Posted on 02/04/2013 1:53:46 PM PST by Daffynition
Author Zac Unger was originally drawn to the arctic circle to write a “mournful elegy” about how global warming was decimating the polar bear populations. He was surprised to find that the polar bears were not in such dire straits after all.
“There are far more polar bears alive today than there were 40 years ago,” Unger told NPR in an interview about his new book, “Never Look a Polar Bear in The Eye.” “There are about 25,000 polar bears alive today worldwide. In 1973, there was a global hunting ban. So once hunting was dramatically reduced, the population exploded.”
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Gore tool Leo DiCrapio can have his picture taken with them.
It’s a real mystery how the population of polar bears could bee growing so large with all of those polar bears raining out of the sky in those Green commercials.
Must be nice to be able to sit on your ice all day long...
sigh...doesn't it seem like a good idea to stop trying to manage Mother nature and just let the bears and the seals (and the wolves and the elk) &c, &c, come to their own "balance of nature"?
Regards,
GtG
In the U.S. the bears are protected from hunting by non-Alaska Natives — who can hunt some polar bears for tribal needs. There are also special importation rules for polar bears and polar bear parts and products.
Polar bears are also protected by international conservation agreements between the U.S. and other countries, such as the Russian Federation.
A federal court recently threw out a federal government plan to protect polar bears and designate a 187,000-square mile area of Alaska — larger than the state of California — as a critical habitat for polar bears. The court ruled that the plan went too far, and that the government needed to correct “substantive and procedural deficiencies.”
“There are also special importation rules for polar bears and polar bear parts and products.”
Which has been a stumbling block in my personal quest to acquire a polar bear skin rug for my bachelor pad :(
Polar bears falling out of the New York City sky to impact the urban landscapee and cars parked at the curbs..., where do you suppose the Global Warming crusaders got all of those polar bears to bomb New York City? (smile)
Several thousand are said to be living on an uncharted island in the South Pacific.
Several thousand are said to be living on an uncharted island in the South Pacific.
“Paging Mr DeCrapio, please pick up the white courtesy phone.”
I think we should train polar bears to hunt baby seals.
Do that too much and they'll get Polaroids.
Okay, I don’t write or edit for a living but if there are 25K polar bears today and the article is about how they have thrived since 1973, do you think it might be significant to mention how many there were 40 years ago?
They all quit drinking those 32 ounce sodas.
Somehow I think polar bears are behind this whole thing —
Thank you, Daffy.
For a solitary predator like a polar bear, that is a very dense crowd.
Makes perfect sense the back assward moronic democrats would push and receive an ENDANGERED SPECIES act on polar bears while the population has tripled over the last 30+ years.
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