needed thats what I want done I want them saved they are magnificient creatures and deserve better than what they are getting now
there is an obvious ecological balance that needs to be preserved and I would like for my children and grandchildren to be able to say they were alive when polar bears still roamed the earth!
I think right now polar bears are suffering the most from this global warming outbreak. Their home is disappearing and polar bears are very extinct. That is why I take the most action in trying to save the polar bears out of all other animals.
I don't believe in global warming, but why would you let a species like this go extinct?
Please have compassion & spare the life of the polar bears. Thank you
