[CedarDave]

An excellent read. The article documents the near disappearance and remarkable recovery of Pacific walrus numbers in the Bering Sea. It also documents the near extinction of walrus numbers in the Atlantic due to European hunting and the lack of recovery that has occurred there. The former is due to successful efforts of native American tribes, and Alaskan and Russian restrictions to limit hunting. The Atlantic walrus subspecies received no such protection and their numbers are only about 20,000 and restricted to the far northern area of their original territory. The article concludes with:

With such low numbers, stories of trampling are rare from the Atlantic sector. A beach packed with walruses is evidence of better conservation, not global warming doom.

[dfwgator]

Goo goo goo joob.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Current Arctic sea ice is only slightly below normal.

[Jack Hydrazine]

‘...The CBD had petitioned to list walrus as threatened or endangered because of increased CO2 levels. The article makes the bold claim, “Were it not for the dramatic decline in the sea ice, the young walruses at Icy Cape most likely would be alive on the ice and not dead on a beach,” said WWF [World Wildlife Fund] biologist Geoff York.”

This is the same argument used for the polar bear to be put on the endangered species list even though there are more than 50,000 now.