Posted on 05/16/2012 9:44:59 AM PDT by pabianice
The real cost of a polar bear rug
Every year, hunters kill hundreds of polar bears and then sell their parts legally in the international market. Urge the Obama Administration to pursue a worldwide ban on the commercial trade in polar bear parts.
I find it truly shocking that in this day and age, hunters are still gunning down polar bears to peddle their skins, teeth, claws and skulls on the international market.
If you agree that the world doesn’t have polar bears to spare -- certainly not to end up as rugs -- then please help NRDC end this gruesome trade once and for all.
Tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to propose a ban on the trafficking of polar bears for profit.
This is a make or break moment. The Obama Administration is deciding whether or not to propose such a ban at the next meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
This is no time for our government to be on the fence about polar bear protection.
Polar bears are already struggling for survival. They are mortally threatened by climate change, toxic pollution and oil development.
Scientists predict that rising temperatures alone will cause two-thirds of the world’s polar bears to go extinct by 2050. We simply can’t afford to let commercial hunting and trafficking kill off hundreds of them every year.
In 2010, at the last meeting of CITES, the United States led the way and sponsored a ban -- but that effort fell short of the votes needed. Since then, the polar bear’s plight has only grown more dire.
Please ask the Obama Administration to lead the way again by proposing a ban, in advance of the next meeting of CITES in March 2013, and to build a winning coalition with like-minded range states, such as Russia, to pass it.
Polar bears need our help more than ever. In the face of the climate change that is ravaging their habitat, we must do everything we can to bolster their populations for the sake of polar bear survival.
I hope you’ll stand with me and NRDC in defense of polar bears by sending a message to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today. And thank you for responding to their plight.
Sincerely, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., NRDC Senior Attorney
I personally don't hunt for other than food either, but I have other resources I use to pay the bills. There is more global warming crap in the article below, but it explains that the Inuits in Davis Strait area are allowed to kill six bears a year. I have no problem with these hunters selling legal products from the bear to feed, clothe, and support their families.
They did get a good snapshot. You might say, a Kodiak moment.
is this the goofy looking Kennedy tat shoots dope?
Then we go after the pandas, koala bears, sea otters, and dolphins ... Any animal cute enough for these morons to use on a poster.
Good news! I just shared this article with a whole room full of Inupiaq and Yup’ik high school students - what some folks would call Eskimos. I just told them about this. They asked why Obama and his supporters would do this. I said it was because they’re a bunch of arrogant snobs who think that they can tell other people how to live their lives. I heard a lot of murmuring about how Obama, environmentalists, and other like them are contemptable, although the kids used cruder and more colorful language.
Call it the reverse Gramscii. I’m making the long march through THEIR institution.
No child left behind indeed.
Actually, my sea otter slippers are very warm and comfortable. And I love the little heads!
FWIW-
I’ve got whale-skin hubcaps on my Hummer, and I go bowling with Harp seal skulls. I refuse to eat anything but tuna-safe dolphin, and my toilet paper is made from polar bear pelts. I feed my pit bulls penguin fillets and my piranhas powdered koala brains. I’ve got a panda stuck on a pole in my tobacco field as a scarecrow. And my breakfast this morning was condor eggs and spotted-owl sausage.
What does Google know? The tell is that the head is broader and not so long in the snout
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