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Polar Bear S.O.S. - Your Official Public Comment Urgently Needed

Target: Ms. Rosa Meehan, Supervisor, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Sponsored by: Natural Resources Defense Council

The Bush Administration has proposed to list the polar bear as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act because its Arctic sea ice habitat is melting from global warming. This proposed protection comes after successful legal action by NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) and its partners to protect the imperiled polar bear.

But this proposal won't become reality without a huge outpouring of public support. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is asking for your comments before making a final decision about whether to protect polar bears or leave them at the mercy of global warming and their vanishing habitat.

Polar bears live only in the Arctic and are completely dependent on sea ice for survival, but 80 percent of their summer ice could be gone in 20 years and all of it by 2040. They are already suffering the effects: birth rates are falling, fewer cubs are surviving, and more bears are drowning.

Time is running out. Without protection, polar bears could become the first mammal to lose 100 percent of its habitat to global warming.

You can help protect the polar bears from extinction by signing this petition and submitting your official public comment to USFWS today.

deadline: 2-20-2007
goal: 35,000

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Dear Dr. Meehan:

I strongly support your proposal to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The scientific evidence that polar bears are threatened with extinction from global warming is overwhelming. Polar bears are completely dependent on Arctic sea ice to survive, but 80 percent of that ice could be gone in 20 years and all of it by 2040. Polar bears are already suffering the effects: birth rates are falling, fewer cubs are surviving, and more bears are drowning.

I am therefore very concerned that your proposal fails to identify global warming pollution as the cause of rising Arctic temperatures and vanishing sea ice. Our government’s refusal to curb global warming pollution is a primary cause of the polar bear’s melting habitat and terrible plight. It must be addressed. And while your proposal discusses the kind of habitat that is essential for the polar bear’s survival, it does not designate any of it as “critical habitat” that could help the bear recover.

Please act swiftly to finalize the listing of the polar bear and designate its critical habitat. We must act immediately if we are to save this magnificent Arctic creature from extinction.

Sincerely,
[Your Name]
[Your Address]

We signed the “Polar Bear S.O.S. - Your Official Public Comment Urgently Needed” petition!

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2:58 pm PDT, Apr 23, Desiree Diaz, Illinois

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8:34 am PDT, Apr 23, Anja Gundermann, Germany

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3:24 pm PDT, Apr 20, Becky Visco, Texas

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2:16 pm PDT, Apr 20, Cynthia Parker, Virginia
I support the protection of all wildlife

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2:30 pm PDT, Apr 19, Marni Linton, Canada

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1:34 am PDT, Apr 19, Julia Tawyea, Pennsylvania

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12:12 pm PDT, Apr 15, C Byerley, Maryland

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8:24 pm PDT, Apr 14, Lisa Pelosi, New Jersey
I support projects that benefit the welfare of both wild and captive bears.

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9:49 am PDT, Apr 12, Lauren Langan, Pennsylvania

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11:05 am PDT, Apr 9, Meredith Easterly, New Jersey

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1:17 pm PDT, Apr 7, Mels Whe, Vermont

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12:03 am PDT, Apr 6, Laurel Watson, Arizona

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12:58 pm PDT, Apr 4, Deborah Cooper, United Kingdom

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5:45 pm PDT, Apr 3, Name not displayed, California
SAVE DA POLAR BEARS! WHOOOOO!

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12:54 pm PDT, Apr 2, Name not displayed, Connecticut

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8:35 pm PDT, Mar 31, Jenny Vegan, United States Minor Outlying Islands
Please protect polar bear habitat.

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3:11 am PDT, Mar 30, Avril Kettle, United Kingdom

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9:05 am PDT, Mar 28, Name not displayed, New York

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10:48 pm PDT, Mar 27, Jude A. Spaith, Washington
do one thing right before you leave office, GWB.

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7:47 pm PDT, Mar 27, Name not displayed, Maryland

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6:58 pm PDT, Mar 27, Tonya Christie, Virginia
please save these magnificent beautiful creatures

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6:49 am PDT, Mar 26, Ginger Geronimo, Alabama

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10:37 pm PDT, Mar 24, Jaime Cammarata, RD, Pennsylvania

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1:36 pm PDT, Mar 16, Virginia Rodriguez, Mexico

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12:36 am PDT, Mar 15, Shannon Sultan, Wisconsin
We've damaged the world enough! Don't try to make any pathetic excuse to ignore their plight. If it were you or your daughters I'm sure you'd be right up there at the top rooting for that help.

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