A lot of arm twisting went on for this:
The Canadian Press
OTTAWA—The polar bear is finally set to be listed under Canada's species-at-risk legislation.
The federal government has given notice that it intends to list the iconic white mammal as a species of concern under the law.
That would require a plan be devised within three years to prevent it from becoming endangered or threatened.
The legislative move comes almost three years after the committee on the status of endangered wildlife recommended the bear needed special attention.
Canada is home to 60 per cent of the world's polar bears and changes in sea ice conditions are wreaking havoc with bear populations.
Aboriginal groups in the North strongly oppose the inclusion of the bear under the law, saying populations are growing and that they have management of the bear under control.
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On 30 June, Joe Romm over at Climateprogress.org wrote an article about "bye-polar" disorder, i.e., the irrational belief that somehow polar bears can survive despite the fact that we are seeking new sources of fossil fuels and increasing GHG emissions. The prediction is that the Arctic will be ice free in the summer in two decades, and the bears need sea ice to feed. Polar bears sadly are not just "at-risk" or "threatened", they are endangered and probably all but doomed along with the sea ice.
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