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Sarah Palin: Stop Blocking Efforts to Protect Polar Bears

Target: Alaska Governor Sarah Palin
Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund

Polar bears are starving to death, birthing fewer cubs and drowning as sea ice disappears and their search for food becomes more difficult. Scientists at the U.S. Geologic Survey say that polar bears could disappear from Alaska within 50 years, driven to extinction by habitat loss and global warming.

Our polar bears are threatened with extinction, yet Governor Sarah Palin has launched an all-out effort to eliminate protections for threatened polar bears – a move that could lead to more polar bears dying of starvation and drowning, and more being killed by wealthy trophy hunters.

As governor, Sarah Palin has been a disaster for polar bears, wolves and other wildlife. A heartbeat away from the presidency, she could do even worse. It's time for Sarah Palin to own up to the science and stop catering to Big Oil. Please sign our petition telling Governor Palin to protect polar bears.

deadline: 10-22-2009
goal: 10,000

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Dear Governor Palin,

As someone who is gravely concerned about the future of America's struggling polar bears, I strongly urge you to stop obstructing vital protections for polar bears.

The U.S. Geological Survey predicts that loss of summer sea ice -- crucial habitat for polar bears -- could lead to the demise of two-thirds of the world's polar bears by mid-century, including all of Alaska's polar bears. The Bush administration has proposed listing the polar bears as threatened under the ESA to help protect polar bear habitat from threats such as oil and gas development.

Nonetheless, you have actively opposed the listing of the polar bear despite the fact that Alaska's top marine mammal biologists agreed with the federal scientists who believed the bear should be listed. You wrote to the Secretary of Interior urging him not to list the bear on the ground it might hurt the state's oil- and gas-dependent economy. After the bear was listed, you filed suit seeking to overturn the listing of polar bears.

We signed the “Sarah Palin: Stop Blocking Efforts to Protect Polar Bears” petition!

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11:32 am PDT, Oct 22, Forest Venkat, India

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10:49 am PDT, Oct 19, Kristen Lamb, New York

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4:45 am PDT, Oct 18, Scott Jay Miller, New York

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10:30 am PDT, Oct 17, Patrick Gagnon, Maine

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10:08 am PDT, Oct 17, Carlos Gomez, Florida

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2:54 pm PDT, Oct 14, Kyle S, New Jersey

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11:38 pm PDT, Oct 13, Kathryn Dougan, Washington

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6:55 am PDT, Oct 13, Kathleen Brabender, Wisconsin

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11:49 am PDT, Oct 12, Jennifer S., Nevada

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1:43 pm PDT, Oct 11, Christina Anderson, Canada

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5:37 pm PDT, Oct 7, Angel Bai, California

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10:32 am PDT, Oct 7, Heather Brown, New York
Please, please, please do the responsible thing and help save these animals!

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8:35 pm PDT, Oct 6, Sheila Gunter, Florida

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5:25 am PDT, Oct 2, Łukasz Ziębicki, Poland

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6:46 pm PDT, Sep 30, Name not displayed, United Kingdom

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5:12 pm PDT, Sep 30, Name not displayed, Colorado

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11:03 am PDT, Sep 28, Pam DeLitta, Texas

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9:58 pm PDT, Sep 26, Trudi Radabaugh, South Carolina

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6:46 am PDT, Sep 21, Naohisa French, Armed Forces Pacific

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9:56 pm PDT, Sep 20, Holly Pryor, Michigan

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3:35 am PDT, Sep 18, Janice Sturdy, United Kingdom
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, STOP KILLING THESE LOVELY ANIMALS, THEY HAVE DONE YOU KNOW HARM. I WOULD LIKE MY GRANDAUGHTER TO GROW UP KNOWING ANIMALS ARE LOVED, NOT KILLED.STOP NOW.

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10:53 am PDT, Sep 14, Andrew Starr, Illinois

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6:45 am PDT, Sep 13, Katie Scola, Massachusetts
YOU APPEAR TO LOVE YOUR STATE...DON'T BE A HYPOCRITE...TAKE CARE OF THE ANIMALS IN YOUR OWN BACK YARD.

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10:53 am PDT, Sep 10, Elizabeth Klousia, Iowa
Our children deserve to know about polar bears as an animal that lives bountifully in their world, not an animal that died in our world.

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7:23 pm PDT, Sep 7, MICHELE VONSTAICH, California

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8:37 pm PDT, Sep 5, Cousteau Christopher, California
Polar bears are freezing to death and drownig how would that make you feel huh?

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8:37 am PDT, Sep 2, Colleen Shelnutt, Georgia
Your hatred for wildlife is beyond obvious! I hope that you are born as a wolf in your next life then you can know the terror of being aerial hunted. Stop trying to block Polar Bear protection! What's next for you? Killing old people? You are truly heartless.

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4:57 am PDT, Sep 2, Luz Marina Cubillos-Ruehl, New Jersey

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11:31 am PDT, Sep 1, B N, Nevada

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5:32 am PDT, Aug 29, Eli Is Here, Pennsylvania

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3:00 am PDT, Aug 29, Maren Heinig, Australia

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